My list:
Lake St Clair
Kent
Oakland
Stoney Creek
Wolverine
Union Lake
Heron Lake
Cass Lake
Lake Orion
Crooked Lake (Indian River area)
Walloon Lake
Lake Erie
DTE Hot Pond
Detroit River
Pere Marquette River
Blackfoot River, MT
Missouri River, MT
Lake St Clair
Belleville Lake
Lake Erie
Foot Pond
Long Lake
Gull Lake
Saginaw bay
ST Clair and rivers
Orion
Cass
Union
Lakeville
Butler Chain Florida Cass Lake
Ponds at The Villages Fla. Sylvan Lake
Atlantic Ocean Crescent Lake
Gulf of Mexico Lake St Clair
Long lake Alpena Lake Erie
Wixom Lake Sanford Lake
Hot Ponds Monroe Lake Huron
Detroit River Middle Straights Lake
St Clair River Portage Lake
Union Lake Zukey Lake
Long Lake Lobdell Lake
Wolverine Lake Orchard Lake
Kent Lake Wamplers Lake
Pontiac Lake
Maceday Lake
Heron Lake
Big Fish Lake
Cedar Island Lake
Lake Oakland
Lake Orion
Crooked Lake
Loon Lake
White Lake
Big 7 Lake
Lake Fenton
TIpisico Lake
Ponemah Lake
Probably a couple I forgot. Old people do that.
We may have a winner.....
Quote from: Hollada on December 09, 2017, 01:22:36 PM
We may have a winner.....
Had to add a couple more. Good thing I don't go to work anymore.
LSC River
LSC
Detroit River
Lake Erie
Lake Lansing
Ovid
Lake Lansing
Grand River (lansing)
Webber Dam
Morrison Lake
Long Lake (Alpnea)
Grand Lake (Alpnea)
Lake Huron
Portage Lake (Onekama)
Manistee Lake
Big Bass Lake
Muskrat Lake
Saginaw River
Jordan Lake
Sanford Lake
Lake Lancer
Thornapple Lake
Hot Pond Monroe
"Had to add a couple more. Good thing I don't go to work anymore."
I think you forgot Florida!
Quote from: Hollada on December 10, 2017, 11:00:10 PM
Had to add a couple more. Good thing I don't go to work anymore.
I think you forgot Florida!
The Butler Chain is in Florida. I think we fished 5 lakes there.
Lake Leelanau - 1 time
Cedar Lake - 3 times
Lake St.Clair - 3 times
...it was a bad year for me being able to get out fishing.
Quote from: TimH on December 21, 2017, 04:56:07 PM
Lake Leelanau - 1 time
Cedar Lake - 3 times
Lake St.Clair - 3 times
...it was a bad year for me being able to get out fishing.
Ouch! Better luck next year!
Grand River
Spring Lake
Muskegon Lake
White Lake
Cadillac
Mitchell
Charlevoix
Platte
North
Portage Chain (every lake on it)
Leelanau
Lake Michigan
Macatawa
4 more that will remain nameless and I think that's it.
Quote from: dartag on December 09, 2017, 06:44:00 AM
Butler Chain Florida Cass Lake
Ponds at The Villages Fla. Sylvan Lake
Atlantic Ocean Crescent Lake
Gulf of Mexico Lake St Clair
Long lake Alpena Lake Erie
Wixom Lake Sanford Lake
Hot Ponds Monroe Lake Huron
Detroit River Middle Straights Lake
St Clair River Portage Lake
Union Lake Zukey Lake
Long Lake Lobdell Lake
Wolverine Lake Orchard Lake
Kent Lake Wamplers Lake
Pontiac Lake
Maceday Lake
Heron Lake
Big Fish Lake
Cedar Island Lake
Lake Oakland
Lake Orion
Crooked Lake
Loon Lake
White Lake
Big 7 Lake
Lake Fenton
TIpisico Lake
Ponemah Lake
Probably a couple I forgot. Old people do that.
You really do have a good 'job!' And good sponsors!! ;D
Quote from: MSURoss on December 10, 2017, 09:48:18 PM
LSC River
LSC
Detroit River
Lake Erie
Lake Lansing
Ovid
Lake Lansing
Grand River (lansing)
Webber Dam
Morrison Lake
Long Lake (Alpnea)
Grand Lake (Alpnea)
Lake Huron
Portage Lake (Onekama)
Manistee Lake
Big Bass Lake
Muskrat Lake
Saginaw River
Jordan Lake
Sanford Lake
Lake Lancer
Thornapple Lake
Hot Pond Monroe
Not too shabby for a young newlywed with a new job! How was Muskrat Lake? Could you actually launch a boat there or did you do a kayak or similar? I haven't been there in years.
Quote from: TimH on December 21, 2017, 04:56:07 PM
Lake Leelanau - 1 time
Cedar Lake - 3 times
Lake St.Clair - 3 times
...it was a bad year for me being able to get out fishing.
All I can say is you gotta figure out a way to get out more!! LAPORTE too! That's not very many lakes!
Quote from: fishstick on December 22, 2017, 06:55:45 AM
Grand River
Spring Lake
Muskegon Lake
White Lake
Cadillac
Mitchell
Charlevoix
Platte
North
Portage Chain (every lake on it)
Leelanau
Lake Michigan
Macatawa
4 more that will remain nameless and I think that's it.
Can tell where most of your tournaments are at!! I love Lake 'nameless!!' You can tell me!! I won't tell anyone!! ;D
I did pretty good again this year, thanks to boat rentals and several nice fellow anglers, though I fished little Round Lake a lot!! (Which is okay - it fished real well this year!!) In approximate alpha order:
Burt Lake
Cloverdale-Wilkinson Lakes
East-West Crooked Lakes
Lake Chemung
Lake Lansing
Lake Menderchuck (thanks to a new friend)
Lake Orion
Lake Ovid (not enough this year though)
Lake Ponemah
Lake St. Clair
Lobdell Lake
Lower Crooked Lake
Otter Lake
Reeds Lake
Round Lake
Round Lake
Round Lake (okay, all the same lake but I really did fish it a lot!!)
South Lake
Upper Crooked Lake
White Lake
I believe that is the list for 2017.
Quote from: djkimmel on December 26, 2017, 11:44:00 AM
Quote from: dartag on December 09, 2017, 06:44:00 AM
Butler Chain Florida Cass Lake
Ponds at The Villages Fla. Sylvan Lake
Atlantic Ocean Crescent Lake
Gulf of Mexico Lake St Clair
Long lake Alpena Lake Erie
Wixom Lake Sanford Lake
Hot Ponds Monroe Lake Huron
Detroit River Middle Straights Lake
St Clair River Portage Lake
Union Lake Zukey Lake
Long Lake Lobdell Lake
Wolverine Lake Orchard Lake
Kent Lake Wamplers Lake
Pontiac Lake
Maceday Lake
Heron Lake
Big Fish Lake
Cedar Island Lake
Lake Oakland
Lake Orion
Crooked Lake
Loon Lake
White Lake
Big 7 Lake
Lake Fenton
TIpisico Lake
Ponemah Lake
Probably a couple I forgot. Old people do that.
You really do have a good 'job!' And good sponsors!! ;D
Writing the 3rd book helped. I had to be gone during the day so she could work. I forgot to add my trip to Crooked with you.
Always like a 'win-win' situation!
Quote from: fishstick on December 22, 2017, 06:55:45 AM
Grand River
Spring Lake
Muskegon Lake
White Lake
Cadillac
Mitchell
Charlevoix
Platte
North
Portage Chain (every lake on it)
Leelanau
Lake Michigan
Macatawa
4 more that will remain nameless and I think that's it.
Wait why is Mona Lake nameless?? 🤔🤔
Ibought a Bill Dance bobblehead a few years back at Bob's lure swap's auction table. I don't remember who donated it..(mojo?)....
Quote from: Bill Dance on March 01, 2018, 09:11:00 PM
Quote from: fishstick on December 22, 2017, 06:55:45 AM
Grand River
Spring Lake
Muskegon Lake
White Lake
Cadillac
Mitchell
Charlevoix
Platte
North
Portage Chain (every lake on it)
Leelanau
Lake Michigan
Macatawa
4 more that will remain nameless and I think that's it.
Wait why is Mona Lake nameless?? 🤔🤔
I could be there in 5 minutes but I drive right by it every time. There's never any weekend tournaments there so I just don't bother with it most years. Actually thinking about it now I was there one time for a couple hours last year.
Quote from: fishstick on March 02, 2018, 07:48:36 AM
Quote from: Bill Dance on March 01, 2018, 09:11:00 PM
Quote from: fishstick on December 22, 2017, 06:55:45 AM
Grand River
Spring Lake
Muskegon Lake
White Lake
Cadillac
Mitchell
Charlevoix
Platte
North
Portage Chain (every lake on it)
Leelanau
Lake Michigan
Macatawa
4 more that will remain nameless and I think that's it.
Wait why is Mona Lake nameless?? 🤔🤔
I could be there in 5 minutes but I drive right by it every time. There's never any weekend tournaments there so I just don't bother with it most years. Actually thinking about it now I was there one time for a couple hours last year.
I figured you had to be right by it with a list of every lake north and south of it. It's actually one of my favorite lakes! Super underfished, seriously a sleeper lake over shadowed by Muskegon and White.
I see a few small club tourneys every once in a while, and I think I saw one of the West Siders 1 on 1's is there this year.
Sounds like I need to spend a little time there, I know there were some decent weights that came out of it in weeknight WMB tournaments. I think you are right about the Westsiders 1v1, I want to say it is opening weekend.
I always like Mona Lake, though it was sometime kind of quirky for me. It also used to have a dangerous population of big pike that would show up just about anywhere!! Don't know if that is still the case?
Butler Chain Florida Cass Lake
Sylvan Lake long lake, Hale
Atlantic Ocean Crescent Lake
Loud dam pond foote dam pond
West londo george lake
Sanford Lake rifle lake
Lake Huron van etten lake
Middle Straights Lake cedar lake, oscoda
Londo lake watkins lake
Union Lake duck lake
Long Lake Lobdell Lake
Wolverine Lake Orchard Lake
Kent Lake cooley lake
Pontiac Lake loon lake, oscoda
Maceday Lake sage lake
Heron Lake a pond in florida
Big Fish Lake st lucie river florida
Cedar Island Lake the lake tyrell lives on
Lake Oakland clinton river
Lake Orion the other crooked lake
Crooked Lake
Loon Lake
White Lake
Big 7 Lake
Lake Fenton
TIpisico Lake
Ponemah Lake
Quote from: djkimmel on March 05, 2018, 03:48:28 PM
I always like Mona Lake, though it was sometime kind of quirky for me. It also used to have a dangerous population of big pike that would show up just about anywhere!! Don't know if that is still the case?
Plenty of shad for them to eat in there still, it received a muskie plant a few years ago too.
Spring Lake
Grand River
Mona
Muskegon
Hart
Pentwater
Pere Marquette
Hamlin
Manistee
Portage
Platte
Skegemog
Elk
Bellaire
Mullett
Burt
Crooked
Hubbard
Long
Thunder Bay
Cooke
Foote
Loud
Cedar
Van Etten
St. Helens
I really like Mona because of the opportunity for smallies & largies, plus it's 15 minutes from my house. I like lakes where you can fish for the opportunity to catch both 5lb+ LM & SM. I rarely catch pike, but it has gotten several Great Lakes Spotted muskie plants over the past several years and should eventually be a very good muskie lake. I haven't really targeted the muskies in Mona, Muskegon, Grand River, or White, but will probably spend some time fishing for them this year since their size should be getting pretty big.
I've been curious how well the muskies will actually stay in the lakes attached to Lake Michigan that they have been planted in? It's been a recurring challenge over there planting some fish that leave where they were planted, sometimes ending up who knows where?
No question some of them will travel. We've seen fish from Green Bay in our lakes & rivers along west MI and have also seen muskies travel from Macatawa, Thornapple, etc over the years to other W. MI lakes connected to lake MI. For the the most part, however, most of the fish that are stocked will stay in the lakes that they were originally planted in. Tracking studies have shown that muskies aren't afraid to swim great distances though. One of the reasons that the MIDNR has decided to now only stock the Great Lakes Spotted strain is because they are native to our Great Lakes & connecting waters. Should be interesting to see how the fishing is over the next several years, but the ones that have been getting stocked in the west MI drowned rivermouth lakes & the Grand River will no doubt have a huge area to call home.
Might be like finding a needle in a haystack for some time.
They are still raising some of the Northern Muskies I believe. Maybe those will be used for some disconnected inland waters still? Wasn't it the Northern Muskies that they moved some adults from Hudson Lake to several additional inland lakes - like Orion, Lower Crooked, etc.? The ones I saw haunting some of my good bass fishing spots on Lower Crooked this spring appeared to be the Northern strain.
My understanding is that the Northern Muskellunge is native to Michigan but maybe originally only the Western end of the Upper Peninsula? I've always thought they were naturally a river fish so they are also prone to travelling, maybe following the current?
Guess I should keep a log this year. Already fished in 5 Fla lakes. The Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Just hoping the ice melts some day so I can fish in Michigan. Had at least 3 days in last year at this time.
I had thought about going fishing this week myself. That was before I caught this darn virus or whatever it is though. I did make a short road trip from the pharmacy to Round Lake only to see it is still very flooded.
The boat ramp is now about 150-200 feet from the 'new' shoreline. I would need full waders just to get out to the spot the rental boats are tied up at (good thing he tied them to a fence or they'd all be floating out on the lake or sitting on the bottom!!). The entire back parking lot for trailers and shore/row boat anglers is completely flooded... The little lake is wide open however!! It's a lot bigger than 80 acres right now too!! Lots of new 'ponds' and bigger wetlands along Round Lake Road also!