Friday, April 30, 2010

Steelhead In The St. Marys

It seems that every few years a writer from some publication gets the urge to head to Sault Ste. Marie and do some early season fishing for steelhead.

The latest is from Eric Sharp. See: St. Marys full of steelhead

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

StopAsianCarp.com

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has a new web site with all the news about keeping out Asian Carp.

See: StopAsianCarp.com

I know this is in the news a lot, and perhaps it sounds like hyperbole to some people, but this fish really would destroy the Great Lakes as we know them.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009

A U.P. Food Tradition In The New York Times

Now Entering Upper Michigan’s Smoked Fish Zone

My favorite smoked fish is Lake Trout. The combination of price and taste is unbeatable.

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

St. Marys River Fish Survey

Via SooToday: St. Marys River boaters are asked to watch for this: Fisheries Task Group plans survey on St. Marys River in August

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Getting The Fishing Secret Out

The St. Marys River is a great place for fishing. But for some reason, no one outside of Michigan and Ontario knows this.

Eric Sharp at the Detroit Free Press is doing his best to get the word out though.

See: There's nothing fishy about big, numerous steelhead
Last winter I told some California anglers about the great steelhead fishing in the Great Lakes. While they might not have considered it an outright lie, you could see they thought it was an exaggeration.

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Smelting Away

A story of the disappearing smelt the the Herald Times Reporter (Manitowoc): Commercial fishermen are coming up empty
According to the Department of Natural Resources, commercial fishermen were able to pull more than 650,000 pounds of smelt from Lake Michigan in 2006. By 2008, that number was cut in third to just more than 208,000 pounds. So far this year, the smelt harvest has been a paltry 19,000 pounds.

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Monday, April 13, 2009

Restocking Herring

The St. Marys River is the only remaining area of the Great Lakes with a noticeable herring population. But the Michigan DNR is now studying the possibility of stocking this once plentiful fish.

See: DNR Studies Prospects for Sustainable Lake Herring Fishery in Lake Huron

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How To Remove A Fish Hook

Here are a couple of different ways to remove a fish hook from your flesh; which if you fish often is not a question of "if" you'll get hooked but "when".

Wired: Remove a Fishhook From a Buddy

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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Fishy Links

Here are a couple of recent stories about fish that caught my attention.

- The story of the last 400 Coaster Brook Trout at MyNorth: Saving Michigan’s Coaster Brook Trout

This story was also on IPR.

- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the Lake Michigan fishery; where things have changed so much that native Lake Trout are no longer reproducing on their own but the introduced Chinook Salmon is: Choppy waters on a great lake

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Monday, December 01, 2008

Throw The Big Ones Back

For a healthy fishery it helps to have a significant population of larger adult fish. The evidence supporting this idea has been building for the past several years and a recent study by the University of Toronto confirms it.

See: Keep big fish in their small ponds

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Friday, November 28, 2008

The Spread Of VHS

See: Regulatory action needed now to stop the spread of VHS into Lake Superior
A new map... produced by Geoff Maas of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, makes frighteningly clear why we need immediate action to stop the unregulated discharge of ballast water from spreading invasive species in the Great Lakes. Since 2003, the invasive fish disease Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) has spread through four of the five Great Lakes, with only Lake Superior still unharmed.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Fishing For Pink Salmon In The St. Marys River

The Detroit Free Press has had several stories about unique fishing opportunities in Michigan recently. The latest is about the St. Marys River north of Neebish Island.

See: Fly-fishing for these salmon is simple, fun

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Neebish Island Mentioned In The Latest DNR Fishing Report

St. Mary’s River: Has good numbers of pink salmon between the Power Plant and the tour boat docks. Anglers are casting or jigging Swedish Pimples and spoons. Good walleye action in the early morning when trolling a bottom bouncer with a crawler harness and blades. Some nice yellow perch were caught in the weedbeds across from the ferry dock on Neebish Island. Good smallmouth action off the southeast corner of Sugar Island in 20 feet of water.

Via the Holland Sentinel

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Fish Also In Distress

On the heels of the VHS fish virus (See:
Ebola-like virus killing fish in Great Lakes) comes more bad news for freshwater fish species.

See: Silent streams? Escalating endangerment for North American freshwater fish
Nearly 40 percent of fish species in North American streams, rivers and lakes are now in jeopardy, according to the most detailed evaluation of the conservation status of freshwater fishes in the last 20 years...

"Fish are not the only aquatic organisms undergoing precipitous declines," said USGS researcher Noel Burkhead, a lead author on the report and the chair of the AFS Endangered Species Committee. "Freshwater crayfishes, snails and mussels are exhibiting similar or even greater levels of decline and extinction."

And the decline in freshwater and saltwater fish populations is just one small part in Earth's sixth mass extinction event which is happening before our eyes.

For example, most people are aware of the worldwide collapse of bee colonies. Less well known is that populations of fireflies (what I used to call "lighting bugs") have declined by 70% worldwide.

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Friday, July 25, 2008

Atlantic Salmon Fishing

The Detroit Free Press has a story about fishing for Atlantic salmon in the St. Marys River.

See: St. Marys River provides bargain world-class fishing

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Friday, July 11, 2008

Review Of A New Multi-Species Fishing Lure

CoolTools - VibraSpin Lure

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Concern For The Bottom Of The Fish Food Chain

PhysOrg - A Great Lakes mystery: The case of the disappearing species

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

A Love Of Muskie

Northern Michigan based outdoor writer Dave Richey has a post up about Muskie fishing - Chasing Muskies Is A Never-Ending Thrill

Maybe this is the year for someone to catch another monster muskie from the water around Neebish Island?

A Monster Muskie caught in Munuscong Bay

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