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Went up to St. Joe, Michigan to do some salmon fishing with the guys on the 24th.. Had a blast.. The fish were running deep around 44 to 53 feet in about 58 degree water.. The first couple hours we were skunked out completely.. Then we switched over to green striped spinners and the fish finally started hitting..
First fish was a small Coho, but then we got in to the king salmon.. The biggest was about 12 pounds and was landed pretty easily.. I always seem to get the athlete in the group.. Had a 10 pounder hit and run out nearly 60 feet of line before he thought about slowing down.. Took nearly 20 minutes to get him back to the boat.. It was a blast..
The last couple fish were lake trout.. Also down right on the bottom.. One was caught on the drop weight while it was dragging bottom at 51 feet..
Only caught 10 fish total between 4 guys and 7 hours.. But it could have been worse, we could have been at work..
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Welcome and thank you for a Great Report !
Sounds like your group did a lot better than I did !
I managed to get one steelhead near the top just outside Pentwater , and yes , it hit on a green squid .
As a new member I am going to send you a few items to identify yourself as a B.F.T. Member , use the Personal Message option or click on my user name to send me your address .
I will be going back out next weekend , I sure hope I have the same luck you did on your trip [cool].
Did you charter or have your own craft ?
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We usually charter when we do Lake Michigan.. One of our fishing buddies has a larger boat for the big water, but it's been being overhauled for 3 years now 
My favorite part about the charter is not having to clean fish as soon as we land..
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Those rebuild jobs can take a loooooong time , depending on how much talking and how much beer seem to influance the doing part [sly] .
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Or who's doing the work..
"Uncle Bob" is one of those guys who has always built / rebuilt / fixed / broken / whatever / everything he owns.. He called the shop today complaining that he couldn't get some of the electronics working yet.. We pointed out that the marina across the channel does amazing work.. :p
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My dad's the same way , He'll spend a hundred bucks trying to fix a three doller part .
Thats because only part of it is broken [crazy].
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Oh yea, one more report .
One of my buddys and his friends went out from Manistee on sunday morning (chartered ), not much happining , they headed over twards Pitoskey and within 2 1/2 hours landed 20 , a mixed batch of Lakers , Kings and Coho , they also boated 2 steelies from 80 ' down , kinda deep for steelies . I guess it might have been because of that early morning storm that blew thru .
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I have been waiting all day for them rains, not a drop my way.... temp back up to 99 in my yard again, I spent most of my day hiding inside, no air just a fan that has been running for about two weeks streight.
I have been getting up at darkthirty in the morning working on my roof for a couple hours hiding the main part of the day then going out about an hour before dusk and working till darkthirty....
aint no fishing getting done around my house...
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The hot weather has given us a break in central Michigan , RAIN !
I was at the Cedar River today The water was as clear as glass , no trout to be seen , just a few suckers swimming about .
Keep that Gatoraid around , it sure does help me when It's a little warmer than I like it .
Your doing roof work too ? I have a Bat house to build . I have a colony of brown bats living in the esve of the garage . I spoted something falling off the corner on tuesday evening, when I realised what was coming out I started counting , 30 , that dosen't include what had already flown out . the crack is less than a 1/4" wide .
From what I understand the bats feast on skeeters , I'm not going to run them off , just give them a new location to work out of .
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I am an icecream sandwich and fudgecycle man!
I get to burn callories just sittin still.. LOL
Gatoraid is an excilent start, but the body needs more, Real lemonaid is better, but who is going to squeeze lemon these days?
I can remember the hot blazing daze of years long past, long hot days that seemed to last forever. A time when people actuly took pleasure in making a picther home made lemonaid and sitting on the front porch or hiding out back under a shade tree or sitting by a favorite spot on the river side having a picknic, but lets not forget those icream socials on sundays after church...[  ]
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I've been watching my neighbor build his house in this stuff.. Gawd awful hot these days.. Making slow and steady progress..
I'm not the outdoor person I used to be.. I think it comes from 20 years of working at a computer in a basement.. I can't even go outside without sunglasses without going mostly blind these days
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Well better a little outdoors than none at all [cool] !
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If ya seen all my fish pictures you will see I seldom step out side with out my sunglasses. even on cloudy daze...
I used to wear perscription glasses before a car axident, a swift bang to the head and now I dont need glasses any more... go figure?...
today and this past weekend I have been doing the new soffits and aluminum trim. NO GUTTERS!!! I am getting to the hard part. I have a section of overhang that goes over top of my carport. there is no room for soffits or gable on that section of the roof. any way I am starting to see a little light at the end of the tunnel. now I have to
strip and paint the house. All tung and groove boards.
ya this heat stuff and trying to do something in it other than takeing a nap under a shade tree next to a creek with a pole proped on a fork tipped with a little tinkler to wake me if a fish bites next to me...
I found me a new fishing buddy yesterday, I am hoping to take him fishing tomarow. to bad he will only be able to go fishing once in his life. He is a big fat mater worm...
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Lol !!! But I bet it's the best trip he ever has
I'm so glad I don't have any construction projects this year.. But next ear I get to add on to the barn so we have more storage space for more hay.. I keep telling my wife that if we ddn't have horses we wouldn't need hay.. But she's not buying it..
10 more days till we go to the lake for a 4 day weekend!!
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Luckely , my chores are more in removal than fixin' up [crazy] .
I have to remove the three big pines at the top of the driveway so I can put in the new electrical service , then remove the garage door so i can fit a new wall and doorway in , of course that meens removing the old doorway and filling in that spot too .
I have four things comming out of my garden so far , chillie peppers and a doe and two fawns [sly].
Every morning I gotta stop and yell at them to get going before I head to work , every night i have to pick out the half eaten squashes, cuces and maters [pirate].
I don't have enough leaf lettuce left to top a white castle hamburger [unsure]!
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put stakes all the way around the garden with two lines one about knee high and the other waist.
on the string that is waist high you are going to take bars of ivory soap, cut them in half, drill a hole though the center and tie them on to the top sting...
they will get a taist of it and leave... they wont have a taist for any other food for a few hours...
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I got a shed you can take and put it next to the barn and call it good....[laugh]
It will hold about twenty bails of hay if you stack them in, or 40 of those mini bails they sell at farmer jacks in the fall [angelic]
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I am getting pole beans dispite the baby vampire bunnies nipping down a bunch of my plants...
I am getting zukinin and summer squash, three kinds of tomatos, three verieties of sweet corn, and my pumpkins will be ready in a couple weeks, they are turning orange already, there is still the chance of musk mellons comming on, not to mention the onions....
they will have to take another satalight arial picture of your house when you get all those trees down, dont forget to wave this time...[sly]
I am surprised you are not putting in an under gound service, that is what I will be doing in Tenn when I get down there if I decide to build... Are you laying in the line your self or having it done,
If ya got a lisenced electritian buddy you can get the needed shopping list from, ya can rent a ditch witch and lay the line our and slip the conduit over the line and glue the sections all together... that is if they even use conduit up there... It is a little more expencive in the short run, but when it comes to ice storms and fires under gound is the only way to go, They are doing that now every where... leaves room for trees to grow with out having to wory.... ya just have to watch where you plant and dig...
You probably already know all this already...[crazy]
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Lol - I wish a 'shed' would do it.. I loaded in 120 bails last week and will need more before winter.. I tried to tell my wife we didn't have enough land to support 4 horses, but she thinks it will.. Well, as long as she keeps dumping hay all over the place
We finally managed to end the rabbit / deer problem around here.. It's amazing what a 20k volt electric fence will do to a rabbit
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mmmmmmmm[  ] hossinpheffer...
I forget the acrage, correct me if I am wrong, one acre per horse and ten acres per cow, one puddle for every 5 hogs and one state for every mother-in-law... [angelic]
no offence intended, I just love motherinlaw and fart jokes...
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