Quote Originally Posted by wicklundrh View Post
For whatever reason, they just don't taste the same (to me) as the fish out in Erie or Huron for that matter. I've stopped eating them from the Detroit river and the Saginaw river simply because the taste is less appealing to me than the lake caught fish.
Rich, I know you do not like Salmon, but the same is said for Salmon. Fish I have caught out in Lake Michigan taste WAY BETTER, then say something out of a river system, whether its the 6th Street, in GR, or anyplace along the Grand River.
When you get up stream of those rivers, fish within those systems, local to those systems that feed into the larger rivers, like Prairie Creek, or Tibbets Creek, & Libarb Creek's, in Ionia, the trout there are superb, but catch one that has been hanging around the mouth or the river and they taste different.

Our river systems, are rampant with human additives from upstream. Fish native to that river system )Any actually) are going to get "Extra stuff", storm run off with Lawn fertilizer, etc. The joke in GR, is that "When it rains in GR, POOP Floats" meaning that the waste system overflows, and goes into the river system.

I would think that Lake and large body waters, like Saginaw Bay, and Lake Mi, are more like "Free Range Beef/Chickens" better taste, depending on on each persons particular set of taste buds.