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You can also try www.imgur.com and just copy the message board link & paste in here.

I'm hijacking your threat to talk about other shady stuff. There was a guy last month catching skam off the pier. I saw him catch about 10 in about an hr's time. He gave them away to random people. The people were walking off the pier with fish & by the time they got to the end they were saying they didn't think about it and didn't know what to do with the fish. How to clean em etc & they were trying to give it away. Other people had other excuses and it was clear these fish were never gonna be cleaned. My cousin tried to revive a fish but it was too late. I know possession limits are 3 I believe for skam maybe 5. but this guy had 0 in his possession. Whats the law on this? Can you catch 400 & give them away on the spot? I'd be fine if he took his limit cleaned them & gave em away. OR gave them to another person fishing that you know would have taken care of it but random tourists on the pier. It was just sad. He probably felt good about giving away his fish & didn't know what was really going on.

Thanks for the report and welcome to the forum!

Same setup here.

How often do you use the TD?

You're never supposed to fully drain your marine battery so you should definitely add a 2nd battery.

That is sweet.

I expect to pick up maybe a couple free spoons & a little bit of copper.

Eyes N Leapers ????? is this you? Someone please tell me its not. http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/forums/member.php?u=4089

If you compare it to the holland bouy i would say its very accurate. http://uglos.engin.umich.edu/station_page.php?station=45029

Aluminum. You can pull it anywhere & they're pretty easy to do major repairs. I sometimes fish weather that charters won't take customers out in. 18 foot aluminum handles just fine. You just ride on top of the waves which some people don't enjoy. I would just make sure if you're going to salmon fishing its a deeper boat & the back isn't open. Really, its all about what you're going to do. If you want to get a slip & camp out at a port. You want a glass boat. If your wife wants to go out. You probably want a glass boat. If your wife wants to go out but you don't want her to go out. Get an aluminum boat. If you're only going to go out when the weather is nice. An aluminum will do just fine. If you're limited on what days you can go out and so you're probably going to go out no matter what you're probably looking more at glass. Fixing a transom on an aluminum boat is pretty easy. Swapping out the floor is also pretty easy. It'll cost you 2-3x more on a glass boat and its a lot more work.

I got a carhartt waterproof breathable coat + pants. like this: http://www.amazon.com/Carhartt-Waterproof-Breathable-Black-Regular/dp/B000H95XGK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345080040&sr=8-1&keywords=carhartt+c72 http://www.amazon.com/Carhartt-Waterproof-Breathable-Black-Regular/dp/B001CG84NQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1345080634&sr=1-1&keywords=carhartt+waterproof+pants I don't really recommend it. The coat liner doesn't include the arms. Its like a vest which is awesome to use w/o the coat. But in the winter time your arms freeze to death. So you got to throw on an extra hoodie under it or your arms freeze to death. The rest of the year its nice. The sizing is kinda off too. One size is too big. The next size down is way too small. I'd personally look into something else. Looks like some great recommendations so far. Just thought i'd throw this out there to keep anyone from making the mistake.

Nice video, you should try a different brand of oil in that motor.

Thanks guys for all your replies I really appreciate it.

In addition, there is no plan at the present time to reduce the harvest of forage fish by commercial fishermen. Alewife and smelt are considered the most important forage species in the lake and both are caught and sold either as by-catch or through quotas by commercial fisherman. From the article.

What kind of eggs do you use for whitefish? I bought eggs last year for whitefish and to be honest, I got no clue what spices they came from. It was the only luck with purchased eggs that I had.

Nice job, I was on a more southern WSP for a few hours this morning without any luck throwing hardware. I still don't believe lake dropped 20-25 degrees that fast. Thanks for the report!

I just got back from the pier. Its solid 5-6 footers. Intake temp 49. Water temp 46. According to the water treatment plant in south haven.

I'm looking for all your secret recipes/guides on how to properly prepare spawn/skein. I purchased a good amount of store bought last year without much luck. I'd like not do that this year. I'd like to prepare a decent amount of individual eggs for whitefish off the piers & of course some skein too for some winter steelhead action. So, if you guys could newb this down for me that would be great. Do I want king eggs? Steelhead eggs? Both? What recipes for preparing it are best? Thanks in advance!

well, you got to be good at something.

I believe that flat horizontal plate above the prop should be lined up with the bottom of your hull in the location of the kicker. While you're running you can tilt the motor up and out of the water. There should be a bracket on it to the motor to hold it. Whatever you do... Don't let it bounce around or it'll eventually after many years put enough stress on your transom bracket to break it in half & fall off. (ask me how I know.)

Where exactly is mid-michigan?

I use imgur.com just drag & drop it on the page and then copy the link that says "BBCode (message boards & forums)" Its the url of the picture plus IMG tags on both sides of the image url.

If perch could multiply like goby we'd be in good shape.

I'm a junkie. I start here a few days in advance. Check and see if any storms are predicted. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html (today) http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk.html (tomorrow) http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day3otlk.html (2 days from now) If there are storms coming obviously waves are expected. These guys are REALLY good at what they do. Yellow = storms are coming. The areas do change from day to day and it adjusts but they're pretty good. The day of. I check the radar: http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php Then I move over to weather underground forecast & scroll to the bottom of my local weather underground page & check the wind speed at the local light house weather station.(high winds always means bigger waves than they say.) I type 45007 into google and see the bouy data/wave height. On top of that if its light out actually view a few web cam's. http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=45007 Then after all that is done. I check the national weather service marine forecast in 4 zones around my port. In shore & 5+ miles out. I also check http://hint.fm/wind/ and this... which is the water current map. http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/currents/glcfs-currents-avg.html AND after all do all that. I go fishing and grumble about how off they were on their forecasts.