Michigan Bass Fishing

[michbassman1]

Bass are just getting started here , The males have just left the bedding areas and the big momma's are coming up to spawn now..........:)

[michbassman1]

Largemouth mostly , Smallie's have already been up and spawned i beleive , Probably by this weekend or the middle of next week they'll be hot and heavy , Michigan just started a new catch and release progam this year, opens this weekend, let ya know how things went.......

[michbassman1]

Catch and release opened on friday here in michigan for the first time , Couldn't make to opener , But got out today for a few hours , My brother caught a nice 5 lbs. largie , All i got were average largies , I slayed the litttle to nice bass, but my borther got a nice one, Water temp on the lake is still below spawn temp but should be a slam fest by next week or so , Pic are posted in gallery

[michbassman1]

Hit the St. joe river today , Smacked the hell out of the largemouth , but no size, all small to average males in the shallows , Tried to hit the deeper drop off with no luck , Water temp was in the high 50's, beleive the bass have spawned all ready in the St joe above the dam , Rained on us almost all day , winds were 15-25 mph , water was very milky and stired up , posted pic in gallery of a average 2.5 lbs. laregemouth caught by my brother, was the biggest fish of the day.........

[Schoe]

It sounds like you boys have had a lot of fun with the Bass. Thank you all with the updates and info. Schoe

[michbassman1]

Hey GOFISH, never tried striper fishing ??, Is it almost the same principals as bass fishing ?? , Do you know of any Michigan lakes containing stripers ??? , As far as i know there are none .......

[michbassman1]

Been fishing for yrs. in michigan never heard of any, let me know if you hear of any , ok ?? , Am strictly a bass fisherman here.........

[Miss_UnDer_Stood]

I love to use shiner minnows..The bass in this part of Michigan sure knock the heck out of them...

[Timotha7]

Kirk
If I am not mistaken those old creek chubs are serious collectors items
you ought to check em out on some of the antique lure sites, like anything
else if it is somthing that collectors want the prices can get ridiculous

[Timotha7]

I know how you feel bout them, my grandpa worked with Kautsky up in Ft Dodge Iowa on Lazy Ike lures when they first put them out, I have some of them in the box stored at my parents that go back to when they used to put the lures in box with a little "clipping" that looked like newspaper and had pictures of fishermen an fish with little story on them

LOL one of them, a Tiger stripe, had a picture of a small boy with a big bass an back in 84 or 85 a buddy of mine and I just looked in Des Moines phone book an found the fishermans son an talked to him, gave him and his family the lure an clipping to have

I put them up with boxes bout 8 years ago but I fished them hard up till then

Got some of his old shakespeare "jeweled" casting reels too
Those things were what made me like spinning reels :D Grandpa could go out in yard with his metal poles an dacron line on those things an hit a coffee
can bout every time with a casting plug
I used them an had to have 30 yards of that nasty dacron cut off my arms to free me from the reel :rolleyes:

Tim

[Timotha7]

LOL bet a lot of us learned to cast with cans or bucket an them rubber plugs

Used to sit out front with the old Zebco 202's and toss them for hours
I still got some of those 202 combos put up somewhere in mom and dad's basement

They were great! Then upgraded to the old Johnson centurys

Those were just great days, loading up with everything we could carry an
riding the bikes out to the farm ponds round here

Many a nite one of the moms would have to come get us, drive behind us
cuz it was so dark

Fishing sure has gotten sophisticated since them days :D

[Timotha7]

LOL I don't know bout a sinker, but..With 5 cats a rubber plug on the end of a rod might be kinda fun arouind the house :D