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well it started off waking up to the sound of thunder and rain around 5 am . perfect weather for pushing the fish up , so i thought . i had to drive a little under the speed limit to see the road , even then i barley missed 6 deer along the way . my plans were to fish till noon and then head to oscoda for a meeting . that all changed after the first few fish i encountered and i lost all track of time . walleyes were the first to hit , and if it haden't been raining i would have rivaled stormys eye with a pic of a 39" male that fought like a king salmon . i thought the 20+" eyes were big but the rain had the big 30+" fish up top , definatly a blast to catch and a trip to see the spectators faces as you put them back in the river . the steelhead were still far and few inbetween , but they were huge ! the only one that i managed to land left the parking lot with an elderly gentelman that loved steelhead fishing , but was recovering from bypass surgery . looks like i'll have to go back again , i hope the fish will be there sometime this month . [signature]
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next week you can keep them... season open fryday night.... at least is doese down heare.
was that the walleye club meetin you were talking about?
how many are they planng on raising ths hear? (dont tell me where they are going to let them go)
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wow, our suckers are gone already.
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Visited the Bear River this morning on may way in. I really could have walked from one side to the other on the suckers that were there. What was really cool is that there were some browns mixed up in the fray and I'm thinking i saw steelies in there. Maybe I was just hallucinating from lack of coffee but Wow, what a river full.
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what have you got there, long nose, white, or redhorse suckers?
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is that the same bear river that was on michigan outdoors ? lots of bolders from the bridge down that you have to hop across without falling ?
it sure looks like a tough spot to fish , if it's the same one .
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I didn't see the show on Mi out of Doors but it sounds like the mouth of the Bear. I was upriver about 7 miles from the mouth. Visited again this morning and the numbers have dwindled but there are still plenty of fish there.
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Hey: I think most of these cruisers are long nose, though I'm not a sucker afficiando!!!!!!!!!!!!
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