@@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852 thanks it was a trip to remember :)

@@salvatorepalombojr9119 it’s gonna take a while to top that one!

@@davegraham8755 🙏 amen

@@HelgraMike thanks!

@@jimnummerdor9687 I’m So fired up. First attempt of the year this weekend. Fingers crossed. 🤞

@@aaronbuttignoli8710 pretty much right off the bottom

@@samojamo9450 I like 15 or 17 g on the big water. The extra weight gets bait down better in deep water.

@@otterlover2397 i’ve tried a lot of different things and just about anything will work, but I think my favorite is procure powder. Specifically the procure wizard cure. I have also had success with Atlas mics and stuff like that as well. I also find I have a lot more successful when cutting the skin all up into little chunks first and then just shaking it up in a bag of powder.

@@GearheadsGarage. just about anywhere especially slow slackwater areas on rivers as well as most ponds. Below dams is usually good too. Worms or bread balls are my favorite for carp.

@@colinbarbour4713 yea or a soft plastic in a jig. Lots of guys walleye fish that way but not many do it with a pin. I have done it with live bait too for walleye and pike.

@@freddyj5845 probably but the weights might get tangled a bit.

@@codycook7091 same.

@@steveking6683 thanks! I appreciate the feedback!

@@scottwinslow940 yeah that black lift bass is one of the cooler bass I have ever got. Definitely very unique. Thanks I’m glad you did them. I make them all myself. I have a lot of fun coming up with designs and painting them up. It’s crazy rewarding when you catch a nice fish on the lure that you made yourself, especially when it’s a new design and you get a good one right off the bat the first time you try. I have pretty much been using nothing else sense spring and have been catching just as many if not more fish than usual.

@@steinerp I always mix it up a lot. With that particular jerk bait I like to do some good twitches. I was getting bunch on the straight fast retreive at first, and then after the bite slowed down, I was getting them on a slower retrieve. I definitely work them a lot slower when going against the current and typically faster when going with the current. I also like to suspend them with the current a lot.

@@dudedude481 yes. They are easier to find on the Grand typically. I have been fishing that river more than once a week for 10 years and I have caught both in there. Not a lot and when I target salmon and steelhead, I always drive further west. But if you get the timing and location and presentation correct, it is possible to catch salmon and steelhead in the red cedar River. Good luck to you in your quest. If you try hard enough and long enough, you should be able to encounter some and when you do, it will be an accomplishment.

I would go with the 8-17 I have caught kings on this rod but with 12lb line I have lost a few. Handles steelhead and coho fine but for kings the ability to use heavier line will be nice.

I have none so far but ice season was super short so I still have hardly had a chance to use these.

If you run into him you’re in a good spot. He is a heck of a skam chaser.

Technically, both can work, but as a general rule, your barber should point upstream, and your bait should kick out in front of it downstream. Usually when people struggle with float fishing, it is either because of location and timing or because you’re not setting it at the right depth. Make sure you find bottom and then come up just a little bit from there so that you know, it’s floating around a few inches of the bottom where the fish typically are hanging out. Also the better job you do mending the line the more natural your drifts will look and the more likely will be to end up putting it where you want to. Just keep it one day you’ll catch one or two and then have the confidence to re-create it in other Spots or other times.

@@ReelMichiganAnglers Sweet, can’t wait to give it a try this next fall! Thank you!!

@@Jglidden99 no problem. Good luck!

I’d love to but I can barely afford the gas to chase these fresh water chromies lol PNW is on the to do list! Thanks for watching!

@@ReelMichiganAnglers I feel it! Just making the classic west/east "true" steelhead troll post aha

@@23v0lv32 As long as we’re not debating whether or not a trout is a steelhead or vice versa I’m good lol

@@ReelMichiganAnglers …well, you won’t like this bro but, A Rainbow trout is simply not a steelhead until it hits salt water. Same species, yes, but the anadromous rainbow has its own classification. -Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus. Absolutely amazing fish in the Great Lakes!! No denying that. No salt? No steel.

@@23v0lv32 what is the classification for Great Lakes steelhead? Same genetics I thought.

I have been using silver more the last few years for salmon steelhead and brown trout with success.

@@ReelMichiganAnglers I almost always fish in clear water conditions for chub and trout. Size no 2 silver in sunny days and gold in cloudy days have always yielded for me. That's my experience at least.

@@freemindas I fish a lot of dirty water.

I was using a Roxstar fishing spinner. They make a sweet ultralight spinner. Thanks for watching:)

I have caught a few nice pike and a few decent bass in that stretch. I used to Take my kids to the playground there and fish every once in a while when they were younger.

I have always wanted to go south a bit for some cats. Y’all get some gar that we don’t have too I think. That video was a few years ago, but I believe it was September when we were there.

Nightcrawlers on a circle hook. On the bottom at whatever depth, the fish happen to be hanging out at. I actually have no idea how deep the water is there.

@ReelMichiganAnglers wow those were caught on crawlers, nice!

@@maddielynn1820 yea crazy right?? You would think it wouldn’t be so simple. Basically just a standard catfish rig.

Do you wanna see a my favorite fishing lures for brown trout video?

I was in the danger zone. I have had king salmon do that to me. That can hurt.

Just messing around and finding out ;)

Woot woot!

My pleasure :)

I think so…

I’m not sure to be honest. They are all pretty similar in design other than the action.

The Han warmer pocket sits at the rib cage on me. I have not got water in the zipper pocket yet but have had some pockets fill from the bottom of the pocket before so I know the struggle lol the design on this zipper pocket looks good though.

I went deeper just the other night and found that the pocket does get slightly moist, but it doesn’t gush water like some do.

This is the Thornapple near Grand Rapids Michigan. I don’t think we’re talking about the same Thornapple.

@@ReelMichiganAnglers Alaska, MI is NE of Caledonia. Where you fished the dam areas, is it wadable? tks, Mark

@@markheidema3699 lol I should have realized so yeah by time you get up till like the third damn and above it seems pretty Wable. I waited a good amount of distance below that third damn without too much trouble. If you wanted to cover ground, you might have to get out to go around a hole or some walk jams, but I would give it seven or eight out of 10 as far as wadeability

100% chance of death when you eat them. Sounds like you kill more fish than I do… I do wish more lures came stock with single hooks though that is always my preference anyway.

I was stoked to see those mackerel pictures! Thanks again for shopping with us!

Thanks! Glad ya dig it!

Also I went to get them trudave wadders but they didn't have xl. Awesome deal they went fast

@@andrepomroy8621 bummer :( that was a hot deal So I’m not surprised. Even full price there a solid budget option.

I can’t wait for salmon season :)

I fish a 20lb mono or braid mainline and a 15-20 lb Flurocarbon leader 6-36 inches depending on the situation. For lures straight 20lb braid works fine. Skein, beads, jigs, spinners and crank baits like thundersticks are my favorite.

Yea especially for the sale price of $55

I think that is just the corner of the screen protector that came on it.

It can be done but this video is not in Michigan.

I don’t have a specific memory of it but there has to be plenty in there.

Nothing but beads in that video. I have fished there once breifly. I look forward to returning to explore further.

Both are correct. I usually find them in slow deep sections of rivers and lakes. Michigan has plenty but people often don’t land them due to armor plated mouths that are hard to drive a hook into.

@@ReelMichiganAnglers I’m headed to Alpena in June. Gonna dry clean Huron!

@@tommyhunter1817 there’s lots of good fishing in that area. I’m sure you will get into something.

It sure looks that way. My buddy just caught a slab crappy on the chartreuse one the other day. :)