Bait-shops in Roscommon, Alger, and Ogemaw County

Roscommon County has the Largest inland lake in Michigan Houghton Lake. This lake is one of the best producers of panfish in the state of Michigan. It also has a good population of walleye and pike. Higgins Lake is the King for ice fishing when it freezes in the middle of January. The target fish are perch and smelt which they catch by the bucket on Hali’s. This lake has a huge population of lake, brown, and rainbow trout, it is the place to be in the late winter when the shallow lakes are not producing. Ogemaw County Main lakes are Peach, Sage, Clear, Lake George, Rifle, and Hardwood lake. Lots of fisherman head to Lake St. Helen which is just across the line in Roscommon as it produces lots of fish in the winter.

6560 W Houghton Lake Dr. Houghton Lake Mi 48629
989-422-3231

Full line of live bait and tackle

H&H Fireworks 

  7511 West Houghton Lake Drive, Houghton Lake, MI 48629 

(989) 366-0126

Full line of live bait and tackle

Sports Barn
East Higgins Lake Dr. Roscommon, Mi 48653
989-821-9511

Full line of bait and tackle

Angelo’s Party Store
2506 N. Old 27 N. Houghton Lake Mi 48629
989-202-4422

Full line of bait and tackle

PaPa’s Bait

127 Windemere, Houghton Lake, MI

(989) 429-5780 

full line of bait some tackle

Higgins Lake Hardware
 
 4521 West Higgins Lake
Dr.Roscommon, MI 48653
989-821-6677

Full line of bait and tackle

Evergreen Party Store

9961 N Higgins Lake Dr, Roscommon, MI 48653

(989) 821-5425

 

Full line of bait and tackle

Saint Helen Bait and Tackle

1727 North St. Helen Road

989-808-1814

Full line of bait and tackle

Dean’s Bait & Tackle
2260 M-33 Alger, Mi 48610
989-836-2460

Full line of bait and tackle

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Nice one Todd 👍🏻👍🏻

Elijah Matley and Nick Cummer did well today casting off of a Pier with slip bobbers and “blues” and did well, new leader on the big fish board, at Jack’s Sport Shop, Great job, men. See MoreSee Less

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On a boat your always changing spots looking for fish or playing with your gear. On a pier your waiting for the fish to come to you and we always have 3 rods each in the water and a couple more xtra to put in as soon as we get a fish

Awesome Congratulations

Awesomeness! Great catch nice fish 🐟

Rich Carpenter

I love pier fishing. Not wasting time or money on gas and you spend half the time driving around looking for fish. I have 100% faith in pier fishing but still use the boat. My best 25lb + brown from pier on Lake Ontario won new fully loaded boat and 9 grand. Have won so many tournaments this way. No lures or trolling. Live bait only

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Beautiful fish !!!!!I hear everybody ask for the seeforellen browns… why can’t we get what we want

Glad they are stocking trout, but I wish they give up on the Wild Rose strain. Such poor returns. The Gilchrist Creek or Sturgeon River Browns offer so much better opportunities. Better yet, bring back those big-ass Seeforellen Browns. Those were Awesome!

Jonathan Ervin

Awesome!

Thanks

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4 women limit! 11lbs of fillets to take back to their families and enjoy. They caught atleast 300 bluegills and crappies today, and kept their limits of perfect eaters. Last ice bite is starting to fire up! Still have a few available dates the next couple weeks. 🎣🤙🏽 See MoreSee Less

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Awesome great catch there ladies so want time is dinner lol 🐟

Nice fishing lady's

Nice job, ladies!

Dion Bailey I'm jealous! Why can't you catch us some fish!?

What a fun time!

Molly Francis

I was wondering if you'd like to donate some of your fish for research?

Like that,

Game hog

Toooooooo small!!!!!! Fkkkk

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Great Lakes Fisherman’s Digest Reports from Mullet Lake 3-15-23 Indian River/Cheboygan areas Multi species fishing was awesome on the south end of Mullett Lake for the last day of ice walleye season. I fished with my friend Andrew Hendrickson fromNorthstar Sportfishing guide service and also joined up with Cody Sems from Hardwater adrenaline later in the day. As you can see, we had an awesome time on the ice . We caught a nice variety of fish and some really good ones. Our primary method was fishing flats between 30 and 40 feet of water. We used tip ups with light line and very small treble hooks. The key was using bigger sized minnows to prevent all the small ones from driving you crazy. Banged a bonus walleye as well and as you can see a 55” monster sturgeon. Caught the sturgeon on a tip up with 8 pound test line and it took 25 minutes to get it in. Thanks to Andrew and Cody for a great last day of walleye season. If you’re looking to get out for late season perch fishing, Cody Sems will be doing perch trips until the ice is unsafe. You probably have a good week or so of fishing left. Perching on Maple Bay on Burt has also been productive See MoreSee Less

Great Lakes Fishermans Digest Reports from Mullet Lake 3-15-23 Indian River/Cheboygan areas 
Multi species fishing was awesome on the south end of Mullett Lake for the last day of ice walleye season. I fished with my friend Andrew Hendrickson fromNorthstar Sportfishing guide service and also joined up with Cody Sems from Hardwater adrenaline later in the day. As you can see, we had an awesome time on the ice . We caught a nice variety of fish and some really good ones. Our primary method was fishing flats between 30 and 40 feet of water. We used tip ups with light line and very small treble hooks. The key was using bigger sized minnows to prevent all the small ones from driving you crazy. Banged a bonus walleye as well and as you can see a 55” monster sturgeon. Caught the sturgeon on a tip up with 8 pound test line and it took 25 minutes to get it in. Thanks to Andrew and Cody for a great last day of walleye season. If you’re looking to get out for late season perch fishing, Cody Sems will be doing perch trips until the ice is unsafe. You probably have a good week or so of fishing left. Perching on Maple Bay on Burt has also been productiveImage attachment

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BEEN THERE' DONE THAT!

Nice fish 🐟

Nice catch

Jäkligt fina abborrar.

Bryan Jenison

👊👍😎

Rich Beauchaine

Sturgeons can’t be kept from mullet. You didn’t mention that you released that fish. Sure hope you did as a PROFESSIONAL CHARTER FISHERMAN

Good Day with a catch like that.I like LKe perch.

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Mille Lacs Monster Pike ties STATE RECORD!Minnesota Department of Natural Resources certified a catch by angler Brad Lila on Mille Lacs Lake from January 22. He caught and released the pike after measuring it at 46 and ¼ inches. It tied a record set in just 2021 by Illinois fisherman Brecken Kobylecky on Basswood Lake.✅ Follow us for fishing news, Buzz Bite regional reports, videos and blogs to help you catch more and bigger fish all season long! See MoreSee Less

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Kudos on the release…much respect.

I'm surprised that's a state record in MN

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Man it just doesn't seem like the year or the time of the year to be driving a truck on the ice.

It's a Dodge, should have left it for fish habitat. Lol

Minor water damage

I would like to see a video of this. Cool

a Dodge owner gonna Dodge owner

Motor appears to be flooded.

Look for this one on carfax in the near future..

If you can't dodge it…Ram it….

It'll buff right out

I'd buy it still

Eric Wing looks like that dodge we seen driving out there! 😂🙄

As Bill Engvall says here's your sign.

Send it to Florida. It will sell great as a northern truck with no rust.

Can find a decent undercarriage wash anymore…lol

That's one expensive tip up.

Stupid should have been fixed 🙄

Well that sucks

Just junk it. They rust out in 5 years so now this one will be rusted out by next year.😉

Mike Dobb

Matt Laduke

Jeremy Ortman

I bet that was worth it for a few dink perch 😂

Mike Dubois show pnut

Used pickup , Low miles, freshly cleaned and detailed .. no low ballers.. local pickup only! Bring your rods and tackle!

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