barley35

Thanks and good luck

I'm in highland, near 23 and 59.

Tuition Sale I have two going into college this year so time to get rid of some of the toys. First is my 2006 Bayliner. Info can be viewed at north shore marina web site. I also have tackle for sale. Dipsies and flashers. Flies that are used and several new in package. 4 inline boards (one needs a release) Fly and flasher storage containers and two manual cannon down riggers. They have a fixed 4 foot boom with bases, gimbel mounts and two 12 pound balls with offshore releases. I also have a large assortment of smaller trolling spoons and a case. Make an offer on anything you might be interested in.

FBD, I hear you! The thing is, towns like Grand Haven, Muskegon, Ludington, and Manistee will survive. They have a large enough base to not need the salmon industry. But think of towns like Onekema or Frankfort etc. The money lost from us not fishing will close those mom and pop shops and downtown store etc. I feel bad for them. I have my boat in Grand Haven. I ran into a DNR guy this summer. We had a good chat about the salmon. I learned a few things from it about the salmon, lakers and gobys and zebras and quaggas . I just hope that this is a down turn in the industry analogous to the mid 80s with the BKD with a rebound. I did have a friend (who doesn't fish but was interested in the downturn) say somethings to me that made me think. "Remembering the old days of how things were and how things are not as good now doesn't do any good. You are only remembering the highs and lows and not the average years. Kinda like snow storms.Everyone remembers the bad years of so much snow or the years we didn't have any. But nobody remembers what it normally is like as you are comparing against extremes". Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App

My guess and opinion (by no means am I any expert) is similar to FBD. Any predator prey relationship in the wild is going to have surges of the prey followed by the predator til it overcomes the sustainability level. Reduce prey means predator die off then the prey comes back etc. The problem with the chinook is that we have a continual addition to the population (from the DNRs) on top of natural reproduction and no decline in the predator numbers thus wiping out the prey. My thoughts are reduce the plantings multistate wide, ride out the bad/changed fishery for the next 5 years or so. Then let the plantings resume cautiously. We will still have a mixed bag fishery with some kings in the high 20s low 30s # class but just here and there. The days of boats limiting out with 20+ fish are gone..... For a while.... The lake trout on the other hand need to drop plantings concurrently with the chinook or we may lose the fishery entirely. Just my opinion. Sent from my iPhone using Great Lakes Fisherman Mobile App