Ashman

Welcome Don!

You'll like this site, a lot of friendly advice and nice people.

I grew up over in Garden and know your area well. Brother lives in Rapid, niece and nephew each live in Esky. I've fished on both LBdN and BBdN. I'm going up there the weekend of Feb 18th to do some ice fishing on Kates Bay....might "drift" over and try LBdN while I'm there.

Okay I have a question for you guys.

My boat has the switch that says "off"..."1"....."Both"...."2".

It is the dead of winter and I want to put the battery charger on to get the batteries up.

When hooking up the battery charger, should the switch be set to "Both" so they both charge?

This will either Help your cabin fever....or make it worse!

I find it ironic you post that since I lived on the Garden Peninsula from 1973-1996 and have lots of friends still in Fairport.

.....also, on my last trip to Garden I picked up your business card at the Garden Mini-Mart (my friend Nick owns it) and told a buddy, "hey I know this guy from the fishermans forum!....and if I can ever afford a charter, this is the guy I want to hire"

It's only January and I seem to have it bad already.

I go out to the shop, uncover the boat for no reason other than dreaming I guess.

Go through my boxes of tackle, etc. when it don't need any more organization.

I flip on the outdoors channel and watch hunting/fishing shows and that don't do much except make me wish spring was sooner.

Look at the ice shanty and equiptment stored in the shop and think about talking the wife into a long weekend in the U.P. ice fishing......she won't go...too cold.

Seems spring is so far away.

Anybody else suffering?

Salmon is out, I'll be in Alabama. (gonna try pier fishing off gulf shores, never done it before )

Walleye sounds good here.

Wish I could use the excuse about taking the father in law.....but he won't get off the couch or roam too far from the TV remote

I'm always hesitant about asking questions on a forum untill I get the feeling of how one is treated when asking questions.

All I can say is that so far I have not expierienced anything other than folks helping folks on this forum.....and so far, I like it here.

Garden Peninsula Bucks from this years hunt.

what part of Delta? Garden Peninsula? We've just had no luck lately up there. Hope we see something more than spikes!! Your not giving me too much confidence there Steve Oh well, a week in the woods is worth it regardless!!

Yes, we farmed close to 2,000 acres on the Garden Peninsula, dad retired and sold it about 1993 (?) so I had access to some great hunting. I still go back up there and hunt with some friends on their private land.

Here's a better pic of my Garden Peninsula buck shot off our farm.

We quit hunting the u.p. because of all the wolves and no deer. We used to hunt southern Delta county and it was great but not any more. This year we are going to the Atlanta area around Avery Lake. I'm sure it's not going to be that great but I hope to see a deer or two. Never hunted around there, around the Avery Lake area. Hope it's not a real popular spot with tons of people running around.

One of the deer in my avatar came from Delta County....had a chance at at least 3 of the same size. We bought some land near the Atlanta area 10 years ago, and have yet to score even a spike. I'm headed back to Delta.

Thanks to you all, I am forever indebted to you for your service.

That reminds me of what a friend told me some years back when he was led to believe there were great numbers of deer near Newberry.....on his return he told me he felt the deer population near Newberry was exactly the same as it was out in the middle of Lake Superior.....O!

Joe, check out this thread

http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19919

Bound to learn a lot at the clinic if you can attend.

As opening day gets closer, I get more anxious to head on up to Delta County for the start of firearms deer season. I'm all packed and ready to go, soon as Saturday gets here.

I just wanted to say to all of you who enjoy the season, good luck and be safe. May the beer (insert favorite beverage) be cold, the food hot and the time spent in the woods memorable.

Hope it is a success for you all.

When I think of weather like this I am reminded of the "Edmund Fitzgerald" anyone hear if any lake freighters sought safe refuge?

Very sad. I'm glad they found the body so the family will have some closure.

I'll give it a try.

Very Nice, I really enjoyed it. What's the song name?

Not nearly as impressive as the others, but this is my biggest walleye this year. Taken on Trout Lake in Northern Minnesota.... 25" I decided to get this one mounted if for no other reason than it will be a reminder of a wonderful vacation I shared with my wife.

Congrats!

Nothing tastier than speed beef.

Is this limited to forum members only?......reason I ask is my son/s would more than likely be interested in attending, depending on his/their work schedule.

If it is limited to just forum members, that is understandable.....just asking.

I'd be interested too.

I have used a company for close to 20 years to make my companies shirts and hats, not sure of their capabilities with multi colors (assume they can) I'll PM you the name address and phone number.

*EDIT* I found their website, so I'll post it here instead of a PM.

http://www.genesisgraphicsinc.com/

Those are calendar quality pictures!

Just got home last night from spending 4 days in Michigans Upper Peninsula.....the bays de noc area to be specific. My youngest son Chris was not going to be able to go whitetail hunting this year due to a new job, so it seemed a good option would be a fishing trip where we used to live. We really wanted to catch walleye but everyone we talked to and what we read sounded like that wasn't gonna happen.

We left Wed. evening after Chris got out of work and made the 6 1/2 hour journey to Garden and stayed with some friends. Got up early Thursday morning amid a downpour and headed to Escanaba to pick up some shirts and hats I have made every year at a place that does silk screen work. Left there and stopped in at Bayview bait and tackle to meet Chris Wahl and ask him any info about fishing in Little bay de Noc. He was very helpful and gave us some suggestions for Saturday.

Travelled back to Garden and put the boat in at the fishing site launch and headed west to a well known bluff and trolled in 18-22' of water with a couple rapalas, one perch one silver. It wasn't long and we had our first fish on which turned out to be a bass, which we released. No more than released that fish and had another one on.....this time it turned out to be a northern pike. My son had never caught a northern before so this was a first for him. Not big by any means (28") but still a happy time for him.

We ended the day when the weather just got to be too much and headed back to our friends place to put the boat in their garage and dry out a bit. Friday the conditions were not favorable, rains and heavy winds so I spent some time visiting my friends and family.....anxously awaiting fishing in Little bay de Noc.

Saturday morning we launched out of van Cleve park and began trolling a area where the bait shop guy reccomended.....my friend caught a 12" walleye and released it......that was the only fish landed all day on Little Bay.

Although we didn't land many fish, it was the time being spent fishing with my son and some friends that made the trip.....after all that's why we call it "fishing" and not "catching"......