Tichigan Lake

Fished from 5:30 - 7 AM.     Thru back 4 crappies.   Lots of 6-7”gills around, pests.   Water 54o.      crappies are black & bloated so definitely in the spawn.

Thanks for the tip STEVE STEVE , good luck to you.

Salmon, there used to be slow no wake buoys from the launch to the large opening of the river when heading to the lake, there hasn't been any or a number of years now tho. the minute I leave the launch, I'm punching it to get on plane.

I also tried the small fly under a tiny foam float, trying to entice any pannies to bite, without any luck tho.

also there were trucks and boats parked all along the road going to the launch parking lot....definitely a show 😮

lol.  Just wait until it gets busy!

SS...We were one of the boats that got out just as the show was starting. Thank goodness we left when we did. Anyway, it was interesting being behind 3 boats going through the shallow area on low speed. I wasn't going to wait for them and risk getting stuck so I hammered by them gesturing to them to get their boats up on plane. We found the crappies stacked in the shallow water, just had a real hard time getting them to bite. Tried plastics, minnows, crawlers, best luck for me was actually a wet fly casted with my spinning rod. Ended up brining 18 home and letting go another 20 or so smaller ones. Definitely my last time going out on a nice weekend day. 

Went out Sunday looking for pannies, still couldn't find the crappies,  but we did find the white/yellow bass. Kept 3 nice ones for a meal. one homeowner we talked to said the crappies were in his shore Spawning about 2 weeks ago. I fid that hard to believe considering the warmest water we found on the lake was 53 to 55.
also the bridge road launch was a literal chit show in the afternoon. At one time there were 5 boats wanting to load up their trailers , and another 3 or 4 wanting to launch !!! I finally get my turn to load up, boat tied to the dock, and a guy backing his trailer down to launch....finally he realized that he wasn't going anywhere until I got my boat out of the way. I probably waited about 30 minutes to get my boat out of there. Now I know why I fish mainly weekdays.
Water temps on the river by the launch were 60 to 61.

There must be something around the piers as i earlier today watched 4 Mergansers diving all around them.   The rough water must be stirring something up.   They were very active!

Fish from shore yesterday with the daughter, Lauri and my grandson, Jake. Had a small tournament and I am happy to say Lauri won with four bass with only three between Jake and I. Beautiful day out light winds current slowing down a little bit finally from the last rain. Tried various bates from crank bait to plastics.

Mikes a straight shooter and I’ve met him several times starting when he was on the Waterford police department and he came over to the house when our son got mugged over by the bar and again when owls were killing fox pups.

I've been fishing for 65 years of my life, and up until 4 years ago have never been checked by the DNR. Today was the 3rd time in the last 4 times that Mike from the DNR has checked me on Tichigsn lake. 
Carpio, in fact, I was 20 feet from your dock when he came up alongside me.
we always have a nice chat since everything is always in order, they always request that I keep the throwable cushion out, lol. they are just doing their job. he said nobody else was catching any fish either.