Little Bay de Noc Fishing Reports

I FINALLY managed to keep the hook in a decent one, for a change! Man, this year, if it wasn't for bad luck...

Anyway, I was south of Gladstone tonight, in about 30 FOW. Started marking good numbers of fish at about 6:45. A little before 7 everything started to happen at once! I had several fish on the screen, then the gas ran out on my heater, I missed several bites from fish screaming in on my bait, the radio died ( a crank up model,) and to top it off, I look out the window to see a flag up! I hated to leave the active fish on the graph, but I had an almost "sure thing" on the tip-up. Turned out to be a healthy 26 inch female. She hit a small sucker minnow one foot off of bottom. Problem with those small minnows is that the fish can suck them down quick, and she ended up being gut hooked. Oh well, at least she'll make a good batch of Poor Man's Lobster. Got back to the shack and there were still fish on the screen. Dropped the #9 Glow Tiger Rap back down and popped a 17 inch male in short order. A few minutes later, I landed a short fish on the same bait. Amazing how a 10 minute flurry of activity will make up for a couple hours of "dead time."