A Day on the Water

Center Pin Float fishing with beads, 8mm Opaque UV Chartreuse was hot, 3 for 4 on good sized bright leaping, partly  spent hen steelheads and a dark male.  2 smallmouth bass on the same bead.  Two guys did well casting silver spoons and spinners, they left with 4 on a stringer.  Another center pin guy got a very bright hen just after I got there on a 10mm chartreuse bead,  that fish vomited out five fresh silver 2 inch emerald shiners while he was releasing it.  I also snagged a handsome big 2.5 inch darter. Two days later I spent...

  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...

Mid day April 4, 1 for 3 on 8mm UV orange bead over about 4 hours, saw a small walleye caught. Eveing until dark, April 2, 2 for 4 over 4 hours on beads, 10mm Hot Yellow and 8mm Hot Orange & Yellow candy corn bead.

Tippy Dam parking lot was full Tuesday morning, the crowds thinned out as the afternoon wore on.  A few guys with no interest in being considerate of other anglers, one guy wading out 8 feet farther and obstructing everyone else. Lots of fish jumping, nobody hooking anything except Jeff Bonin fishing the most difficult water and landing 6.  I moved in by him and was 2 for 2 in the late afternoon.  He was using brown and olive rubber leg jig patterns that is the inspiration for my similar brown pattern, he was trailing a bead 30 inches behind it.  He...

A Hot Yellow 10mm bead got all but one of the hits on a 3 for 5 evening on the Huron River below Flat Rock.  Various colors of 8mm beads and a white opal bodied wooly bugger got a trial the at the normally more productive position trailing 30 inches behind the big 10mm bead.  One fish took an 8mm Glow Apricot-pink spot bead.  The fish were mostly silver, 24, 14, and 20 inches in that order, Steelhead run smaller in the Huron with many eager skippers in the mix.