danthebuilder

well, you got to be good at something.

I believe that flat horizontal plate above the prop should be lined up with the bottom of your hull in the location of the kicker. While you're running you can tilt the motor up and out of the water. There should be a bracket on it to the motor to hold it. Whatever you do... Don't let it bounce around or it'll eventually after many years put enough stress on your transom bracket to break it in half & fall off. (ask me how I know.)

Where exactly is mid-michigan?

I use imgur.com just drag & drop it on the page and then copy the link that says "BBCode (message boards & forums)" Its the url of the picture plus IMG tags on both sides of the image url.

If perch could multiply like goby we'd be in good shape.

I'm a junkie. I start here a few days in advance. Check and see if any storms are predicted.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html (today)

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk.html (tomorrow)

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day3otlk.html (2 days from now)

If there are storms coming obviously waves are expected. These guys are REALLY good at what they do. Yellow = storms are coming. The areas do change from day to day and it adjusts but they're pretty good.

The day of. I check the radar:

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

Then I move over to weather underground forecast & scroll to the bottom of my local weather underground page & check the wind speed at the local light house weather station.(high winds always means bigger waves than they say.) I type 45007 into google and see the bouy data/wave height. On top of that if its light out actually view a few web cam's.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=45007

Then after all that is done. I check the national weather service marine forecast in 4 zones around my port. In shore & 5+ miles out.

I also check

http://hint.fm/wind/

and this... which is the water current map.

http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/currents/glcfs-currents-avg.html

AND after all do all that. I go fishing and grumble about how off they were on their forecasts.

When does this start? Pretty soon?

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Strategic_Planning_Public_Survey2012

You added an extra . at the end.

I thought that was a "Canadian fish finder" back in the 1940's my late grandfather would tie a balloon to a walleye and release it. The thought was the walleye would go back to his buddies. Follow the school around to catch more fish.

That's awesome.

Saw a strategy used in the Grand Haven Off shore many years ago. We were not fishing in it but ran south out of Muskegon early to fish. As the sun came up we saw a few gallon jugs floating one was close to the boat so we netted it and it had braided line tied to it so we pulled it up and there was a nice king on the other end we pulled 2 more that morning the same way. Don't know who did it but I bet they were bummed when their special fish were gone.

Thanks for cleaning up the pollution.

Sounded like a strategy some people took was stay home or find another event.

Good to hear you're back to help control the salmon population!

Nice job.

That is awesome! Won't work with MS Explorer like they said. Worked great with Firefox.

Any issues you guys have you can email the guys on the page and they reply pretty quickly.

http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27874

A quad. Very nice man.

That's sweet. How does it work? A text message turns into email? You receive the email with the station id number. Then scrape it for the number and reply with the data? Or do you use something like an asterisk box?

I'd use 3m 5200.

I haven't seen a DNR officer in over a year. Good to hear they are still around.

I'm glad to hear you're alive!

4 in the am

What is the cost difference between VHS certified free bait & suspect bait?

15. Fishing reports posted to this site after the event would be appreciated.

I have a couple of courtesy lights on my aluminum downrigger board. These work well for boarding and rigging lights.

http://www.iboats.com/Seasense-L-e-d-Companion-Way-Light/dm/cart_id.333522977--session_id.807922442--view_id.237757

I must give a shout out to seasense. I bought a pump with their name on it and it didn't last a season. I emailed them and they sent me a brand new unit out & a prepaid box to send the non-working unit back. Great customer service.

Whats the shelf life on canned salmon?

We released a lot of fish, and I would like to share a new technique we tried out that worked flawlessly! We took our boga style Berkley scale and tied a rope to it about 15’ long. We fried the thing holding fish overboard in previous years trying to revive them, so we had no issues with it getting wet. We clipped the fish by the mouth and tossed it overboard as we re-set lines. When we were done re-setting we would look back and the fish would be off swimming to one side or the other. We’d pull in the rope and un-clip the fish and it would take off like a champ. Even in upper 70 degree water! Give it a try next time you want to toss a fish back. It might give it a better chance to survive! I want to thank my buddy Jeremy Sage for the tip.

Can you get me some pics of this setup? I don't really care to eat fish and I'm all for releasing them if they didn't come from too deep & are willing to swim off looking halfway decent.

edit: http://www.amazon.com/Boga-Grip-130-30lb-Scale/dp/B001HYNSNO

Is this thing what you're talking about? I hope you put a float on that thing.