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Post by Purebred Redneck on Sept 30, 2012 10:25:57 GMT -5
Our party was going to go back to Wisconsin for salmon, but it's been way too dry for them to make the run. We're going to be a week or so early. So instead, we're going to pack up and go to Michigan. The king salmon have already made their run there but the coho's, steelhead, big browns should be there. My understanding is the cohos and browns will actually bite a lure during the spawn as opposed to the kings (dad and I caught 19 kings and 1 coho last year. 18 out of 19 kings were foul hooked). Plus this will be in a wilderness area as opposed to downtown Milwaukee. Be nice to get away for a while. Hopefully I don't dislocate my back lifting 20 pound fish for 3 days  ;D |
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Sept 30, 2012 10:30:55 GMT -5
This was last year Attachments:
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Post by Jack on Sept 30, 2012 10:39:56 GMT -5
Good luck, Red!
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Post by bounce on Sept 30, 2012 12:33:18 GMT -5
Is Michigan a swing state? if so I'm shure the presants of you and your party will turn it to Mitt. so have fun red. lol.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Sept 30, 2012 13:18:29 GMT -5
He can have Michigan, we'lll still have 350 ;D
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Post by dovehunter on Oct 1, 2012 10:51:57 GMT -5
At the risk of showing my ignorance, how do salmon get into Wisconsin which, if I remember my geography, is landlocked except for the great lakes? Do they come in somehow through the great lakes?  |
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Post by Jack on Oct 1, 2012 16:17:27 GMT -5
Dovehunter, some of the Great Lakes have been stocked with salmon. I believe Lake Michigan was the first. Lake Ontario and Lake Erie have been, too.
The result is you can fish for salmon out in the lakes during the summer- as well as rainbow and brown trout- and there are salmon runs up a number of streams in the spring and fall, with the fall run being largest.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Oct 1, 2012 19:26:40 GMT -5
Yeah, they stock Lake Michigan.
The fish will make the run up the river and lay the eggs...but because of river conditions the eggs don't hatch. I know the salmon will die in the rivers but the trout will go back out to the lake if they can.
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Post by Jack on Oct 1, 2012 22:27:56 GMT -5
Salmon eggs do hatch in some streams.
The salmon do die after breeding. The trout return to the lake. Rainbows especially will follow the salmon run, I suspect to eat salmon eggs as much as anything else.
The varieties of salmon stocked now (Chinook, Coho, and King) are originally west coast varieties, I believe.
Atlantic salmon were originally native to Lake Ontario, maybe some or all of the other lakes, too.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Oct 11, 2012 17:56:55 GMT -5
Well that was a complete waste of time!
The fish were there but the river was very wide, deep, and swift. It was hard to get the lure down to their level to snag them. There were some people that had snagging success by melting down a lead bar into a shape that somewhat looked like a baitfish and put two big trebble hooks on it. Of course they all got tickets for snagging...which makes no sense...you pay 8 dollars a day for the fishing access and the fish are going to die anyway. Wisconsin looks the other way; Michigan will look through binoculars and then wade the river from the other side to issue tickets. Sneaky bastards.
My dad caught 2, I hooked 1 for about 5 seconds.
You wouldn't imagine the trash laying on the ground by the river. There was probably 1000 people there fishing and it was a mess. There were volunteers carrying trashbags and trashbags of beer cans and they didn't even take a dent out of it.
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Post by jmarriott on Oct 11, 2012 20:40:34 GMT -5
I hate a nasty trash leaving fisherman. I am always bring out much more than I bring in to the area.
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Post by bounce on Oct 12, 2012 8:42:44 GMT -5
Sounds like you were at the right place red. lol.
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