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Seasons Open Saturday, April 27, 2013Saturday is a big day for anglers who enjoy fishing in Indiana and Michigan.
Indiana’s stream trout season opens and runs through Dec. 31. The inland lake trout season across northern Indiana is open all year.
For details and locations of Indiana’s put and take trout streams, visit www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/files/fw-trout_locations.pdf.
In Michigan, it’s the opener of the statewide trout season while Michigan’s Lower Peninsula inland walleye, northern pike, muskellunge seasons and the catch-and-immediate release bass seasons.
It should be noted that in Upper Peninsula waters, the walleye, pike and muskellunge seasons don’t open until May 15 – which is the same date the catch-and-immediate-release season for bass opens in those same waters.
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River steelhead anglers can’t get a break.
Just when the steelhead started pouring into South Bend and Mishawaka, heavy rains turned the river into a high, dirty flow.
All of this comes when Indiana opens up its free fishing day Saturday, April 20. State residents won’t need a license but all other regulations apply.
Prior to the rains, fishing had begun to improve. River anglers were catching quite a few steelhead while inland lakes fish were moving toward the shallows.
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Any day now.
That’s the report coming from anglers and tackle shop operators who expect spring fishing to bust out next week, if not this weekend.
There already are signs of fish getting active. Die-hard anglers who have battled unseasonably cold temperatures this week have been catching some fish.
A few steelhead were being caught from the river, coho were taken along Lake Michigan pier heads, and crappies are making the biggest news on inland lakes.
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Louie with a Falcon Lake Big 'un.ZAPATA, Tex. – I expect three things to happen anytime I go south on a working fishing trip.
- An unseasonably brutal cold front
- A stiletto-like wind
- Fishing success that falls well short of expectations.
Check. Check. Check.
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As we noted here a few weeks ago, Travel Tender of Goshen is closing its doors.
On Saturday (March 30) it will conduct a huge auction of all types of fishing gear.
You will find thousands of lures, both new and antique, being auctioned off. Also, there are old trolling motor parts, old fishfinders, ice fishing gear, lanterns, new hard baits still in boxes and who knows what else the store has had in its back room.
The auction will be at the Elkhart County Fairgrounds from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Here’s a link to the auctioneer who has listed a lot of the stuff being sold:
www.ellenbergerbros.com/auction_detail.php?id=198039.
It’s sad to see the Travel Tender go out of business after serving anglers for 34 years. Ernie Bontrager carried a lot of quality tackle and had become one of this region’s best sources for hard-to-get bass lures and top of the line rods and reels.