Nice chop tomorrow....

[ctom]

The Great Lakes are going to be a bit tough to fish tomorrow. Lakes Michigan and Huron can expect waves to ...get this....25 feet with some possibly attaining a height of 35 feet. Now that's a walleye chop. Me? I'll have my butt here at home doing lawn work where its half dry and a lot less windy.

[BareKnuckleJigs]

Mr. Tom, that Ain't No Hill For a Stepper!  That's why they make windshields!

[floridagrimp]

waves 25-35 ft??  I'd fish a buzz bait, with a REAL loud clacker(it atakes a lot of racket to get 'em to the surface)!!! If they aren't hiiting that, throw a zara spook...you get crazy action in that kind of wind and waves!!!!

[mrex]

Stay safe - Hope the Sandy does not hit you to hard.

[ctom]

I read last night that Lake Michigan just above Green Bay is forecast to have 25 footers today. They are blaming Sandy for all this nice wave action.

Where I am at we have high skies, 31 degrees, and just a hint of breeze. The only 25 footers in this area are piles of corn the elevators can't get into silo storage. I'm getting ready for Saturday's deer opener so my boat ain't gonna get rocked anyhow....lol

[BareKnuckleJigs]

KoowEE!  Get 'em Mr. Tom!  Remember, shot placement is King!

[ctom]

I've been hunting the same stand on the same hill for the last 12 years and the longest shot I have taken to fill tag #1 is about 30 feet. Last year on the opening morning I popped a buck at about 8 feet, straight down out of the stand.

I shoot a blackpowder rifle, scoped, that can put ten sabots into a 1- 1/2" bull at 75 yards consistently. The location has one hunter....me and covers two other properties that all come together to a long narrow point with heavy cedar cover on one side and a monster hill on the other. deer funnel into this point and to get there most will slide right past moi.

I hunt two tags and the first decent doe will take the fall, then I get serious about horns but that tag also allows me an antlerless deer in lieuof the horns. I'm fine with the does....darned good eating. I process my own deer and make my own sausage and jerky...both the whole muscle and pressed ground meat jerkys. This is going to be the year of ring bolonga again. Love this kind of sausage.

[Botanophilia]

I live 2 miles from lake MI, will have to check the waves a little later... got 35-40mph winds out there.  Not real motivated to go anywhere and thankful it's my day off.  With the exception of 2 years I've lived close to the lake my whole life and can't recall seeing anything beyond 8 or 10' waves.  25-35 would be pretty crazy.  Anyone out there on a boat in that has a death wish.

[floridagrimp]

ctom, are u concerned about eating deer that have been eating GMO corn/soy beans (thanks, monsanto!)  we got off the "GMO train" earlier this year..hard to do as so many foods contain it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  you can find grass fed beef, free range eggs, truly organic vegetables, etc

Saw a film about 20 years ago that showed caterpillars with cancers all over their bodies. Monsanto scientists said " We don't know if foods have any adverse effects on humans" ...errr, right!!! been proven that GMO foods causes all kinds of cancer, other diseases.

[BareKnuckleJigs]

Mr. Tom, I just quit my job and am driving home to grab my camo and rifle.  I'll be at Your establishment by 1400 hrs!

[ctom]

ctom, are u concerned about eating deer that have been eating GMO corn/soy beans .....  you can find grass fed beef, free range eggs, truly organic vegetables, etc

The deer up here are the epitome of organic unless they are in a pen on a licensed farm....and I don't do anything ythat's not free range. I couldn't tell you if the deer I take are eating altered plants or not but I am not going to fret about it.

And BNJ....bring a shotgun and LOTS of orange. The camo and rifle are both illegal for big game in the zone I hunt. I can, and most certainly do, use the muzzleloader since I can get center-fire -like accuracy and ballistics with it. If I want to hunt the late muzzleloader season I'd have to remove the scope to be legal then. Ain't doing that either. I'll be fishing while the late season saps sit out there and shiver their cajones off. Deer hunting a just a productive annoyance in my fall fishing. In a way, deer hunting is like fishing....I am going to do it.

[BareKnuckleJigs]

Oop!  Glad I checked the Forum!  I was just walkin' out the door!  3" CCM 000-Buck it is!

[floridagrimp]

uh, kind of pieced my quotes together, not asking you to fret... Just sayin'...know a lot of folks that eat lots of deer that eat mainly GMO soy beans...and these beans are devasting to our health, producing cancer, allergies..et al. Believe God is sounding thea alarm, for those that have "ears to hear".  satan is definitely trying to destroy our food supply

[andrewlamberson]

Unfortunately...I've done most of my deer hunting with the front bumper on my truck!  The darn things are everywhere this year!


We had two big 8+ pointers puffing and charging each other in the back yard all weekend. 

[floridagrimp]

I've heard some insurance companies have stopped coverage on deer collisions