EdB

It is my understanding all planted kings in Lk Mi for the last 2 years plants are coded wire tagged with adipose fins clips. This springs plants will be the 3rd yr. All states are cooperating. One more year and all planted kings will be adipose clipped and wild spawned fish will not. This will allow the DNR to study exactly how many wild fish are entering Lk Mi from natural reproduction. I'm pretty sure the biologists in Wi are interested in angler input on what we are getting. I'm sure the federal biologists are collecting heads but not sure about Wi state bio's.

Nice catch Joe

If you're fishing stickbaits for browns in the spring, they run much better tied direct with a Rapala knot instead of using a swivel.

I'll be fishing lake MI this weekend but I'll be on some concrete (or more likely ice over concrete) and not in a boat.

Welcome Capt Chris. Look forward to your input here.

Welcome Matt, lots of guys here who fish out of Holland.

CAPTAIN Matt Mishler Nice job on passing your exam!

License results are in today: https://secure1.state.mi.us/rssdraw/

A warm welcome Bradford.

Welcome Nathan, that hard top is unique for a boat that size, bet it kept you nice and dry.

Nice job Mike

Nice catch Jason!

Awesome buck!

Thanks Ed but I don't slip my boat, I keep her on the trailer at my place at Tamarac Village at Hamlin Lake. If I did, it would be at your place for sure and I recommend it to anyone I know visiting Ludington. I stopped by a couple times last year to say hi but both times were rainy days and your office was closed. Wasn't any boating activity those days so no point working in the office watching it rain. I'll be sure to stop by on a better day this year.

This was informative. If you or your loved ones have heart problems or diabetic issues, you should really watch this. 8-1/2 minutes of your time, well worth it. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp/50582822#50582822

That was a cool video. I wish you were not so far away. I would love to fish your waters.

Welcome Michael, great to another person on board from the Lake Ontario region.

Nice job on the ice!

Welcome aboard Eric!

Nice job Jason! We have minimal ice on our lake west of you. Been 2-4 inches all season, just when I start thinking of putting my shanty out, it warms up and we lose a couple inches. Looks like it won't happen this winter.

I think it is a water temp or seasonal thing. I never leave the dock in the dark in the spring. Most times at St Joe with the long trip down the river, we are setting lines as the sun is rising. The best bite is mid morning most days. We are always setting lines in the dark in summer. The first hour bite is definitely stronger in summer than spring on Lk Mi.

Our prayers and wishes for a speedy recovery.

Got it, can't lend any info on that make and model. Hopefully someone will see this that can help out.

With all the boats for sale in the great lakes region, I'd stay away from a salty.

To go to the St Joe fishing yesterday. Hit the road around 7AM in steady light snow and temps about 15 degrees. When we got west of Kzoo, the light snow turned into very heavy lake effect with squalls cutting visibility to 50 ft at times. Saw a number of wrecks and a couple roll overs, hope they were OK. It was a white knuckle ride the last 45 miles. Took almost 3 hrs to get there instead of 2. Only one charter out fishing, not a single rec boat on the river, at least we had a lot of water to ourselves. Air temps warmed a couple more degrees but it was a cold ride to our first hole. The snow never stopped and it started to pile up in the boat. Got about 4 inches while fishing. The river was border line chocolate milk. After 5 hours on the water with no hit's at all, we pulled back to the launch with a double skunk. We use the USGS steamflow site to gauge when the river is blown out. The gauge height and discharge looked good but it was still way to muddy with about 4-5 inches of visibility. It is a good tool for river fishing but we learned something today. http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=04101500 There is a relatively new turbidity graph on the USGS site. Not all monitoring sites have them but the St Joe at Niles does. As you can see, turbidity was coming down nicely but turbidity around 30 (where it was yesterday) is still to murky for fishing. Has some big spikes in the graph too. At least we learned something from this fishing trip.