Joe's Lake Superior Fishing Home Page

Marquette, Michigan
Cooler By The Lake in Lower Harbor - Click Image to Enlarge

Welcome to Joe's Lake Superior Fishing Web Site. This is my 18th year of logging my Lake Superior fishing trips around Marquette, located in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Each year I've recapped my fishing trips to share with you. My boat is named "Cooler By The Lake", after our frequent summer weather forecasts for areas near Lake Superior. I'm a fisherman who loves to fish Lake Superior, mostly for Lake Trout. I do not run a charter. There are no advertisements on my site, nor pop-ups. I usually update my reports after each trip. Thank you for following me on my Lake Superior fishing journeys. Other features on my web site are Joe's Woodshed, an area where I vent my spleen on many topics, and cover the Central UP Sport Fishing Association, Marquette American Legion Post 44 happenings, and Marquette Area Veterans Memorial events.  Please if you have questions or suggestions. Compliments are also welcomed. Joe P.S. It's kind of nice to find that Google lists me #1, sometimes #2 out of roughly 1,000,000 responses to "Lake Superior Fishing " searches. Please join me this season!

2013 Fishing Log    Finally it happened with a great start on 27 April 2013.
2012 Fishing Log  Earliest start ever this year - 18 March. And now it's over, another record year. It wraps up my 17th year of logging my trips. Check out my fishing summary and hooking mortality study data. I think it's very interesting and hope you will too.
DNR Hooking Mortality Study   This 5-year study began in 2010 and I'm participating. I just updated it with 2011 data. Click left for the background and some highlights you might find interesting.
Joe's Woodshed   Updated 27 February 2008. No sacred cows here! Needs updating eh? Too many topics and so little time.
Prior Fishing Reports  
Pictures Menu   Updated 22May03. Hopefully more this summer. I'll either update this or delete it.
About Gear and Techniques Descriptions of my boat and fishing techniques.
My Thoughts on Fishing   Comments on "Fats" and other things. Always under construction.
List of Fishing Excuses   Excuses for not catching fish. Any I missed? Tell me.
Weather Links   Marine, local and other weather sites. Some links not widely known.
In Memory of Clarence   I just know he's still fishing up there somewhere.
CUPSFA   Central UP Sport Fishing Association.
Veterans Recognition   List of WWII Veterans honored in 2008.
Veterans Memorial   Names, pictures, and locations of installed bricks. Blank brick request forms. Requests for 2013 bricks accepted now through 31 March 2013.  Bricks for 2012 were installed in May 2012.
American Legion Post 44   I'm sorry to say but the Blood Center's computer software (new but not necessarily improved) can no longer provide lists of our Post 44 donors. The latest summary is from August 2011. I post the latest newsletter as soon as it's received.


Web Site Changes

Changes (I'll post changes here for a while, then later remove them) Date

24 April 2013 (updated)

 

New and Old News

Article Date Posted
Historic day for me- I hit 426 blood donations today, mostly giving platelets 31 Dec 12
Track ships in the great lakes or even the world 17 Dec 11
Sep 2012 SSFA Fishing Derby Results 29 September 2012
See a MDNR graph of fish caught since 1988 and the catch rate. 12 April 2008
Fascinating 1873 article on Salmon-Trout in Lake Superior 2007
Here's an interesting article on seiches someone sent to me. 2004
Fish Info Only through 2004 2004
My hazardous experience with a SeaChoice water/fuel separator 2002
Launch Fee Controversy 1999-2000
   
   
   

Cool Sites

Lake Superior Shoreline Pictures New site just added. This is great!
Granite Island Cam Super cool site and there's a new super weather station.
DNR Fish Planting Query Permits searching planting information by-area, type, etc. .
Don's Bluegill Fishing Site Don and I bluegill fish together. Great pictures.
Fish Camp Charters - Copper Country Capt. Bob Meyer - Tribal contacts for reporting ghost nets!
Mike's Eyeflies Unique New Approach To Trolling Fly Construction
Daybreak Charters Capt John Tomczyk fishing site.
UP References UP events, places, snow, civic, and other information.
North America Weather Sites Pass mouse over dot. Click for even more info. Don't forget tabs at top.
MI Upper Hand Showcase and marketplace for Upper Peninsula-made goods.

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Weather Links

Links Caution. When visiting the sites below, look closely at the time, date, and location. Some sites are notoriously not current.
Granite Island Weather Station Super sophisticated weather station recently installed.
Ice Cover -Lake Superior Satellite Shots These shots change daily but quality depends on cloud cover.
Lake Superior Marine Forecast Covers a very wide area.
Marquette Area Forecast Watch carefully to see if it's from Gwinn, old airport, Sawyer, or Marquette.
Animated Experimental Site Wind, temperature, etc. This is brand new in Feb07. It takes some getting used to but has just about everything you'll need. I use this a lot.
Buoys Mich & Superior Click on any of the Great Lakes weather buoys.
MQT NOAA at USCG Stn This site is near-real time but is unfortunately, located in the wind-sheltered lower harbor. Don't be misled that it represents open water winds. It's a poor location. It doesn't work all the time and data is delayed by at least half an hour. Only time it's accurate is with a southerly wind.
Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab Everything from surface temperatures to currents to winds, and animated too if you hit Java. Cams and other stuff.
Radar U. P. from NWS Radar loops. Settings can be changed.
Big Bay Weather Station New shoreline wind site.
Sandy Knoll School Station Located in Marquette but it's either down a lot or misleadingly showing other locations, e.g., Sawyer Airport
Au Train ( Munising lakeshore) Another reference for boaters but about 27 miles east of Marquette. Still, I use it periodically.
Hour-by-hour wind and temp Weatherbug for MQT. Click next 12 hours for more.

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Changes to my web site to consider for the future:

  • My personal dictionary of terms. I've started this but have lots to do yet before publishing.
  • More pictures and of higher quality, but I think that's improved. Maybe add some movies
  • Have someone take a newer and better picture of my boat.
  • I thought about having a forum where visitors can write in and anyone can respond. Worthwhile? Not!
  • Maybe add a Google search engine for searching my site.
  • A site with pictures that viewers can download for their computer screens.
  • What would you like? Write to me and I'll see what I can do.

Please feel free to comment or suggest improvements! .

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