A Fishing Report from Bay de Noc, MI : Two of us fished Little Bay Saturday, Sunday afternoon, and
Monday morning, with limited success. We caught 8 fish total, with 2 fish at 9 lbs. and one fish at 10.2
lbs. All fish came in the upper bay, mostly on the East side and Northeast corner, and were caught on
pink or blue Challengers, blue Bonbers, or clown, blue and chrome, or green and chrome Ripsticks.
The boards were attached anywhere from, just after two colors of lead, to 20 ft. past three colors of
lead, depending on what depth we were fishing.
Winners from a recent fishing Derby display their catch - all caught on Challenger Lures.
A message from a Charter Boat Captain:  I spend
well over 250 days on the water fishing the Great
Lake waters of Little Bay de Noc along with much of
the western shoreline of Lake Michigan.  Primarily
we spend much of our time catching and fishing for
walleye as this is such a great walleye fishery.  In
the last months, your bait has become a very
popular one indeed.  The 4 ½” Challenger Minnow
has gotten great attention and is becoming a
common name on our websites.  Not only is this a
great walleye bait but it is catching some really nice
smallmouth bass and northern pike.
A message from a satisfied angler:   Last year we
did really well on the junior size Challengers in the
green shiner and blue/yellow cheek (rainbow trout.)
Those were probably the two baits my dad and I
caught the most fish on during the trout derby last
year. They came out with several new colors this year
that should be great (Wombat and Chicken Lickin’ to
name a couple.)
A nice catch of walleyes caught in Lake
Erie, all on Challenger Lures.
From a Bait & Tackle Shop in WI - "The Famous Purple Prism,"  I have never seen a bait go so fast in my life!  We got 74 of the
large, Challenger shallow runners in yesterday at 10am and sold the last one today at 5pm.
Fishing on Lac Perdu in the 50th parallel of Quebec's northern province, I
decided to try a Challenger Jointed Minnow (silver) strung up to a 8 weight fly
rod with a 10 lb test mono leader, no were targeting either Lake Trout or the
Great Northern Pike.  

Waiting patiently, my fly rod bent right down and the line started zinning out.  I
set the hook and started reeling in, there did not seem to be anything on the line
until I got it to the boat, I had a look at him, he had a look at me after about 45
minutes of fighting I finally landed the 38" 15 lb Northern Pike.  It was a Lac
Perdu record on a fly rod.  Throughout the entire trip I stuck with that silver
jointed Challenger Lure and caught not one fish less than 25".

-Brent Basso, Maine
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