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Boat Launch now open...
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The North Shore Boat Launch on the Escanaba River is now open.
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Steelhead Reports... March 23, 2010
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FYI... A local guy told me today he saw a couple nice Steelhead up by the Dutch Mill (Rapid River Falls). While we were talking, another guy came in the store and said the Steelhead are in the Manistique River pretty good too. Just passing it on...
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Ice going out...March 20th, 2010
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Quick little ice update. If you draw a line between Hunter's and Saunder's Points, the ice is gone from there south. Still too much ice at the boat launches to launch a boat though at both the Escanaba Yacht Harbor and Gladstone Yacht Harbor. I know the Esky River is ice free, but not sure if the North Sh...
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Thanksgiving report
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Made my last trip to LBDN for this year. Fished last Tuesday-Sunday. Fishing was fairly good. Best night was about 15 fish which included 5 over 28 (ALL still swimming). Had one night where we only had 1 fish (although it was 29.5 and probably about 11 pounds). All other nights we had 8-10 fish with...
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Short report 11/21/09
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Have some guests that did pretty good last night. I don't remember how many they cleaned, but I do remember Cory telling me they were catching 2-3 fish on every pass. For some reason though, the bite died at 10:00 pm, so they came in. I feel pretty good since they caught them right where I told them to go! W...
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report
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Just getting to the report..Fished Saturday thru Tuesday. Average 5-7 fish per evening in all sizes. largest was 29 and a few dinks to go along with it. 24-30 feet and lead-core with the common colors, prsims seemed to be best. There was no real pattern. In fact one evening I caught every fish on a d...
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November 14th Report
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Guest Nick Dood and his buddies had a great evening yesterday on the bay. They landed 24 total having to release 4 fish that were over the slot limit. Best crank by far was the blue/silver Rattling Rogue. All the fish were caught between Gladstone and the head of the bay. Great job guys!!! Look forward t...
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A late report
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Tom Mohr and his son were up last weekend and did pretty good. Sounds like last Friday (the 6th,) was their best day. Here's the email and a couple pics he sent. Hi Chris and Diane, Here are a couple of pics from last weekend on the bay. The south winds on Friday night produced the most fish for us. The colo...
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11/11/09 Report...
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I have a couple guys staying with us that have been averaging 6-8 fish a night the past 3 nights. Judging from their poles, it looks like the fish must be hitting prism colored cranks as all their rods are rigged with gold, blue, or purple prism cranks (looked like deep diving thundersticks). I k...
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Late Season Perch??
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Wondering if anyone targets perch this late in the season. We usually catch a few incidentals, especially on harnesses, but thinking about giving them a try on purpose. I know in some areas of the Great Lakes there is a shallow movement, remember Saginaw Bay and Lake St. Clair stories of fishing in 4-1...
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Late report
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Stayed at the Sal-Mar from Sat. till Wed. the 4th of November. Weather was so-so with sleet and rain one night and a continuely switching wind. Did okay on lead and shallow cranks on the north end. Biggest fish was 32+ at 11 lb. 12 oz. Had 2 other fish over 10 lbs. Thanks again Ken and Kevin for your hospita...
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Bite seems to be improving
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We've only had a few reports since Saturday night, but they've mostly been positive. Most action is on the upper bay - trolling around Third Reef and casting in the shallows after dark. Stable weather and the full moon seemed to help. Weather looks fairly decent for the next week or so. Lets hope this tr...
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Few perch, smallmouth, pike, couple walleye...
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Good friend Brian Richards of Cadillac attempted to perch fish yesterday. The high winds forced him to come in early. I know he wishes he could have stayed out because the first perch he caught was 13 inches! I think the 2nd one was 11 inches. Then a few small ones until the wind got so bad, the anchor wou...
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Leadcore and Cranks...
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Fishing was a little tough on yesterday's charter with Russ McKay and his buddy from the northern Illinois area. We launched at Esky around 1 p.m. and headed to where we were catching them the other day before the winds drove us off the water. We were marking tons of fish and lots of baitfish, which I al...
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Weekend report
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Well here it is.... (or should I say here it isn't). Fished on Friday night and got 1 nice 28 1/2, that was the only bite, Fished saturday am from sun up to noon with one small pike to show for it, fished Saturday night with nothing. Had another boat out with me and they got nothing all weekend. Very slow f...
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October 16 Report (late)...
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Actually, not much to report. Kenneth had a 5 hour trip Friday, but it got too rough. One of the guys was getting sea-sick, so they came in early with one nice walleye and two pretty descent pike. He'll try to finish the trip another day. Kennet...
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Hazards in North End
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No fish , but found a couple hazards up near Center Reef. One a red bleach bottle anchored to something, looks like a net marker!, not sure if a net could be placed in all that traffic, but either way, dangerous N 45-53-484 W 86 57 737 The other was a big deadhead, piling floating vertically, barely bre...
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Some nice smallies
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I took my dad out tonight when he got home from work. I was hoping all the north wind would stack up some fish on the breaklines down around Escanaba. We finally found some fish in the last 45 minutes of our trip - and a good 45 minutes it was! We ended up landing five smallmouth, with one just short of 20 inche...
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October 12th Report
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Kenneth had Steve Lambert out for another 5 hour trip yesterday evening. Since there was extra room in the boat, I tagged along with my "flip" video camera. We got on the water around 3:45 pm and it wasn't too long before the first fish was h...
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Fishin' in da snow
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"Fishin's a helluva drug." Now you know why I why I named my boat "MY FIX." Why else would an otherwise sane person decide today was a good day to go fishing? Actually it was pretty decent out there - much better than if it had been raining, instead. I started working the breakline b...
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