Good morning Fisher-folks!  I heard this story today about the salmon are beginning to swim up stream for spawning.  What stream?  Bear River!!  Bear River empties within the Petoskey Marina basin.

Looking downstream – Bear River

You don’t see any jumping salmon, do you?  I figure that if I took pictures, one might just sneak through.

Swirling water around boulders – Bear River

Wayne standing by the spillway that the salmon have to jump over

We have been by several times in the last week and have not seen any jumping salmon.  It may be too soon in the season.  Don’t tell these fishing folk that it is too soon.  I counted as many as a dozen poles and fishing line in the water at the same time.  How do they keep their lines from getting tangled?  THEN the guy I was standing by said “FISH!!”.  I assume to alert everyone else he had something on his hook.  Yep.  A fish.  Then it broke the line and went swimming away.

Fishing-folk lining up on both sides of the spillway … hoping

I saw a path that ran along the Bear River.  I had to walk on it.  Just to see where it went.  It was a lovely little walk.  Unbeknownst to me, I was walking on the North Country Trail.

Trail along the Bear River bank

Trail marker!  I could walk a trail from New York to North Dakota?  Who knew??

Sign found across the steel foot bridge spanning the Bear River

Isn’t this a lovely picture.  The trail.  The river.  Peaceful.  Serene.