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Here is a link to the 2013 turkey guide and a link to apply for your license. http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10363_10958_10969-207047--,00.html Good luck.

Here are some pics of Rigel's younger days. Great to watch him grow up.

Took my young friend Rigel out home from college for the holidays. Put him in my best late season stand. Let him use my gun. He makes a great shot and punches his tag. Been fishing and hunting with Rigel since he was a kid. Great to watch him grow up. His first deer this year so he was thrilled. I was thrilled! Great hunt. Took this pic in the truck headlights.

Welcome Darl, We have a place at Tamarac in Ludington and spend summers there too, maybe we'll see you around.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I have 2 kids in elementary school that I love dearly. This is not about fishing and I don't think it is political. It is about how do we protect our kids from what recently happened in Newtown CT. The debate rages on. I encourage everyone to consider all points of view after this tragic event. If you are a parent and concerned about the security of your kids in school, you should spend a 1/2 hr of your time and watch the complete video or read the transcript of today's NRA new conference. Time well spent if you are laying around doing nothing some time over the holidays. The out of context excerpts or spin from the mainstream media do not accurately reflect what took place today. You owe it to your kids to research and understand the best ways to protect your kids from a Adam Lanza copycat or some other crazy lunatic. If you hate the NRA, are neutral to them, or love them, please read the entire transcript or watch at least Wayne LaPierre's portion of the video from today's news conference before you comment on this thread. (unless you watched it live earlier today) If you don't take time to watch or read it all of it, please don't comment on this thread Here is the video and a link to the transcript: Video Transcript and video (without Youtube ads) at this link: http://home.nra.org/#/nraorg If you have watched or read today's entire news conference from the NRA, what do you think of it? I think many people might be surprised at what they learn and the common sense solutions that could be employed to address local concerns for school safety. If you have not seen all of this in it's full context, again, please don't comment. I don't want a nasty debate without all the facts and viewpoints on the table.

Nice pics, hope you can put a tag on one next year.

Love it, put some snow on the ground for a week or more on top of cold temps and those nocturnal deer have more pressure to feed and get up on their feet during daylight.

Nice find there Matt, thanks for sharing.

That one sure was a hog. First time I've been trolling in December.

Went trolling today, was a bit raw with cold rain at times but seas weren't bad. Paul (Cliftp) gave us a tip and put us on a nice school of fish but we couldn't get them going very good. Marked a ton of fish and some pods of bait. Hit 3 and put 2 nices ones in the boat both on deep husky jerks. We did not have many in our arsenal and couldn't find the colors Paul passed on. Worked a few rods with an assortment of thunderstick jr's, bombers and reef runners and never took a hit on them. The fish we got came on 30 ft leads with a perch and fire tiger husky jerks. We worked 15 to 17 ft of water. Thanks Paul.

Interesting thought, no complaints here on my lead colored(no paint) balls.

Great catch!

Real cool to get him on the last day of regular season, very nice.

Nice buck, congrats to your Grandson! Good luck on the vehicles Frank.

Heres's a third for Seaguar, all we use on the river.

Everyone I know, including every charter I know, uses inline boards for salmon. One of the main reasons is the ability to run different coppers and cores to stagger the depth you're working. You can't do this with big boards. You need to have your highest lines outside the spread to avoid tangles. If you tried to run a 100 copper, than a 200 copper and 300 copper on a big board, if the 100 copper took a fish, your would have to crank everything in on that side to redeploy using big boards. With inlines, you can run the 100 copper back out over top of everything. You can't do this with big boards.

Some great memories, congratulations!

Now that's a hot bite!

I'd been seeing great deer movement on day1 and now day 2. Been passing quite a few small bucks and a ton of does. This little guy was under me at 8:00AM. He walked away and stood off with a much bigger 6pt and started butting heads 80 yards away. After sparing for a short while, the 6 pt backed off and walked away. I see a nice shooter out of range around 10AM. About 10:45, he starts coming back my way on a deer run that will put him in range. He came into 30 yards for an easy broadside shot. He had a broke brow tine and was a 7 point. He was a big deer, DNR aged him at 4-1/2. On the evening of the 16th, I stayed on the deck celebrating, cooking and deer watching. This herd of does came out and across the field and got within 50 yards of me. Could have picked out a couple nice does but I was just a watcher tonight. This lucky buck came by me and my buddy on the 17th. We passed. He then went to the neighbors who shot 3 times and missed. He came running back by me and my buddy with no signs of a hit. My buddy video taped him and I took this pick off his tape. I shot a doe on the 20th for our 5th deer in camp. That was our kill for the first week. We'll probably take a few more does in the 2nd week when deer camp resumes tomorrow. I'm off work till Sunday. QDM Co-Op's are growing in the state. We have all went buckless in some past years but the results of our and the neighbors trigger restraint is really paying off in recent years. We have seen a lot of nice bucks in bow and gun season this year. Way more big ones that we have ever seen in the 20 past years hunting this property. It was a fun ride taking these bucks to the DNR check station.

After 7 straight days on the stand, I took a pause in hunting to come home for the holiday. Sure have a lot to be thankful for this year. What a great year and one of our best deer camps ever in the Spring Brook Co-Op in Parma. The shooting started opening day with our youngest hunter Alex scoring on a nice 10 pt. The adults in camp would have passed this deer but we let the young hunters shoot what ever they want. Alex passed a couple small bucks and then got his biggest ever around 8:20. About a half hour later, my brother shoots and gets his best deer ever, a nice 11 point. Tom hasn't shot a buck in a few years passing lots of small ones and his restraint paid off. At 10:30, I see a real nice buck crossing to the front of the property out of range for me. It looked like a buck we got on our trail cam. He went by one of our hunters who shot and missed. He then went to my buddy John who got this nice 8 point. Here is the trail cam pic and a matching side angle pic. That was our opening day. The next post will cover the rest of our week.

Good shooting Roger

Nice job, great pics.

Great buck Joe!

Way to go Jim, your having a good season.