[TVCJohn]

Glad ya found some fish John. Was there alot of folks out? Kinda surprised no else posted up yet??

I was multi-tasking today so no fishing in the cards. Trying to get two deer blinds built and put in place. Hope to get this one finished and down to the cabin this week. Also got a new meat slicer I wanted to play with so I had some pork in the smoker.

 

[someone11]

Skim ice on east bay this morning lol

 

[timplant]

Out on west, jigged up 8 lakers in 120FOW. 36.6 looking for Cisco and heading home beautiful out!

 

[NWMichiganOutdoors]

Atta way Tim


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[kingfishcam]

Is there a preferred side to fish? East or West bay? Why?
I have jigged for lakers one time in the East bay, but now nothing about the West.

 

[John Hine]

Is there a preferred side to fish? East or West bay? Why?
I have jigged for lakers one time in the East bay, but now nothing about the West.

They’re both good. More ciscos in East, in my opinion, both have great laker fishing & ok salmon fishing in the fall. Steel here & there & both nearly void of perch.

 

[someone11]

West bay is most definitely not void of perch.

 

[John Hine]

West bay is most definitely not void of perch.

I said nearly. They’re down enough that I feel guilty about keepin a limit. I know where they spawn on East also but I leave em be. North port is barely west bay.

 

[ThreeDogsDown]

West bay is most definitely not void of perch.

Most people don’t consider Northport “West Bay”. A technicality well exploited.


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[Saltysnowbird]

I jig fished off of Elk Rapids Memorial weekend 2 years ago and enjoyed it a lot. I am planning to make the trip a couple of times this year and am following this thread. Hopefully as soon as this week with the warmer weather. Thank you all for the good, timely, information!

 

[someone11]

I'm not talking just northport.

 

[John Hine]

I was going to fish Atlantics this morning, but that wind had me second-guessing myself. So I hit one of my favorite bluegill lakes between here and there and the water is so damn cold there ain’t even a lily pad trying to come up yet. No beds made nothing. The largemouth were hungry as usual but no gills. Crazy how cold our water still is! Also picked up a hitchhiker on my neck!

 

[sixft4par]

Hopefully we turn the corner this week.

 

[andyotto]

I was going to fish Atlantics this morning, but that wind had me second-guessing myself. So I hit one of my favorite bluegill lakes between here and there and the water is so damn cold there ain’t even a lily pad trying to come up yet. No beds made nothing. The largemouth were hungry as usual but no gills. Crazy how cold our water still is! Also picked up a hitchhiker on my neck! View attachment 831168 View attachment 831169 View attachment 831170 View attachment 831171

Tons of those little suckers around this year already.

 

[Layvon]

Out on west Bay out of bowers harbor this morning. Lake is Like glass. Dusted the cobwebs off the silver fish gear for the year and hoping to get on some Lakers. Water temp 36-38 so far. Hopefully I have some useful info by the time we get off the water.

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[TVCJohn]

Just came by the hole...seen one boat out there working it.

 

[Outdoor2daCore]

I was going to fish Atlantics this morning, but that wind had me second-guessing myself. So I hit one of my favorite bluegill lakes between here and there and the water is so damn cold there ain’t even a lily pad trying to come up yet. No beds made nothing. The largemouth were hungry as usual but no gills. Crazy how cold our water still is! Also picked up a hitchhiker on my neck! View attachment 831168 View attachment 831169 View attachment 831170 View attachment 831171

The winds been tough lately, I made the mistake of trying for gills at a lake and between water temps and wind, nothing was happening. And i agree the damn ticks are bad again. Very annoying, but more reason to stay in a boat in the middle of a lake


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[TVCJohn]

^.....I likes yo thinkin'!!!!

I just seen a temp of 88 in the car. The weather dude says Thursday and Friday will be cooking in the high 80's too. That skim ice in East Bay a few days ago wasn't such a bad thing.

 

[Layvon]

Nothing major to report, got one. We launched out of Bowers harbor. Worked the north side of the island and up to Lee point and back. 150-75' Didn't see much trolling but I dropped waypoints every time I saw fish and went back and worked them after we were bored trolling. Probably dropped down on 20 25 different fish and couldn't get them to go. Tried varying up my cadence as much as I could and 6-7 different lures

Old man and I are going back out tomorrow he said he knows of some 110-ft hole surrounded by 90 ft of water that he's had success trolling before.

There was absolutely no wind out there. Water temp was 36° in most spots and we were in a t-shirt. Found out how warm it was when we got to the ramp.

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[John Hine]

Might be worth checking 50’ or less! They’ll be there soon for a short time I’m guessing.