Chris and Tim Bachman spent the weekend in the Upper Peninsula and using their own homemade spinners, placed high the annual Michigan Trout Addicts fishing tournament which was held across Michigan.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says that Lake Michigan salmon fishing is "on fire" right now, especially in the southern portion of the lake.
Compare a fishing boat with a dead motor stuck in the channel used by the Great Lakes freighter like having your car die on railroad tracks. The train can't stop on a dime in the same way a big boat can not either.
That's the situation a group fishing in the Detroit River found themselves in recently.