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Thanks Rich! Merry Christmas to you and your family also.

Welcome to Great Lakes Fisherman Frank! We look foreward to sharing fishing reports and stories with you. How did you come up with your username? Mike

WOW!!!! Awesome video!

I had a similar problem with my radio. I called Shakespear and talked with a tech. This post, has some usefull information in it.

I converted this to a wmv, and uploaded it to youtube. Make sure you have the volume turned up so you can hear him pecking away.

I will not know if I can play until we get closer to the date. Its to far away to know if I will have to work that weekend or not.

Nice pictures! Typical male.....lays down and goes to sleep afterwards

Nice video Rich! This video is over 6mb, incase anyone is on dial up.

Welcome aboard travisl37! There are several members here who own Islanders. With your boat in Michigan City, you get to take advantage of the dynamite spring fishery. Leave a few in the lake so they can make their way up the coast for the rest of us. If you need anything, let out a yell. Mike

I remember watching a lot his stunts in the 70's. I use to have an Evil Knievel wind up motorcycyle. You put it on a stand, cranked it up, then spun the handle backwards and it would take off. I had jumps set up all over the house. I always tell my wife, I was hard on my body when I was younger. I am not even a scratch in the paint compared to him. RIP

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69. Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs. Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills. Longtime friend and promoter Billy Rundel said Knievel had trouble breathing at his Clearwater condominium and died before an ambulance could get him to a hospital. "It's been coming for years, but you just don't expect it. Superman just doesn't die, right?" Rundel said. Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as "America's Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980. Though Knievel dropped off the pop culture radar in the '80s, the image of the high-flying motorcyclist clad in patriotic, star-studded colors was never erased from public consciousness. He always had fans and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years. His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel's trademarked image in a popular West music video. Knievel made a good living selling his autographs and endorsing products. Thousands came to Butte, Mont., every year as his legend was celebrated during the "Evel Knievel Days" festival, which Rundel organizes. "They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives," Knievel said. "People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner." For the tall, thin daredevil, the limelight was always comfortable, the gab glib. To Knievel, there always were mountains to climb, feats to conquer. "No king or prince has lived a better life," he said in a May 2006 interview with The Associated Press. "You're looking at a guy who's really done it all. And there are things I wish I had done better, not only for me but for the ones I loved." He had a knack for outrageous yarns: "Made $60 million, spent 61. ...Lost $250,000 at blackjack once. ... Had $3 million in the bank, though." He began his daredevil career in 1965 when he formed a troupe called Evel Knievel's Motorcycle Daredevils, a touring show in which he performed stunts such as riding through fire walls, jumping over live rattlesnakes and mountain lions and being towed at 200 mph behind dragster race cars. In 1966 he began touring alone, barnstorming the West and doing everything from driving the trucks, erecting the ramps and promoting the shows. In the beginning he charged $500 for a jump over two cars parked between ramps. He steadily increased the length of the jumps until, on New Year's Day 1968, he was nearly killed when he jumped 151 feet across the fountains in front of Caesar's Palace. He cleared the fountains but the crash landing put him in the hospital in a coma for a month. His son, Robbie, successfully completed the same jump in April 1989. In the years after the Caesar's crash, the fee for Evel's performances increased to $1 million for his jump over 13 buses at Wembley Stadium in London — the crash landing broke his pelvis — to more than $6 million for the Sept. 8, 1974, attempt to clear the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in a rocket-powered "Skycycle." The money came from ticket sales, paid sponsors and ABC's "Wide World of Sports." The parachute malfunctioned and deployed after takeoff. Strong winds blew the cycle into the canyon, landing him close to the swirling river below. On Oct. 25, 1975, he jumped 14 Greyhound buses at Kings Island in Ohio. Knievel decided to retire after a jump in the winter of 1976 in which he was again seriously injured. He suffered a concussion and broke both arms in an attempt to jump a tank full of live sharks in the Chicago Amphitheater. He continued to do smaller exhibitions around the country with his son, Robbie. Many of his records have been broken by daredevil motorcyclist Bubba Blackwell. Knievel also dabbled in movies and TV, starring as himself in "Viva Knievel" and with Lindsay Wagner in an episode of the 1980s TV series "Bionic Woman." George Hamilton and Sam Elliott each played Knievel in movies about his life. Evel Knievel toys accounted for more than $300 million in sales for Ideal and other companies in the 1970s and '80s. Born Robert Craig Knievel in the copper mining town of Butte on Oct. 17, 1938, Knievel was raised by his grandparents. He traced his career choice back to the time he saw Joey Chitwood's Auto Daredevil Show at age 8. Outstanding in track and field, ski jumping and ice hockey at Butte High School, he went on to win the Northern Rocky Mountain Ski Association Class A Men's ski jumping championship in 1957 and played with the Charlotte Clippers of the Eastern Hockey League in 1959. He also formed the Butte Bombers semiprofessional hockey team, acting as owner, manager, coach and player. Knievel also worked in the Montana copper mines, served in the Army, ran his own hunting guide service, sold insurance and ran Honda motorcycle dealerships. As a motorcycle dealer, he drummed up business by offering $100 off the price of a motorcycle to customers who could beat him at arm wrestling. At various times and in different interviews, Knievel claimed to have been a swindler, a card thief, a safe cracker, a holdup man. Evel Knievel married hometown girlfriend, Linda Joan Bork, in 1959. They separated in the early 1990s. They had four children, Kelly, Robbie, Tracey and Alicia. Robbie Knievel followed in his father's footsteps as a daredevil, jumping a moving locomotive in a 200-foot, ramp-to-ramp motorcycle stunt on live television in 2000. He also jumped a 200-foot-wide chasm of the Grand Canyon. Knievel lived with his longtime partner, Krystal Kennedy-Knievel, splitting his time between their Clearwater condo and Butte. They married in 1999 and divorced a few years later but remained together. Knievel had 10 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

The device is called a Dive Bomb and they are made by Michigan Stinger. They work GREAT! They have a planing surface that helps get extra depth. Our advertiser Aurora Lites Tackle has them. Here is the link to them on their site. I ran them a lot this year, and mostly use the 3oz or the 4 oz Dive Bomb. The 4oz Dive Bomb will get you an extra 20-30' of depth. The exact depth is not known. When I first stated using them with a full core, I was putting the Dive Bomb in the middle of the core. After using expierementing with them, I feel I get a little more depth out of it, the further from the rod I have it. Now, I put it close to the end of the 1st core, close to the mono leader. Think of it like a dipsey diver. The more line you have out, the more depth you get. With a full core and a 4oz Dive Bomb I was getting fish from the 70' - 80' range. The longest core rod in my boat is a full core. Thanks to the Dive Bomb, I am able to achieve the depths of 15 + color cores.

I would not worry about adding a split ring to the nose of the spoon. I attach the swivel to the spoons with a split ring. Go for a nickle split ring. The stainless steel ones deform, and come apart like what you mentioned.

I would have a J-Plug or two, a NBK, a Killer Tangerine, or a Gold Orange Killer in my spread.

Welcome to the site blue waters. Thanks for taking a minute and doing an introduction. If you need anything, let out a shout.

I have been busy with work and deer season. I have worked the last 3 weeks straight(including weekends), and worked the last 5 out of 7 weeks.

I had a pm about this change. I am going to share my response to the pm with everyone, so everyone has an understanding on why I made the change. Websites do not run for free. You probably pay less than $10 per month for your hosting. I pay $30 per month, for a resellers account. Why do I pay so much? I have over 15 domain names($10 each) registered and pointed here. Most of them I have a static web page up on. Here are some examples. www.lakeontario-fishingreport.com www.lakesuperiorfishingreport.com www.lakemichigan-fishingreport.com The domain names and the hosting chew up all of the money I receive from advertising. Promoting the site. I had over 5,000 buisness cards made up for the site. I believe you got one in the book you got for Christmas last year. The cards I had made up were expensive. I spend a lot of my time and gas visiting boat ramps to put cards on vehicles with trailers. This year I want to run an ad in GLA magazine. It is not cheap to run an ad there. I also want to have a booth at one of the spring sporting shows. Unlike tackle shops and guide services, I am not selling merchandise and making money at the show. This money all has to come out of my pocket. As this site grows, my operating expenses grow. I hope I can get by one more year without having to get a dedicated server. Dedicated servers cost over $100 per month. The one thing I do not want to do, is to plaster the board with advertising. I DISPISE going to websites that are plastered with advertising!

Great Lakes Fisherman has been open for almost 2 years. Since it has opened, there have been 100's of ads posted in the classifieds section. To date, there have been 2 members who have offered to donate something to the site after they have sold their items. We have a lot of members who sign up on the site, and the only post they have made is in the classifieds. You have to pay to sell something in the news paper, or list an item on ebay. After an item is sold on ebay, you also have to pay a percentage of what the item sold for. I debated on making it a pay per item to sell something in the classifieds, but opted to do it another way. I have made the following changes: Regular members are no longer able to create a new thread in the classifieds section. You can still reply to posts in the classifieds section. In order to post something for sale in the classfied ads section, you have to be a supporting member. You can find out more information about the supporting member usergroup here. There are no limits to the amount of items you post. The no dealers rule still applies!

Nice job kevin. Like Frank said. Those little ones are the best to eat.

DITTO! Nice catch!

Nice looking rig Toxic. Did you loose the rigger over the side?

I have added a fishing video's section. If you upload your video to www.youtube.com, it will play on the site.

Post the size of the video, so members know how large it is. Keep them clean. No porn or racial videos. I have the right to delete any videos I feel are not appropriate.

I have worked the last 3 out of 4 weekends, and gotten behind on some projects. Give me a chance to get caught up with some of the other work, and I would love to learn how to use it. I do have windows xp.

What format does it record....wmv? How do you get the video from DV tape to your pc?