A Day on the Water — Mopworm Jigs
Lake Huron Spawning Smallmouth, May 20 to 22
Broken Barb Hooks Clouser Minnow Patterns Marabou Banger Popper Mopworm Jigs Opal Minnow Jig
The Michigan Fly Fishing Club does a big outing at the tip of the Thumb, usually the weekend before Memorial Day Weekend. Its a good time to go but expect a lot of guys on the water that weekend. We fish spots from Quanicassee to Huron City. I fished the river mouth pond of a small natural flowing stream. The water was deep and still with visibility of maybe 4 feet. Lead eyed Clouser Minnows in Brown, White and Chartreuse or other Chartreuse combinations are always good to get deep 6 or 7 feet down and get lots of fish here. ...
Chartreuse Beads Hot on the Huron, April 8
Huron River Steelhead Mopworm Jigs Pegging Beads Steelhad Beads Steelhead Steelhead Jig
Huron Steelhead hitting chartreuse beads and a very bright Opaque Chartreuse UV bead was hot. I lost a huge silver hen after I pressured her in close, she ripped of a run ending in a high thrashing leap breaking off. My drag was set too tight after I screwed it down to pressure in a stubborn male that took a Mopworm Jig after the first few drifts of the day. During the long slump when I was pounding the run with the Mopworm Jig, then with jigs ahead of various trailing beads (that were not chartreuse). I got this Quill Back sucker. He...
Lots of Steelhead in Big Manistee River
Float Fishing Mopworm Jigs Steehead Steelhead Jigs
March 25, I landed only 2 out of a total of 6 fish I was pretty sure were fair hooked. A couple of others seemed they were likely foul hooked. Plagued by Leader Line and Operator issues. Only saw one fish that I lost, that was a sleek big bight hen who fought stubbornly, then ripped off a run with a slashing leap at the end. She hit a #6 Golden Nugget Bubble Egg fish as a trailer 3 feet behind a bead. All the other hits were on Jigs: #8 1/64 ounce Black Stonefly Jig, #6 1/32 ounce Brown Rubber...
16) Pere Marquette Lake & Tippy Dam, August 19 & 20
Center Pin Jigs Kayak Fishing Mopworm Jigs
Basically zero Salmon in either spot. Saw one dead King Salmon in PM Lake and foul hooked one salmon at Tippy. Two Summer Steelhead were on stringers when I arrived, no more were hooked. I got 2 rainbows, 13 and 8 inches on jigs under a float, #6 White Mopworm and #8 Brown Intruder Jig. A couple Salmon broke the surface.
22) Lower AuSable Bass Oct 23
On the end of the pier several guys were casting spoons, plugs, jigs or fishing minnows. They caught or hooked a couple of smallmouth, one guy caught a very long Sheephead that was in extremely bad health due to age, disease or maybe having been gut hooked some time ago. I caught an stout 18 inch bass and lost a smaller one. 4 to 6 foot swells were rolling in and bouncing back and forth between the two pier heads making for a very action packed bobber presentation. The fish came to a #6 White Mopworm Jig set to 11 feet...