For the Love of Fishing
You don’t need a boat to take part in the Baileys Harbor Brown Trout Tournament. The vast majority of anglers participating each year fish out of a boat. Most of the top fish caught over the years have been by trolling various artificial baits near shore or just offshore. Boats...
Up until the recent winter storm, the bayside and much of the lakeside looked like we could be getting out on open water chasing brown trout by early March. The satellite image from February 19th (see below) showed the lake and much of the bay ice free. Most of the...
As we rumbled out onto the ice of Green Bay, where in a normal winter, we would gaze out over a sprawling “WhitefishTown”, all that could be seen was a modest whitefish hamlet, comprised of about a dozen dark red guide shacks surrounded by a menagerie of blue Clams, red...
One of the best ways to get an overall sense of the ice conditions on Green Bay and area lakes is to access the MODIS satellite images of Lake Michigan on the NOAA Coast Watch Great Lakes website. These are real color images developed by the University of Wisconsin Madison Space Science...