Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Lake Michigan Giants (and some smaller ones)



Tim may have waited all day for a good bite, but when it came, there was no messing around. He caught this 37" giant on a green and glow 3/4oz Kastmaster vertical jigging over the side of the boat. This is the biggest brown trout I have seen in person. 
Rachel made her first ever trip out on Lake Michigan with us, and while fishing was slow, she caught her first ever rainbow trout on a spawn sac. She caught another later in the day and lost on boat side. It was an unusually warm day and we had fun. 


John came up after Christmas for some winter weather and we ended up out on the lake in some pretty heavy winds. We had intentions of fishing in Oak Creek, but the wind required we stay in the harbor. We did catch more than a dozen nice trout though. Almost all of them were caught on a jig and Zoom fluke. 


Since we had caught so many lakers my last trip out, I thought we were a shoe in to catch a bunch more with John and Tim, but instead this was the only one. I hooked it on a 5/8oz bullet jig and a white tube. John had never caught a laker before, so I let him real it in and enjoy the intense fight they provide. 

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