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GOING FISHING!!!

concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
That's right, in only 5.5 hours I am off to Tawas, Michigan for the annual smelt-dipping weekend. We will, hopefully, get lucky and get some smelt. They aren't running yet, the water is too cold (it needs to be between 42 and 44 degrees F). But, this weekend is supposed to be nice so maybe we'll get lucky!

In any case, the brown trout steelhead and lake trout are in and the jumbo perch are biting!

I can smell the fish fry now....

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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Headed out into the Chesapeake Bay to try and grab a few of those BIG STRIPERS this weekend, myself. Best of luck to ya my friend. Keep your bait wet and your feet dry.

    When in doubt...empty the magazine!!
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  • ysacresysacres Member Posts: 294 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow, sounds like a great time, Good luck,


    You know the wife's definition of a fishing pole is; A stick with a worm at each end.

    A hot barrel, is a warm fuzzy feeling.
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Should be a great weekend to wet a line here in Northern Illinois. I caught 9 LM Bass last night. Nothing real big, but more than enough to make for a fun evening.....
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  • CAndres35CAndres35 Member Posts: 453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    was supposed to go weekend before last and this weekend but weather in southern ill has not been conducive to fishing. storms tornados ect. i am planning to go localy for a little while tommorow morning but dont expect to do very well as water is extremly muddy and lake we are going to not the best. i hope you have a ball. i have never had the oppertunity to dip smelt but understand it is a lot of fun and very productive when they are running. CARL
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  • hunter280manhunter280man Member Posts: 705 ✭
    edited November -1
    Take Me, Take Me! I only live about 50 miles from there!
    Just kidding, got to help get another greenhorn get his first turkey with a bow. Good luck buddy, have fun and stay safe!

    Though I was born to royalty, I was snatched at birth, so treat me as the noble I am!!!
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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK Concealed, I'm gonna bite, what the cat hair is smelt dippin'. Don't think we got nothing like that on the Gulf coast. Be done 'splain it out a bit

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  • dobieman0690dobieman0690 Member Posts: 148 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    had a great day yesterday on the flathead river with my fishing partner we ended up caughting over 30 small mouth bass all were in the 3lb class we each took one home for dinner let rest go what a blast
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, this weekend's fishing report is pretty ugly. Caught a whopping 2 smelt and 1 perch. The weather was great and we had a blast, but the fish just weren't running.

    Pelican, smelt are little silver fish that look a lot like large minnows. They swim in huge schools into the rivers during spring to spawn. Fisherman will line up along the shores and on piers with dip nets trying to catch them. When they're running, it's not uncommon to fill up a 5 gallon bucket with them in 1/2 hour. They're GREAT deep fried with a beer batter!

    We did watch a BIG brown trout cruise alongside the pier for about 15 minutes. He was just slowly swimming around looking for smelt to eat. Tried catching him but he just laughed at us..:)

    G36


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  • Ms. BeastMs. Beast Member Posts: 496 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to go smelting, I think I drank more than I fished though! They always tried to get us ladies to bite the head off one of the first smelt.......do you do this? They said it was tradition!

    The worst part of smelting was having to clean all those darn things!!
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Concealed....Isn't Smelt what they call Grunion on the west coast? Further south on the west coast we used to hit the "Grunion Runs" down into Baja. Then when I moved to Northern Kalifornia, they call these "Surf Fish". Any difference, you think? We catch them the same using a net between two poles and just scooping them out of the surf.

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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't know if grunion are the same or not??? They sound very similar.

    Yeah, Ms. Beast, I bit the heads off of BOTH. I had to because we filmed the whole trip on my video camera and my brother-in-law forgot to press record the first time (because we too were drinking heavily! :)).

    I laughed my butt off at one guy who bit the head off of his first one and almost gagged. When I walked up I congratulated him for biting the head off of a shiner minnow!

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