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Reminder: Registration for the walleye slam and fall brawl closes in two days.

Perfect redneck deer blind. Place curbside with deer carcass once deer butchering complete.

Lots of beer.

Bayliners of yesteryear had plastic swim platforms from now defunct USMarine. The swim platforms were fairly well designed but similar to all things plastic, they have a lifespan. With my swim platform failing and a lack of adequate replacement parts, I decided to dive into a replacement that would last. And so began my journey into fiberglass work. As a learned skill, I am glad for the knowledge gained, however, never again! Between the cost of materials, odors, mess, and time drain, I would not attempt the project knowing what I know now. I will bullet point the process to spare writing a novel. -marine grade 3/4 “ plywood -two layers of West Marine epoxy resin -one layer of woven roven sandwiched between two layers of chop strand mat fiberglass -epoxy putty to fair -4 coats gelcoat w/out wax, top gelcoat with wax -2 coats of topside polyurethane paint -one coat of anti slip polyurethane paint that matches rest of boat floor -custom stainless brackets fabricated to match existing holes in transom -holes in transom and on swim platform had penetrating epoxy applied to wood -hardware installed with 3M adhesive/sealant bedding compound -swim ladder installed

Really good podcast on deer patterns of movement summer range vs winter range and why it might not be a good idea to shoot those older matriarchal does

The water temps look right.

Big’un !! Congrats! ……..now what are you going to do?

Very cool antler shape

Good group of fish in front of Olcott piers but water is warming. Looks like the Oak to Genny is cold.

Probably a food web thing. Not sure there is plankton sampling going on during the winter months to confirm but if I had to guess there may be more of the mysis species concentrated on the bottom off the North shore. Pure conjecture. Maybe Dr Weidel can jump in here.

The amount of two year old kings as a percentage jumping off the piers at Olcott this weekend was disturbing. There are some things still needing fixin’

Good slug of fish off Olcott this morning. Saw WAY too many 2 year old jacks in the mix. Something needs to change.

We shall see what the runs up the salmon show. It sounds like a wad of fish showed up in Mexico finally. Hopefully we get some rain and soon. I am more concerned that fish have been absent at the same time there was a substantial fish kill this spring . Not sure if any testing for VHS was conducted by fisheries. Disease doesn’t care which hatchery you came from.

Go to Olcott

Looks like Olcott or the Oak have the temps to pier fish.

When I was in Chile, I saw atlantics in the fish markets also. Very fertile ocean and unbelievable tribs.

I would like to know which stream some of those recent Michigan giants came from.

Can of worms potentially if someone catches a record. You would need an asterisk next to name like the home run record during steroid era.

They were from 4-10 lbs. no give up on them today. Drag screamers. My wrist is sore.

With the calm seas we saw an opportunity to try vertical jigging off the Catt with Steel Shad blade baits and Berkely Finishers. Only one bass and one walleye but holy cow we caught some big reef sheep. Apparently, the rollover kill did not put as big a dent in the population as I thought.