Salmon and Steelhead Fishing in Lake Michigan

Sports fishers try their luck on Grand Haven's pier.  Steelhead and salmon are being caught on alewives.

Learn more about fish in the Great Lakes in The Dynamic Great Lakes a non-fiction book about changes in the five Great Lakes and their tributaries.

The book is available on Amazon's Kindle and in paperback.  Also widely available in store such as Barnes & Noble, Books a Million and many independent bookstores such as Schuler Books, The Bookman and at Hemlock Crossing Nature Center in West Olive, Michigan.

A Walk on the Pier with Mallard Ducks & Ducklings

Many fish lines are in the water today at the pier on Lake Michigan.  A mallard duck keeps her
brood safe on a rock below.  While the ducklings snuggle together she keeps a look out. A salmon might find a duckling good eating although they are mostly interested in alewife.

Steelhead Fishing in a Great Lakes' Tributary

One of the steelheads has the scar left by a lampry eel on its side.  Pictured is Norm Spring holding the fish that were caught on the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids Michigan.  Their guide, Greg Knapp said he really enjoyed the day.  They all caught their limits by 11 a.m. yesterday, not April Fools Day.  So Norm and I had a fish dinner last night.  Steelhead prepared with olive oil and broiled.

Norm is a founder of the Steelheaders organization.

Read more about Great Lakes fish and lots of facts about the Great Lakes in my book, The Dynamic Great Lakes. 

Brown Trout stocked in Lake Michigan

This just in from the Chicago Tribune:

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.— The state of Indiana says it plans to stock Lake Michigan with 35,000 brown trout in hopes of improving the diversity of fishing along the state's 45 miles of shoreline.

Lake Michigan fisheries biologist Brian Breidert of the Department of Natural Resources says the fish are from Illinois and are roughly four months old and 3 to 4 inches long.

Breidert says Indiana would like to rear these fish to a larger size to increase survival rate once stocked but there is limited space within the state's hatchery program.

The DNR has been stocking Lake Michigan with trout since 2002. The trout are normally stocked in late June at four different locations along Lake Michigan.

Pictured is a fully mature brown trout.  I took this photo a few years ago on a tributary to Lake Michigan.

Fishing in Lake Michigan

Fishing in Lake Michigan for anything that swims by.  Steelhead, menominee, perch, salmon.  If you're lucky you may catch something.  Sheephead, goby.  If you catch a goby, don't throw it back.  These prolific little fish do not belong in the Great Lakes ecosystem.  They arrived by mistake and threaten to overtake niches that should belong to other fish.  People who catch gobys dispose of them.


You never know whether anything will bite.  That's fishing.


Read more about Great Lakes fishing in The Dynamic Great Lakes.


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