Ludington

Sticking with the theme of Michigan coastal towns, next up is Ludington, where the expressway ends and the north country begins. Ludington is home to the S.S. Badger Sailing daily between Manitowoc, Wisconsin and Ludington, Michigan...its a great way to cross the lake.

Manistee

Neat building in Manistee, just down the block from the cigar shop I spend way too much money at...

Manistee is a very old town on the lake shore.

More fishing

We're off on another fishing expedition, to be back next Tuesday. I've been putting in long days at the office to be able to sneak out these vacation days. Next week we'll be kicking off new tooling to be built and life will become even more hectic. We've landed 4 new products with Nissan and two with Honda that I've been on for months will begin late summer, not even taking in consideration the possible work for GM we've been quoting...It's going to get busy...

Haha

Fishing

After three nights of fishing we came up with just shy of 300 smelt. I'd say Thursday night was the best, Ross and I caught 98 in six hours. Ross only fished a little over half the the time. We fished out of the flip over that night and it was cold and windy. Late Friday afternoon using the quad, we managed to pull the ice house out to the smelt grounds. I was nervous about this due to a band of frozen slush about 12 meters wide that we had to cross, going out Thursday night I was falling through to the top of my boots.

I pulled the ice house about 500 meters west down the shore line and took a run at a narrower part the the slush band at 20 MPH, the path was like a gigantic arc. I was quite relived that it had come across.

All the struggle aside, the new ice house is so nice to fish in. Warm, most of the time I'm in a tee shirt. I'm hoping to go back up Wednesday night...

What I'm doing

Headed north this morning, rolling the dice that there will be sufficient ice to fish Crystal Lake. Won't be in the new ice house, its setting on a trailer at my dads, he's come up with a hand full of reasons for not going up this weekend. I've got the quad and a portable shanty on a trailer behind the Trooper right now, I'm just waiting for Ross to get up. We've got to go over to my folks on the way and pick up maggots(bait) and a battery...

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