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steeliebob

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  1. Ever had one of those bosses that just makes your skin crawl. Prior to being laid off from my old job three years ago, I had a boss that was a real company man who would sell his wife and kids if it was for the good of the company. Me on the other hand I hated every minute that I worked there because of him. After getting laid off I moved on to a much better job. I recently bought a new Jeep Liberty 4x4 and it is pretty awesome. Yesterday a rusty old green chevrolet pickup sat at a stop sign waiting for me to make a left turn. Inside of that truck sat my former boss. As I went by he waved and I waved back. I knew he must be thinking wow what a nice Jeep. I looked at the old green truck in my rearview mirror and thought I hope that truck runs forever. With the annual 15 cent an hour payraise that the company gives out you will never be able to afford one like this. I drove on down the road smiling and thinking I am sooo happy that I don't have that job and boss anymore.

  2. I find it ironic that nobody blames the crash on all of the wiers, spread throughout northern Lake Huron. Hatchery fish have a low survival rate anyway, then you reduce hatchery numbers and have very little natural reproduction and you have a recipie for disaster. For now the wiers are gone but that does not mean that if the salmon return that the wiers will remain closed. For a couple of years we caught salmon that looked like pike in Northern Lake Huron but there were also the nice fat healthy ones too, it is caled survival. Take the wiers out of the picture and I believe that Lake Huron would still have a good salmon population.

  3. Like i said, the old jiffys are great augers. Yes they are good. My family has been running them for years with very little work being done on them. Clean a carb, replaces a recoil rope, simple stuff. They just keep running. Great augers. Same can be said for the Strikemasters with Techumseh engines..... If i was to buy a new auger, id probably get the Strikemaster 4 stroke Solo.

    Oh, and you can never talk to much ice fishing. Its the best there is!

    I think Adam Bomb is addicted

  4. Heidi, it pays to get to know some charter operators as well as some of the local fishermen. When not fishing I will hang out at the launch site and get as much information as I can.Like what lures, how fast, how deep, how far back I just ask a few questions. Sometimes fishing fewer poles gets you more fish too. When I mark fish really good I will cut back to two rods on the downriggers with 4 foot sliders. The reason that I do this is even in a big boat you can turn it on a dime and stay in the fish, without a tangle. The downriggers allow you keep your lures in front of the fish by raising and lowering them. Every pass through the fish I will raise or lower the riggers a little. I hope that this helps a little, Lake Huron is coming back but the DNR really killed it when they allowed commercial salmon fishing.

  5. I cannot believe how whacked out they get. My brother lives in Chicago and tells me wild stories about them all of the time. Like 200 picketers when the Illinois River was poisoned for asian carp. I guess some of these brainless critters have way too much time on their hands. They seem to show up at all of the anti gun meetings too. Let a deer or canada goose get whacked by a car and a major traffic jam results because all of the peta's have to stop and arrange a funeral

  6. Get this information to as many fishermen as possible. Ask them to cancel any canadian hunting and fishing trips and to put this information on as many posts as possible. This is a bunch of bull and the people being harassed are law abiding citizens. No more Labatts Blue or Cnadian Club. A big problem with this is that there are bouy markers in places and in other places it is a good guess. In a fog or windy weather you could get popped for just being close or it is entirely possible that their boarder patrol could pop you in US waters.

  7. It is bad enough that we had to support the Vancouver Queen for 8 years and she sent a good number of jobs and a ton of money to Canada. Now they want to sieze all of our fishing boats. This is probably a dozen posts I have read about this happening this summer. Time to contact your politicians and demand that it stop. If it does not stop then get cross boarder work visas cancelled, that will get their attention real quick. I for one would rather wake up in Afganistan than in Canada. Cancelling cross boarder work visas would open up a ton of jobs here in Michigan alone. Mabey something that should have been done years ago.

  8. From what I have experienced, they could very well be hunters that are slamming you. I live in wolf country and have had many experiences with them that will make cold sweat run down your back. Every time that I mention grey wolf in a post some pavement hugger that does not know a wolf from a chinese pug has to get their 2 cents in and thinks that they know everything about them. Al that I can say is good luck and hold your turf.

  9. Mabey Michigan should team up with other boarder states and cancel Canadian work visas. That would free up loads of jobs for Michigan residents alone. I know for a fact getting a Canadian work visa if you are a US resident is like winning the lottery. If you are Canadian and want a work visa in the US it is pretty easy to get. My former boss worked in the US on a Canadian work visa $50,000 a year job that a Michigan resident could have had. That guy was a horses behind not to mention a few other things too. After a few run ins with this guy I lost a ton of respect for Canada. I live 50 miles from Canada and will not go there for nothing not even fish.

  10. Without the help of the federal government the asian carp would not be here to begin with. The feds need to open some processing plants and pay commercial fishermen to harvest them. Now when a foreign country needs our aid we can send them canned tuna dolphin free and made in the usa. This operation could create a few hundred jobs, we need the jobs by the way.

  11. The DNR needs to ease up on Splake and Lake trout regulations especially in northern Lake Huron. The splake do not reproduce and the bathtub is full of lake trout so allow them to be caught and kept year round. It would promote some ice fishing and off season fishing. Who knows it might promote some tourist $$$$$ to come up this way. I could drive a mile from my house and ice fish them in the winter and that would be nice. I am sure that catching lakers and splake through the ice would attract a few ice fishermen but definitely not enough to hurt the population much.

  12. Get a Lazer hand auger 6" if you are only drilling through a foot of ice it will beat anything else out there unless you are unable to use the hand auger. They are priced about $60 and I can put one through 30 inches of ice in a little over a minute. It is much lighter, makes little noise, and no gas to mess with. The 6 inch will drill an 8 inch hole. I have pulled 14 pound steelhead through the hole, unless you are after the hogs on L Superior it should be drilling big enough holes.

  13. I had that occure last fall and boat was only 5oft away! We sounded horn yelled and they just waves then fliped us off! I needed new line anyway so when they set off my drag i let my entire spool empty ,over 300 yards hopfully it all went around his prop!!!I moved over 75 yards at least but they just followed us! I lost a board and a spoon but Imshure his reair bill was at least a grand!!!

    I cannot believe some boaters are that ignorant on the water. I have delt with my share of ignorant boaters in the last couple of years. I had my first hook up with a boater last year when an idiot wanted to follow my boat not less than 50 feet behind me. A good fish hit on the dipsey and the line hit a rivet on his boat and pulled the fish off. I got my equipment back but told the driver what I thought of his selfish act in french and spanish even a little english. I tried for over a mile to shake this guy too.

  14. I take it a step further. I fish at night off of the breakwalls, surf, and in the rivers. I have caught pike, bass, and walleye while targeting trout and salmon at night. I even venture out onto the ice an hour or so before the sun pops up. The good thing about night fishing is that you don't have to wait to launch your boat. If you are fishing off of a breakwall, pier, or in the river you have first pick of the spots. I would have to say that I catch 70 percent of my fish in total darkness. If you do it enough you can adapt.

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