Sanford mi

[Mbirdsley]

Made it out today to fish Sanford lake which, if you don’t know is the last resivour on the tittabawassee river system before merging with shiawassee to form the saginaw.  it was windy but, not horrible.  Wish I could have fished for longer than 3 hrs.  I’m not fond of launch on the south end in the park. The launch is very shallow.  I don’t know how the bigger boats do it.  Is there another launch anywhere on the lake? 

 

A massive cold front came through on Friday dropping temps from 90 to 60 degrees yesterday. Water was clear with a little tanic tint to it. I wish I could have held position in the main lake as I marked a lot of suspended fish in the 7-15ft range.  But, it was tough trying to throw cranks in my 14 ft mirror craft.

 

 Finally found one of the creeks to settle into too.  I missed 2 really nice ones on a tube.  I’m pretty sure the 2nd one was a bowfin i thought I could see neon green by the anal fin. The bowfin May have been a Michigan master angler.  I got the bowfin to about 5 feet from the boat and he came off.  That is what I get for Texas rigging a tube instead of using a jig.  Finally got a nice smallie on my new 1oz spoon. That smallie crushed that 3 inch spoon.