04-23-2008, 08:54 PM
Yep , walleye opens this Saturday .
I did fish the Au Sable on Sunday .
One steelhead on until my leader snapped , inspection showed a few nicks and freys from the rocks and zebra mussles . If I had landed that fish it would have been the third fish anyone had seen that day .
One shore fisherman landed a cromer , a boater latched into a jumper but later lost the fish when it wraped around his anchor line and finally there was my near catch .
The bite was very light from the steelies , I did have to change the presentation from a 5" sinker drop to a 2" drop , the leader line was shortened from a 5' to 6' lead line down to a 3' lead line . Hooks , from a #8 to a # 10 . Color was small red bags , last week you had to use pink or green . Flys , well absolutley nothing worked for steelhead until I switched over to a tan olive wing (#8 ) .
Several suckers were fowl hooked an all the other flys used , all of the bugle mouth bass were released .
While I was there , some dillweed was fishing the coffer and continued to fish the area even after a few of us warned him about it being illeagle . A few hours later after a fellow angler called the R.A.P. line a D.N.R. C.O. showed up .
No license , clamed no one warned him and did not see the signs he kept walking past . The C.O. was in a good mood and let him off with a warning after taking all his information , if cought again he would recive full penalties .
Just before I left Footesite , the D.N.R. trainees were installing the lamprey live traps in the river . It's great to see the future caretakers learning the finer points of maintaining a fishery , they had several questions to ask their instructor and a few for us anglers on the rivers edge .
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I did fish the Au Sable on Sunday .
One steelhead on until my leader snapped , inspection showed a few nicks and freys from the rocks and zebra mussles . If I had landed that fish it would have been the third fish anyone had seen that day .
One shore fisherman landed a cromer , a boater latched into a jumper but later lost the fish when it wraped around his anchor line and finally there was my near catch .
The bite was very light from the steelies , I did have to change the presentation from a 5" sinker drop to a 2" drop , the leader line was shortened from a 5' to 6' lead line down to a 3' lead line . Hooks , from a #8 to a # 10 . Color was small red bags , last week you had to use pink or green . Flys , well absolutley nothing worked for steelhead until I switched over to a tan olive wing (#8 ) .
Several suckers were fowl hooked an all the other flys used , all of the bugle mouth bass were released .
While I was there , some dillweed was fishing the coffer and continued to fish the area even after a few of us warned him about it being illeagle . A few hours later after a fellow angler called the R.A.P. line a D.N.R. C.O. showed up .
No license , clamed no one warned him and did not see the signs he kept walking past . The C.O. was in a good mood and let him off with a warning after taking all his information , if cought again he would recive full penalties .
Just before I left Footesite , the D.N.R. trainees were installing the lamprey live traps in the river . It's great to see the future caretakers learning the finer points of maintaining a fishery , they had several questions to ask their instructor and a few for us anglers on the rivers edge .
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