steeliebob

I always feed them eggs for breakfast. I use a combination of steelhead and salmon eggs that they can't resist. I took an 11 pounder yesterday morning on eggs. I went one for two lost another really nice fish. I am not hunting this year so I should really be into them in this November weather. I will be hitting them until the ice comes on. Then I will go out and hit them some more on tip ups.

I am just guessing but it looks like that is an Atlantic Salmon. Nice fish

I will be missing out this year, just not enough deer in my section of the EUP. I scouted several areas during the past two months and found little if any deer sign. Scary thought I found almost as many wolf tracks as I did deer tracks.

Heidi, You are exactly right, six miles of ice will not keep the wolves out of the lower penninsula. Once the deer population is severly reduced in the Upper Penninsula they will look elsewhere for food or pick a different kind of prey. They are not an animal that dies of starvation too often. If you read the DNR wolf management report it sounds like the DNRE expects them and wants them in the Lower Penninsula. For the first time in 20 years I will not be deer hunting this year due primarily to the lack of deer and the abundunce of wolves.

The nearest chapter to the EUP would be in Alpena. I would like to know who the contact person is to get a chapter started in St Ignace. I probably know of at least a dozen or so guys who would join.

Just a couple of days before the 15th and I am debating wether or not to go. The steelhead fishing is picking up real good and I love to catch steelhead. I think that I will hang onto the $500 I had saved for deer hunting this year. So sorry DNRE you will not get my money to feed your wolves in the name of Quality Deer Management.

One deer and dozens of predators. I guess wolf and predator are not in the DNR's vocabulary

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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.