dhpackr
14 years ago
If you are from Wisconsin, it is time for some trout,salmon, perch fishing on Lake Michigan. Now there is plenty of good fishing everywhere in WI in summer, but Lake Michigan offers some really great fishing from shore for next to nothing for cost.

Basically, you catch your bait from the lake, and then soak it and use a beer bottle as an alarm when you have a fish on the line. And you really have a shot @ a 10-15 lb fish.

Check out this dudes catch, if you love to fish, this is quite the catch. Just wish dude let it go

Shore fishing 
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Cheesey
14 years ago
I spent one summer fishing off the south metro pier, down by Oak Creek. I'll tell you, it was some of the wildest fishing i ever had! I caught a couple 20 pounders that summer, and many 7-10 pounders.
One day, i was fishing next to a guy. We were both using dead smelt as bait. He threw his out, put his fishing rod down on the pier, and had not even straightened up, when "WEEEEEEE!!!"........off his rod shot into the lake! We watched it slowly go deeper and deeper........he turned, looked at me, and said "You know.......I SHOULD have known better.......that's the SECOND time that has happened to me!"
Another time, i was watching these 2 brothers fishing. They looked and acted like they were straight out of the movie "Deliverance". They had fishing gear that looked brand new! (Maybe back in 1947, that is).
Well, the one dropped his rod off the pier. He was FRANTIC! The water is deep there, and HUGE rocks. His brother took his pole and started trying to "fish" for his brother's rod. I had to hold back from laughing. It looked more like a comedy sketch. After about 15 minutes, i hear the guy yell "I think i got it!!!" What does he pull up? A BEAUTIFUL NEW ROD AND REEL!!! NOT kidding!
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Cheesey
14 years ago
I spent one summer fishing off the south metro pier, down by Oak Creek. I'll tell you, it was some of the wildest fishing i ever had! I caught a couple 20 pounders that summer, and many 7-10 pounders.
One day, i was fishing next to a guy. We were both using dead smelt as bait. He threw his out, put his fishing rod down on the pier, and had not even straightened up, when "WEEEEEEE!!!"........off his rod shot into the lake! We watched it slowly go deeper and deeper........he turned, looked at me, and said "You know.......I SHOULD have known better.......that's the SECOND time that has happened to me!"
Another time, i was watching these 2 brothers fishing. They looked and acted like they were straight out of the movie "Deliverance". They had fishing gear that looked brand new! (Maybe back in 1947, that is).
Well, the one dropped his rod off the pier. He was FRANTIC! The water is deep there, and HUGE rocks. His brother took his pole and started trying to "fish" for his brother's rod. I had to hold back from laughing. It looked more like a comedy sketch. After about 15 minutes, i hear the guy yell "I think i got it!!!" What does he pull up? A BEAUTIFUL NEW ROD AND REEL!!! NOT kidding!
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dhpackr
14 years ago
lol, funny post, i've had to fish my nephews pole out of lakes a few times. i get a kick out of some of the mong and hispanic ppl down there. they have big families, and will literally have 20 poles in the water for each family. a married couple with three kids, and a friend, there ya go 20 poles....


got to admit, some of those dudes can really fish.

I tried casting lures 2 day, did not do so well. next week, back to soaking live bait , i want a king for a bbq next weekend, judging by your post, you know how tasty those king salmon can be.
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MontanaBob
14 years ago
Looks like a Lake Michigan Sucker to me!!! LOL That's about the same size as one I caught on the Wisconsin River near Eagle River way back in 1959 on a Daredevil with no leader. Got it mounted and I'm looking at it right now as I type this.
Anyone for a Weenie Roast?
Wade
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14 years ago
Fishing stories...I love them.

Here's my contribution.

When I was a kid, we almost always fished for panfish. (It's still my favorite kind of fishing....sitting lazily on the lake, and IMO no fish tastes better than those little sunfish/bluegills with the occasional crappie thrown in.)

But anyway, fishing for panfish inevitably meant dealing with the occasional bullhead. I knew people who swore by pickled bullhead, but to us they were just a pain in the ass. Too bony to bother with, soft and squishy meat when fried, and of course as a little kid those catfish like spines scared us. And on top of it all, the damn things always swallowed the hook.

The latter meant we always kept a pair of pliers in the tackle box, technically for general purposes, but primarily to pull those hooks out of the goddamn bullheads. So anyway, early one evening, less than an hour before dark, ordinaily prime fishing time, we got a run of bullheads. Which was pissing us all (my father, my late brother, and I) off.

After about the fifth or sixth one, my brother had enough, and after pulling the hook off, threw the thing as far as he could from a sitting position in a rowboat. And being just about the perfect weight, did that thing fly. To my 10-year-old eyes it seemed a mile, though I'm sure it was only 50-60 feet.

Problem was, my brother still held the bullhead in his hands.

That far away plunk was our pliers.

From that moment on, whenever we passed through that part of the lake, we always talked about stopping see if we could catch that "pliers" again.

Dad and brother are both gone now, and I haven't been panfishing in a couple decades, Iowa being devoid of lakes and even more devoid of people who I know who are interested in panfishing.

Damn, but I miss those days.
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dhpackr
14 years ago
I'm a hard-core pan fisherman. I'd post some pics, b/c WI has some phenomenal pan-fishing, not to mention the perch in Lake Michigan, but it'd drive ya nuts.

I tell ya though, after ya haul in a 15lb king on 10 lb test... catching a 10" Bluegill on 4lb test kinda loses its thrill.

usually for the first Packer game I m able to provide both panfish from an inner lake, and a trout or salmon from lake Michigan.
So if you meet me Have some courtesy, Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse, Or I'll lay your soul to waste
Cheesey
14 years ago
I have more fishing stories then i can count.
One summer back in the 1960's my family was spending a week at a northwoods cabin. (We did that every summer)
One time, my Dad caught a nice sized walleye. We had several nice panfish too. Had them all on a metal stringer. Well, it was time to go in, and my Dad started up the outboard and off we went! Problam was, Dad forgot to pull in the stringer full of fish. Just the time he thought of it, it pulled loose and dropped into about 20 feet of water. GONE!
Next day, we were fishing in the same area. My Mom said "I'm gonna try to find the stringer from yesterday." I was maybe 7 years old, and thought "Yeah.....good luck with that!" Wouldn't you know, about 20 minutes later, she says "I think i may have hooked it!" I couldn't believe it, up comes the stringer! All the fish were eaten by something, except tha walleye.
So i got to net the same fish 2 days in a row!
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