AuGres River, AuGres River bay, mini-report

Posted by Greybeard on May 20th, 2009 in Local, News and weather | 2 comments

It’s looking like the Walleye have pulled out of the river.  We’ve made two serious trolling runs (two different days), this week,  with no hits.   One little Pike was the only thing we found in the river proper.   The wind has been nasty!   The weather has warmed a bit,  but no let off from the wind.  Wave reports on the Bay have been 3 to 5,  sometimes up to 5 to 7 feet.   Sometimes there are short periods when it calms a bit,  but they don’t last long.

Last Saturday brought a couple of nice sized Bass off of the seawall,  but it took a lot of fishing to convince them to bite.

On other subjects:  My friend Jack up at Whitestone Trading post,  has turned in his Federal Firearms license.   Jack  has been there for years,  and is getting well up in age.  His reason for dropping the license,  was harassment by the authorities.  In my opinion,  this is a sad state of affairs!   WhiteStone Trading post is just a small store,  vending fishing gear,  and repairs,   (and he used to handle a couple of hunting guns, some ammo, and do gun cleanups and small repairs).  He usually doesn’t have the latest and greatest gear,  and he surely doesn’t qualify as a terrorist!  It’s just sad that our government is willing to target elder people like Jack,  an old fellow just waiting out his day’s, trying to make the most of his interaction with local fishermen and hunters.

If you make it up past Au Gres  going toward Tawas City on US-23,  a bit before the “Singing Bridge”,  at  763 N. Huron,  sit’s WhiteStone Trading Post.  A small white store on the west side of the road .  If the sign say’s “Open”,  maybe you’d get a bit of enjoyment by stopping in and saying Hi to Jack.  You might even find an old fishing lure you just have to have,   but you won’t find any old guns. 

WhiteStone Trading Post

763 N. Huron

AuGres, Mi.

Line Winding, Shiners, Live Bait, Licenses, Rod, Reel and Lantern Repair,  Guns and Ammo,  Archery

Skunked

Posted by Greybeard on May 15th, 2009 in Fishing | Comments Off

Well,  the first trip out didn’t turn out that well.   We took the SportCraft out about 10:30 am and had lines in the water by 11 am.   We trolled a Storm deep diver,  and a little Ripper,  plus  the two center poles were hauling crawler harnesses on bottom bouncers.    We wandered around, in and out of the pack, in 20 to 32 feet of water, until about 1 pm when things started getting  a little dicey.  When the chop got uncomfortable we headed in.   Not a single bite,   and we only saw one other boat pull in two Walleye.       I’m trying to think of a name for the SportCraft,   thinking of  “Fishless”.

Good weather

Posted by Greybeard on May 14th, 2009 in News and weather | Comments Off

Tends to steal blogging time.   Sorry if I’ve been a slow blogger lately,  and also remiss on reading my favorite blogs.  Here in Michigan,  we only get a limited amount of summer,  and one has to make the most of it.

For you reading pleasure,  see this months IMPRIMUS by Mark Steyn,  “Live Free, Or Die”.

Ethanol

Posted by Greybeard on May 7th, 2009 in Fishing, News and weather | Comments Off

   This would be the SportCraft I’ve been waxing on for the last couple of days.   Rain kept me from finishing today.   And on the subject of rain,,,,   it was a warm summer like rain.  I’m looking to launch one day next week.

I heard the other day,  that the Obama administration is pushing to up the ethanol content of gasoline up to 15 percent,  (it’s now 10%).   This would be for all gasoline!   First off,  this is just a STUPID idea!  Science has basically proven that it takes approximately 1.5 gallons of fossil fuel to create 1 gallon of ethanol, (from corn),  not to mention,  that the corn,  can no longer be eaten or used for livestock feed.   Besides being a STUPID idea,  we also have the, very serious for boaters, fact that gasoline vehicles more than a few years old,  will be severely damaged by the extra ethanol.    It’s a known fact that vehicles, lawnmowers, tractors, etc,  from more that 10 years ago,  do not handle ethanol fuel additives well,  and the ethanol reacts very poorly with any water that happens to get in the fuel.  (ethanol eats fiberglass,  and many plastics.  plus forms a sandy grey sludge, when a bit of water is mixed in)   The 10 % ethanol fuel has already damaged untold millions of older vehicles,   now if we add another 5%  we can damage, millions more.   Sludge lined gas tanks and fuel lines,   melted gas tanks and fuel lines,   carberator gaskets eaten away,  etc. ,  etc..    Ethanol in gasoline,  BAD IDEA,   more Ethanol in gasoline,  HORRIBLE IDEA!

More boat waxing

Posted by Greybeard on May 6th, 2009 in Fishing, News and weather | Comments Off

I now have the boat 75% waxed.  Plus all the fishing gear is loaded.   These past two days have been really nice days for fishing,  probably the first time this year,  that the waves have been tamed for two days in a row.  Oh well,  when I finally get it in the water,  it’s gonna be pretty.