EdB

A skunk report can help a lot of guys as much as a great catch report, thanks!

Thanks for the report.

We trolled MI waters out of Bolles Harbor from 19 to 23 FOW. Fish were scattered throughout this depth and we picked away and boxed our limit of 18. Best lures were a rebel deep wee crawdad in brown crab, orange belly crab and pink and white. Thundersticks in gold and black and brown trout. We ran these on 30-40 leads off boards. Our best spoon was a Warrior colville crusher on a 4 color. This was hot last year, glad I bought 3 more in the offseason, it took 5 fish. This fishery should be fantastic over the next month. Good luck!

Nice job on the kings!

Thanks for the report!

Nice job!

Welcome to GLF Theus, the wrinkles are getting deeper for all of us. Mike sold his great lakes boat and moved on to other activities with his kids. I haven't seen him around here in awhile but hope he is doing good.

Got to love having some good water without the crowds, nice catch!

Nice catch!

Coho is just starting for trolling and should get stronger. The fish will move north when it warms to St Joe to Holland and offshore. You could probably do well dragging bottom for lake trout when the coho leave Michigan City. You can hit some kings in the spring for a couple weeks. Usually the first 2 weeks of May is best but I've never fished MC then. There was awesome king fishing off St Joe last year for about 2 weeks in May. In years past when king numbers were much larger than today, it was very consistent. Spring king fishing has been more sporadic in recent years since there are a lot less kings out there now. Mega Byte shared a good video on another thread for browns, these tactics could work on browns at MC, they are around in spring.

If it has a water pump impeller, I would replace that.

Could take a couple close up pictures of it?

I think it is a great idea. I would like to see any revenue generated dedicated to improving king salmon, coho salmon, steelhead or brown fisheries since our lakes are now being dominated by Lk Trout. Lot of uses for the revenue to improve the science to manage our resources. For example, Feds want to stop funding coded wire tag research for salmon. This is key data that is needed to evaluate inter-lake movement of kings and success of stocking locations so we can get the best bang for our buck for our reduced stocking program.

Welcome to GLF!

Is it possible to remove the reels off the mast and mount on my permanent rocket launcher made from 2in pipe?

The Great Lakes Salmon Initiative annual meeting is tomorrow at Jay's Sporting Goods in Clare MI. Good day for a road trip to get some new gear and make your voice heard. The DNR will be there to answer questions and listen to anglers. The situation with Lk Trout is troubling. Their population is exploding and anglers are facing creel and or season reductions in Northern Lk Huron and Traverse Bays. More info: What can we as anglers expect fishing this year on Lakes Huron and Michigan? What can we expect in future years? So much depends on weather, water levels, productivity, bait fish, and states/federal stocking agenda. For example we are facing Lake Trout creel limit reductions and or season closures in northern Lakes Huron and Michigan The GLSI has been advocating to maintain Chinook plants, coho movement, zonal management, Brown Trout movement, angler access, economic impact and resisting the native only Lake Trout agenda. To get answers to these questions and many more join the GLSI this weekend at: This Saturday March 2nd 2-5pm Jays Sporting Goods Clare, Mi Randy Claramunt the Lake Huron Basin Coordinator and Dave Carrofino from the MDNR Tribal Coordination Unit are scheduled to attend. They are here to answer questions and more importantly to listen to anglers. AS anglers we can expect the MDNR to manage our fisheries properly but we also have the responsibility to tell our managers what we want. Even more importantly they need to hear what we want as this gives them the power to negotiate with federal agencies for our interests. TOPICS: *Chinook reductions/increases *Federal vs States agenda *Zonal Management *lakes wide impact including UP access *Coho movement Lakes Michigan Huron *Recreational angling economic impact *Charter vs Recreational angler *Tribal interests Consent Decree 2020 *whitefish vs cisco vs lake trout restoration *state/tribal trout allocations *Bait assessments *Intra lake movement of fish *Fish tagging/clipping/stomach data and how anglers can participate *Commercial angling These topics listed are some of the items that you may want to hear about. Again, this is your time to learn, participate, ask questions, give your opinions and be heard!! Hope to see you there