2016 Fishing Report

Celebrating 12 seasons of Watta Fishing Report from Glen Arbor, Michigan near Sleeping Bear Dunes. Thank you for making our Fishing Report so much fun!
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Happy Thanksgiving

We are Thankful for all of the friends of Watta Bite Charter Fishing. May you have a special time with your families. Happy Thanksgiving Captain Bill and Sue

Watta Bite September Lake Michigan Fishing

Watta Bite September Lake Michigan Fishing

Watta Bite congrats to Milo and Scott on their catch of the day. This was the last trip that we ran this year and a good time was had by all.. We would like to Thank all of people that went with us this year. It was a very successful and year and we are […]

Watta Bite Windy Sunday

Watta Bite Windy Sunday

Watta Bite Congrats to Mike on his catch of the day. The weather was great and the Wind was blowing a little hard.

Great day out on Lake Michigan with Watta Bite

Great day out on Lake Michigan with Watta Bite

Watta Bite congrats to Steve, Alexander, Julie and Glen on their catch of the day. Great day to be out on the lake.

Watta Bite Thursday Fall day out on the Lake

Watta Bite Thursday Fall day out on the Lake

Watta Bite congrats to Kevin and Bill, Skye, and Bella on their catch of the day. Great time to get out on the Lake for some fall fishing.

Watta Bite Fall Saturday Fishing

Watta Bite Fall Saturday Fishing

Watta Bite congrats to Shane, Sebastian, Eymahnia, Chad, Martin and Becky on their catch of the day. Great fall day out on the lake.

Watta Bite Coho and King Salmon

Watta Bite Coho and King Salmon

Watta Bite congrats to Jeremy, Don and Jesse on their catch of the day. Great catch of Coho and King Salmon.

Watta Bite Glen Arbor Saturday on Lake Michigan

Watta Bite Glen Arbor Saturday on Lake Michigan

Watta Bite Labor Day weekend congrats to Dennis, John and Francine on their catch of the day. What a great day to be out on the Lake.

Watta Bite Friday near Glen Arbor

Watta Bite Friday near Glen Arbor

Watta Bite congrats to Nathan, Misty, Briana, Brian and Shawn on their Friday catch of the day. Great start to the Labor Day weekend.

Watta Bite Tuesday on Lake Michigan

Watta Bite Tuesday on Lake Michigan

Watta Bite Congrats to Rick and Eileen on their catch of the day.. Great day to be out on the Lake.

Watta Monday Lake Trout and Salmon

Watta Monday Lake Trout and Salmon

Watta Bite congrats to Max on his catch of the day.. Great day to be out on the Lake.

Watta Bite Lake Trout Catch of the Day

Watta Bite Lake Trout Catch of the Day

Watta Bite congrats to Jack, Cody, Paul,Danielle and Brett on their catch of the day. Great day to be out on the lake.

Watta Bite Lake Michigan Lake Trout Tuesday

Watta Bite Lake Michigan Lake Trout Tuesday

Watta Bite congrats to John, Douma and Ben on their Lake Trout catch of the day. Great day to be out on the lake.

Watta Bite Lake Trout Monday on the Big Lake

Watta Bite Lake Trout Monday on the Big Lake

Watta Bite congrats to Tyler, Ryan, Pete and Ted on their Lake Trout catch of the day. Great day to be out on the Lake.

Salmon and Lake Trout Saturday on the Watta Bite

Salmon and Lake Trout Saturday on the Watta Bite

Watta Bite congrats to David and Morgan on their catch of the day. Great day for fishing out in the rain.

Watta Bite 18lb Lake Trout Thursday

Watta Bite 18lb Lake Trout Thursday

Watta Bite congrats to Dan, Adam, Aaron and Whitney on their catch of the day. Caught the biggest lake trout of the season on this trip weighing in at 18lbs.

Watta Bite Lake Michigan Thursday

Watta Bite Lake Michigan Thursday

Watta Bite congrats to Jim, Eric, Matt on their catch of the day..

Watta Bite Lake Trout Afternoon on Lake Michigan

Watta Bite Lake Trout Afternoon on Lake Michigan

Watta Bite congrats to Zach, Luke and Reese on their catch of the day. Watta a lot of fun out on the Lake.

Watta Bite Lake Michigan Trout Wednesday

Watta Bite Lake Michigan Trout Wednesday

Watta Bite congrats to Mary, David, David and Adelaide on their catch of the day. Great times on Lake Michigan.

Watta Bite Lake Trout Tuesday

Watta Bite Lake Trout Tuesday

Watta Bite Congrats to Stuart, Steve, Doug and Layne on their Lake Trout catch of the Day. Good day to be on the Lake.

Lake Trout Monday on the Watta Bite

Lake Trout Monday on the Watta Bite

Watta Bite Congrats to David, Marge, Fred and Kristin on their catch of the day. Great day to be out on Lake Michigan.

Watta Bite Monday Lake Trout

Watta Bite Monday Lake Trout

Watta Bite Congrats to Dan, Doug, Kevin and Jim on their Lake Trout and Salmon mixed catch of the day.

Watta Bite Sunday Lake Trout and Salmon

Watta Bite Sunday Lake Trout and Salmon

Watta Bite congrats to Ron and Don on their Lake Trout and Salmon Catch of the day.

Watta Bite Thursday Salmon and Lake Trout

Watta Bite Thursday Salmon and Lake Trout

Watta Bite congrats to Michael, Travis, Kaitlyn, Alexandria on their catch of the day. Great day to be out on Lake Michigan .

Watta Bite Wednesday

Watta Bite Wednesday

Watta Bite congrats to David, Rod, Bodi, Jay on their catch of the day. Good times on Lake Michigan.

Watta Bite Wednesday Lake Trout

Watta Bite congrats to Wayne, Karen and John and Silas on their catch of day.

Watta Bite Pure Michigan Tuesday

Watta Bite Pure Michigan Tuesday

Watta Bite congrats to Rebecca, Scott, Nick and Will on their catch of the day. Great day to be out on Lake Michigan.

Watta Bite Saturday

Watta Bite Saturday

Watta Bite Saturday Congrats to Mark, Karen, Duncan, Danielle and Dylan on their catch of the day.

Watta Bite 20 lb Salmon

Watta Bite 20 lb Salmon

Watta Bite congrats to Dave and Joe on their catch of the day. One of which was a 20lb King Salmon. Thanks for a great trip.

Watta Bite Wednesday Lake Michigan Adventures

Watta Bite Wednesday Lake Michigan Adventures

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 Watta Bite Congrats to the Dahlquist family on their catch of the day.

Watta Bite Tuesday July 26, 2016

Watta Bite Tuesday July 26, 2016

Tuesday July 26, 2016 Watta Bite congrats to Robert, Steven, Tom and Joe on their catch.

Watta Bite July 25, 2016

Watta Bite July 25, 2016

Watta Bite Monday congrats to Tom, Elke, Jena and Shane on their catch of the day.

Watta Bite Saturday

Watta Bite Saturday

Watta Bite congrats to Stacey, CJ, Hannah Chris and Josh on their catch of the day.

Watta Bite Friday Catch

Watta Bite Friday Catch

Watta Bite congrats to Ben and Greg on their catch of the day.

July 19, 2016 Sleeping Bear Bay

July 19, 2016 Sleeping Bear Bay

Watta Bite congrats to Ellen, Leon and Ben on their catch of the day.

July 16, 2016

July 16, 2016

Watta Bite Saturday Congrats to Jennifer, Stacey, Will, William, Lauren and Greg on their catch of the day.. A good time was had by all.

July 16, 2016

July 16, 2016

Watta Bite Bachelor party congrats to Chris and Crew. This was a 2 boat trip but we only got pictures from one of the boats catch.

July 13, 2016

July 13, 2016

Watta Bite Wednesday congrats to Todd, Owen, Bob and Graham on their Catch of the day. The BIGGEST fish of the season was caught today before seasickness struck and cut the trip short.

July 11, 2016

July 11, 2016

Watta Bite Windy Monday Congrats to Caroline, Eric, Evan, and Duncan on their catch of the day. Glad we were able to get you out on the Lake.

July 10, 2016

July 10, 2016

Watta Sunday congrats to Tom and Adam on their catch of the day. Good day out on Lake Michigan.

July 7, 2016

July 7, 2016

Watta Bite Congrats to Abraham, Hunter, Thomas, and Daniel on their catch of the day. Great day to be on the Lake.

July 5, 2016 Afternoon trip

July 5, 2016 Afternoon trip

Watta Bite afternoon congrats to Rebecca, Kevin, Grace, Colin and John on their catch of the day.. A good time was had by all.

July 5, 2016

July 5, 2016

Watta Bite Tuesday morning congrats to Janet, Savannah, Tim, Val, Thomas and Thomas III on their catch of the day.. A good time was had by all.

July 4, 2016 Afternoon trip

July 4, 2016 Afternoon trip

Watta Bite afternoon congrats to Lauren and Allen on their catch of the day. Great way to spend the day out on the Lake.

July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

Watta Bite Fourth of July morning congrats to Scott, Aidan, Aimee, Joe and Leah on their catch of the day. Great way to spend the morning out on Lake Michigan.

July 3, 2016

July 3, 2016

Watta Sunday congrats to Joe, Steve, Bruce and Andy on their catch of the day. Good day to be out on the water.

Saturday, July 2, 2016 afternoon trip

Saturday, July 2, 2016 afternoon trip

Watta Bite Saturday afternoon congrats to John, Mason, and Richard on their catch. Good times and great weather.

July 2, 2016

July 2, 2016

Watta Bite Saturday morning congrats to Dan, Don, Alexandra, Matthew and Katie on their Catch of the day.

June 30, 2016

June 30, 2016

Watta Thursday Congrats to Tamika and Kevin on their catch of the day.

June 29, 2016

June 29, 2016

Watta Bite Congrats to Allen, John and Ben on their Wednesday catch of the day.

June 28, 2016

June 28, 2016

Watta Tuesday congrats to Darren, Dalton, Andrew, Cooper, Michael and Will on their catch of the day. The winds subsided so we were able to find the fish.

June 25, 2016

June 25, 2016

Watta Bite Saturday congrats to Nicholas, Stacy, Raylei, and Kylie on their catch of the day. Good times and its never too early to take your kids fishing.. Good times.

June 23, 2016

June 23, 2016

Watta Thursday congrats to Maureen, James, Joseph and Jess on their catch of the day.. A good time was had by all and the weather was beautiful.

June 21, 2016

June 21, 2016

Watta Bite Tuesday congrats on a limit of Lake Trout to Terence, Christopher, Chris and Caroline. A good time was had by all.

June 18, 2016

June 18, 2016

Watta Bite Father’s Day Congrats to Steven, Leroy, Tom, Fredy, Johnathan and Brennen on their catch of the Day.

June 14, 2016

June 14, 2016

Watta Bite congrats to James, Jon and Connor on their catch of the day. Sure was a lot of fun.

June 13, 2016

June 13, 2016

Watta Bite congrats to Kevin, Giovanni, Megan, Nathaniel and Jacob on their Monday catch of the day. A good time was had by all.

June 11, 2016

June 11, 2016

Watta Saturday 2 boat trip with both boats limiting out. Congrats to Arthur, Mike, Eden and Moses who were the Watta Bite crew. Congrats to the other boat on their catch also sorry we don’t have all of your names.

June 10, 2016

June 10, 2016

The Watta Bite crew is back on the fish. Congrats to Jonathan, Edward, Matthew and William on their catch of the day.

June 9, 2016

June 9, 2016

After 3 days of high winds and storms and the lake being stirred up, the Watta Bite crew still came in with fish.

June 5, 2016

June 5, 2016

Watta Bite congrats to Domenic, Michael, Joe, Nick and Doug on their catch of the Day. The Lake Trout were biting even though the wind and the weather didn’t want to cooperate.

Memorial Day May 30, 2016

Memorial Day May 30, 2016

Watta Bite Memorial Day congrats to Deb, Sandy, Mary, Taylor and Jim on their catch of the day. Great way to spend the day out on the Lake.

Memorial Day, May 30, 2016

Memorial Day, May 30, 2016

Watta Bite Memorial Day congrats to Deb, Sandy, Mary, Taylor and Jim on their catch of the day. Great way to spend the day out on the Lake.

May 28, 2016 Memorial Day Weekend

May 28, 2016 Memorial Day Weekend

Watta Bite Memorial Day weekend congrats to Larry, Autumn, Adam and Ben on their Lake Trout catch of the day. Great trip and great fun.

May 25, 2016

May 25, 2016

Watta Bite Wednesday Congrats to Denise and Jason on their Catch of the day.

May 22, 2016

May 22, 2016

Watta Bite Sunday congrats to Adam, Autumn, Dario and Rob on their Lake Trout Catch of the day. Great fishing and good times.

May 21, 2016 Ryan’s Bachelor Party

May 21, 2016 Ryan’s Bachelor Party

Watta Bite Congrats to Ryan, Kyle, Brandon, Michael, William on their Lake Trout catch of the day. Great times for the start of the Bachelor Party weekend.

May 20, 2016

May 20, 2016

May 17 2016

May 17 2016

Watta Bite COLD morning Congrats to Ben, Ben and Captain Bill on their catch of the day. The weather was only about 38 degrees but the Lake Trout were biting good.

Mother’s Day Lake Trout Catch

Mother’s Day Lake Trout Catch

The season has officially opened. Captain Bill is taking the picture and a nice limit of Lake Trout was caught. We made it home in time for Mother’s Day dinner. Watta Mother’s Day Lake Trout Catch!

Nice Cisco Catch on Traverse Bay, Michigan

Nice Cisco Catch on Traverse Bay, Michigan

Jim Dexter, Chief of Fisheries for the State of Michigan, ventured out with Captain Bill. It was cold, snowy and the fishing was excellent. Jim is a hands on guy, not afraid of a little cold. He caught his first fish within a couple of minutes of letting his line down. Not bad for never […]