The good

[Dave Ash]

We always talk about the bad that happens on the piers.. lets talk about the good things that have happend to you





Example being
Last year
Broke off 3 NK casting spoons in the matter of an hour (All huge fish 2 of them spooled me)
Guy next to me offerd me one from his box to borrow. We were the only 2 out that night and had our limit 4 times over biggest fish being 22 pounds.
As he was getting ready to leave I tried to give him his spoon back and he wouldnt let me. I ended up seeing his truck 2 weeks late I slipped a $10 bill in the window crack.

Yes I know the lure only cost 5 bucks. but ... I think he got the point.
I have yet to see him yet this year I hope he comes back

[steelhead1]

Sounds like both of you are guys I'd like to fish around.

[MPsteelheader]

you got any pics?

[Dave Ash]

I might.. Let me go through my old dig pictures that i have on disk

[Hollandpiper]

you got any pics?

Of the fish or the guy?!?!? Either way, the question seems odd.:sad:

[quest32a]

I think he meant of the fish, not the guy....LOL I love fish porn and would love to see pics as well :D

BTW, back to the original topic of this thread. 99% of my pier experiences have been great. Nice guys who love to talk and never had any real problems with getting crowded.... and the few times I have been crowded things were resolved very diplomaticaly.

[Hollandpiper]

I think he meant of the fish, not the guy....LOL I love fish porn and would love to see pics as well :D


John,

I'm sure he meant the fish, but the request for a year old pic seemed odd. . . like there was some questioning of the "biggest fish being 22 pounds". There just seems to be too much of that. Believe or don't believe. . . just let someone tell the story.

BTW back @ ya. . . When are you coming fishing with me again. Send me a PM.

Alex

[MPsteelheader]

no i just love fish porn...

seems like dave fishes the piers quite a bit...

just asked if he got any pics...

i know from my past you would think im causing some sort of trouble but nope...

cya,

mark

[Dave Ash]

I am looking through the disks as we speak.... I am hopping i saved the pict....

[Hollandpiper]

no i just love fish porn...

seems like dave fishes the piers quite a bit...

just asked if he got any pics...

i know from my past you would think im causing some sort of trouble but nope...

cya,

mark

Mark,

Again. . . it just struck me odd. Please do not tkae offense to my {Q}. Maybe I'm a little off. . . I am happy to just hear a good story. The pics don't do alot for me.

Hollandpiper down. . .

Alex

[Dave Ash]

I find it very hard to belive that no one else has any good stories off thep piers.

[MPsteelheader]

I find it very hard to belive that no one else has any good stories off thep piers.

ok ill bite...

couple weekends ago the water was ridiculously warm on the michigan side of the lake so i decided to head north to wisconsin waters...

i started out the first evening in a harbor fishing for nearshore species and had a blast hooking into some good sized staging browns...

got the smell of a hard sw wind(which is a good thing for over there) and decided to go a little farther north to try my luck for kings off the pier...

rolled up to the northbreak wall in milwaukee harbor and made the trek out...

upon getting to the end of the breakwall i noticed there was NOBODY out there...

and the water temps were a perfect 51 degrees on the lake side and 55 in the harbor scumline...

first cast with a bait rig and 30 seconds into it i had a screaming drag from the rod holder...

i didnt even get to turn the fish it spooled me in its first hard run:yikes:

so that rod's done...

next was my backup bait rod...

cast it and set it...

now was when the fun began...

i decided instead of falling asleep out there id cast some spoons to keep me going...

2 casts in and fish on!

and then revalations came to me...

i had NO WAY to land these fish and NOBODY was around...

at milwaukee the piers/breakwalls have rocks that are ridiculously huge and the closest i could get to the waters edge within safety's realm was 15 feet...

needless to say i couldn't land anything i hooked and had fun just fighting em and watching them peel line all night...

the ironic part about that night was by the time anybody else came out to the end of the breakwall the bite was long gone and i had a memory that will be etched in my mind forever...

what a hoot!

[ausable_steelhead]

Alright, seeing how I'm here bored while my wife is off with her mother, I'll throw up a story. This was Labor day 2004 on the north pier in Oscoda. There was one king caught right before dark, and then nothing else. There were quite a few guys on the pier. I was on the tip with my bro, my buddy Bob, and some of the locals I know. We were all tossing a variety of glow spoons, with no results. So I put on a green glo KO. Around 9:30, fish-on, 10:15 fish-on, 10:45 fish-on. After my first fish, everybody had on a green/glo KO, but I was, for some reason, the only one hooking up. Well as I was landing number three, two strange guys nobody knew, stole both my boxes, one FULL of spoons, and the other, full of plugs. Needless to say, I was P!$$ed! So I went back to see if I could catch up to them, which I didn't. So I go back out, and Bob was just un-hooking a buck. Cool I thought, maybe they're turning on, no. Another two hours go by with nothing. Well around 1-1:30am, one of the locals, Dan, hooks up. After landing it, I hook-up, then Bob hooks-up again, then me, then Dan, then someone two people down. Soon every other cast by us four was a hook-up, just came out of nowhere. This lasted a good hour, hour and a half before slowing! I bet the four of us put the hooks in 30-35 salmon, it was ridiculous! Funny thing was, there was this dude right in the middle, and he had one on for a split-second but lost it, and that was ALL he did during that hot bite, that's crazy!
I've had other great, fun nights! Pier salmon are one of the most fun and exciting fishing there is!

[jeremy L]

I find it very hard to belive that no one else has any good stories off thep piers.

A couple years ago, back when lake huron had fish;) , i remember walking out on one of the local piers about 45 minutes before light. It had been blowing HARD North all night and the waves were breaking over most of the pier, expect the far 1/4. The 5-6 people out there were all fishing the harbor side of the pier because of the north wind. I get out there and a friend i know tells me" I have caught two already, another local had his limit and was ready to leave, and others were hooking up.

So, i start to cast and about 10 minutes later hook and land a nice mid teen king on a reef runner. Others are still hooking and catching fish and later on i hook my second on a firetiger bomber. I ended up breaking off and a second later i'm netting another fish while my buddy is letting one of the other people out there use his rod to catch a king. I land my "neighbors" fish and soon hook my third and land a small jack.

Later, the fishing died as did the wind, but in about 2-3 hours, i would guess 25 kings and a brown were taken off about 50 yards of pier. No fights about crossed lines, everyone was nice to each other, reeling in lines when a fish was hooked, etc. It was a wonderful morning.

[Erik]

Okay heres one of my favorite peir adventure stories.
Quite a few years ago when I was young enough that doing this sort of thing didn't bother me. I made a suicide trip to oscoda in the middle of the work week. I heard the walleye bite was hot and I knew it would be a madhouse if I waited til the weekend to go. So I told my boss I might be late for work the next morning and as soon as I got off work that afternoon I drove straight up to oscoda from chelsea. I was at the pier by 8:30pm.
The weather was nasty, and I kept thinking to myself as I made the drive up that I must be crazy for doing this. The further I got north the worse the weather got. I started to wonder if I would even be able to fish, but by that time it was too late I was already three quarters of the way up.
When I arrived at the pier it was light rain with occasional sleet mixed in. It was windy but not bad enough to cause the waves to come over the wall. There was some boats in the channel and a few other people fishing off the peirs so that made me feel a little better. I tied on an orange and gold countdown and started fishing.
It was cold mostly due to the on and off rain. I could only make a few casts and then I had to put my hands in my pockets to warm them back up. My gloves were soaked from the rain so they were pretty much useless. I couldn't help thinking how this has to be the stupidest thing I've ever done. Next thing I know the guy next to me hits a big ole walleye and yells for me to grab a net. And then I hit one and he hits one and next thing I know everyone on the pier starts hitting fish. And I'm not talking little 18 inchers either. These were big 28 to 31 inch hogs!
I fished until about 11:00pm till I got my limit of 5 fish. I think everyone else already got their limit before I did cause I was like the last person to leave. One guy stopped by and caught three fish in like 5 minutes then he turned around and left.
When I got back to my truck my hands were so cold and numb from being wet and carrying all those fish I could barely get my keys out of my pocket to start the truck. I managed somehow to start the truck and I turned the heat on full blast and just layed across the seat with my hands in front of it. Seriously painful! Thawed them out enough to where I was finally able to clean my fish. I would clean one then thaw out my hands and then clean another. Finally I got them all cleaned. It almost took longer to clean them than it did to catch them or at least it seemed that way at the time.
I thought about sleeping in the truck but I really wasn't tired. Probably due to all the excitement. Anyway I ended up driving all the way back home that night. Or should I say morning. I was home by like 4am went straight to bed and was able to make it to work the next day by noon.
Totally awesome! Best time I've ever had on the pier! Although I don't think I'll ever do it again. Honestly I don't think I could :)

[ausable_steelhead]

Nice story Erik, I bet that was the north pier? That's how the eye fishing used to be up there all summer, nothing under 5-6lbs!

[Erik]

Actualy it was the south peir. I don't remember seeing anyone on the north peir that night. Some boats in the channel and about half a dozen guys on the south peir. Like I said the weather wasn't nice. It was right around mid to late april. (the walleye season is open year round on the great lakes)
There was a guy who lives up there, or at least he used to, that got three master angler fish that spring. They were all within ounces of the state record! They wrote a big article about him in the woods and waters news that year. We were all thinking that maybe the next state record might come from there but it never happend.

[ausable_steelhead]

I had a feeling you were gonna say the south pier;) ! I've only caught eyes off the south during fall, but have seen plenty. I never fish it during spring or summer for walleye. Oscoda used to pump out alot of 7-10lb fish, ALOT. I now think the big eyes we used to get, act like salmon and steelhead, shadowing baitfish out deep, and only come in when the right wind blows.

[Capt Hook]

I now think the big eyes we used to get, act like salmon and steelhead, shadowing baitfish out deep, and only come in when the right wind blows.

You are so right about the big fish only coming in when the wind and waves make for easy feeding.(makes it easy to slip up on the bait)

Eric- I had a Master Angler in the top five 10 years in a row, one year 1st,2nd,3rd and 7th. all out of the Ausable. Lost one that I am sure would have been a new record. Have it to the net 3 times, buddy was afraid to net it, it took off the 4th time, I tried to keep it on top and the Rapala 18 came wizzing by my ear. I can still see that fish laying on the top for a few seconds before it flipped it tail and was gone. I got a good look at it in the full moon light. 36" long and as round as a basketball. :yikes: