King or Chinook salmon

King or Chinook salmon.  The fishing has started on Lake Michigan.  Pictured is Norm Spring with his catch of the day.

Read more about Pacific salmon planted in the Great Lakes in my book, The Dynamic Great Lakes. Available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and many other bookstores.

A Salmon Poem

http://www.publishamerica.net/product530.html  The Wilderness Within

Circuits

Light from a star that died

shines out

from jade green eyes.

A salmon tail fans streambed stones

and dark silt swirls.

Millennia ago a star spurt fire and

now a constellation of eggs

and white milt spiral down

in black water.

Fishbone lattices litter the stream

that speaks of glaciers

and purls.

Frost flowers bloom on the cut bank

while embryos curl in sweet cold sleep below.

from The Wilderness Within by Barbara Spring

King Salmon Caught in Lake Ontario

Fishing on the Great Lakes

Anadramous fish such as coho salmon and king salmon are now starting to run from the Great Lakes and then up the same streams where they were hatched.  This knowledge lies embedded in their bodies along the lateral line that runs up their sides.  They will find the place then the females will deposit their eggs on the streambed and males will follow and deposit their sticky milt on the eggs.

Sports fishers fish from piers or boats hoping to catch a salmon or even a steelhead.

Fishing on the Great Lakes

Pictured is a king salmon also called a Chinook salmon. These anadromous fish ( fish that run upstream to spawn) are now being caught in Lake Michigan and are of a good size. They are Pacific salmon that were planted in the Great Lakes to control an invasive species of trash fish.

Read about this phenomenon in my book, The Dynamic Great Lakes, widely available on the www and in stores.

King Salmon Caught Today

My husband, Norm Spring just came back from fishing on Lake Michigan with two very nice king salmon. As I write this, he is cleaning them and plans to smoke them. I have observed and fished the Great Lakes for years and so this has given me inspiration for my book, the Dynamic Great Lakes.

Norm and I have been active in the environmental movement even before it became so popular. He started the Steelheaders group years ago. I sometimes speak out for the Great Lakes at governmental meetings. It's all for our children's future and ours.

To learn more about the Great Lakes and their fish, you may find The Dynamic Great Lakes at the Bookman, the University store, Hostetters, and Marine Tech in Grand Haven, MI as well as Barnes & Noble online and many other places.

King salmon also called Chinook salmon

Pacific salmon planted in the freshwater Great Lakes to control invasive species such as the alewife, are a boon to sports fishers. These beautiful salmon are being caught as I write this.

Read about the fishes of the Great Lakes, both endemic, accidental and planted in my book, The Dynamic Great Lakes. The book is available at bn.com, Amazon.com and the publisher at 1-301-695-1707.

In my book, The Dynamic Great Lakes, the fish, both endemic and planted are described. Pictured is a king or Chinook salmon. These Pacific salmon were planted to control the alewife, a fish that reached the Great Lakes accidentally.

Now people who love to fish enjoy catching the bounty of these large salmon.

The Dynamic Great Lakes is available from the publisher in both softcover and hardcover editions. call 1-301-695-1707.

Otherwise, the book is available at Amazon.com and bn.com in softcover editions. It's a good book to throw in your duffel bag for reference to the Great Lakes.