I don't like Michigan out of doors, any more. I have not hunted in Michigan or trapped . The only reason I fish anywhere I fish because I don't make enough money for gas to drive somewhere every weekend.
Im saying this in the nicest way. Cuz i love them catfish to, but just a pointer, grabbing by the gills like that can hurt there gills really easy. Theres catfish grippers at meijers or walmart. Other then that love what your doing. Free fishing Weekend is coming up June 9 thru June 10 2018, where you dont need a Liscence if your over 18yrs of age. This is when i start my season off. Goodluck ol boy. Ill be fishing the Grand.
Btw... braided line is actually the worst line for abrasion resistance and is easily cut by toothy fish. Way better off using a good 30 lb. fluorocarbon leader
almost half the guys fishing out there keep foul hooked fish .most of them put them in there trucks .they were being good that night because cameras were there .
Those who are saying “50% of these fish are foul hooked” are in denial. They will swear the fish are biting, and might even have fooled themselves, but they are all foul hooked when those rigs during the spawn…it it just sometimes the hooks happen to snag ‘close’ to the mouth. I have went out many times, and I have never, not once, seen a truly legally caught fish where those jigging baits are used. Watch closely in this video. Not a single fish is shown where the hooks are -inside- the mouth. The early one where there is more of a close up and the guy says “right in the mouth” is really actually hooked under the lower jaw - it is definitely not inside the mouth and that fish was definitely snagged. If a commercial television program cannot manage to video a single fish that was not snagged, it should be obvious this simply a snagging method. These fish have very small mouths which cannot fit the size of baits people are using. The mouth opening is about the diameter of a dime. At night, these fish are stacked on top each other, they are not feeding and certainly not trying to eat a lure the size of your finger which cannot be swallowed. If you want to catch these fish without snagging - they can be caught. The fishing is done in during daylight hours and you use a very small (eg #12-#14) hook with a single salmon egg or waxworm. I’m sure someone will get defensive about using this method in the dark along a pier wall this time of year and insist they do bite; but best case is they are just snagged "in" the mouth.
I recently put a small spoon on a slip bobber and just let it float/drift which produced the one and only whitefish I have ever caught. Without the jigging motion I can't imagine how that fish could have been foul hooked. The hook itself was small enough for their little mouths as well. I think you might be going a little far with your comments here. Salmon are not feeding when they spawn but they hit lures out of pure aggression. The same could be for Whitefish/any fish (even bluegills do it). With that said you can certainly tell by the video that snags are common. Foul hooked or not what I have noticed is that many anglers just keep too many of them. Yes there is a daily limit but on the piers in Grand Haven more often than not you see the same anglers out there day after day. When the whitefish, steelhead, salmon or any trout species are biting they keep every fish they can get their hands on (up to the daily limit) every time they are out. It would be nice to see someone let a few go once in a while. Some of these people must have multiple freezers packed to the brim full of fish. And what's the point of keeping them if your not going to eat them fresh? To me there is no point in keeping more than one/maybe two fish. More people need to think about the future of the fishery as apposed to only in terms of how many they can legally keep.
Yeah the only time I truly get a bite is with a tiny hook and a single salmon egg but as long as the all mighty DNR says I can snag them in the face and keep them I will.
The fish wasn't going to survive, so we set it on the grass and the mink took it away. All summer long we shared fish and worms with this little guy...he was a blast!
Yep...little smallmouth bass. The mink still lives there and has still been stealing fish from us for the past 4 weeks. The kids in my fishing class love it.
Jumboshrimpfetus - The tip did expand, and left a pretty good blood trail. For a lung shot like this, we only ended up tracking the deer a total of about 60 yards. For information sake, we use Grim Reaper Broadheads, and haven't lost any deer in the 5 years since we switched to them. Amazing broadheads! Nutmegger1957 - For the sake of this video, and teaching tracking the best that we can, I emphasized the "check every step for blood". With a good shot, sometimes you don't need to even scan around...the blood trail is very heavy. Other times, we've had to track deer for hours, and every little speck keeps you heading in the right direction. This past fall, two deer that our kids shot dropped while still in sight, so tracking wasn't even necessary. If you don't need to check every step, that's great, and much less stressful. OH...we're hunting in lower Michigan, so bears and other predators are not an issue. The numerous squirrels, however, are becoming a greater concern to me. They're up there...in the trees...always looking...ALWAYS LOOKING!!!
Great video...thanks for posting. Maybe you mentioned it and just missed it but what speeds are you trolling when targeting drum using this method? Thanks
I'm glad that you enjoy buck hunting, and I hope you've got some great antlers to show for it. We choose to use a balanced approach in our deer hunting. We leave small bucks to grow bigger, and we thin our heard by taking a few does each year. In our area, the DNR has a surplus of doe tags every year, because hunters are "antler hunting" rather than practicing balanced deer management. We are encouraged to take some does out of the population each year by our deer management experts, so that's what we do.
Some observations from a rookie: (stupid as they may be): Checking for blood every foot or so seems tedious. Can you take a broader look and still find your deer? I thought the blood from a "lung shot" would be pinkish? Other predators (like bear, wolves, etc) will smell the blood and may be tracking this wounded animal as well. Keeping your head down exclusively for tracking seems a bit dangerous?....(enough "rookie" stuff for now). Thanks for the video.
Just noticed your comment. Wow, need to pay a little more attention to this. Actually, I would agree...if you can't tell if the blood has stomach content (indicating a gut shot), a quick sniff can answer that question. In this case, it was clearly lung & heart blood, so arrow-sniffing wasn't necessary :)
If you look on our Freewater Experience website, under 'videos & articles', you'll find an article called "Blowing in the wind". It's about wind direction & fish location, but if you look, there are maps of spring lake. We've hi-lighted areas where we troll, depending on wind direction. This year, our hot bait was an Excalibur fingerling or guppy, depending on how deep we wanted to troll...the best color was "shad" or "sexy shad". Feel free to contact Freewater Experience for more info...
I had not yet discovered the wonders of screw-in camera tree mounts, and didn't have a tri-pod (as I didn't know I was going to get anything that morning). As a result, the original footage is a little bouncy. I ended up using a stabilizing option right here on youtube...it's ok, but it messed with my intro slides, and looks a little sketchy. In the end, nothing can replace stable filming in the field.
