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Great job Terry. Nice talking to you on the radio today.

Nice morning on water. Boat worked like a charm. Went 11-15 in 2.5 hrs. Trolled south from deerlick to powerplant 20 fow. Red thin fins and orange j-11s on boards, 2 color, 3 color, and 15' on rigger. GET OUT THERE!

U hanging up fishing? Always liked your boat name! Scott Plummer

Be safe and good job!

Anybody doing any good on da perch lately?

Good GOD! Wow.

Hey it IS SHARKWEEK afterall! Well done sir!

Thank you very much for keeping this buoy alive. I love this buoy data, now its even better! http://www.limnotechdata.com/stations/albums/PortSheldon/PortSheldonImage.jpg http://www.limnotechdata.com/stations/albums/PortSheldon/PortSheldonImage.jpg.

Thank you very much for keeping this buoy alive. I love this buoy data, now its even better! http://www.limnotechdata.com/stations/albums/PortSheldon/PortSheldonImage.jpg http://www.limnotechdata.com/stations/albums/PortSheldon/PortSheldonImage.jpg.

New profile pic fo sho! Well done maestro!

Thats a bad puddy tat!

Great plans, great weather, lousy fishin, humble pie served as JUNE fishin holds true. 3:37 am, one of the crew bails out, decide to go anyway, 1 hr later than planned as I wait for the first mate to get out of bed. Pretty sunrise from the park n ride. Turns out BK now has donut holes... Launch boat and there is another whaler launching next to us, but their boat wont start so we offer Rick n Dennis from Holland to go with us as we were short a pair of hands anyway. Seemed like nice guyz that appeared appreciative for the impulsive invite. Sucks to launch a boat and then NOT go. Didnt guarantee a fish but felt optimistic. End result, 1 dink ho from a 300' copper on happy meal mag in 83 fow. Pull lines at 11:00 discouraged, but still smiling, because I got to go fishing instead of yardwork. A simple Thank you and goodbye would have been nice, albeit expected. Hell if I was in their tennis shoes, my M.O. is to offer to chip in a little $ for gas expenses...freaky deaky dutch... So we dock and I head to get the trailer, these guys decide to duck out without saying goodbye let alone Thank you or a small token of appreciation. Those old guyz should know that a little courtesy and ettiquette go a long way and karma will catch up to you. Guess I'm old school and was raised differently. Glad to say I leave Friday on a float plane for the canadian bush to get unplugged with my son and great comrades for 1 week of walleye. see u in July at the launch.

Got the Just Hook'n crew out on the rough diamond. Went south on a mission to get the skunk Out 🎣and Redamaks In🍔🍻. First at the ramp in the dark to beat the windstorm. Managed to make it thru the SKINNY water by the condo docks near the ramp (1-2 fow by docks, +1 in the docks 😱, 4-6 fow or deeper in center of channel, but still spotty. That little bridge has never looked so tall from the water and I have launched here since the 80's. BTW, at the mouth of the harbor, the dredge gods should put up a shallow water hazard buoy too, stay lakeside at the inlet, 3 fow at inlet on shoreside! Picked up 3, including a shaker ho, stayed in 12-17 fow trolling towards mc. Clown, and a chartreuese firetiger split husky jerks on boards picked up a pretty little metalhead and a shaker, carmel dolphin spoon on corner rigger found a tasty brown too 👍. Ventured out to 40 fow north of channel too, fish on graph but no takers. Wind was gettin fierce, so came in b4 11. No glory at Redamaks - opens at noon 😡. Went to Clementines in St Joe on way home 👍. Missed the brown blast, maybe next year. GET OUT THERE!

Love the 007 concept, but miss the old school days of flat lines and riggers with a dipsy out. For that kind of money and with the technological capabilities, the smart troll devices should have a small co2 cartridge with remote 'detonation' that will fill a life jacket and make the probe and attached paddle n fly n dipsy, come to the surface with epirb lojac. Patent pending...

$21MM in emergency dredging funds (grants) are being released for dredging this year. I am more worried about dodging the dredge pipes than hittin bottom. Gonna b A LOT of dredging this year. Shipping ports will get priority but all the west michigan ports seemed to make the list. Go to www.michigan.gov/deq to read about it. The rough diamond came out of storage today, hope to get out soon and report.

excellent news. Congratulations

I read that Natural reproduction is taking off for salmon and that is part of the reasoning behind reduced stocking numbers. Hope it is accurate.

Well done Jimmy! See u next spring

How can floating a solar powered buoy possibly cost $25k a season to maintain and log data? Sounds like atm fees to me. Please enlighten me and I will be happy to donate towards the cause as the data does have value.

Fish hawk probe, cannonball n release. Downrigger rod snapped, probably 15 colors of lead, 2-3 dipsies on old 500 feet of wire. Couple paddles n flies with da wire dipsies. couple spoons too. All since replaced. Also recovered and returned a tx45 planar board on a 450 copper - put ur name and number on ur boards- people like me will return them to the rightful owner. Also found and returned a red 22ft aluminum boat with three souls on board 14.6 miles from shore drifting to milwaukee on 3/26/12 and a 21 foot open bow with three souls on board 6 miles from port with a summer storm approaching.

Took three newbies out to experience lake michigan trolling. Noaa called for 1 foot or less, Wind at the ramp was howling offshore at 630, went anyways. Noaa is like freddy mac in toby keiths red solo cup: can kiss my @$$. Speaking of red, the three kids and my buddy on board were all threatened by 'colorful' radio chatter from a loosely termed 'captain' from a red cuddy cabin that clearly had no idea how to drive a boat or any navigational rules. Thanks to the capt at yacht basin who was helpful on the amusing banter, beats scrubbing the deck. Despite the verbal threats, near miss driveby and waves over the bow on an east troll, we still had fun for probably the last trip of the season for us, hockey time starting manana and hunting too. What worked: trolled 50-135 FOW east/west troll, cold water was 56f at 60 fow, 47f at 65 down, fish hit at 75 fow. Green/white paddle with glow back and pickled sunshine fly 65 down on rigger 9 color lead core with pearl glow j plug 270 copper with chrome n green 8" spinnie. Kings are brown already, Been a great season and maintained composure all season. freezer is full, boat is in peak condition, ready for a deep clean. Pulled in several fish with good fishin buddies and introduced more to the life on the big pond. Also pulled in two grateful boats this year and didnt need to use my US Boat tow insurance on myself. All Rewarding experiences, pay it forward, all of the above is priceless!

Probably just parasites, happens to the walleye up in nw ontarios pristine waters too. I suggest just cutting away the questionable flesh and thoroughly cooking the rest vs. wasting it. Lake trout on the other hand...

Thanks Mark, had a great time today on the Just Hook'n.

Nice job Jim, we are gonna try muskegon tomorrow evening too. What was working for u?

New reports? Gonna try perch fishin Friday afternoon, probably Holland. Saw a dozen or so boats sat morning out front, hope they are biting.