QUOTE(Drifter80 @ Jun 9 2009, 09:52 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I go up there at least twice a year. Talk to Bob at the sportsmen shop in Glen Arbor. He's a good gun, he runs a charter boat in Lake Michigan but he'll know where they fish are being caught in Lake Leelaneau and Glen Lake.
You might want to try Glen Lake too. Glen is also a divided lake, theres actually a bridge crossing the narrows unlike Lake Leelaneau. Big Glen is stocked with lakers every year. Big Glen is a deep spring fed lake, the person I bought my Grady from fished there and on lake Michigan a lot. Little Glen is a very shallow, warm lake. Its butts up against the sleeping bear dunes and I've had good luck with northerns and bass in there before. Never did much in Big Glen because I didnt have down riggers.
Depending on what kind of boat you're running you might think about trying Sleeping Bear Bay. Its normally pretty calm because of the dunes and aligator hill block most of the westerly winds. You can launch right in the bay at the Glen Arbor ramp but it can be a bastard to pull your boat out if it gets rough because its just a ramp into the lake with no breakwall or port around it.
I've never camped there but theres a national parks (D.H. Day) camp ground just outside of town (toward the dunes) on 109. I've had some people crash there when we had more bodies than beds and they liked it. You cant launch a boat there but there is access to the beach (which seemed to be all dune grass this year). I found an old (very old) shore fishing pole at a garage sale up there and I've had luck pulling a stray King out of there when they come in close to shore in the morning. Also, down past the camp ground there is a park service town called glen haven that has an old dock that runs out into the day. Great perch off that dock but watch the posts, many of them are just a foot or so under the water.
Are you going up around the 4th? I might drag the boat up there and take a shot at some Kings (and probably fail).
Do you have kids? Fisher lake which is where the crystal river dumps into Big Glen is stocked with tons of small perch. 90% arent keepers but its almost a catch a cast back in there. You might need a chart to find it since the trees and hills really hide it.
Also, Shell lake which has a creek that dumps into lake Michigan on pyramid point is hit or miss for bass. You would need a rowboat or hip boots for that lake. Its shallow, weedy, and hard to get back into.
Great tips! Definitly appreciate it. Im not going up to the lake, just my buddy and his family. I told him Id try and get some info on the lake for him. Thanks! Im sure thats plenty for him to get started!
QUOTE(makowish @ Jun 9 2009, 10:21 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I like the muskie photo tip Rick. Miss you guys at darts bro. We took 11 games last night LOL
11 GAMES!!!! ugh!.... I need to get back!!!! LOL Im going to see you up there in a few weeks. Going camping this monday, so maybe the following monday. Did you get out Saturday or Sunday at all?
