Hello from The Great Lakes

[J-cubed]

Hi Guys,
I found your site through a link from Just-IN-Time off of the Great Grady web site. I joined because of the mechanic information forum. It looks like you guys have a really great site here. We have a few local sites but nothing of this caliber. Things are just getting started up here. The ice is out on much of the big water. The Grady will be coming out of the barn soon, I can't wait. Last year was a great year for walleyes on Saginaw Bay and this years is supposed to be even better yet.
I have fished on all but one of the Great Lakes, for halibut & salmon in Alaska, red fish & tuna in the Gulf of Mexico and grouper & snapper off of the Florida Keys. I would like to make it out your way one of these days. Long range tuna fishing looks like a blast. FISH ON !!!!!!!!!!!!

[JUST-IN-TIME]

welcome
i can not wait to see your posts on walleyes !!!!!

if you have any ?'s post them on here

and if you need oem yami/merc/volvo parts, we are the shop to get them from! for a fraction over my cost!
i can get anything and everything for the marine world,LOL
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[Susp3nc3]

Welcome Jim! Post up your reports from over there in the "other section reports". Great lakes fishing is awesome

[Kodiax]

welcome aboard Jim, looking forward to seeing reports n pix from the great lakes!

[FISH SUR5L]

Holy piss pot Pete! I was born in Saginaw & raised in the Tri-City area myself. Went to school in Freeland & Midland.

Been out here for a good 30 years now. Don't miss the cold, but had some great times at Albright Shores/Wixom Lake growin' up ice fishin'. Tip-ups all over the place slayin' the northern pike, and jiggin' for crappie & perch.

No salmon season here this year as the returns were next to nothing...SUX! Waitin' for the rock/ling cod on the Big Pond. Seasons shorter & regs tighter these days. With gas prices as they are trips will be further & fewer between I'm sure.

Got family all over the place back there...Detroit, U.P., Beaverton/Gladwin, Kalkaska, Hemlock, etc. Only been back once since I've been here...wife has been there twice (both times funerals for her folks). Don't miss them mosquitos either. Got plenty up in the wilderness of the Sierra mountains though if you backpack it in.

I was, too, young to get in on the coho salmon in the big lakes back there growin' up, but did get out in Saginaw Bay on the awesome perch bite. I hear the smallmouth are big stuff now, too.

The wife's brothers are true survivalists...get their deer every year, and then some. I knew how to gut one, and hang it out in the shed in sub zero weather for the dinner time grub. But wouldn't know what to do now that I'm a city slicker. When I went back the one time they had made venison sausage & that shit was to die for!

Take care man. Stay in touch. Let's talk it up.

Go Wolverines !!! Go Lions !!! Go Tigers !!! Go Pistons !!! Go Redwings !!!

---Dave

[49erJim]

welcome, we could always use more Jim's around here. Check us out in the sb from time to time, Jim

[moocherking]

another Jim that doesn't flake... LOL:gdamn: Welcome to the club!

[RayRe]

More Jims?!?!!??! :gdamn:

Welcome!