Houghton Lake Walleye Report 7/23 - 7/27

Houghton Lake walleye fishing continues to be great.

Thursday (7/23): We fished in 7 FOW trolling at 2.35mph on the North shore and ended up with seven keepers and six undersized fish. Found a new area that is South of Backus Creek that is producing a lot of fish, but most are 14 -inches which is a great sign for next year.

Saturday (7/25): Fished with our new walleye friends (Jeff & Tom) in the morning and ended up with two keepers and two undersized fish. Only got to fish for two hours before the storm hit.

Went back out at 7:00pm and ended up with eight keepers and a ton of undersized fish. We trolled from 4 to 6 FOW and ended up catching all of our walleyes in 4 FOW. Best night fishing action was with a storm thunderstick jr (purple / pink).

Monday (7/27): Best fishing action of the year. Started fishing at 7:50pm in 4 to 7 FOW and had 20 keeper walleyes and two crappie by 10:40pm. Best action was on TD 5 blue / white taildancer trolled back 44 to 50 foot at 2.35 mph.

Good Luck..

Houghton Lake Walleye Report 7/21

Fishing Reports:

Pratt Lake (7-20): We fished Pratt Lake on Monday and got skunked. We worked 20 FOW trolling with crawler harnesses for three hours and never had a bite. At dark we moved to the East shore and only caught bass.

Houghton Lake (7-21): Fished on the North East shore in 7 FOW and boated nine walleyes total with seven keepers. We hit a few of our 12 to 15 foot fishing areas earlier in the day and couldn't find a fish.

Good Luck.

Pratt Lake Walleye Report 7/15

We took a break from Houghton Lake and headed over to Pratt Lake last night to test the walleye action.

Pratt Lake has a very good walleye population and it offers different fishing challenges to test your skills. We normally target walleyes in three areas of the lake. Area 1 is directly out of the boat launch where we fish with crawlers harnesses trolled East to West targeting 15 to 22 FOW. Area 2 is the South shore where we target the weed break in 15 FOW. Area 3 is the East shore in 9 to 17 FOW where we troll with bright colored minnow baits.

Last night we caught two undersized walleyes, five bass, and lost a nice walleye at the boat all on thunderstick Jr Yellow / White in 16 FOW on the East shore. Pratt Lake has good walleye fishing and produces fish up to 26 inches when you find them.

Good Luck.

Houghton Lake Walleye Report 7/13

Monday evening fishing was a great time despite the strong NW wind. We headed out to 12 FOW NE of long point and trolled East for an hour before we picked up our first walleye. We didn’t find many suspended fish in 12FOW, so we headed South into 13 FOW. The wind made trolling into the wind very hard and limited our ability to stay on the fish. Closer to dark we hit a school of fish and we ended up boating six keeper walleye and five undersized fish all in about fifteen minutes.

Overall the deeper water produced fish, but not at the rate we are catching them in 7 FOW on the West Shore. Best bait was the Rapala Taildancer TD 7 Green / White trolled back 52 foot.

Good Luck.

Houghton Lake Walleye Report 7/10 - 7/12

Walleye fishing action continues to be excellent on Houghton Lake. Our new fishing friends Jeff, Tom, and the family spent the weekend limiting out in 6 to 7 FOW trolling taildancers and thunderstick Jrs.

Great job guys!!


We'll be out tonight looking for fish in 12 to 13 FOW.

Good luck.

Houghton Lake Walleye Report 7/8

Fished Houghton Lake on Wednesday evening and had a great time. When we hit the lake the water was calm and the sky was clear, so we decided to start fishing in 12 FOW. Work the area for about two hours and picked up three walleyes. Around 8:30pm the East wind pushed us int 6 FOW and started catching a lot of small walleyes. Overall we boated 17 undersized walleyes all in 6 FOW and 12 keeper walleyes.

Houghton Lake Walleye Report 7/6

Monday evening’s strong NW wind and gray sky didn’t slow the walleye action on Houghton Lake. Fished off of the North shore about one mile out in 5 to 6 FOW where we found a school of walleyes feeding on minnows. We started fishing at 7:45pm and had our three man limit at 10:20pm. The hot lure was the Berkley Frenzy Minnow in black / silver trolled back 25 feet and troll speeds ranged from 2 to 2.9 mph. Overall we boated 12 undersized walleyes, 15 keeper walleye (kept 10) with the largest fish being 19-inches and two bass.
Talked to a fishermen at the launch and he reported that he has been limiting out in 9 FOW in East Bay drifting with floating jig heads tipped with leaches.

Good Luck….

Houghton Lake Walleye Report 7/3

We only made it out fishing one time over the holiday weekend. Fishing was excellent on Friday morning. Ended up with a three man limit in 3 and a half hours fishing in 5 to 6 FOW.

Best action was on black and silver trolled back 30 foot at 2.45mph.