I had the very recent pleasure to spend several days in the UP of Michigan with my good friends Capts.
Kevin Feenstra and
Jon Ray. Both are top-notch Michigan guides looking for alternatives to the salmon-mania of September on the lower peninsula. The search was undertaken for the apex predator of the Great Lakes area-
Esox masquinongy.
With 10-weights and oversized streamers in hand, miles of water were covered. Savage strikes kept us on our guard at all times. There were explosions to top-water patterns, lightning fast green-gold flashes to stripped flies, and several rocket-like attacks from below where
Esox totally cleared the water in an attempt to kill our offerings of flash, feather, and fur.
A number of fish were hooked and fought to boatside where they were netted, photographed, unhooked, and quickly released to recover and, hopefully, be encountered again.
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