With a high in the mid 40’s yesterday it’s hard to believe it’s the first part of Feb already!  Warm temperatures certainly will not help the already sketchy ice conditions around Sturgeon Bay. While many areas remain unsafe there are still areas with stable ice conditions and good fishing. 

This year’s ice conditions have limited whitefish anglers to the shallow water shorelines and harbor mouths however some good numbers of whitefish are still being caught.  It has been a tough bite the last few days but the guys willing to work at it are still coming up with plenty of fish for the fryer!  Sweedish pimples, jigging Rapalas and CMT Jigging minnows are all working well for us tipped with wax worms or minnow pieces. 

Walleye anglers are finding good action all along the shorelines from around little sturgeon south to Dykesville.  #5 jigging rapala’s tipped with medium shiners have been working the best in the early morning and evening hours.  My brother Bob got another nice walleye this morning (pictured below) which puts him close to 20 in the last couple weeks!!

Some nice pike and even a few bonus brown trout are being picked up by tip up fisherman inside the harbors.  Shiner minnows fished a few feet from the bottom are working the best.

Perch fisherman are finding mostly undersized fish inside little sturgeon with a few keepers mixed in. 

The mobile bay broke the ice out to the bay yesterday and I believe Bayship had a boat come in from the bayside as well, which will make it easier for the ice to move on the open bay with the wind and current so use extreme caution when venturing outside the harbor mouths.

Capt. Dean Gordon

 Check out the pic's below from our current and past reports!! Follow the timeline as the Hooked Up crew goes season to season guiding our customers to great fun and fishing action on the waters of Door County!!  Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, I would be willing to bet that the stories told by the people in many of these pictures would have to say a thousand words would not do their experiance justice!

Bob with a nice early morning eye on the 1st of Feb!!   

 A nice Pile of whitefish from 1-27-11

A beautiful sunset on the ice!!

A nice catch on a windy day!!! 1-22-12

Rosie the fish hound posing with the first whitefish limit of the year!! 1-20-12

The first of the two new shacks for 2012 was broke in today!  1-20-11

A nice Sept. catch of kings!!

The Hooked Up girls after a fun womans tournament!!

Monique and crew with a great mid August catch!! Nice work!!

A nice morning catch on 7-28!!! 

Capt. Dan holding Lacy's 25 pounder!! 

Two honeymooners holding a pair of HUGE Kings!!

Leave it to Dan to catch an Eelpout on Lake Michigan!! Poor Mans Lobster!!  7-18-11

Katie With her 28 pound King!!!  What a Beautiful Fish!! 7-16

Beau with a BIG KING and HUGE BROWN that came on a double header!! Caught by Katie and Kyle on a July 16th trip!!

A nice Catch after a slow start on 7-6-11!!  Great job guys!!

Mike Sidders with a nice King from over the weekend!! Check out Mike's Review of his trip with "Hooked Up" at his blog yellowdogpatrol.com

Luke Ebel from the Greystone Castle with a pair of #23 and #24 Pound Kings!!!!

Jerry, Luke and Heather with some nice Kings and an early morning limit catch!!

Dan and Beau with an early morning limit catch of kings and rainbows 6-21-11!!

A near limit catch of 19 Kings from 6-20-11!!

A nice Catch of 15 BIG kings on 6-19-11!!

A triple Header with 3 20 pound Kings on 6-19-11!!

Lou with a dandy king on 6-19 AM

Kati with a HUGE King!!  6-17-11

Some nice kings from Friday June 17th!!

A nice early morning Catch of Kings!

Capt. Dan with a nice King! 6-14-11

Capt. Beau with a Huge King over 20 pounds already in mid June! 6-14-11

A nice catch of chunky, full bellied Kings!! 6-12-11

Amanda with her Nice Bass!!! 6-7-11

A nice King from 6-6-11! 

A nice King!! 6-5-11

Capt Dean with a  5 pound Smallie!  6-5-11

A nice pair of Kings! 5-29-11

A nice cold water King Salmon! 5-29-11

Dean with a nice Bass. 5-30-11

Capt. Beau with a nice Bass 5-30-11

Ashley her nice catch! 5-26-11

Capt. Dan with a nice Bass 5-26-11

Bob with a chunky smallmouth!  5-24-11

My Dad Jim with his HUGE 32" Eye!!!  5-8-11  This one is going on the wall!!

Zac with a pair of nice eyes 5-4-11

It was a two boat contest between husbands and wives and the guys came out out on top!! 4-29-11 Nice job

Capt. Bob with a nice 31" Eye!! 4-26

A chunky spring Brown!! 4-18

Robin with her first walleye of the spring!!

Another Nice Spring Walleye!!

A tough night of fishing but Jason did manage to catch this nice Eye!!

A nice early morning walleye!!

The Hooked Up fleet of ice shacks all back on shore after another great ice fishing season!! We will be fishing out of our portables for the remainder of the season and are busy getting the boats ready for spring!! Thanks to everyone that came out this winter to make the 2011 ice fishing season so much fun!!

A good eater size walleye from 3-4-11!

A limit of whitefish along with a few bonus jumbo perch!  2-26-11

Adrian with his pair of nice walleyes!  2-26-11

We finished our guide trips early on Saturday 2-19 and had a little extra time to try to jig up a walleye!!  Dispite our efforts all I was able to raise was a sheephead!! First ice fishing Sheephead = check, Amazing sunset = check, wallleye= better luck next time!!  

A nice Catch 2-12-11

Tim S. and crew on 2-12-11, This hunting gang ended up with 18 whitetails this fall and their luck pulled through on the ice as well with a limit of 150 whitefish!! Great job guys!!

A nice Jumbo Green Bay Perch!! 1-29-11

Whitefish, It's whats for dinner!!

A limit of whitefish and a few bonus perch from 1-28-11

A limit of white fish for one of our groups on Saturday 1-22-11

Adrians Nice catch of perch from 1-15-11 

A limit of whitefish on 1-7-11 

Former Dallas Cowboy Al Johnson with a Nice King!  8-30

Congrats to the 1st Place Champs in the Sturgeon Bay Offshore Challenge Womans event!!  Great Job Girls!! From Left to right, Jenny, Nicole, Brittany, Courtney and Hanah!!   

An early morning limit catch on 8-6!! 

A nice catch from this morning!!  7-27-10 

A nice early morning catch of  big Kings, after catching some smaller sized fish over the weekend it's great to see the big ones back int he cooler again!!! 7-19 AM

Susie fighting the first of many nice Kings caught on Sunday July 11th!

Friday July 9th was a great day with our morning, midday, and evening charters all catching limits of Kings and Steelhead!!  Pictured above is a triple header on our evening trip!

Some nice Kings caught on the 4th of July morning!  Great Job Jason and Crew! 

Keith and Crew with a nice Catch of some of the biggest Kings we have seen all year!! As always it was fun fishing with your group and I look forward to seeing you again in July!  6-20

A great catch of Sturgeon Bay Kings!! 6-17

Capt. Dan and Capt. Beau posing with a nice catch of over 30 Salmon and trout from this morning!!  I have said it before and I will say it again, there is NO substitute for having a crew that knows how to catch fish and these two are truly two of the best on the lake!! Great work Guys!  6-16-10 

 

Another 30 fish limit!!!  6-14-10

A fast limit 6-6 AM!!  Great Work guys!!

It was a rainy night but the fishing was hot with yet anohter limit Saturday 6-5!!  Our 3 charters today caught a total of 65 Kings and had over 100 fish on the line!! Yesterday was just as good with a 4 person limit in just over an hour of fishing!!  

A fast Limit Saturday 6-5 AM!! 

Steve with a nice 40" Musky  caught today!! 6-3-10

Nicole with her nice 5 pound smallmouth Bass!!  5-30-10

John Keller from West Salem, Ohio after catching a limit of Salmon with Capt. Bob on his Ranger Boat! 5-18-10

Capt. Dean and Robin with some nice Kings!  5-16-10

Robin with a Dandy 4 year old King!!! 5-16-2010

A pair of whopper walleyes!! 4-17-10

My Dad, Jim with a pair of Easter morning Brown Trout!! 4-4   

A great catch by the boys from Indiana of Perch and Whitefish from 2-20-10!

  

New York Giants NFL player Rich Seibert and his son Hunter after a great day fishing!

Tom Seibert and Crew after a great day on the ice!  

 

A nice 28" Walleye

 

A 3 person limit of 45 Jumbo Perch!!   

This picture says it all!   To fishermen on Lake Michigan, bananas on board are worse luck than standing on a ladder on Friday the 13th with a litter of black cats on each rung.  We let it slide this time, but next time Mark will be swimming to shore!!  Haha