Local Fishing Report

Special Report: DOOR-DOCK FISHING
By Local Correspondent/Door County Times Sporting Editor:
Lute Fisker (aka RMZ)

September 28, 2009

Well...tonight we finally have some “Weather with a Capital W” coming through...I just came off the pier and it has started...30 mph winds with up to 50 mph gusts...out of due west...and it is supposed to get down into low 40s tonight...soooo...hopefully it will bring a potent plentiful school of salmon in...the fishing has been spotty but there are some early arrivals (primarily four year old male salmon) scattered about...at the usual early season times...for fifteen minutes or so right at the break of day and fifteen minutes or so right at the end of dusk and onset of dark...they literally jump and swirl for just those two fifteen minute periods.’.and that’s when some action can be had...and they have been cycling through and jumping a bit here and there between 9:15 and 11:15 at night...before tonight, caught a total of five, four males--15, 18, 20, 22 pounds--and one blessed silver streak red filleted seven pound female. Had the finest fish I have had on for years caught tonight before the weather started...in the twenty five pound class...had it beat finally, bent over with the net keeping the rod high, the fish rolled and the lure came back in my face...luckily it snagged in the bill of my cap...three treble hooks on the Rapala Husky Jerk bait...the middle treble with one of the hooks completely broken off, the front treble with one of the hooks completely straightened out. Switched to magnum sized yellow Rebel Fast Trac....first cast boom, landed the fish, I hoist it over the rocks to climb over the pier breakwall, drag it over to the pier light, I can tell it is a beautiful silver fish, about ten pound male...then I see a goddamn lamprey eel over two feet long attached to its side...the goddamn sucker mouth on the lamprey was damn near as wide as the circumference of the bottom of a pop can. Took a while with the knife to get the eel off the fish, grenade hole in the fish so I had to throw it back...stabbed the goddamn eel through both eyes, chopped damn near through it’s neck, it was still writhing...left it on the pier for a half hour until it bled out then kicked the son of a bitch into the drink. Then of course when I got back to casting I had one hit and drop the bait. But they are starting and the frying pan has already been greased and the freezer already has some fillets in it....RMZ