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Gone fishin’

Upper Peninsula

• Ontonagon: Had good lake trout fishing when trolling spoons in 20 to 60 feet.

• Keweenaw Bay: Coho, steelhead, splake and browns were caught when trolling spoons and stick baits along the shoreline or in the top 50 in 100 to 200 feet. Those jigging for lake trout had fair catch rates. Huron Bay was also giving up a few coho and brown trout when trolling. A couple whitefish were taken by those jigging spoons in 50 to 100 feet. Coho and brown trout were caught in 20 to 30 feet at the South Entry. Spoons and stick baits were the ticket.

• Menominee River: Those trolling or casting caught walleye and smallmouth bass, however, the river was high with a strong current after the last storms.

Manistique: Boat anglers took good catches of chinook and steelhead out near the green buoy which is about 6 miles out from the river when trolling spoons 60 feet down in 80 to 90 feet.

• Manistique River: Walleye catches slowed. Smallmouth bass anglers reported fair to good catches just south of the high dam and up to the bridge with crank baits, plastics or crawlers in the fast water. Lots of baitfish were marked just off the mouth of the rivers. Boat anglers fishing just off the mouth caught a couple steelhead.

• Munising: Surface water temperatures are in the mid 40’s offshore and 45 to 47 degrees nearshore. There were a few reports of some legal size splake taken off the Anna River dock, however, most reported little action with several smaller fish released. Boat anglers did get a mix of splake, coho and ever a few chinook.

• Grand Marais: Boat anglers were few however they reported excellent catches of lake trout when jigging out near Big Reef. Fish over 10 pounds were caught. Cooler temperatures and winds turning from the north/northwest should bring some whitefish in. Surface water temperatures climbed to near 50 degrees and schools of perch in the marina were providing some good fishing for kids.

• Tahquamenon River: A good number of musky were caught up near the Dollarville Dam. Boat anglers had fish following their bait but did not have much luck landing them. Shore anglers caught rock bass and pumpkinseed on worms.

— Michigan Department of Natural Resources

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