steeliebob

Let us know how you do. It sounds like you cannot miss down there and it really does not matter what you use for lures or flies. There has to be fish down in that area because the DNRE fisheries trucks back up like a presidential motorcade to release the fingerlings.

It is always great to see the kind enjoying the outdoors. Can you post some pics? Thanks for taking them on the adventure of their lifetime. Awesome story.

Send some of them north to where Huron & Michigan meet. Those are some nice fish.

Nice Lakers way to go

The first fish that you catch in the slikcraft will make it all worthwhile. Hurry and get it ready cause the fishing is starting to get good right now.

At least you got out there. The Chrome 1 is still waiting on dry dock ready to go. Looks like Brevort Lake tomorrow for walleye and pike. The chrome 1 is waiting for the wind to die down a little more. The 19 footer is just a little hard to handle in all of this wind although it has been done a few times. I don't want to fight the weather on the shakedown.

Nice Job!!!! At least i know what they look like again. I just have to get my rig in the water and get some.

The weather is looking good bought my annual permit boat is ready the shakedown will be this week in St Ignace, Chrome 1 will get wet. I still have not seen a boat out there yet. I have had some reports of Kings being caught in the Sault and Detour so I am going to give it a shot and see what I can do. I will keep you posted throughout the summer, today looks like a good day too but I am at work right now.

I use 1/2 cup of Kosher salt, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 2 tablespoons of worchestire, and 1/2 teaspoon of liquid smoke to 2 gallons of water sometimes I add a little garlic salt too. Farily inexpensive and very effective brine.

Glad to hear that the priority 1 survived the shakedown does not sound like you are surviving so well. Good luck with the ankle and fishing. All of those waves are caused by the fish shaking because they fear the priority 1. With any luck and a little less snow the Chrome 1 will get wet next week. Nobody has been out in St Ignace yet so I may be the first one. There is supposed to be loads of Lake Trout up here so I can tie into a few of those for salmon practice.

Nobody has ever blamed climate change on the lack of salmon in L Huron. The L Huron Salmon move north every summer. When the melt off comes early the salmon show up un St Ignace earlier. You guys downstate have it made launching your boats on April 1 and catching nice trout and salmon but they are gone by May 30. Then you can walleye fish all summer long. My prediction is that the salmon will be in the straits area by early June this year. We will have good fishing June July and August, then our boats hibernate while you guys fish right through november. For those 90 days or so our fishing is pretty good up here. The DNR is working on getting Atlantic Salmon introduced throughout the state so be patient and your salmon fishing could return.

I always pick up a couple of game hens at the grocery store and toss them right into the brine with my fish. Then I put them on the smoker with my fish. When they turn a golden brown pull them off. The meat should just flake off from the bird. Serve the bird up with salmon dip and crackers, this is an awesome combo. Make sure that you are first in line because the last in line will get the crumbs.

Sounds like a good time. You used to be able to walk on boats from Mildand to Bay City on the opener. Sounds like you had room to fish. Good job on the walleye.

There goes the rest of the UP deer. If you can keep him over there by Munising, Bromley. I think that the USFWS is driving around the UP at night throwing them out of the back of pick up trucks.

Interesting post. In St Ignace you can find salmon in May & June hanging in 200 fow by St Helena Island or by Mackinac Island still deep. Late June July & August you can catch them in 80 fow or less right off of St Ignace. The bigger salmon are usually in the deeper water. I stay in shallower water and set up for steelhead, atlantics, and lakers. I don't usually target the kings until later on.

Went 2 for 2 on Steelhead Saturday and 0 for 2 on Sunday. Both fish on Saturday were about 8 pounds. I expect things to be better in another week or two. i could not get a fish to look at a fly but they did hit on the spawn.

I run a spoon about 30 feet behind the cannonball which I have about 60 feet down in 80 fow then a fixed slider about 10 feet up with a spoon. Then I have my stacker set with directional divers at about 25 feet. The stacker poles are on the outside. It works good in the early am when the fish are running at different depths. When you have a big fish on you have to pull everything or mess with the birds nest later. If you are alone in the boat I don't recommend using a stacker. Just the two poles and a slider will work good. Setting up is very easy if you use a free slider. Just clip it on and toss it overboard.

This may help you out a bit. Chinook start showing up in St Ignace and around Mackinac Island around mid June. The numbers keep increasing as summer progresses. I believe alot of salmon that were planted in N Lake Huron migrate south during the winter and move back north during the summer. Check the LSSU fish cam usually by July they show up in the Soo and you can see them at the powerhouse. Nobody really launches their boats up here until at least mid may so we are almost two months behind the guys in the lower.

Get it going you still have a whole lot of time to get it in the water yet this year. Don't worry about it being old as long as it runs good. THe best looking boats don't always have the fullest coolers at the end of the day. My boat is an old one but it sure catches its share of fish. I even use a couple of 40 year old salmon poles on it just to give it some extra charm.

They might be checking to see if it is a cross between an Atlantic and a Brown Trout. Then you would have a record of another type. What would they call it? I believe that these fish exist and they raise them in a hatchery in Illinois for market only.

My boat is a Starcraft Holiday with a 120 I/O. I can assure you that they handle rough water well and they are great salmon fishing boats. Good luck selling the boat. I really like mine, it came with $2000 worth of gear and the price was $2000 so how coiuld I go wrong?????

I live by one rule. If you can't walk out to get them they are not worth fishing for. I am sure that the guy in the truck will be back out there next year at first ice ....in his truck. Other than this post I only had one person tell me about him.

Now that I have your attention!!!! Do not forget to get your new fishing license. Just trying to save you guys some lure money. I know from years past in the NLP and EUP the DNR checks very hard the first few days of April for slackers and they write loads of tickets. It is the only time that I have been checked, the first couple of weeks in April.

Good job. Glad to hear that boats are getting out and catching fish. Mine is still covered up. I don't forsee too much boat action in the EUP until mid may or later. It is a short season up here I have an I/O I don't want to get it out too early. Next boat will be an outboard for sure that will extend the season by 3 months.

I was out this past weekend for steelhead, the fish are slowly coming into the rivers. I caught 3 fish nothing too big but the good eating size. The water levels are pretty low and we need rain. If we get the rain I think that the fishing will get better. Very few smelt are being caught, but some are showing up. Maybe by the weekend there will be more fish action.