Some great upper Michigan streams

"HopperHatch" wrote in message
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Put the bottle down, Wolfgang.

Why?

Wolfgang

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:59:04 -0500, William Claspy
wrote:

Just for gosh sakes, don't tell him about the SECRET FLY!

It'd really be the end if that kind of information got out.

The secret fly is the green rock worm, size 6, unweighted, fished
deep. Or if you wanna go dry, a green hornberg, size 24, fished with a
twitch.

And, btw, this info has been out for a looooong time.

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:00:53 -0500, Dave LaCourse
wrote:

The secret fly is the green rock worm, size 6, unweighted, fished
deep. Or if you wanna go dry, a green hornberg, size 24, fished with a
twitch.

Ooooops, forgot.

If you don't have a twitch, I got some drugs.

Wolfgang wrote:
"HopperHatch" wrote in message
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no, the **Paint River** upstream from Paint Forks Campground** , just
north of **U.S. 2** and **west of Crystal Falls** is the place to
be.

The last fish count had many hundreds of trout per stream mile.

Nope. No fish there. The flies ate 'em all. Ask Jeff.

Also be sure to fish the fantastic runs on the *middle brnach
ontanogan(sp)** downstream from **Bond Falls** and **south of M28.**

Pretty falls. Not nearly as good as Agate, though.

Anyway, it's a good thing you didn't mention the Sturgeon, the east branch
of the Ontonagon, the west branch of the Ontanogon, the Cisco branch of the
Ontonagon, the main branch of the Ontonagon, The Two Hearted, the Fox, the
Whitefish, the Yellow Dog, the Huron, the Firesteel, the Brule, the Presque
Isle, the Black, the St. Louis, the Bois Brule, the Escanaba, the
Manistique, the Montreal, the Fence, the Net, the Perch, the Jumbo, the
Baltimore, the Onion, the other Sturgeon, the OTHER other Sturgeon, the
Potato, the Flat Rock, Trout Creek, Beaver Creek, the Peshekee, the Salmon
Trout, Clear Creek, the Slate, Barnhardt Creek, the Elm, the East Sleeping,
the Otter, Silver Creek, the other Salmon Trout, the Tobacco, the Chocolay,
Twomile Creek, the Ford, Werners Creek, the Rapid, the Tacoosh, the Days,
the Iron, Iron Creek, the Indian, Stutts Creek, the Driggs, Duck Creek, the
other Duck Creek, the Deerskin, the Tahquamenon or......um......oh yeah, the
OTHER other other Surgeon, because those really ARE secret, and if you did,
we'd probably have to kill you.


You forgot Fish Creek.

Russell

(There's got to be one there somewhere. Heck, there must be three or
four of them right here in Utah.)

"Russell D." wrote in message
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You forgot Fish Creek.

Russell

(There's got to be one there somewhere. Heck, there must be three or four
of them right here in Utah.)

No, Fish Creek is in Pennsylvan....Um never mind.

Op

"Russell D." wrote in message
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You forgot Fish Creek.

No, I didn't. It's a sceret. Um.......well, it WAS!

Russell

(There's got to be one there somewhere. Heck, there must be three or four
of them right here in Utah.)

Yeah, there's a couple of them. There's a few here in Curdistan, too. Hell
we even got a town by that name. And guess what they've all got in common.


Wolfgang
yeah, too easy, i know.

HopperHatch wrote:

Hey gang I was thinking of planning this neat trip....I know these
streams quite well!

Here is some basic information on these streams:

1. Paint River - fantastic fishing from Cooks run confluence up to
Paint Forks campground. If you head downstream from there you wil be
running into warmer water. The higher fish per mile numbers are in
Cooks Run and the upper regions.

2. Middle Branch Ontanogan - the section from Bond Falls downstream to
highway 28 is excellen and considered on of Michigans best trout
streams.

3. the Carp River - The little Carp and Big Carp have excellent brooki
action and nice fall and spring steelhead runs as well! They are only a
few miles hike from the Presque Isle River campground on the west side
of the park.

All streams are in the western Upper Peninsula. Here is a basic map:

http://cheas.psu.edu/fieldsites/sylv...map_ottawa.jpg


hey wolfie...we fished some of those places didn't we...and, well, i
think we even wrote a note or two here about them didn't we...and, well,
now that the secret's out, i reckon we'll need to go over to the west
boulder for our really, really secret fishing eh?

jeez...

On 7 Mar 2006 12:00:24 -0800, "HopperHatch"
wrote:

Hey gang I was thinking of planning this neat trip....I know these
streams quite well!

Here is some basic information on these streams:

1. Paint River - fantastic fishing from Cooks run confluence up to
Paint Forks campground. If you head downstream from there you wil be
running into warmer water. The higher fish per mile numbers are in
Cooks Run and the upper regions.

2. Middle Branch Ontanogan - the section from Bond Falls downstream to
highway 28 is excellen and considered on of Michigans best trout
streams.

3. the Carp River - The little Carp and Big Carp have excellent brooki
action and nice fall and spring steelhead runs as well! They are only a
few miles hike from the Presque Isle River campground on the west side
of the park.

All streams are in the western Upper Peninsula. Here is a basic map:

http://cheas.psu.edu/fieldsites/sylv...map_ottawa.jpg


That is a *very* basic map. Here's some better ones:

http://www.trailstotrout.com/blueribbon.html#uppermap

http://www.midwesttroutfishing.com/m...anUPRivers.asp

And of course the mother of all Michigan trout stream maps:

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7...3417--,00.html

And they hand these out to every angler in the state (and
out-of-staters too!)


Just to be fair Wisconsin also does the same thing:

http://dnr.wi.gov/org/water/fhp/fish...ts/trout05.pdf


http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water...reammaps.shtml

The fools!


hth

g.c.

Who's done piling on now.

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:44:20 -0500, Jeff Miller
wrote:

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hey wolfie...we fished some of those places didn't we...and, well, i
think we even wrote a note or two here about them didn't we...and, well,
now that the secret's out, i reckon we'll need to go over to the west
boulder for our really, really secret fishing eh?

jeez...


Hell, _I_ fished some of them on the Traveling Clave.

And he didn't even mention the Wisconsin ones we fished. Like that
one with the cute little parking area and park where Joel and I
watched George Cleveland catch several fish and you discovered how
many nettles and mosquitos there are in WI.

He didn't even mention pasties as fine dining up in the UP.
--

r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.
Really.

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"HopperHatch" wrote in message
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Put the bottle down, Wolfgang.

Why?

Wolfgang


Good question.

john