For general news on fishing conditions or lodging, contact Bert Rimer at the Little Munuscong River Resort, just northeast of Pickford, at (906) 647-2024, or check out his Web site at For more tourism info, call the Sault Area Chamber of Commerce at (906) 632-3301.

Good launches to access the river are located in Raber, De Tour Village and at the mouth of the Little Munuscong River. Rimer locates scattered fish by trolling Bomber Long A's or the Long A Magnums at 2 to 2.5 mph. Or else he'll slow-roll white spinnerbaits. For big pike, he works the edge of the red water by casting a red-and-white or a five-of-diamonds Dardevle. Look specifically for those areas where the reddish clay-stained water mixes with the green water of the St. Marys, and 8 to 12 feet of water produces the most fish. Here, pike generally survive longer, so they get bigger.'Īccording to Rimer, rocks, reeds and weeds make up the majority of pike cover in the St. But the larger systems hold better fish because these predators have better opportunities to find optimal prey items like perch, smelt, lake herring and, surprisingly, crayfish. 'Northerns are susceptible to angling, particularly on Michigan's small lakes. Marys being such a huge body of water,' he said.

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