
The river goes through a 40-mile journey towards its Burt Lake destination, and it provides anglers with plenty of fishing opportunities along the way.

This means that the river is well oxygenated, and the water is quite cold, which is perfect for trout to thrive. Send us feedback about these examples.Fly Fishing the West Branch Sturgeon River in northern MichiganĪlthough it doesn’t quite qualify as whitewater, the Sturgeon River in Michigan is still quite formidable with its 15-foot per mile slope. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'cisco.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. June 9 on Lake Ottawa in Iron County (western Upper Peninsula). 2018 Michael Lemanski of Florence, Wisc., caught the cisco at approximately 10 a.m. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2018 And further down the food chain, at least seven species of ciscos were known to exist. Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 1 Apr. 2018 The Guam flycatcher, the Caribbean monk seal, and the blackfin cisco are now completely extinct from our planet.

Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, In addition, populations of cisco (also called lake herring), one of the major prey items for lake trout, were displaced by non-native alewife and rainbow smelt. 2018 Wazee is stocked periodically with trout, and a cisco introduction project was started in 2013. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 9 July 2019 The fish have demonstrated a survival capability not found in most other native ciscoes in the region, five of which have disappeared from Lake Michigan. Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, Cold-water species like cisco were involved in 6% of the die-offs analyzed by the researchers.

Recent Examples on the Web The suction-cup mouth and teeth helps a lamprey burrow into (and feed on) the flesh of trout, sturgeon, whitefish, ciscoes, burbot, walleye, catfish, and salmon, among others.
