For the Love of Fishing
Lift, drop, wiggle, pause……. Lift, drop, wiggle, pause……. Lift, drop, wiggle, pause. Seventy feet below my crampon festooned LaCrosse boots I envision a slug of purplish rubber mirroring the movements of my rod tip emulating the motions of a frantic goby. Lift, drop, wiggle, pause……. Lift, drop, wiggle, pause……. Lift,...
Anglers have no off season in Door County. Whether it be Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall, there is always something biting and biting well. That said, I have to say that my favorite season to fish is the Fall. Not because the fishing is that much better, it’s that there...
The horizon was void of boats. As Paul and I made our way out of the Baileys Harbor Marina I scanned the water. There was a small sailboat attempting to fill her sails in the bay and one or two pleasure boats near the county beach to the north. That...
It wasn’t much of a fish by Lake Michigan standards. In fact, we were not even sure we had a fish on at all. It was a classic “shaker”. Paul and I were trolling off Baileys Harbor in about seventy feet of water dragging our usually array of lines. We...
These are fish we boating in the last couple of days out of BH. All these were successfully released, although we did keep a few “eaters”
I don’t mind fishing alone. In fact, at times I prefer it. When I fish by myself, I am always the best angler in the boat. I never get out fished and if I get skunked, there is no one there to witness my shame. If I find a hot...
The warm weather in February and early March allowed up to get a head start on the brown trout action.