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OK folks....I spoke with Rich today. I got the wrong impression from his last post. He said it would be OK to have the Texas Hold 'em at his house in Hastings. I am sure everyone is busy this month with christmas, so lets shoot for Saturday 13 January at Rich's house. Everyone will be responsible for their own beverages. Maybe we can each bring some sort of dish/snack to share with everyone to munch on.

We need to find a location in a central location. I am on the Southern side. Anyone in a central location willing to host the Texas Hold'em event?

Hi Erik, Welcome to the site. We are glad you decided to come out of the shadows and become part of the discussion. Is that your boat in your avatar?

Do they still make a ball and patch? j/k My first muzzleloader was a Hawkins kit that I finished and put together. I got my first deer with it when I was 16.

Anyone else that wants to come is more than welcome. So.....How many cards does each player get in Texas Hold 'Em?

I can not believe they had the gumption to go inside your house and grab one. Makes you wonder if they took anything else. Glad to hear you got your pup back.

I am thinking Hastings would be a good central location. Are you offering to have it at your house Rich?

I believe(still undecided) I am going to go with 3 Big Jon's. I am trying to decide between Captain's Pak or Pro Tournament. The Pro Tournament is suppose to be 25% faster than the Captain's Pak. I hope to make my decission in the next week or two. Anyone have any feed back between the two?

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Somewhere between Lake Allegan and the city limits of Allegan....Where ever they start up stream.

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I think this sums it up!

Nothing like a close up of the damage that was done. So Rich...did you get stitches? Caz has earned a new nick name. "Scoped"

Nice bucks Lead Lover and Levi. I edited your posts and added your pics to them.

Nice buck Lead Lover. Send the pictures to me at [email protected] and I will fix them for you. Have you ever taken one with a bow? A friend of mine at work was/is a die hard waterfowl hunter. He took his first deer with a bow last year. He is hooked on bow hunting now.

I got a small 8 pointer with a bow and an 8 pointer with a gun that is going on the wall. I still have a doe tag to fill.

A friend I work with found this buck floating in the Kalamazoo river upstream from Lake Allegan. I have only seen these images and not the actual rack.

Don Bale, 54, of Saugatuck, shot this 11-point buck on Todd Farm in Allegan County with a muzzleloader. The buck's rack should score around 190 points on the Boone & Crockett scale, Bale said.

This is the part that worries me. If one radio tagged native carp slipped past the barrier, how many bighead carp have made it past?

CADILLAC - Two electronic barriers separate Lake Michigan from the Chicago ship canal. If the barriers are breached, it could prove devastating to the Great Lakes region. The effort is underway to control the movement of two species of Asian carp, which are “knocking on the door,†according to Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Supervisor Tom Rozich. The invasive species would pose a significant threat to the Great Lakes because they are capable of surviving in cold water, Rozich said. Secondly, they would compete directly with perch, alewives, smelt and any type of larval species that subsists on plankton. “These fish are plankton eaters and they consume huge amounts of food when they get big,†Rozich said. The species of carp can grow in excess of 100 pounds. They pose a unique threat to sportsmen because they are known to leap out of the water when disturbed by outboard motors, which can cause injury to people and their boats. Rozich said the carp have overwhelmed some areas of the Mississippi River, where they were introduced. “They can crowd out native species by out-competing for the plankton forage and by limiting recruitment,†he said. So far, federal agencies have focused efforts on an electronic barrier. It has worked to date but one radio-tagged native carp managed to slip past the barrier. Rozich has his own theory how the fish entered Lake Michigan. Because the canal has no current, the fish was likely stunned. Then, a passing barge caused turbulence, therefore pushing the carp beyond the threshold of the barrier. The best bet, Rozich believes, is to undo what man has already done and fill the ship canal back in. “My suggestion, to be 100 percent safe, is to fill in the ship canal and find an alternative means,†Rozich said. “Biologists really think it would impact the Great Lake ecosystem and not in a positive manner.†Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is urging the feds to add silver carp and largescale silver carp to a list of animals that cannot be imported into the country. “The ecological and economic stakes for Michigan - and the entire Great Lakes region - are extremely high,†Cox said. Your local connection Asian carp are voracious eaters and reproduce quickly. They are known to out-compete native species for small organisms, which they feed on. The carp can weigh in excess of 100 pounds and are known to leap out of the water when disturbed by outboard motors, causing injury to people and their boats. Silver carp, one of the invasive species, escaped from fish farms and sewage treatment basins, entering the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers and are now threatening to enter Lake Michigan.

20 cities in the Great Lakes watershed have `appalling' record, study finds Toronto ranks in the middle of the pack in a study that declares Great Lakes cities have an "appalling" record of handling their sewage. The city scored a mark of C in the assessment of 20 Canadian and U.S. urban centres, a report to be released today by the environment group, Sierra Legal. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&col=968793972154&c=Article&cid=1164754217343&call_pageid=968332188492

A terrible storm, a sunken freighter, dozens of bodies and one remarkable story of a man’s survival. Those who remember won’t soon forget the sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell on Nov. 29, 1966, in Lake Huron about 20 miles northeast of Harbor Beach at the tip of Michigan’s Thumb. http://www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061129/NEWS01/61129001/1002

Billions of litres of untreated urban sewage and toxic effluents that flow into the Great Lakes each year are threatening a critical ecosystem that supplies drinking water to millions of people, a landmark study to be released Wednesday concludes. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1164711548786&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home

That really sux. At least you saw a monster buck on the trip.