If you end up over here on Little Bay, your two best options would be the fishing pier at the mouth of the Gladstone harbor and in the Escanaba harbor. We've been getting some pretty good reports of some big perch being caught at the Gladstone pier, lately. Rockbass, smallmouth, and pike are common catches, too. If there's a south wind blowing into the pier, you have a good shot at catching some walleye, too.

We're catching a lot of pike down in the Escanaba harbor right now. They're mostly smaller fish in the 20 to 26 inch range, but that's still a pretty big fish to most kids. We've mostly been throwing spinnerbaits for them, but a lot of people are fishing with sucker minnows under a bobber and doing quite well. Diane and I have also started fishing for bluegills in the shallows. Just basic "worm under a bobber" fishing. We haven't been catching a ton of them yet, (typically it's better later in the month,) but we have started catching some pretty nice ones, (any 'gill that covers my hand is a nice one in my book.) You can fish from shore just about anywhere down there, and run into some fish. You can fish off of the boat docks, but you have to stay off of the smaller "finger" docks that the boats are tied up to. There's a bunch of rock rip-rap on the north side of the harbor as you head towards the lake, that always holds a lot of panfish. When the water's calm, you can look down and see all the fish. It's like fishing in an aquarium!

Hope this helps a little. Feel free to post again if you have any other questions.