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Post by featherduster on Sept 14, 2022 13:46:38 GMT -5
Finally got the hot tip we've been waiting for, so I took off work. Luke and I will be giving it our all to hook up with a Lake Michigan salmon. Wish us luck! Keep us posted.
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Post by treetop on Sept 14, 2022 14:33:54 GMT -5
Finally got the hot tip we've been waiting for, so I took off work. Luke and I will be giving it our all to hook up with a Lake Michigan salmon. Wish us luck! ๐
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Post by treetop on Sept 14, 2022 17:49:32 GMT -5
Iโm getting old waiting Jay
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Post by deadeer on Sept 14, 2022 20:45:05 GMT -5
Good push of fish shot up Trail Creek with the weekend rain and cold temps. We saw a lot of steelhead jumping the dam a few miles from the lake. We fished and fished above the dam on a lazy bend, and had a bunch of porpoising, but no bites. Its deep and dirty enough we couldnt see the bottom. So we tried a couple other spots, always hating to leave those fish we knew were there. Nothing at other places. So I had one spot left, and we hit it one hour before dark. It's a public access, but quite a trek. Luke beat me to it, and before I even got my rod put together, he's yelling FISH! They were shooting up right to us in a deep pool and log jam, then circling around. He had several swipe at his lure, then about a 7-8# steelhead grabbed his Mepps spinner and took off. He didnt set the hook and had some slack, and it got off, but man was he stoked!!! The fish kept coming in waves. We saw some same sized steelhead, some jack kings we presume, 2-3#, but then a couple of the target chinook salmon came to us. There was NO DOUBT what they were, because a 20-25# fish looks like a submarine. Lol. Luke's eyes were huge when he seen them and couldnt believe the size. Unfortunately, nothing else hung around, as most came to our pool for a few seconds, then continued on. There is plenty more area to fish there, but with dark closing in, we just worked that spot. The entire ride home was talk about the fish on, so it was a GREAT trip for us! We will be back.
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Post by duff on Sept 15, 2022 20:46:48 GMT -5
Awesome. Best fish are the ones that got away. Builds that fire to bring you back
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Post by deadeer on Sept 18, 2022 17:18:33 GMT -5
Skunked. But boy did we ever have fun trying to catch steelhead after steelhead, and a few chinooks running up Trail Creek this weekend. It was a parade, one and two after another. Found them laying in holes, under logs, circling deep pools. Threw everything we had from Mepps spinners, to spawn, eggs, orange marshmallows, flies, etc. Put it right on their noses time after time. I bet the water is too warm, air temp 80's this weekend. Our DNR buddy who collects info said a 30#+ chinook was taken today, right at one of our regular spots. He looked at our equipment and said, you are using what everybody else is, so just keep trying. And we did. Luke is off school Friday for a flex day, so we will try again then and maybe once over the weekend. But, we hope to put in good time for a deer too. Hopefully he kills one right away, and then back to fishing. ๐
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Post by duff on Sept 18, 2022 20:32:02 GMT -5
Skunked. But boy did we ever have fun trying to catch steelhead after steelhead, and a few chinooks running up Trail Creek this weekend. It was a parade, one and two after another. Found them laying in holes, under logs, circling deep pools. Threw everything we had from Mepps spinners, to spawn, eggs, orange marshmallows, flies, etc. Put it right on their noses time after time. I bet the water is too warm, air temp 80's this weekend. Our DNR buddy who collects info said a 30#+ chinook was taken today, right at one of our regular spots. He looked at our equipment and said, you are using what everybody else is, so just keep trying. And we did. Luke is off school Friday for a flex day, so we will try again then and maybe once over the weekend. But, we hope to put in good time for a deer too. Hopefully he kills one right away, and then back to fishing. ๐ Grandpa's secret bait he swore by was something he called the silver spider...never did see it in his tackle box. He had some big treble hooks though.
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Post by deadeer on Sept 19, 2022 16:29:06 GMT -5
Skunked. But boy did we ever have fun trying to catch steelhead after steelhead, and a few chinooks running up Trail Creek this weekend. It was a parade, one and two after another. Found them laying in holes, under logs, circling deep pools. Threw everything we had from Mepps spinners, to spawn, eggs, orange marshmallows, flies, etc. Put it right on their noses time after time. I bet the water is too warm, air temp 80's this weekend. Our DNR buddy who collects info said a 30#+ chinook was taken today, right at one of our regular spots. He looked at our equipment and said, you are using what everybody else is, so just keep trying. And we did. Luke is off school Friday for a flex day, so we will try again then and maybe once over the weekend. But, we hope to put in good time for a deer too. Hopefully he kills one right away, and then back to fishing. ๐ Grandpa's secret bait he swore by was something he called the silver spider...never did see it in his tackle box. He had some big treble hooks though. We've found or pulled up a couple of those over the years. They are nasty! I've kept them for soveniours. I never got to try that, as it was outlawed long ago. Less chinook salmon now and more of the others, so there would be a lot of collateral damage a yankin and a pullin.
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Post by featherduster on Sept 24, 2022 5:01:36 GMT -5
The wife and I went out to dinner last night and stopped by the Trail Creek Eel dam to watch the show. There were a lot of fish staged below the dam and some real monsters in there. The parking lot on US 20 was completely full and there were at least 6 vehicles at the dam site.
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Post by deadeer on Sept 24, 2022 6:32:16 GMT -5
The wife and I went out to dinner last night and stopped by the Trail Creek Eel dam to watch the show. There were a lot of fish staged below the dam and some real monsters in there. The parking lot on US 20 was completely full and there were at least 6 vehicles at the dam site. It's a cool thing to watch. Just a mile or two from the lake, so those fish are fresh. Yep, it's been w real madhouse. Seen cars lined up both sides of 20 recently. Heard/seen a few nice ones caught. We've been chasing our tails trying to catch something. Hopefully with cooler temps, something will be a little more aggressive.
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Post by deadeer on Sept 24, 2022 6:33:37 GMT -5
The wife and I went out to dinner last night and stopped by the Trail Creek Eel dam to watch the show. There were a lot of fish staged below the dam and some real monsters in there. The parking lot on US 20 was completely full and there were at least 6 vehicles at the dam site. It's a cool thing to watch. Just a mile or two from the lake, so those fish are fresh. Yep, it's been w real madhouse. Seen cars lined up both sides of 20 recently. Heard/seen a few nice ones caught. We've been chasing our tails trying to catch something. Hopefully with cooler temps, something will be a little more aggressive. Where did you folks dine?
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Post by featherduster on Sept 24, 2022 14:13:24 GMT -5
Hacienda, our favorite.
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Post by deadeer on Sept 24, 2022 17:53:00 GMT -5
The fish are avoiding us like squirrels avoid mossberg500, lol.
Water temp showing 58deg now in Trail Creek. Fish should be moving upstream and biting. But NUTTIN! Not even a single fish seen by us or a couple other guys we talked to. We walked a bunch at several spots too. Maybe give it another try tomorrow.
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Sept 24, 2022 18:27:15 GMT -5
Wife and I went kayaking up trail creek in July. Had a great time.
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Post by duff on Sept 24, 2022 21:01:47 GMT -5
My fishing fridays have been feathered Fridays. No field pics but a pic of the aftermath
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Sept 24, 2022 22:46:26 GMT -5
Looks like 13 doves. Hopefully one day harvest and not each Friday since season has been open all together.
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Post by deadeer on Sept 25, 2022 7:41:41 GMT -5
Looks like 13 doves. Hopefully one day harvest and not each Friday since season has been open all together. Lol.
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Post by marshallco on Sept 25, 2022 8:03:42 GMT -5
Me, my dad and my boy did a charter on Lake Erie yesterday, this was the only walleye that came home with us. Our guide warned us that things may be slow before we travelled over there, he was right. He did a great job and was disappointed with the day, but thatโs fishing sometimes. Put in at Euclid OH, just east of Cleveland. Monkey sea charters, capn Andy Durda. Would go back with him again.
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Post by featherduster on Sept 25, 2022 8:55:39 GMT -5
My fishing fridays have been feathered Fridays. No field pics but a pic of the aftermath Man does not live on fish alone.
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Post by duff on Sept 25, 2022 13:56:58 GMT -5
My fishing fridays have been feathered Fridays. No field pics but a pic of the aftermath Man does not live on fish alone. This was probably the best batch yet. The sauce was key. Wife made crispy brussle sprouts a few meals prior and the sauce was a reduction of soy sauce, sugar and ginger. She had lots of left over so I used that to brush over the breasts after the bacon was cooked. Lots of sugar so it would burn fast.
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