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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Arrived at the Gordonville ramp this morning at 7:45am and was happy to see my clients from Dowagiac Michigan already waiting. I was also pleased to see a Backhoe busy cleaning the new layer of bottom land muck from the ramp, that had built up from the 2 week monsoon season we have just seen the end of (I hope). This was also followed by a water truck, that sprayed the ramp super clean. The workers told me that Dow had hired them to clean the ramp. I can only hope that my earlier posts about cleaning it myself this spring had something to do with them stepping up to the plate. But either way, I'm grateful.
As far as the fishing today. I'd like to be able to tell you how many we caught today, but I really could not guess. I know we ran out of the 10 dozen minnows I bought at about 2:00pm. Along with the uncountable Smallies, we did box 3 nice walleyes, and 2 monster whites. I do remember we had triples on 4 times today when I was trying to eat my lunch.
The water flow today was what I'd call high and dangerous to anybody new to the spillway. You can see in the pictures that the boulders at the spillway were almost flush with the lower level of the river. This in reality is not good. You can also see in one picture the sand bar under the smallie we're reeling in. This is where I had to beach my jet boat on this sand bar, to stay in the only productive spot below the spillway. My other spots were in torrents, probably holding few fish, and basically UN-fishable.
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Looks like you had great weather. The rest of the crew looks respecteable. PB
