DOOR COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The wind continued for a second day around Northeast Wisconsin, including the waters of Green Bay in Door County.
Just west of Brussels near Shoemaker Point, a non-stop barrage of waves hit the shoreline Friday morning. Fishing guide Gary Nault says dealing with the spring weather is a challenge.
“It seems like, if it isn’t raining, it’s windy. And the wind has been a real factor. Right now, we’re looking I think 21 knots, gusting to almost 37, which means we’re getting close to 40 miles an hour out of the west,” said Gary Nault, Gary’s Guide Service.
Just up the shoreline at Chaudoir’s Dock County Park, waves pound the boat landing area.
“It’s been really windy down there. And then you got the whole width of the bay to make it build, so it can get pretty big there. When it’s going over the dock, that’s not a place to fish,” said Nault.
A little further north in the Sturgeon Bay Shipping Channel, a few boaters were heading out to test their luck.
“Out by that green buoy, and it kept drifting to the side,” said Brian Bintzler, Grafton.
Bintzler says he and Adam Binder tried fishing for northern pike.
“We were out probably only about a half an hour. It started out pretty mild, but then it was picking up, and just got a little too rough,” said Adam Binder, Sheboygan.
How high were the waves?
“I would say maybe a foot, a little under. But then the wind picked up and started. Coming in it was like ‘whoosh’ all over us,” said Bintzler.
The two say they will try again when the conditions improve. Guide Gary Nault says it may take some time.
“It’s going to be one of those years up here in Door County, where we go from winter right to summer, the way it looks. Because we got another week of this stuff, and then, it’s going to break. The way it looks, we’ll get into nicer weather, but it’s going to be a while,” he said.
On a related note, water levels on the Great Lakes continue their seasonal rise.
According to The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which tracks those conditions, levels on Lake Michigan are expected to go up another three inches by the same time next month.
