Michigan has a lot to offer

[wicklundrh]

We are blessed to live in Michigan. Every single one of us live within 10 minutes of water that hold a multitude of species. You can go to the lake with one thing in mind, get there and realize the bite is off for that species but there are tons of others that are biting.

I left my house at 3:15am on Saturday and met up with Kevin at his house in G.R at 5am. We loaded up his buddies boat and headed for Grand Haven in search of perch. The lake was calm with very little wind. We hit a spot just outside of the pier heads and Kevin quickly had the first bite. We really had to search around to find the fish and stay on them. It wasn't fast and furious fishing but we did manage 20 decent sized perch and a bonus smelt mixed in for good measure.


We did manage to find the worlds largest biomass of Gobi's. We caught and killed as many as we could (feeding the seagulls in the process).
After the perch died off, I tried to pass on as much salmon trolling knowledge as I could. Kevin managed to catch this tiny little guy on a jet diver.


We did have one other fish that hit a high diver (about a 6lbs salmon) however the net guy (I'll take the blame) couldn't get the fish to fold up in the tiny little net Dave had on board.
All in all it was a fun day on the water with a group of good guys cutting it up. Even Kevin's dad made a guest appearance.

[skillett007]

Thanks again Rich for coming over to fish and share some of that knowledge We really enjoyed being out on the water, even know the bite wasn't all that great it was better than cutting grass and honey do's. Lol

[wicklundrh]

The view on the Pier when we came in was worth the trip!

[steelguy]

the last time I tried for perch at grand haven, goby's were the game, LOTS AND LOTS of them, did manage a few decent perch although they almost looked anorexic , probably from competing for food with all the goby's.
sounds like a great day o the water

[ready2fish]

Great story and sounds like it was fun day

[yankee doodler]

Kev looks waaay too serious in that pic.

[Hermin]

Kev looks waaay too serious in that pic.

Thats like every picture of Kevin!

[yankee doodler]

Maybe that's because he's always holding little fish.

[wicklundrh]

John, Funny you mention that. Every fish in that picture had an empty belly. We talked to a boat on the water that said they cleaned some perch the day before and they had small gobi in their bellies. I also threw one back and watched a steelhead come up and take it. The preditors cannot eat those things fast enough.

I was tired of wasting bait so I took a gobi, pulled the sides off and stuck the meat on the hook. You catch 40 or 50 before the meat turned to mush.

Next time out, I'm bringing a tennis racket. Would be fun to see how far I can hit them after I catch em!