Enjoy this trailer for a documentary that will come out soon. It sounds like it does the grandeur of the great lakes justice, as well as inform thoroughly of the impending consequences of our actions in the region.
Intuition, time spent, and luck all collide and things are perfect.
In 6 hours we landed 32 salmon and trout from shore, between the 3 of us. Ended up keeping a 3 handed limit toward the end of the night, all of which was given to fishermen near by that were fishing for food. I will have a very detailed report later in the day when I sort through these photographs. Continue reading
Any Salmon fisherman knows that in order to catch a salmon it requires at least some degree of knowledge of the fish, it takes time spent on the water, and it takes luck. Put those three together, and in time you’ll hook one and at least get to battle with it, weather it breaks your line or not, well that’s up to you. Some days it takes more of one than the other. If you really study how the fish work you can make a very educated guess to where and why Salmon are where they are, and because of this you’ll catch a fish that day while others don’t. Some days it takes hours, just casting and casting as the hours pass, and eventually some lone fish decides enough is enough and hits your bait. The final ingredient is luck, and this is a tricky one. Some days you just get lucky and the fish just so happen to be where you are, and you just so happen to want to catch them. Continue reading
The Salmon season is grinding to a close in South-Eastern Wisconsin and though there are still a few Kings left to be caught, many of them are circling the drain and will not be around for long.
While working in Grand Rapids this week I made sure to make it down to the fish ladder and falls on the grand river, get some photographs, and talk with some of the fishermen. It would seem that numbers of King Salmon, Coho, and Steelhead have made it to the base of the dam. They are not, however, there in large numbers. One or two fish jump up a section of the fish ladder every 5 or 10 minutes and some are very small stockers. Spawn sacs fished on river rigs on the bottom took all the fish I saw caught, and most came from the first 50 feet below the falls. Continue reading
The recent rain has not only brought a torrent of water, but a torrent of Coho Salmon into the tributaries as well. I predicted this would happen Sunday or Monday after those rains, and suspicions have been confirmed by this report by friend of the Great Lakes Angler at Illinois Wisconsin Fishing. The link to the blog is on the right bar there, go take a look! Continue reading
