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She didn't need an epidural for the trout. There was an east wind and she could not sleep that night so I offered to take her out and as usual ten minutes on the water and she was out. Dead calm gin clear water I was pointed out to change over for Lakers when she came out of the cabin just as the last rod out took off. 10' noodle rod with 8# test. I put the boat in N and kept reaching around her to tweak the drag until we realized the rod bucking was not the fish or drag but our daughter kicking the butt of the rod. I was just hoping to have an excuse to come up the river chine walking at 50 mph...

Wife still does not find humor in "going to Benton Harbor to pick up some 'hos"

We fished the morning of my wedding. My wife caught a 14# brown five hours before going to the hospital to have our first daughter. Early am weddings, you might be starting a trend here. They should take you up on that and appreciate your fore sight.

I've taken a 9#, 10#, and 10.4# walleye trolling for kings in close on j plugs. All on different colors. Also taken two just under 10 on j-13 firetiger rapalas.

That's pretty cool, except sharing the part about brown trout fishing in close. We used to fish there in the 14' as none if the big boats would go in that close and those fish weren't getting pounded. I have 0.3 and 0.5 color cores for fishing in less than 5'...

Are we talking coho or browns in close, scum line steel, pier head steel, deep kings, harbor kings, or mixed bag late season shallow fishing?

I got a couple 3.0 and 3.5 just in time to have the rivers blow out. 3.0's seem small. Interested in burning them through scum lines as they're supposed to handle 4 mph plus, which the only plugs I've pulled that fast are jointed raps and fast tracs.

I'm in for a table or two. Date doesn't matter. Always a good time.

Right until ice up if you can find them. But if you do, it's usually game on as seen above.

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.