Fishing in the wind can be fabulous, but there’s also a certain element of risk.
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The Opener was a special time where friends and relatives gathered to swap lies and reminisce. It signaled the start of the fishing season.
“Doubtless God could make a better fish than the Michigan grayling, but doubtless he never did.”
It’s arguably the best fishing port on the Great Lakes because it’s the real deal.
I have never had the opportunity to fish the steelhead streams and rivers of the Northwest, but I’d find it hard to believe that they are better than the Pere Marquette, Big Manistee and Muskegon rivers in Michigan based on sheer numbers of fish.
There’s growing group of professional and avid bass anglers that will tell you that Michigan has some of the best smallmouth bass fishing in the country.
Ask someone what the most endangered vertebrate on the earth is and you’re likely to get a variety of answers. Some would guess the polar bear, Bengal tiger, Whooping crane or maybe the Trumpeter swan, but a small cadre of researchers in Wyoming would answer that it is Anaxyrus baxieri or the Wyoming toad.
Even though it was early April, it was obvious that Ol’ Man Winter had refused to give up his icy grip. The thermometer registered a chilly 17 degrees and there was a new skiff of snow on Carpenter Ridge.
As May and June arrive, the walleye fishing only gets better. Warming temperatures jumpstarts a walleye’s metabolism. Spring and early summer is prime time to make big catches of walleyes, especially the size that fit perfectly into a frying pan.
Wolverine State anglers are well aware that the old adage “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb,” is all too true in Michigan.