steeliebob

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What is your secret? I have been trying to get the DNR to plant brown trout in the EUP for the last ten years and they will not even give me the time of day. Good luck with the brown trout. I just want my granddaughter to live long enough to see them plant them up here.

Tis the time of year to chase the silver.

Funny that the DNRE puts an article like this in the ST Ignace News just before deer season opens. Okay DNRE just where are all of these deer hiding at? I live in the EUP and am out in the woods hunting and fishing alot am I missing something? I don't see any deer up here. Your story mentions a reduction in the deer population because of severe winters but nowhere does in mention the significant impact that your golden child the wolf has had on the deer. I just went back and checked several of my old deer hunting spots. Not a deer track, no droppings, no scrapes no buck rubs, not a single deer sign. Just where are all of these deer hiding at that you guys in Lansing are bragging about????

Bought two new tip ups yesterday, a new scoop, some hooks and sinkers, lots of spawn wrap. I am going to just change over from the long poles to tip ups as soon as it freezes. The fish will be the same "steelhead".

The DNR has to plant the 250,000 salmon as part of the tribal consent decree. Without rhe consent decree those salmon would be planted elsewhere. As far as I am concerned the tribes are doing a pretty good job in fisheries management.

On your search engine type in Nunns Creek Hatchery and go to the top listing about tribal hatcheries. You would be amazed at how many fish are planted by the tribes. Give them another 10 years and they will be way ahead of the DNR. What is interesting is that the tribe will go out of their way to make sure that the fish they plant don't wind up in a bunch of sea gulls bellies. They actually plant fish under the ice, at night, and through a slow release off from boats. I have spent 10 years trying to get the DNR to plant brown trout in Northern Lake Huron and Michigan. I have not had any luck with the DNR. If I were to present the same request to a member of the Sault Tribe Conservation Committee I would be willing to bet that within a year or two some brown trout get planted.

I love the Browns but they died off in the EUP about 1998 and I have spent about the last 10 years trying to get the DNR to do a heavy plant of browns up here to get them going again. I guess that they are not interested. The last Brown that I caught up here was in 2005 a nice 10 pound brown that probably got lost. It is really too bad because at one time they were plentiful up here and big browns were not uncommon.

I went three for four this morning before work. I had rods all set up by 6 am in the UP snow. It was coooold too. At the break of daylight I landed a three pound nice fat 18 incher. I reset that pole and about 10 minutes later had another good steelie on. I played it real easy perhaps for too long on its last good run it broke off. I could only guess 10+ pounds. Just as fast I hit a 6 pounder and landed that one. As soon as I got that fish landed another 6 pounder hit on another pole and I got that one in but it fought like a much larger fish. Looks like it will be a good steelhead weekend.

I will be on the EUP streams and coastal waters the next three days so I will give you a report. I cannot wait to be pulling the chrome through the ice.

You can bring this up on your computers, go to the MDNRE website and look ah how many fish that the MDNRE plants in Emmett, Cheboygan, Mackinac, and Chippewa Counties and compare that with the Triblal Plants. Not defending the tribe but damn the tribe puts in 100 fish to every one that the DNRE plants. If I could I would be buying my license from the tribe.Like I have mentioned in other posts the MDNRE runs a presidential motorcade of hatchery trucks to the SW lower penninsula. The rest of the state gets the bottom of the barrell. I would wager that anymore 25% or more of the planted fish come from special interest groups.

They can do just about everything except throw dynamite at them. I will give the Sault Tribe credit that they do plant loads of fish in the EUP so I don't complain when they catch a few. Even if it is with a net or snag hook. I have not seen anyone spear one yet though. I bet that one tasted real good too, it probably fell apart when he got it to shore.

What is more amazing is that the drill bits and drill were not imported. For all of you people out there driving rice burners Americans still do build quality those miners staked their lives on that. Also it was the Americans that showed up to help as usual that is not so amazing. A task well done by all. Thank you

Looking at Mackinac Island we only had 3 or 4 footers but the wind was up there.

I do lots of surf and pier fishing in the fall and I am out and set up a good two hours before the sun comes up. As for the boat that is in hibernation in September. I am primarly fishing for steelhead and salmon. I use spawn and glow little cleos. I catch the bigger fish in the dark so they are still in a feeding pattern before daylight. Next year I might have a smaller boat, so I will probably be using it later in the year. When there is lots of cloud cover the fish seem to be active all day long too.

Looks like you found some nice silver. You might want to give it a break for a couple of days supposed to be rough.

My sister-in-law just got home from a 6 month vacation in Iraq compliments of Uncle Sam. We will be grilling venison kabobs, steelhead fillets, fried whitefish, some baked beans, potato salad, chips w conqueso dip, venison chilie, smoked steelie cracker dip. I am sure that the wife will throw in a pumpkin and apple pie for desert. Yoopers eat good! If I want to go out into the wild I just open the refridgerator or freezer.

The steelies are coasting finally as the frost has hit us a few times. The water temperature is around 40 degrees now. I caught a hog on Saturday just tipping the scales at 12 pounds and a nice 10 pounder on Sunday, I went out before work today for an hours worth of fishing and managed to get a 5 pounder. I will be eating good this week steelhead, whitefish, and venison.

Interesting point. I am just say 300 miles north of Grand Haven and we have the same thing going on here. I just talked with one of the tribal fisherman who says he is catching loads of smelt in his whitefish nets. I am puzzeled as to why the DNR is not planting steelhead or brown trout in place of the salmon. It seems as though they must have some empty raceways at the hatcheries. I caught my big fish in May 28 a 22 pound male chinook and July 3 a 25 pound male chinook. We took alot of small 3 pounders throughout the summer. The Sault Tribe plants all of the salmon in the St Ignace area so I would say that the DNR cannot claim any credit here. As far as the salmon go St Ignace, Cedarville, and DeTour were very good fishing this summer. The fall run the last two years has been down to a trickle here also.

The amount of yarn you use will vary depending on the clarity of the water. In the fall I use spawn alot because the water is generally clear and slow. In the spring I use yarn rigs alot because the water is high and fast. If the water is highly colored or muddy I tend to use more yarn. If the water is lower and clearer I will use less yarn. I think that you will do better by keeping this in mind.

The steelhead are just starting to come into the rivers nice in the UP so it might take a couple of weeks to get them in nice in SE Michigan. I am going out tomorrow am. I will be using a small split shot directly on the line above an egg hook.

Looks like the trip to the silvermine paid off nice fish.

Sliders are used to run two lures on one pole. A simple not fixed slider can be made by tying a snap swivel on each end of a five foot piece of line put a spoon on one end and hook the other end to yout main line once the downrigger is set. This is a free slider and it will go down to a bow in your line and set right there. This is my preferred method. You can also do a fixed slider by using a rubberband and attaching the slider to the main line to keep the slider at a certain depth. I will not usually mess with sliders at night or when the fish are hitting real good. As you use them you will find out why.

You will run into these kind wherever you go wether it is hunting or fishing and some of the worst ones are fellow outdoorsmen. I have the same issue with hunters now where I fish. They only think of themselves but they would be the first to complain if the shoe was on the other foot. There are laws against harassment if it falls under harassment turn them in to the DNR. I found out this summer that the DNR is only too happy to write a harassment ticket to protect your rights.

I fish steelhead alot and I choose to go real light with the sinker weight. Use just enough to get to the desired depth and no more. If a steelhead hits on the spawn and feels the weight it is gone and it is tough to get the same fish to bite twice.