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I use Atommik and will never use another brand. Toms product is top notch and he has great quality control.

Best way to safely winterize is to have an insured mechanic do your winterization. If he screws it up, you get it fixed on his dime!

There is no way I would ever put anything for human consumption in that cooler after it has had laker poop in it! There isn't enough bleach in the world!

Fished the last Bald Eagle tournament of the year with two buddies and my son. We started off in 90’ to find warm water had rolled back in. Temp was 58 degrees down 85’ and still 50 degrees down 140. We worked inside for the first hour boating a couple skips and losing one mature. We moved out to 200-240 and found tons of bait and a decent screen. First mature was a 26.08 that took a Stinger Stingray Angry Bird. Next mature was an 18.0 that took a Moonshine carbon 14. After that mature, the skippy parade started. At 10:30, we headed south to try to find a big laker to get our third fish for the Bald Eagle tournament. We struggled to even find any lakers with temp so deep. We boxed one small laker. It wasn’t enough to place but it was a fun day. Congrats to Brian Ward and his box of big kings!

It is in the Democrat and Chronicle daily and it is given to the National Weather service every morning at 7:30 am. I am not sure if the National Weather Service publishes the temp on their website or not. The Democrat and Chronicle data is 24 hours old. If you ever need it, feel free to pm me and I can get you in the live temp if I'm at work. It is nice to know so you have a round about starting point in the morning!

Nice job Manny!

Yes sir! We are have to retain data for the DEC and the Feds. We have duplicates at both plants and the pH, turbidity, temp and other data is taken every day (multiple times a day) by our lab staff and operators to verify our equipment. Any gill nets off Wautoma? I will be fishing that stretch Saturday for stagers and will look out for them if they are. Here is our intake temp over the last week. The lowest it got is 46 degrees. When we get a total upwelling, we usually see 39-41 degrees coming into the plant. Before last Saturday, our intake temp was 77-78 degrees for a couple of weeks without changing.

Run offshore. If its a total upwelling (41 degrees on shore which it wasn't) run until you find warm water and troll north until you find the fish.

Our raw water pH was high last week when the intake temp was 78 degrees. It was a pH of 8.38

It’s been a staple for years for us! It catches everything.

For sure! Saturday, everyone blasted offshore and we had the inside pretty much to ourselves!

Keith and I decided to fish the Bald Eagle Tournament with our sons on Saturday for the first time. We left the dock around 5:45 and headed East and set up in 90'. Not long after setting up, the bite started and was fast and furious until 9:30am. We started out with three skips and dumped our first two mature kings. The last one we dropped, ran 540 on the first run and came unbuttoned with 25' left on the counter. When Brayden got the spoon in the boat, the split ring and hook were gone! I haven't had that happen in years/ After losing them first two matures, we put three matures in a row. When the bite totally died around 10:00, we put some cowbells down and tried to upgrade a mid teens king in the box. We put a ton of lakers on the floor with nothing bigger than 15 and change. We went to weigh in hoping for a placing box and we did it. We ended up taking 3rd overall. All in all, it was a great first tournament with for boys and hopefully we can do it again this Saturday. 55',70' and 80' riggers, divers at 210 and 225, 300', 350' and 400' coppers wit mostly spoons took our fish. Green Jeans mag moonshine was the star of the day. IMG_2586.MOV

For decades, Lake Michigan captains had easy king fishing with huge numbers. Stocking cuts made their job harder and they boat very few kings. Clients went from huge numbers a trip to coming home with a couple fish. They are leaning on the lake trout fishery but most clients that have caught kings don’t want lakers. When clients spend hundred of dollars on a trip, they don’t want to only catch a couple kings a day.