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Had one wave break on the side of the boat and shoved us sideways a bit. With it being 57 on shore I'm not surprised another poster here found them in 100' and they were not in the surf.

Fished from the piers to Tunnel Park and back. For forecast 1-2' I find it odd that the bigger waves blocked out the sun. One shaker king on a one color that got put back; no clue he was in there...

I cut outdoor carpet to fit and added snaps. It's great until it rains.

I always cringed doing a nice job cleaning fish after a trip only to watch some guy throw the bags in his trunk. My two usual crew members both bring wonderful snacks on the boat and having gotten processed fish back from them, I know they take great care of the catch. Now I just have to stop getting requests, like the day before Easter when it's dead calm and blue skies - can we get about an eight pound brown thus morning? I've got a big group coming tomorrow and need a centerpiece. First fish, 8.4# brown. Now they think I can catch fish to order...

Release them, crew takes them homr, give then away, donate them, trade them for venison

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I run mag spoons for coho Brown's in the spring. 2-3# fish can eat a 5" spoon no problem. I've found 7" gobies in 4# Brown's, they look like a,snake that just ate a mouse.

700k Lakers and not 3 million? Interesting...

I go to Milwaukee, often, just to target Brown's. Lake Ontario is only two hours farther...

We don't need to maintain alewife consumption rates, we need to reduce it. Kings eat only alewives.

Bait will do just fine on its own if they have something to eat and don't get decimated from the top down. Just got done sending in my Salmon Ambassador info. 8 kings this year, 6 were natural fish. We could stop king planting entirely and not see much off a fall off in catch rates. 74% of fish reported in Grand Haven last year were natural, and only 10% of the stocked kings caught at GH were planted at GH.

Salmon cuts have immediate results. Laker cuts take longer. In five years when the alewives are gone and never coming back and we have zero kings to target remember with pride sticking to your guns and continuing to add an alewife only predator to a stressed system. We'd not been in this mess if the d n r acted more aggressively in 2012 but they bowed to pressure. Hopefully they don't bow again.

No self respecting king would put on 5/16" over a summer!

One here and there but it seems every body is getting a few. After thay diver went three times I said I had another version of that spoon and could put it on the other diver, crew declined.

They get it. Stocking 1 laker for every 5 kings. And yet they gave idiots that want to stock bait. That comes up at every meeting...

Quit early to avoid getting wet from rain then got drenched from spray at 7 mph. My 14' doesn't yield much to the waves...

With the chop reading rod tips wasn't really an option. We had our suspicionson two of them but boat control was such a nightmare we weren't about to cycle through the rods 20 minutes before we quit.

After nearly a month off got out in nasty tight SE chop last night. From 65' to 80' on a SE troll took three big sheep on a slide diver back 125' on a mixed veggie NK28. Then a small sheep on a swr flounder pounder down 35'. Slugged into them to 60', lots of bait in there. Buildingwaves,and ugly radar compelled us to quit at 7. Found two small coho and a brown riding along when we pulled lines.

One good year of natural reproduction and what little bait is out there is gone. And when it's gone, it's never, NEVER coming back. The year classes of alewives that stand the best chance of spawning are the ones fueling these healthy, fat kings. I can get fat on a plate of food if I'm the only on eating. Lake Huron was throwing more master angler kings than Michigan right up until it crashed.

And if we're wrong, then Lake Huron 2. Lake Ontario gets all the nutrients from Erie and they're looking at 20% cuts.