EdB

Love how you gave the rod to the kid, nice catch!

Got some nice sized fish tonight on Erie after dark, casting bombers with a slow retrieve.

Tried something new, casting for walleyes after dark. We took a boat and fished 6-10 fow close to shore. My buddy had the hot hand landing 2 and losing 1.  I lost the 2 fish I hit, they were all good sized.  We casted bombers and my friend used a shallow stick bait but not sure of the brand.  We will be out again if we get good weather some night soon.

Thanks for the report Dan.

Great catch!

Looks like a great trip!

Boardman River would be your best bet. 

Very nice!

Great catch!

Thanks for the info.

It was great to find a board and be able to return it to a member here.  Putting your phone number on your boards can pay off.  I've returned a number of them over the years and had one of mine returned. Hope to see you around more this summer Mega Byte.

Getting sporty out deeper with some whitecaps so we are pulling lines and calling it a day.

Found a board, had a phone number on it. Called the owner, he is picking it up later.

Got a small king on the 150 copper UV green jeans.

Caught the fish in 80-90 FOW. We decided we did not want to pound on trout so we put it on a west troll and have not lifted a rod going west yet.

Got another Lk Trout on a diver dragging bottom with a Lk Trout candy spin doctor and white yellow willy gig.

Just got another Lk Trout on a rigger on the bottom with a chrome dodger and white spin n glow

Good start with a double on kings and we also got a small trout. Hope we can keep them going.  MS UV Green Jeans mag on a 150 copper, MS UV SOG on a half core and a MS Oscar on a rigger at 50 ft took the trout.

Very sorry for your loss Erik. The Computer Source in Grass Lake may be able to help with your pics.

Hex hatches are winding down we stopped and watched our graph in 23 fow NE of the dumping grounds. It looked good so we set up. We had 18 quick ones in 2.5 hours but had to work for our last 6 for a limit, they took about 2 more hours. The fish stopped feeding and turned back on after a lull, we hit 4 fish at the same time and threw 3 keepers back pulling lines.  Small stinger and DW spoons on Big Jon diver disks on 50ft leads caught most of our fish with a couple bandit bites on riggers down 9ft.  We worked 23 to 26 fow on the MI side of the Ohio line.  Good luck!

Welcome aboard!

Welcome to GLF!

Lk Erie walleye action remains hot. The mayfly hatch is on and we made a long run toward E. Sister Island and the Canadian border. We got our limit trolling Stinger scorpions and Dreamweaver walleye spoons behind diver disks. Color didn't matter, leads were 50-60 ft. Started slow with 80-90 ft leads and when I shortened them up, it was game on.  Probably did not need to go that far but the creel clerk said it was hit or miss in MI waters. Some boats had limits there and some struggled. Good luck!

The walleye fishing on Erie has been outstanding this year. We got fast limits of 24 fish each day in 3-1/4 hrs. We fished 21 to 25 of water out of Bolles Harbor both days. Fish moved a bit deeper on Sunday near the Ohio line. We ran all small copper backed stinger and DW spoons on 60 ft leads with Big Jon diver disks. We ran regular salmon spoons off riggers 14ft down.  Purple, pinks and greens were the colors but I don't think color mattered all that much. The size of the fish is very nice this year, good luck!

A Nice Program sponsored by the Great Lakes Salmon Initiative, Captain Chucks II and Moonshine Lures.  You can win prize packages of $100 gift cards to Captain Chucks II or Moonshine Spoon packages worth $100 each.

DNR: Turning in tagged fish in Michigan could net $100 reward - mlive.com
https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/05/turning-in-tagged-fish-in-michigan-could-net-100-reward-dnr-says.html

Turning in tagged fish in Michigan waters could net you some extra cash.

The Michigan DNR is reminding anglers that catching a trout or salmon with an adipose fin clip could be worth a $100 reward. The adipose fin is the small, fleshy lobe on the fish's back, just forward of the tail fin.

Michigan and other states around the Great Lakes, include popular gamefish (like steelhead, Chinook salmon, Atlantic salmon, brown trout and lake trout) that have been mass marked by the DNR and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service before they are stocked.

Most trout and salmon with an adipose fin clip also have a coded wire tag the size of a lead pencil tip in the snout that must be removed by lab technicians. If anglers catch and want to keep an adipose fin clipped fish, they are asked to turn the head in at one of the DNR’s local drop-off stations

The tagging program’s success relies on anglers, according to Randy Claramunt, the DNR’s Lake Huron Basin coordinator.

“We have limited capacity to take that important data from sport-caught trout and salmon,” he said. “We have creel clerks at some ports, but there are several areas – including some river systems with unique fisheries, like Atlantic salmon or steelhead – where we don’t have staff. To get enough tag returns to learn about these species, we’re asking people to take a little extra time to turn in those heads.”

Jay Wesley, Lake Michigan Basin coordinator, said fish tag returns help biologists understand survival, age and movement of important sportfish.

“We are particularly interested in confirming how naturally reproducing Chinook salmon contribute to the fishery; the movement and wild contribution of steelhead in lakes and rivers; and survival and movement of Atlantic salmon,” he said.

The Great Lakes Salmon Initiative, along with Captain Chucks II in Ludington and Moonshine Lures is sponsoring 33 rewards worth $100 each to help promote the program.

Fish with tags submitted before Nov. 1, 2020, will be eligible for the rewards, which will be randomly selected.

Additional details about the reward program:

• Each head with a tag that is turned in equals one drawing entry.
• Eligible tagged fish include steelhead, brown trout, and Chinook or Atlantic salmon.
• The drawing will occur around January 2021.
• Contact information (name, address, phone number) must be provided with each head.
• Catch data (date, location and body of water) must be included with each head.
• The head must be left at a Michigan drop-off location.

For more information on how to recognize a tagged fish and how to fill out the proper information, visit Michigan.gov/TaggedFish.