FISHING CONDITIONS ON LAKES CADILLAC AND MITCHELL

FISHING CONDITIONS ON LAKES CADILLAC AND MITCHELL 

Another weekend has passed.  More fresh snow.  A llittle more every day keeping everything clean and white.  Snowmobilers and skiers are all happy.  Quads, snowmobiles, cars and trucks dot our lakes indicating thick ice.  Life is good.

We’re past mid Winter and as is usual fishing isn’t easy.  The fish still eat but seem more cautious – or are they smarter.  Flashers mark them.  Using cameras we see them.  Some days getting them to bite has been another story.

Small jigs tipped with spikes is the way to go.  Large jigs and baits seem to scare the panfish off.  Use as light of line as you’re comfortable with, 1 to 4 pound test.  Lately purple jigs have become inportant.  Those catching the most say the crappie are biting best on a slow moving, quivering presentation. Make your bait look like an aquatic insect laying eggs.

When fishing Lake Cadillac and Mitchell always bring your tip-ups.  The pike are one species that’s always hungry.  Only a couple of weeks left of the season and we’re do for another 40 incher or two.

SMELT – Green Lake- numbers are improving.  Starting to count them by the quart instead of inches.

                  Higgins – Perch – size and numbers make it worth the trip.  Smelt – good numbers this week. Lake Trout White fish – good numbers, big fish.

                  Crystal – no smelt reports this week, white fish/Lake Trout – worth the trip, Burbot – catching many Master Angler

Matt Higgs will return home to Battle Creek with more then memories of his fishing trip on Lake Cadillac.   37 1/4, 12.58 pound northern pike he caught.