Great Lakes Fishing
Salmon & Trout In Lake Michigan!
11/21/15 @ 7:03 PM
You are invited to attend our club's, the Great Lakes Sport Fishermen Club - Ozaukee Chapter, Tuesday December 1st monthly membership meeting. The meeting held at the Railroad Station hall, 200 S. Railroad Street in Saukville, WI, will start at 7:00 p.m. and is open to all interested persons. There is no charge to attend it! The evening's guest speaker will be S.E. WI Lake Michigan DNR Work Unit Supervisor Brad Eggold. Brad will be covering a lot of very interesting topics related to our Salmon & Trout fishing on the Big Pond. He will also be answering questions from the floor! Our monthly raffle will also take place and there will be smoked Salmon and/or Trout to munch on. For more info phone Club President Bob at (262) 644-8481!
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That report about natural spawning on our side of the lake is misleading in my opinion. The number of sites, the number of visits, and the constraints placed on the survey teams are unrealistic to get a valid assessment.
In consideration of the natural reproduction coming out of Michigan we also need to consider that they began de-damming, and restoring their watersheds almost 60 years earlier than Wisconsin; furthermore, our restoration work has been very limited, and constantly obstructed.
After reading the report, I stand behind my thoughts as even the warmer water species have poor recruitment. At the tournemnts I fish, I hear numbers that 50% of chins being caught are natural. That is the speak I do not by into. Mother nature finds a way for life to continue,, and I was at the Port Power plant when the little coho was shown to Ranger Wolf from Sauk creek. I just don't buy the numbers being spoken of, maybe 2-5% of chins are natural, the rest from Canadian plants. I still think Michigan is telling stories as they save Millions of dollars by not running the hatcheries like years past.
CCA: The DNR did do a study to test natural reproduction of trout and salmon in Wisconsin. There is some natural reproduction in our waters. It's a long report but should answer your question. http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/fishing/Documents/LakeMichigan/NaturalReproductionSalmonidSurvey.pdf
I don't think the run was that great on that side either. It was a weird run this year with a lack of rain around prime time. And with the cold water in tight, we had silver fish in the harbors during low light hours in mid-late August this year. Hell, I just caught a zombie king, which smoked a crank 2 weeks ago as the sun was coming up.
We're finally feeling the stocking cuts.
What was most worrisome to me was the lack of shakers I caught this year. Hopefully others caught some because I only caught 2 this year in my kayak.
There's some big unclipped fish as well... this was my 25 lber I caught outta Port this year in my kayak. But that was the only big unclipped fish. Most of the 56 kings I caught in the kayak this year were unclipped, but most of those were in the 12-16 lb range like you experienced, CCA. But interesting to finally hear about the Canada stocks.
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2. No way I could repeat all the info and statistics he presented accurately as it was almost overwhelming but extremely informative.
3. Its not doom and gloom.
4. If you caught a fish with adipose fin it was wild or stocked in Canada.I think people would like to hear it, bad news or not. The state of the open water fishery of Lake Michigan is important to a lot of people. I wouldn't jump to any conclusions that it is all doom and gloom simply because nothing has been posted yet. Some people are busy or don't visit the site every day.
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