FISH REPORT 2025
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Saturday, May 3, 4, 5, 2025
Willy, The Man, the Myth, the Legend.
Willy and I went up to the Keweenaw and open up the camp. It was a nice day so we stopped at one of the local streams and tried for menominee whitefish. We managed to get two, not quite enough for supper. Opening of the camp went well, the furnace started, the wood stove fired up and then we tried to put the water system on. The cold water side went well but the hot water tank didn't want to fill up. It turned out that someone left the drain valve open on the hot water side. Don't know for sure who left it open. Only Willy and I were there and Willy said that he didn't leave the valve open so that just leaves the other old fart in the camp. Anyway the valve was closed and the pressure came up.
Willy fishing
Sunday we went to Copper Harbor to try for more menominees. When we got to the parking lot, there was eight cars trunks in the parking lot. We walked down to the beach and there were ten guys sitting there and they were all rigged out for fishing. Most were in their twenties, one had just graduated from Tech. I started talking to one of the dads and he said that over twenty years ago, he and some friends were fishing and had caught one menominee. They didn't even know what it was. This guy walked down and started fishing and proceeded to catch nine menominees. It was Whitefish Willy. He showed them how to catch them and the rest is history. They have been coming up every year and they keep telling Whitefish Willy stories. They were thrilled to meet the legend. They gave us a couple of fish to add to our fish fry.
Lake Medora is still frozen
Menominee whitefish and one herring
We checked out the Little Gratiot for smelt Sunday night. They actually ran. It didn't take long and we caught half a pail. Mostly one or two per dip. A meal of fresh smelt sure was good.
Smoked fish
On May 6 I looked out and it was calm. I called Frank and we went fishing off Marinette. The bugs were terrible. We did manage to get 2 whitefish.
Check out the bugs on the top of the boat. Us too.
Friday, April 12, 2025
Found them?
Dave and I met up with Steve and Frank. The boat launch was full so we had to go park our trucks and trailers at Frank's house while we went fishing. There were boats everywhere while we made our way out onto Green Bay. The walleye run must be on.
The bay was calm and we headed out, Steve and Frank to one of the places we fished last year. Bruce and I decided to try near some humps that we saw last week. It didn't take long and Steve and Frank both has fish, Dave and I were still searching. We tried on top of some humps in 60 feet but no luck. We ended up on the side of a hump that was so steep our fish finder didn't work right. Pretty soon I finally caught one, then Dave caught one. Steve and Frank moved over and between the two boats we ended up with 14 nice fish. Maybe we found them? Maybe not.
Look at all the boats at the mouth of the river
Dave thinking about all the fish he is going to catch.
Steve and Frank fishing hard.
Cooler of whitefish
Friday, April 2, 2025
Shakedown Cruise
I got up and checked the camera that looks at Green Bay, the bay was flat calm. We have been waiting for a day like this so I called Dave and said, "Let's go fishing". He said, "how soon". I said, "right now". That started our fishing trip.
It was a shakedown cruise so we expected some problems. One tire on the trailer has been giving me trouble and sure enough it was low on air. We put air in it and we're good to go. The boat launch was full when we got to the bay. Dave went to get the parking permit by using his credit card. The card worked but the machine was out of paper so he didn't get the permit to put on your dash. Of course we had a ticket when we came in from the lake.
The motors started and the lake was calm. We headed out to our fishing spot and it wasn't long and a whitefish came aboard. Then Dave caught one. We had a couple more bites and lost a couple of fish but I was restless to try a couple more spots. Well, we left fish to find fish, bad plan. A couple more spots were tried with no luck. We quit fishing at 2:30 with just the two fish in the box. Remember, DON'T LEAVE FISH TO FIND FISH!
Calm seas for our first trip.
Dave, ever hopeful and looking for a bite.
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