So, ya like fish porn hey.

[Walleye Express]

With little else to do today I decided to get out all 1,100 of the old 35 millimetor camera archive pictures I took through the years, from my Steelie Dan Guide Service era. That era ran from 1986 to 2001, when I guided on the Big Manistee and Pere Marquette rivers for both Steelheads and Salmon. You can adjust the time they are viewed once the slideshow starts.

http://www.saginawbay.com/appiesnet/gallery/slideshow.php?set_albumName=Steelie-Dan-Archives

[bluedevil]

Very cool Dan. Thanks for sharing....

I think it was pic 63, but was that Fred Trost??

[Walleye Express]

Yup.

It sure is Fred. We did a show in 1987 on the Saginaw River and he caught this, his first walleye through the ice. That was my first time and experience meeting Fred. The hat belied his true personality.

[shu9265]

Cool pic's.

Thanks for sharing

[j1musser]

Cool pics through the years. Helps ease the feelings before spring hits us truly. Got a few new pics of Uncle Jim to email to pops too.

[Walleye Express]

Just posted 81 more pictures of some real monsters in the same gallery at the front. I found the extra pictures in my album I used to take to the fishing shows.

[Nucleus]

Wow that was some nice fish-erotic you got there.

Whats you boat record thru all these years?

Thanks for sharing.

Kjell

[Walleye Express]

Kjell.

Never really kept track. But I'll bet both the steelheads and salmon are glad I sold my drift boat.

[Nucleus]

Kjell.

Never really kept track. But I'll bet both the steelheads and salmon are glad I sold my drift boat.

lool i can see why.

[Priority1]

Kjell.

Never really kept track. But I'll bet both the steelheads and salmon are glad I sold my drift boat.

Dan, Cool pics. Now, if I can only get your to sell your walleye boats. This would be in the interest of happy fish.

Seriously, you just have to love the Saginaw Bay and it's tribs. It has taking a heavy pounding the last few years, and seems to be holding up. I had a few groups of West Side fishermen onboard last year, that were not disappointed. There was a lot of negativity about Lake Huron, but I think that is changing, and the Saginaw Bay Fishery is a major factor in that change. This fishery has helped the local economy a ton. You are a good Ambassador for our area Dan. Fish porn is nice, but a few more chicks holding fish wouldn't hurt.

[Walleye Express]

We have been blessed with many strokes of good luck on the Saginaw Bay in recent years. The collapse of the alewive population could not have came at a better time for walleye fishermen. If they had not collapsed, allowing for other baitfish species numbers to develop in higher numbers, walleye natural reproduction number to survive and sore, and all just before the VHS problem had virtually stopped all walleye plants these last few years, theres no telling what our fishery would have looked like in the near future. We've not only dodged some well aimed bullets, but we've seemed to have taken on enough ammo ourselves to keep us in the war and on the winning side. I pray we, the continued dumping of foreign bilge water, and the BIG HEAD CARP don't screw it up in the future.

[EdB]

Finally had the time roll through the slide show. Some great pics and some great memories.

What got you to change over to chase walleyes?

[Walleye Express]

Well Ed.

My fourth rotator Cuff operation (2 on each shoulder) kinda made it both harder and risky, rowing the drift boat 3 to 5 miles per trip. My doctor said one more operation on my right shoulder and they'd be calling me lefty the rest of my life. And with the PM being designated a (Natural/Scenic) River System by the Federal Government, 98% of it is closed to anything with a motor, so it took away that option. And having one of the rare (Federal Forestry Service Guides Permits) issued for that river, you were obligated to run so many trips per year to keep it. So in 2001 to save my shoulders mainly, I sold both the boat and the permit to Dave Roller. Things were changing on the river not to my liking anyways. You have to remember that when I first got my drift boat in 1986, it was only the third one anyboody had in the whole State. Now there are thousands.

As for the walleyes. I live one mile from the Bay, the Saginaw River, and 15 miles from the Tittabawassee River, some of the best walleye fishing in the world. It was a natural progression.