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Using Lures For Spring Trout
Spring time is probably one of the best times to go trout fishing. Here in Michigan we have the opening of trout fishing the fourth Saturday in April. In early spring we have very good Brown trout fishing trolling with spoons and body baits close to the Lake Michigan shoreline with long lines or planer boards. The idea is to get your lures as far away from the boat as possible because in this shallower water the big Brown Trout are very spooky. These Brown Trout are feeding on bait fish that are close to shore.
Then in the early spring Migratory Rainbow Trout that run up the rivers to spawn these fish are called steelhead. These Steelhead are very strong fighters that will run hard and jump high. You hook one of these and you will know that you have a fight on your hands, also 10 to 15 pound fish are not uncommon. These fish will take spinners, spoons, spawn or tied spawn sacks and also wigglers. Once in awhile you can tie into a good Brown Trout. You should try it sometime, I know you won't be disappointed. They make good table fare also.
I fish the Pere Marquette river for these Steelhead in the spring. This is a flies only stretch near Baldwin Michigan and also it is a no kill section. This fishing is strictly for sport and diehard fly fishermen and women. I also live about a half a mile from the Pentwater River and have caught many Steelhead using spawn, spinners, wigglers, flies and at times a florescent orange flatfish. There are a lot of small streams in Michigan that I have fished in the spring that are excellent for Browns, Rainbows, an every once in awhile a Brook Trout.
There are other streams that I have fished in the spring such as the Sturgeon River in northern Michigan. It has a spring spawning run coming out of Burt Lake that is very impressive. I have done very well on that river. I also have fished the East Branch of the Augres River. I can remember one year my son and I fished the east branch and that year fishing was hard the river was high and muddy. So nobody was doing any good. I normally use a number 2 Mepphs silver blade spinner. Well to make a long story short my son had lost my last Mepphs spinner so I gave him a funny looking spinner that I had acquired some time ago . It was all black with what fishermen call a buck tail on the hook. Well that day that was the secret lure , because from the minute he made his frist cast with that black lure all I did the rest of the afternoon was net steelhead trout.
The last hole my son fished that afternoon was just up stream from where the car was parked and I remember seeing this gentlemen fishing this hole early in the morning . Well he was still there and so my so could not fish the deep end of the hole so he decided to fish the trailing end just below the spot that this other fishermen was fishing. On my sons first cast he hooked and landed a nice 6lbs steelhead. When he put the fish on the stringer he walked back out into the river and made another cast and hooked an even bigger steelhead and I had to net that one because it took off downstream and would not come back. After I netted that nice fish I looked up and saw that fishermen pack up his gear and leave with out catching a single fish all day.
So when spring comes and you want to get over the winter doldrums grab a rod and what ever type of bait or lures you want to use and go fishing for some big trout. You might surprise yourself and come home with a nice catch of fish.
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