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Just wondering if anyone has been getting them lately! Don't need exact locations but north or south and depth may be helpful! Really just looking to see if they are still around, thanks in advance:)

I have been up north but thanks for a update on the perch! How many fish did you get Rough Diamond? I bet that cat put up a good fight!!

Thats what I was thinking and the dunes are 4-5

Im not exactly sure. Id be willing to bet that someone else could help you out but I think 4 to 5 miles. You will know where they are because there will be a big pack of boats and the dunes are huge..cant miss em! The creek is harder to identify but there are 5 houses one right after another and then a huge gap and then a really big brown house. The creek is farther north then the dunes and the dunes are just north of the power plant.

Hit up the perch this morning. We went south to in front of Deerlick first thing and we must have just been on top of a bunch of them. Kept 25 fish from this area and had to weed out some small ones. It seemed like our boat and a few other boats real close were the only ones really doing well. Must have been tightly schooled, well anyways fished there for 2hours and caught most of the fish in the first hour then nothing.

Ran down to the 3rd dune I believe and got into the pack which usually isn't our first choice. Several boats pulling in smaller ones with the occasional keeper. We moved a little and picked our way at a few. Eventually we sat close to a boat that was hauling in fish after fish after fish! Could not figure out what we were doing wrong?? We sat there getting a fish every once in awhile but they had constant fast action. But they eventually got their limit and we gladly took their spot. Once we hit that spot it was like a light switch was turned on. Got real fast and furious for awhile but there were quite a few small fish. Again other boats around us weren't doing as good but were still catching fish. It was all about finding that one hot spot and that hot spot was pretty small. Ended up with somewhere close to 60 nice fish with an occasional big one. Good luck guys! Oh yeah we fished at first in 25fow and ended up by the dunes in 15fow. Also saw a guy land a nice salmon or steelhead on his perch rig in 15fow!! Brought the underwater camera along and got to see some huge schools of alewife move through! Beautiful day to spend on the water...

Great job Frank! Were headed up that way early tomorrow morning and will stay until Monday. Hopefully the fish cooperate for us as well.

You better not get that big one thats waiting for my dad! JK, good luck! I hope you do bag a bruiser. They are definitely there. I think that there was a 500lb plus bear taken near Olga Lake last year. My dad could have finally drawn a Baldwin Tag this year but is going to wait until next year because he is going to Canada this year. I hope to see some pics of a big one this fall! Are you going with bow or gun?

I actually resolved to cutting my lines on the riggers and stripping the fleas off then retying them.

The wire dipseys are a little more challenging.

Yep same story! We usually just smack the line on the water but I hate doing it to nice rods. Ended up retying quite a few times...

Thanks guys! They definitely put on a show. The graph was lit up with marks all night we just couldn't get anything to go.

Well wasn't our best trip but it was a beautiful night out on the water. Trolled from 80 all the way out to 120 with right around 100 feet being our best area. Ended up 2 for 4 with 2 Steelhead taken. The first was a smaller one on the rigger 66 down with a stacker up 10 feet. It hit a orange on yellow Proking (don't know exact name). Next was a very nice Steelhead that hit the full core. Put on quite a show jumping repeatedly. Hit a Sting Glow Ice Frog. The next two hits were on the rigger 72 down and 66 down. Saw the first rigger go off and break the band, ran to set the hook and nothing. Looked over at the second rigger and it got tripped! BIG Steelhead took a few really high jumps and came unbuttoned. Could have been the same fish? Maybe...the spoons that were on those two riggers were Killer Dolphin and a Luhr Jenson Shoehorn spoon in glow yellowtail. The shrimp sure made reeling in lines a pain as they were very think out there. Good luck!

Thanks for the report captain. We are headed up there towards the middle of July for a week. Can't wait!!

Did better than us! Heard you were out there. Nice going!

You definitely don't need riggers! Instead you can just use a one pound lead ball. Run a key ring through it and attach 2 church clips. Then run the line through the church clips. When a fish hits you just unhook the weight like you would an inline board. Fished with just that and lead core for years and it worked fine! Also depends on what port, species, etc you are going to be targeting. Feel free to ask as you go along, great forum with some great guys that really know there stuff! Good luck and have fun...

What kind of records do you keep? I would love to see the total number of walleye you have gotten!! And nice job by the way!

Holy crap! Glad everyone made it out alright and that everyone was safe. Sounds like a scary trip..

Mhmm I know now! Haha duck hunted the end of that lake but never fished it. How deep were you?

justin anytime you get a free time and if i aint busy no problem takin you out fishin man just send me a pm some time

Hey thanks a lot! I really appreciate it! Did you guys end up with any perch?

Good luck on the perch...we caught one and was the only thing we saw caught other than gobies. We went all over! Hopefully you guys will find them, I know they are there ya just gotta find them.

I just saw this! Great job on the rainbows... If the lake is anywhere around here I think I know where! Great job on the fish looks like there are some nice ones.

Well we had an awesome day on the river today. Here's a pic of the catch:thumb:

I know that pic is not really clear but on a more serious note....my mom is a biology teacher and each year she does a program with the DNR called salmon in the classroom. She has a license and each year she receives 200 salmon eggs from them. We have a huge tank set up in the classroom with pumps that run water to simulate a river current. Amongst many other things the tank is set up with a chiller that keeps the water at 50 degrees until a few weeks before we release them we warm it up a little bit to acclimate them to the river.

We had planned on releasing them early next week but the schools power died so they would have died pretty soon if we did not release him. Last year a janitor accidentally hit the power button on the chiller over the weekend and we came to school to find a green tank full of dead salmon. Not cool.

Anyways I love being a part of it all and helping clean the tank even though you loose feeling in your arm. Being able to see the salmon go through the cycles is really neat. They have stripes for awhile but they are just now starting to loose them (a sign its time to release them). They are about 3-4 inches right now and ill tell you what there is one hog in the group!

I think its a fun project and a nice way to give back. The survival rate of raising them this way is much better than what it would be in mother nature

Here's a pic of my dad releasing them into the Paw Paw River. I will put some more pics up soon of them in the tank, when I get them. Four more years and I just might catch one of these bad boys. Doubtful but you never know!

My bro said that most of the later el kids had their moms come and get them. He said in his class there were only 3 people still there when he left. I guess they would just play board games or something. We just sat in class and talked till they let us go.

Well I was at school but about 15 minutes into second hour the power went out...well nothing too unusual thats happened several times before. Hour passes no power still and then another hour goes by and they let us go home! Was wondering if anyone has ever had that happen to them...needless to say im happy!!:D

AWESOME! Makes me wish I was a senior and my last day is tomorrow... unfortunately I gotta wait til June 11. Great job out there.

Sweet!!!

Great job mike and crew! Was hoping to get out this weekend but had a set back with the knee so hopefully next weekend! Were you in the tourney? If so how did it go?