EdB

Great pics of your family Chad!

3 girls to 1 in my home so I know the feeling. Kids are 12 and 14. My advice, get a great TV for your bedroom.

Being on outdated software with no support is risky so it seems like the right thing to do during the off season. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving with your family Chad!

Not that I want to keep small fish but I'm not for it until we see the alewives rebound. Some people talk about "all the bait they are seeing on the graph or in the harbors at times." They are only observing a very small part of a really big lake. My answer to that is if we had all kinds of bait, why has the size of kings gone down? We know we had low king numbers this season so if we had lots of bait, we should have had lots of bigger fish and they were significantly smaller this year. I don't put 100% faith in our DNR but I still think we need to reduce predators and let the bait build up numbers or Lk. Mich will end up like Lk. Huron. I'm even more concerned that due to mussels, there won't be enough food for alewives to thrive regardless of how much predation we eliminate. Maybe there is nothing we can do to prevent a crash. I hope I'm wrong on this.

I'd second an old Yeck too. The white back spoons don't seem to work as well compared to chrome backs in recent years with the clear water, at least on our boat.