Had another good day at the MI-OH show at the fairgrounds this afternoon. Spent some time talking with the reps, and even though it was geared up towards fishing open water, spent a lot of time talking fishing the hardwater with many of the reps.
As I turned the corner on one of the isles I turned around and ran smack dab into Captain Mike and Jay from Matthews Bait and Tackle. Couldn’t believe that I had missed their display yesterday, but made up for it today. The guys were fuzzy jig ready for the spring season to hit, with many of their casting jigs on display that are geared for fishing Ohio water early in the season. Told them next year to get a bigger sign, you can see it just behind them on the back wall of the booth. The guys are psyched for a bigger and better year at the bait shop. This week they will be in the shop getting it geared for the spring opening, although the shop will be closed until then, there is going to be a lot more tackle for folks to choose from on their walleye and perch needs. One addition will be from Fishlander, including downriggers, spoons, harnesses, beads and blades. They will also be carrying some of the hottest glow spoons from Moonshine in the shop this year. The glow paint on these baits is unreal on how long it lasts. Charge them once during a trip and you shouldn’t have to do it again during the whole trip.
I picked up some new blades and clear Fishlander Divers for myself. Will get a picture of the blades later, time for dinner and staying warm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You would think this was a scene from Alaska, but its just a few hours north of us on Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay. All across the bay are sighting reports of huge ice piles, scattered from one end to the other other. This one was estimated at 20 to 25 ft high. Its actually quite a sight to see one of these, and I haven’t seen ones like these in 10 yrs or so of fishing the big water.
The fishing wasn’t too bad yesterday either. After some initial mishaps with a quad getting stuck in some slush, for three hours of trying to get it out, the fishing started for my friends on the bay. Between Adam and his Dad, they caught 13 and lost two at the holes. Together as a group 23 walleye were caught between 10 am and 1 pm. Pretty nice day, or a half.