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Michigan => Ice Fishing Michigan U.P. => Topic started by: DieHardIcer on Feb 11, 2017, 02:30 PM
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Anyone know for a fact how the conditions are on Munising Bay?
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6-8 inches of ice with 8 inches of snow/slush/water on top off the city docks about 1/4 mile. Open water north of Sand Point. There were people out west of the grand island channel today and a couple shacks half way up grand island too, no idea what the ice conditions were west of the channel or half way up grand island tho.
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Thanks for the update.
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Anyone have an update on the ice this year? Has it
iced over yet?
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Got a report the bay is frozen over, but only about 2 inches of ice.
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Any updates on ice conditions on the bay?
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Does anyone know what the current Munising Bay ice conditions are? I'm hoping to get up there this weekend. Thanks!
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Ice is very slippery as the top layer melted and we got good wind last weekend. Wear cleats (or better yet ice skates 😂😂).
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I agree with Teggs, slippery beyond words.
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Anybody been by Munising bay lately? Any ice?
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I checked last Sunday and several fishing off Anna River, not far out. Sand Point had open water as did around Grand Island.
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2/3rds of the bays ice blew out on Tuesday with that strong wind.
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We fished both saturday and sunday morning. There were snowmobiles out there sunday and people up to 500 yards out. We had 7 keepers one day and 5 the next. Mixxed bag of splake and whitefish. We caught many undersized trout and tiny whitefish to small to fillet. Dnr was out checking saturday, they hit every tent. Saw them write several tickets for people keeping undersized trout, I was shocked. Please read the laws before fishing the lake and throw the little ones back.
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Thanks for the updates, hope to get out there soon!
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Is there a place to park but by Sand point? I’ve never fished up there, just off thfor Anna
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Yes go past the hospital almost to park service office
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Yes there is parking lot at sand point. There was open water there last weekend though and by sunday ice was all chuncked up with the north wind. No solid ice that far yet, dnr have had it closed off unless your ice climbing
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Yes there is parking lot at sand point. There was open water there last weekend though and by sunday ice was all chuncked up with the north wind. No solid ice that far yet, dnr have had it closed off unless your ice climbing
The DNR never had Sand Point closed off. There’s been shacks out there all week. I fished it Monday and there were 3 others out there.
Fishing has been lackluster though.
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I start my week off on Thursday. Hoping these cold temps keep us so I can hit up the bay sometime during my time off. Last year I only fished out off the Anna and did solid for whites and Splake. I’ll check back in later this week and hopefully the ice has gotten better
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There has been guys out there now. Marking lots of smelt but to many coho yet. Hopefully soon, gonna try next weekend.
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Thinking about a day trip from Houghton. What do u guys typically catch out there? How’s the bay for walking and any other pointers u can give would be greatly appreciated.
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Thinking about a day trip from Houghton. What do u guys typically catch out there? How’s the bay for walking and any other pointers u can give would be greatly appreciated.
All the same fish as K-bay and Huron bay minus the browns. just all on the slightly smaller side. It would be super tough for any angler to drive by both of those just to hit munising. They bay is very easy for walking and access. Depending on where u are and what your targeting the Same techniques you use up there should work down here for all species. I use all the same gear and setups in munising as i do when i am up there by you.
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We fished both saturday and sunday morning. There were snowmobiles out there sunday and people up to 500 yards out. We had 7 keepers one day and 5 the next. Mixxed bag of splake and whitefish. We caught many undersized trout and tiny whitefish to small to fillet. Dnr was out checking saturday, they hit every tent. Saw them write several tickets for people keeping undersized trout, I was shocked. Please read the laws before fishing the lake and throw the little ones back.
I think this happens a lot all over the U.P., especially with splake.
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All the same fish as K-bay and Huron bay minus the browns. just all on the slightly smaller side. It would be super tough for any angler to drive by both of those just to hit munising. They bay is very easy for walking and access. Depending on where u are and what your targeting the Same techniques you use up there should work down here for all species. I use all the same gear and setups in munising as i do when i am up there by you.
I appreciate the info but K-Bay is very hit or miss. Plus it sounded like there is a coho bite earlier then in K-bay. The fish in K-bay are not all that big as well.
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Well i guess i dont know what to tell ya. Def find a lot smaller average size splake in munising than you will ever find further west. The coho bite happens around the same time and it is also very hit or miss. They bays are very similar from my experience.
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Hey Folks, My Son and I are going to fish Munising Bay on Sunday. Any recent reports on catching fish? Thank you in advance.
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We did pretty good on splake this weekend. It was a pain walking out though. A foot of snow and 6-8 inches of slush the whole way. Lots of breaks on the way out. It was hardening up for our walk back though in the evening.
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Thanks Teggs!! We ended up not making the trip due to prioritizing snow removal from my roof.
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Any recent ice condition reports?
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Could anybody update me on the currant ice conditions at Sandpoint. How's the slush.. ice... bite,
and are snowmobile having any problems. Thanks
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Bite has been very slow for the most part. Slush has firmed up some and snow has settled a little. Walking is still tough. Most snow machines have no problem.
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Was there yesterday, plenty of ice, some slush but for the most part with a thick enough crust to hold us up. Some snow, less than a foot in most places and relatively hard. Between ice, slush, and snow it's about 3 feet thick. Had snowshoes on and stayed on top. Pulling the fully loaded sled wasn't too bad.
DNR guy was snowmobiling without problem, and there were a couple of fishermen with machines out there.
Bite was pretty slow. Had a couple of spake on early but didn't land them, 1 whitefish. Stayed after dark for burbot and got a few but bites were few and far between.
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Thank's for the info.
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Anyone out the last couple of days? Is it a total slushy watery mess? Was thinking about heading to sand point tomorrow.
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Solid ice and plenty of it with snow patches all the way from the anna to sand point !! Fishing was extremely slow from the last time that we were there !