Author Topic: Grand traverse bay (Read 10596 times)

Doeslayer · « **Reply #30 on:** Feb 23, 2019, 09:53 AM »

Dang it i wish i was there..... Any word on conditions in the yuba area

pyro261 · « **Reply #31 on:** Feb 23, 2019, 10:59 AM »

I planned on checking elk rapids before going home I’ll let you know how that is hopefully tonight

jdgambler · « **Reply #32 on:** Feb 23, 2019, 11:42 AM »

We care pyro we care. ;-)

pyro261 · « **Reply #33 on:** Feb 23, 2019, 12:35 PM »

Was a shanty out of Yuba so didn’t bother stopping. Elk Rapids we walked a ways out and never got through with the spud. Lots of flow ice and hard to walk lol.

Doeslayer · « **Reply #34 on:** Feb 23, 2019, 02:00 PM »

Dang i hope it holds good this weeke d i may be up next with the wife

jdgambler · « **Reply #35 on:** Feb 24, 2019, 11:02 AM »

cold temps forecasted for the next 2 weeks!!

Bucket Rump · « **Reply #36 on:** Feb 24, 2019, 11:39 AM »

I was checking into heading up that way to fish last Saturday and my source said Bowers Harbor had enough ice that they were running quads and sleds, but nowhere else on either bay.

jdgambler · « **Reply #37 on:** Feb 24, 2019, 02:27 PM »

does anyone know where to find a depth map of the bays?

Bucket Rump · « **Reply #38 on:** Feb 24, 2019, 03:00 PM »

https://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/14913.shtml

pyro261 · « **Reply #39 on:** Feb 24, 2019, 03:51 PM »

Quote from: Bucket Rump on Feb 24, 2019, 11:39 AM

I was checking into heading up that way to fish on Saturday and my source said Bowers Harbor had enough ice that they were running quads and sleds, but nowhere else on either bay.

There was a sled and a quad out at deepwater point yesterday. I didn’t notice where they went though. There was quad tracks out where we were fishing in 135’ from either earlier in the morning or earlier in the week.

Unrelated - does anyone know how this wind will affect GT Bay? I see Saginaw Bay lost all their ice today

jdgambler · « **Reply #40 on:** Feb 24, 2019, 04:15 PM »

Thanks BR
Does anyone know if Sutton’s bay has good ice?

Bucket Rump · « **Reply #41 on:** Feb 24, 2019, 05:06 PM »

Quote from: jdgambler on Feb 24, 2019, 04:15 PM

Thanks BR
Does anyone know if Sutton’s bay has good ice?

I haven't heard, but if the wind today is doing to GT Bays what it's doing to Sag Bay I wouldn't expect any...

jdgambler · « **Reply #42 on:** Feb 25, 2019, 02:32 PM »

I'll go check out the bay ice tomorrow or the next day

Doeslayer · « **Reply #43 on:** Feb 25, 2019, 08:25 PM »

Ill be there sunday at daylight... Skegemog is the worst case scenario but wanna try the bays if the ice is safe.... Anyone hear where the big perch are at?

pyro261 · « **Reply #44 on:** Feb 26, 2019, 08:27 AM »

Quote from: Doeslayer on Feb 25, 2019, 08:25 PM

Anyone hear where the big perch are at?

Do those exist out there? I think I heard someone took home a dozen or so one day over the weekend after they sorted through 500 lol

Anyone know where the burbot are at?! Would like to get into the burbot/cisco/whitefish. Lakers are plentiful and easy to limit out on quickly.

Simek86 · « **Reply #45 on:** Feb 26, 2019, 08:42 AM »

There are some nice ones out there. My boys and I kept 24 the other morning, and I kept 25 last Thursday morning. We were off the ice by 10. I've heard a lot of guys say they are using spikes and hali's. I use these as well, but my biggest ones come on a jigging rap or a big blue on a dead stick. Big bait seems to equal big fish.

pyro261 · « **Reply #46 on:** Feb 26, 2019, 08:50 AM »

Quote from: Simek86 on Feb 26, 2019, 08:42 AM

There are some nice ones out there. My boys and I kept 24 the other morning, and I kept 25 last Thursday morning. We were off the ice by 10. I've heard a lot of guys say they are using spikes and hali's. I use these as well, but my biggest ones come on a jigging rap or a big blue on a dead stick. Big bait seems to equal big fish.

Out from Clinch with everyone else I assume?

Simek86 · « **Reply #47 on:** Feb 26, 2019, 08:55 AM »

Yah. Its a zoo out there. There are several other access points that are safe now too. I don't know if there are perch anywhere else...I assume there is... I'll probably start to venture out to some different places to get away from the crowd.

pyro261 · « **Reply #48 on:** Feb 26, 2019, 09:00 AM »

I tried finding some perch out of Greilickville on the wrecks, but someone was already sitting on top of the close one. We tried to find the barge but ran into an iffy spot that I didn't want to walk across so we went back to the first one and tried drilling a little ways off the guy that was there. Didn't mark anything and didn't want to fish right on top of him either so we left.

tvlle · « **Reply #49 on:** Feb 26, 2019, 05:06 PM »

I was out off Clinch this afternoon and there were only a dozen or so scattered around this afternoon. we marked a few right on the bottom but never had a bite. On a good note there is plenty of ice.

Simek86 · « **Reply #50 on:** Feb 27, 2019, 07:06 AM »

I went off Clinch last night to see if there would be an evening bite. I didn't mark or catch a single fish. Probably won't be trying that again.

jdgambler · « **Reply #51 on:** Feb 28, 2019, 08:20 PM »

Caught a really nice white fish today on the bay

ThreeDogsDown · « **Reply #52 on:** Feb 28, 2019, 10:16 PM »

East Bay ice condition at the M-37 Launch: ATV trafficable (only 3” powder on top). 9” ice out to 70 FoW. 8” past 70 FoW out to 100’. Any further than that I can only assume it gets thinner.

The slush hole at the ramp is not a worry. Just water on top of 9” of ice.

Doeslayer · « **Reply #53 on:** Feb 28, 2019, 11:34 PM »

Quote from: jdgambler on Feb 28, 2019, 08:20 PM

Caught a really nice white fish today on the bay

dandy! Ill be there sunday morning.... Hoping to get o. Those or lakers or jumbos.... Prolly try west bay... Any tips?

Joe in T.C. · « **Reply #54 on:** Mar 01, 2019, 04:51 PM »

WOW! that is really nice Whitefish!

Did you get em on a tip-up?

That's a Master Angler Award fish! Very Nice Catch!

jdgambler · « **Reply #55 on:** Mar 01, 2019, 07:55 PM »

Thanks joe!! 26”

Used just the body of a blue ( no swim bladder) 4lb test small red trout hook 3’ of bottom 100’ water. Tip up

Bucket Rump · « **Reply #56 on:** Mar 02, 2019, 05:13 AM »

Great fish, JD! Thanks for the tips!!

jdgambler · « **Reply #57 on:** Mar 02, 2019, 09:04 AM »

No problem

Bucket Rump · « **Reply #58 on:** Mar 03, 2019, 06:24 AM »

Plenty of ice on Suttons Bay with lots of ATV’s and snowmobiles. Saw a report they were getting walleye, but guys I talked to on Saturday were not finding them. I was able to ice some nice perch using walleye size spoons tipped with large minnow heads or tails - I used 4” blues. Tried smaller jigs and spoons with spikes and/or waxies but only had lookers.

jdgambler · « **Reply #59 on:** Mar 03, 2019, 10:19 AM »

The walleye's might be shallow.

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