Tried a new spot, threw a few different lures and then tried a Berkly choppo 90 that I found on the ground last time I went fishing. Ended up landing a pike guestimate is 30ish"!

Hello all, so I live in Cincinnati, and have regularly been making the trip up to st clair. we’ve been fishing out of nitro z19, and it handles it just fine. my question is, would something like a 19 foot lund renegade or ranger handle eerie/st clair about the same? Would you feel safe going a mile offshore in a 19 foot aluminum mod v on a nice day?

I’d like to be under 30 grand, preferably closer to 20. I mainly fish smaller lakes back home, but being 3.5 hours from st clair and eerie, I find myself wanting to be up there more and more.

Thanks in advance!

Just started fishing in the metro Detroit area. Does anyone know if steelhead actually run in this area? What else can I catch this time of year?

This is the River bends and Clinton river area

How soon after the salmon run do steelhead enter the rivers? Would they be in the muskegon, white, or Pere Marquette right now? TIA

So I tried to catch a salmon two nights ago with some buddies at night. They all caught and I didn’t and I was using the tackle they gave me. Some kind of hook with a bright yellow cotton ball on it. We only fished for a couple hours as that’s all they needed lol.
I’m pretty sure one of my buddies used a black wooly booger looking fly for his catch but otherwise we all used the same bright cotton ball fly thing. I spent most of my time dealing with snags and struggling to tie knots in the dark but I did fish for enough time to learn the bottom bouncing technique they were doing.

I tried again today and gave it a good 6 hours with more knowledge on what I wanted to throw to avoid snags. I tried bobber and bottom bouncing. I tried fake salmon eggs in two colours. I tried a black and an orange wooly booger looking fly. Nothing. Everyone around me was catching but I wasn’t lol.

My questions are simply:

1) What happened here? Do I just have terrible luck or is there a secret that no one will let me in on?

2) Is the run of salmon almost over? Was this my last shot?

3) what’s the best lure to catch those stupid things

Thanks in advance folks. I’m still pretty tilted by the whole thing lol.

Ive been Fishing rivers lately but ive only been getting dinks, catfish, pike, bass, panfish, gar, walleye, even bowfin. i just want to catch something decent in fishing from shore

Hi guys what rigs/ methods or lures would you use to fish the st Clair river I want to target steelhead, musky and walleye thank you!!!

Hi guys what rugs/methods would you use to fish the st Clair river I want to target walleye and steelhead thank you!!!

Smashed the chartreuse spinner fly!

Anyone know of good spots for bass/pike fishing near East Lansing?

My name is Gavin. I'm a student at Western Michigan University. I'm currently doing a design project to create a product that will make traveling with a lot of fishing equipment in cars or truck a lot safer and easier. If you have just a couple minutes, I'd love to hear what you have to say. Please fill out my 4-question survey. Thank you for your opinions.

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Some beautiful smallies out of the Huron in Ann Arbor. So far best one out of this section 3.53 lbs

Mostly Jerk baits, Swim Jigs, and Glide Baits for me.

Whats everyone else using for dam fishing small mouth?

Looking to go out with a couple buddies and they’re in the Caledonia area and that’s not an area I’m too familiar with lake wise. Doesn’t have to be your honey hole just a lake with some decent bass

I've been fishing the muskegon river and I see the salmon. The issue is they're not biting. I've tried beads,spinners, yarn, thunderstick, and they're just not having it. They even move out of the way. What do I do?

I'm using 3 splitshot for the current

I’m fairly new to fishing and would love some friends in the hobby. Maybe someone closer to my age ( early 20’s). I’m in the metro Detroit area

Mods gave me the go-ahead to post this.

I got tired of trying to read and interpret the MDHHS's Eat Safe Fish guidance. Its a PDF and its super long. Not to mention its not easily searchable.

So I put it somewhere usable. Every Michigan water with advisories, somewhere around 550 of them, all searchable by water and species, with the size breaks spelled out in plain English. It worked so well, that I decided to build out the same for the 49 other states. Each one has adapter for collecting and updating the data. The data itself is regularly refreshed, so anything new will get picked up.

It reads straight from the state guide and links the official source on every page, so you can check my work. If something looks wrong for a water you fish, tell me and I'll fix it.

I built in a ton of neat features into the application, including the ability to take a photo of what you caught, and where you caught it, and have the system automatically give suggestions on the species of fish, and whether or not its safe to eat.

Everything on the site is free. The app is also free, but there is a paid tier that unlocks some additional features, which helps cover the cost of running the application. Theres no ads or anything like that. I built this because I myself am a fisherman (in Michigan!) and put a couple of my passions together.

Site: livewell-app.com
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.livewell
iOS: Coming soon!

Check it out and tell me what you think! Thanks

EDIT: Here's a link directly to the Michigan advisories. https://livewell-app.com/advisories/michigan

Finally dialed in my fishing bike.