Fishing below Croton Dam

After a short drive up the shoreline, I spent the next morning fishing with Capt. Ralph Fairbanks whose 30-footer, The Hunter, is berthed in Manistee. Ralph’s an old friend and one of the finest skippers on the coast, and we’d spent many a day the past few years researching the habits of salmon and lake [...]

Apr 19, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Season of Salmon fishing

Throughout the midsummer period, salmon gain weight rapidly (two-thirds of their total weight at spawning is put on in wild feeding frenzies the last four months of their lives). They gradually become more available, too, showing up inshore along Lake Michigan from Muskegon up past Ludington, Manistee, Frankfort, Platte Bay, around into Grand Traverse Bay [...]

Apr 11, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Fishing as a Sport

A fisherman who’s glutton for sport – or perhaps for punishment – can catch Great Lakes salmon as early as April this year and not stop until November. That’s two-thirds of 1971, quite a change from four short years ago when the angling lasted only two months. “We’ve been aiming toward as big a sport [...]

Apr 04, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

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