Lake Michigan

Otto.  I know about the state record but he’s referring to Brookies being caught off shore in Lake Michigan.

LMFAO! If we took your brain out and put it on the edge of a razor blade, it would look like a pee rolling down a freeway ??. I’ll man up, but will your husband let you? I talk to the DNR  a lot and I have heard there excuses. I unlike you and some of these other chose to believe everything that comes out of the mouth. I choose not to because the proof is in the pudding. Throughout the 80’s and up to about 2015 you could go to the Kenosha harbor all summer and catch browns coho and the occasional king. The same is true for Racine, Milwaukee, Port Washington and Sheboygan. They chose to stock more Chinook for the charter boats,which is fine because the deserve to make a living, and not browns because it was “costing too much to supply the browns. The only problem with that argument is that they choose to do this when the bait fish population was almost nothing. You should do a little research your self Einstein, it takes 2 1/2 browns to eat as many alewives as 1 chinook does. That’s fact, so if they were so worried about the declining bait fish population, why would you choose to stock the top predator. I have wasted enough time on this ??.

Good luck everyone else
Hopefully something will change.

Lol…. And the genius has spoken….  Because you can’t catch fish and don’t own a boat everyone else is wrong.  Simply google why the dnr doesn’t stock that strain and you will see the science behind it…. Idiot.

Man up…. And ?quit crying about your own limitations.

One of the many results:
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MIDNR/bulletins/949bae

Cycleguy you can’t be that damn dumb! But apparently you are. The DNR stopped stocking the wild rose strain of Browns to make you whiners happy by stocking more kings. That is one way that they have affected shore fishing. I could give you more, but you obviously don’t know how things work. Those browns stayed near shore almost all summer!

state record Lake Michigan Brook Trout from Wis. shores is 10.1#

8 - 12# Brookies ?     Off shore in Wisconsin, where,when?  

I wish they would stock tiger trout again. They got really big and never left the harbor areas. With all the goby now they would be an incredible addition for shore guys. Tigers are stocked in western states to control suckers so I am positive they would feast on goby. Plus they are warm water tolerant like browns.

Shore fishing isn’t what it used to be because of the change in the lake over the last 30 years. Zebra and quagga mussels have the most to do with it. Used to be that the lake was much more fertile and always had color to it. Clearer water keeps the bait fish further offshore along with the trout and salmon. Stocking declines also have had an impact but there was a period where there were too many top predators and a shortage of bait fish. Stocking has increased along with added brook trout, so shore fishing should improve some. Another thing would be to release the browns. You can eat them once or let them go and catch them again. They taste terrible and spend a lot of time in the harbors collecting contaminates but if they were released, they could potentially live for years and get bigger and remain plentiful. I know the brook trout will be caught and kept but those too would get huge if released. In the early to mid 90’s there was a few years where catching 8-12 pound brook trout from shore wasn’t uncommon. 

Those are probably legit concerns. The summer-run Skamanias could be ALOT of fun on the right day when they were in. And I can remember going down to the piers mid-summer and seeing the old timers with a few domestic browns on the stringer even when the water was piss-warm. 

About the shore fishing.   The dnr did contribute to the de line  by changing strains  of rainbow and brown trout.  They used to a rainbow bow that stayed in shallower water now  a different one that prefers the open water more 
?The browns planted were also a strain preferring shallower near shore like our harbors.   Now the SeirFollen is all they plant. They again wide ranging deep water ?
Also during Walkers regime stocki g cut 40
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