Then there’s the lake trout, a puzzle Ethan looks forward to solving. Much like permit, they’ll gladly eat live bait while snubbing the fly.” There are some big muskies hanging around, as well as freshwater drum. “It’s not until you get out here on a boat that you realize what’s around in fishable numbers. And that’s Ethan’s other draw to this lake life-native big-water fish. This could be the Seychelles, except for the fact that we’re surrounded not by bonefish or permit, but smallmouth bass, pike, drum and muskies. Looking out over the expanse of water beyond our island cove, I realize he has a point. “But the feeling of vulnerability and the prism of blues here can’t be replicated anywhere else. As we curve into our first cove, I ask Ethan whence the change. Long before he spent a decade developing Boyne’s inland trout opportunities, he was on the big water every day, working in rescue and captaining private vessels. The boat is a manifestation of Ethan’s latest obsession-or rather his first. But we’re here to ply the Lake Michigan flats with the new boat he acquired for the mission, a Hog Island skiff with a poling platform. I’ve known Ethan for years, and together we’ve explored big and small trout streams alike. “The wind is perfect today,” Ethan assures, looking out across the Straits toward the bridge and the U.P. as the cool of the night is lifting and a proper summer heat shoulders in. I meet Ethan and his friend, Matt Mates, at the boat launch at 9 a.m.
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