Walleye fishing is starting to pick after Sunday’s storm. The water temp. dropped a couple of degrees and slowed the walleye fishing down. I fished Thunder sticks around Sputnik but the water is still dirty. Between the Platform and West Sister produced bigger walleye pulling mini discs and spoons 110 ft. back. Keep a sharp […]
Lake Erie walleye fishing was really starting to pick up as the water was starting to warm up. When the cold front started Tuesday the fishing was still very good, then the bottom dropped out on Wednesday. Brest Bay was the best with limit catch’s in 26 feet of water pulling spoons behind mini-disks. The […]
Walleye fishing has been on the slow side near Bolles Harbor and the Brest Bay area. The surface water temperature is still on the cool side around 58 degrees. The walleye are a little sluggish, so if your trolling, troll around 1.5 to 1.8 mph. We used Deep Thunder Stick Jr. but the fish never […]
Walleye fishing on the Michigan side of Lake Erie near Monroe has been on the slow side for over a week. We trolled Thunderstick Jr. from the front of Toledo Beach Marina to the North West corner of the dump and boated 2 walleye, one being a 6 pounder. We trolled towards Turtle Island caught […]
Steve VanDerLaan is a busy guy this time of year. As the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ statewide fish-stocking biologist, it’s VanDerLaan’s job to get the annual hatchery production – in the vicinity of 18 million fish weighing 395 tons – out to the state’s lakes and streams during a roughly eight-week window. Stocking events […]
The Department of Natural Resources announced today that the daily possession limit for walleyes in Michigan’s waters of Lake Erie will remain at six through April 30, 2016. In 2011 Michigan adopted a process for setting creel limit regulations that allows the DNR to use real-time population data instead of using year-old survey results. This […]
Piping Plovers, are expected to return to the dunes and shores of the Great Lakes in the coming weeks, according to Vince Cavalieri with the U.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Service. Typically the first pairs show up on the week of April 6, with the rest of the flock in a few weeks. Known for their […]
3/15/2015 It can be a luxurious feeling to apply a good skin cleanser to your face and feel the accumulated dirt, grime and oils wash away. But it turns out such seemingly innocent indulgence carries an unexpected environmental cost, particularly for those of us who live near the Great Lakes. The unexpected culprits are micro […]
STURGEON BAY, WI — The freighter Arthur M. Anderson finally made port this week after an end-of-the-season Indiana to Ohio run became a nearly month-long futile slog across three iced-over Great Lakes. The 63-year-old laker, famous for its role in the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, entered winter lay-up in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. on Wednesday morning, March […]
After Michigan’s salmon program kicked off in the 1960s, Platte River State Fish Hatchery in Beulah was quickly labeled as the primary Pacific salmon hatchery for the state. With the wild success of the salmon fishery in the Great Lakes, production ramped up swiftly with more than 5 million Chinook salmon and about 3 million […]