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We are done. The final count is John had 10 white fish and I had 7 Whitefish 2 Browns and steelhead.

Put gold, got another whitefish.

Got a couple more whitefish, the cooler is fillin!

We put 2 more whitefish in the cooler.

I just got a brown. We are fishing by some of the last ice. I was surprised to still have ice here.

We just put 2 more whitefish in.

We just put another whitefish and a brown in the cooler.

I have got a whitefish, brown and a nice steelies so far. My buddy has 2 whitefish and lost a real nice brown. Fishing steelie skein on the bottom.

Welcome to GLF!

If you click on the word..swap meet in the link window I put in, it will take you to the post but I see Hockey390 put it up too.

Yes, here is one:

Very sorry for the loss of your friend Frank.

Great buck!

This is heck of a mess in Ludington. There is a video in the link. http://www.9and10news.com/story/31135423/ludington-crews-work-to-remove-sunken-boat "It just got overwhelmed by the weather and I wasn't here to catch it in time," said Levi Stone. A fisherman is working with crews to try to remove his submerged boat. Right now, they think oil and hydraulic fuel are surfacing. The owner says he emptied the engine before parking the boat. "There's always going to be a little bit of residual in the tanks when you do that it's not going to be one hundred percent dry unless you gas free it," said Christopher El-Cassabgui. Now they'll try to stop further damage and get the boat out as quickly and safely as possible. "Just been trying to mitigate the oil in the water from any more polluting the water and trying to get the boat up so we can get it out of the way," said Christopher El-Cassabgui. However mother nature isn't on their side. "The weather is definitely a challenge and the ice and like I said the ice on the back of the boat there is kind of weighing everything down and trying to get that out of there," said Christopher El-Cassabgui. For now they put oil absorbing pads around the boat. '"Just want everybody to know that we are trying as hard as we can to get everything done and out of the water without causing any further damage or pollution," said Christopher El-Cassabgui. Leaving the owner thankful for the support he received. "Unfortunately it's not the first time I've had to deal with the situation and if it was any other community in the world i would be less optimistic but people here in Ludington have always been really helpful," said Levi Stone.

Web cams at St Joe and Michigan City don't look bad, some bergs off Holland. I tried to look at themodis satellite image of the whole lake but it had cloudy pics. Be cautious, you might not see ice at the pier heads but it could be out there and wind can move it, possibly blocking your return to the launch. http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/fishing-hunting-outdoors/topic/39806-great-lakes-webcams/

I've run about a 6ft leader of 50lb mono on my wire divers for many years. I think it absorbs some shock from the hit but the primary reason I've done this is to avoid stress at the wire to swivel connection. I've lost rigs from breakoffs at this point and the leader has eliminated that. I was redoing my wire to swivel connection every 2-3 trips to avoid break offs. Now i just redo my leader 2-3 times a season. I dont see any reason why a longer mono leader would not solve your issue.

Very sad, sending our condolences.

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