Ive always wondered why there arent more fish caught out of there in the Saginaw Bay by walleye fisherman. How can Lake St. Clair be so full of them but you go a little north to Huron and not many people catch them. Maybe there are quite a few in there but people just dont target them…Also makes me wonder if they spawn in the river there and if there are fish in Tawas Lake as well??
"MattG_braith" said:
Ive always wondered why there arent more fish caught out of there in the Saginaw Bay by walleye fisherman. How can Lake St. Clair be so full of them but you go a little north to Huron and not many people catch them. Maybe there are quite a few in there but people just dont target them…Also makes me wonder if they spawn in the river there and if there are fish in Tawas Lake as well??
There simply isn't any muskies that stay in the inner bay, IMO. Thousands of anglers weekly on the bay, you would hear about them. Muskies are caught daily on LSC and Erie by walleye guys pulling spinners or cranks. There isn't any real structure or current and a lack of baitfish expect for in the fall (whitefish and shad). The outer bay there is some areas that could hold muskies but not alot of fishing pressure there… I know of close to a half dozen muskies speared in Tawas over the past 5 yrs, none were legal and the water was cloudy. Could be a trophy pike and bonus muskie fishery but the guys spearing always need to put another one on the ice.
Wild Tawas bay muskies are a reality no doubt, spearing may be the only thing holding those fish back and like Corey said anywhere there are pike spearers there are muskies dying. My thoughts on saginaw bay are if there was going to be a self sustaining population there it should have already formed and its just not really there. Enough transient strays have access to the bay that they would be there if they wanted to be. Its a pipe dream and IMO would be a mistake to stock saginaw bay given the amount of fish it would require and our limited amount of fish we can produce in the current hatchery system.
"MattG_braith" said:
Ive always wondered why there arent more fish caught out of there in the Saginaw Bay by walleye fisherman. How can Lake St. Clair be so full of them but you go a little north to Huron and not many people catch them. Maybe there are quite a few in there but people just dont target them…Also makes me wonder if they spawn in the river there and if there are fish in Tawas Lake as well??
About 10 years ago I caught a small musky on Saginaw bay, maybe 25".
2 years ago I heard of 3 sub 20" fish getting caught in the lower Saginaw River.
The handling of the fish isn't what we'd all like to see, but I think the important thing is that it was released. At least they tried as opposed to just keeping it automatically because it was a big fish. As much as I'd like to think I would have handled it differently that could have been me years ago before I ever handled a musky.
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