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its jimmy hoffa

Next week... "FBI DRAINING LAKE MICHIGAN ON TIP OF POSSIBLE LOCATION OF JIMMY HOFFA"

Thanks for the report. Are the flies still bad?

Thanks for the report.

I made the mistake of replacing both hubs without checking the cost of an axle. You can get a new axle for ~$150 at wolfs marine in benton harbor which includes the hubs. They have a giant shelf with many different kinds & sizes.

i would like to see some results of mature chinooks and where they would be. growing tired of hearing that salmon arent managed for any shore opportunities when we all pay the same for the annual fishing license regardless of owning a boat or not.

What species can you not catch from shore?

Sounds like a great time. Welcome to GLF. Pretty awesome that you caught the biggest fish you've got in 4 years when $$$$ was on the line. Thanks for the awesome first post.

Welcome!

I believe that is the holland buoy. They decided to move it further north this year.

I have fished lake huron since the crash and feel the lake is better off without alewife, kings included. The lake's prey fish biomass is also currently estimated at 97 kilotonnes. The MDNR's goal for lakewide biomass stability is 100 kilotonnes. Food for thought...

link for those that question it.

http://www.glsc.usgs.gov/_files/reports/2012LakeHuronDemersal.pdf

Welcome to GLF!

pretty sweet looking rig

That's a nice fish. Thanks for the report.

We have a 2 mile trip to the launch. We had a little less than a 1/2 mile left but were 1/8th of a mile from another relatives home who were happy to house the boat. We put on an old hub and the castlenut/pin and greased it up and went VERY VERY slow. Most people put more miles on their trailer in 1-2 trips than we do all year. We replaced the hubs 3 years ago and totally neglected the maintenance due to the low miles and other projects. They say failure is the best way to learn and this was definitely a lesson learned.

Thanks for the south haven report!

Went 3-4 in 155-165 FOW.

BLL Frozen Toad Yellow/Green took 1 coho and 1 steelhead on a dipsy set at 1.5 out 30 with ~20 foot leader on that. Finally got the skunk smell off my dipsies.

Brads Thinfish red/black 100 behind a board. (steelhead)

Lost a fish on a rigger 25 down with a custom made spoon that was yellow/green/white. Somewhat similar colors to the BLL frozen toad.

We tried 130 fow to 185 fow. Could only catch fish within 155-165. Great day on the water. It was flat as can be. I do wish there was a few more people out there. Kinda far from South Haven.

Also, just a reminder to check your bearings more regularly than us. =) (this was 2 days ago and is now fixed.)

Went 2/2 started in 135 fow. Trolled out to 201?(fish finder hit limit.) Picked up a coho at 150fow and 180fow. Both 20 back on a board with the red/black brads thinfish.

There not on this side of the lake. So they must be in the middle.

I hope you go to court & fight it.

So did I but I was going for walleye in South Haven. The pier guys had better luck.

Docks are in and 3 boats are out. People have been out almost everyday that the waves aren't up. I haven't been out yet. I do know that the park area right next to the launch has always been shallow. For anyone that's not familiar that's the only land on the river that doesn't have slips on it. Don't go on that side of the river in just that one spot and you should be fine.

Tom for fit overs go to walmart they have polarized uv protected fit overs for 18 bucks a pair. Every where else there like 30 bucks or better. They are by solar shield and my eye doc who fly fishes pointed the out to me. http://solarshield.com/sunglass.html I used the sport as they wrap around better and dont let the sun in till i bought prescription sunglasses last year for the first time. I used them for the last ten years or so and still keep three or four pairs on the boat in case someone forgets sunglasses.

I used to wear those. They have gone downhill in their quality. Where the sides screw into the front breaks very easily now. I am no longer a fan & wouldn't recommend them. I still haven't found a decent replacement though. I want the same quality ones they made 2 years ago. Now the ones that they sell last 2-3 months if you're lucky.

The price of natural gas right now is $4 a million BTU's. The rest of the world is paying around $12 a million BTU's. The gas companies are trying to get permission to export natural gas. People want to use it in trucks and other uses. I think its fairly safe to say we will see $8-10 natural gas. When that happens. Wind power is going to be the cheapest thing out there. You'll be glad we're working the kinks out now. We can't rely on 30+ year old nuclear power plants forever. Then you got coal plants that don't make financial sense to build anymore or environmental sense to operate.

As for the bird comment I love hearing it because it points you out as a person who doesn't know what their talking about. It's pure ignorance to be against wind turbines because of their bird kills. Why? Because there are things we do that you accept that kills millions of birds. The wind turbines do kill birds but no where near the amount killed by cars & house windows. Nuclear power plants kills hundreds of thousands of birds a year. Fossil fuels kills millions of birds a year. Lights at airports hundreds of thousands of birds. Should we turn off the lights? Are you giving up driving? Should we make windows in buildings illegal or stop all usage of fossil fuels in the name of birds? NO! Of course not.

But you wanna shut down wind... When there record for bird kills has improved greatly and they do a much better job than almost all the examples i said above. Even when calculated out to the MWH produced. When it comes to wind power they have also learned some things to help greatly reduce the bird kills. Such ideas of turning off the turbines when the birds migrate through the area on their runs south for the winter and north for the summer. Not building them in pathways that are heavily trafficked during these migrations. That's where this bird kill thing all started. They build these small wind turbines in a large migration pathway. One wind farm was responsible for half of all the bird kills. Its clear that we have learned a lesson for this. Changing the speed the blades turn has also reduced the bird kills. So if you really love birds. You should be for wind.

As for the government land thing. Do you know any wind farm owners that are upset that the government is going to allow people to build them in the lake and it will be cheaper? I wonder how much cheaper it is to put a wind turbine in 100+ FOW than it is to pour a cement pad and build one on land... You also know they can write a law mandating that they remove/tear down once the life cycle is up. They did this for nuclear power plants. They must put X dollars a year into the fund so by the time the life cycle is up they have money to tear it down. We're also not dealing with salt water in the great lakes so we won't have near the corrosion issues the oceans have.

I understand the wind isn't also going to blow. But I also understand that they build gas plants to only be used during peak usage/time of high rates. I have nothing against gas plants being used on the less windy days & days of heavy bird traffic. It appears that the natural gas plant owners have no problems building them when they're going to be used for non-base-load use. We could turn our 100 year natural gas reserve into 200 years. That would be great for our national energy security.

Those subsidies for wind are about 2 cents a KWH. Its not that much. Other sources of powers have subsidies. With everyone removing their subsidies. Wind would win. People factor in the costs when comparing wind to costs of power plants that were built 30 years ago and already paid for. Not costs of what it would cost to build now. Those things can't last forever & some are showing signs and are having to be shut down more often for maintenance. I don't hear many people crying about the other subsidies to be done away with. The wind subsidies are definitely money well spent if you look at the big picture.

Why would you put them so close to shore?

Disney land for boat owners.