When is pike season in michigan

Lakes Cadillac and Mitchell: While the cold nights were making ice, it is not recommended that anglers go out ice fishing. Manistee: Coho salmon and brown trout fishing is picking up for those trolling along the beach.

There is one dock in at the First Street launch. Pier anglers caught a couple steelhead and brown trout. Ludington: A few hardy anglers trolling or pier fishing caught steelhead and brown trout. Those trolling were in 10 to 20 feet along the beach. Sawyer Lake: In Dickinson County had good pike fishing for those using tip-ups or rods with fathead minnows. Little Bay De Noc: The ice has held up for the most part although areas with moving water or surrounding rocky areas had begun to thaw.

Anglers will need to use caution. Some walleye were caught at the head of the Bay when jigging rapalas or using tip-ups in 10 to 27 feet. Perch fishing was fair with most targeting the Kipling flats and north to Garth Point. The few fish taken were caught on wigglers or minnows in 16 to 30 feet. Whitefish moved north into the Bay and were caught between the Second and Third Reefs by several perch anglers. Marquette: Limits or near limit catches of coho were taken on the bubblers.

A mix of brown trout, splake, herring, and a couple kings were also taken but the ice moved back in and locked up access to the bubblers once again.

Rivers in the Marquette area had very little fishing pressure. Au Train: Anglers need to use extreme caution on the ice as the thickness is variable. Some coho, lake herring and Menominee were caught at the mouth of the Au Train River. Anglers are catching them both through the ice and while drifting spawn bags in the river. Munising: Overall catch rates were lower for coho and smelt. Some managed a few good catches while others reported none.

Best time for coho was in the morning with assorted jigging rapalas or Swedish pimples. All rights reserved About Us. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local.

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Starting Friday, there will be a no-minimum size limit and a daily possession limit of five fish, but only one of the five may be larger than 24 inches. More fishing rules and regulations can be found on the DNR's website. Pond, Stanley and Swan Lks. Fabius Twp. Keeler Twp. T4S, R16W, S It shall be unlawful to fish by any other means other than hook-and-line for muskellunge in the following waters: L. Erie, L.