Black River 10-17-10

[Josey_Wales]

Started at the township park at around 6 am this morning. 2 bites no hookups on spawn. Moved to the mouth of the black river at around 9 am, again more fisherman on the wall, but not much action. LOTS AND LOTS of baitfish at the mouth. Thousands of tiny minnows with a whole buncha gizzard shad below them. Couple kids catchin gobies and throwing them on the rocks. Fished that till around 11 then headed to Andersons there in Port Huron who said the fish have been hit or miss... They dont think the strong run (if any for salmon) has hit yet. However said the Browns and Steelhead are gonna start here soon and be good till Jan. We will try again here soon. Getting a tad discouraged, but am hopeful.

[Nailer]

Thanks for the update chris.

[Priority1]

Chris, Thanks for the report. Hang in there.

[Turfwrench]

Thanks for the update. Pretty soon the lakers should start coming in also. Last year I was into them good on 10/18 near the mouth of the Black. Water must still be a little warm. Wife and I are going to go out of Sanilac tomorrow and run some shallow water for a while and see what transpires.

[Josey_Wales]

Hopefully you do better then I did... biggest thing for me right now is the hour or so drive I have to make MINIMUM to get to these locations. Ill keep checking the sites though and hope I can get em when they are in there.

[Turfwrench]

Josey, now is the time to hit Sanilac. Made it up there today and there are a lot of fish in shallows. Water temp outside the wall was 58 and the fish were jumping this morning. Trolled the shallow waters and ended up with 2 lakers, 3 steelhead, 1 brown, and 1 smallmouth bass. The bass and the lakers went back in. There were some nice perch caught in the harbor today as well and seen a large school of browns inside the harbor also.

[Josey_Wales]

I have thursday and Sunday off coming up so hopefully I can get out there and give it a try... thanks Bill =)