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Brown Trout Fishing

April 28 2 Comments Category: Outdoor Life

We went up to Kenosha, WI, last week to do a little fishing up on Lake Michigan. We hooked up with Rich at Stellar Charters to do a little brown trout fishing.
The day started out great at around 6am. We left Kenosha harbor and turned south along the shore to start trolling. Waves were [...]

Can you read a calendar?

March 22 0 Comments Category: Outdoor Life

Apparently most state’s DNRs can’t..
I decided it would be a great idea to go fishing this weekend.. I’m loosing my mind at work and just sitting on a dock drowning worms would be a welcome relief.. So I figured I should get a new license for 2007..
Apparently the new licenses aren’t good until April 1st.. [...]

Salmon Fishing Lake Michigan

July 30 1 Comment Category: Outdoor Life

Took a bunch of great guys up to Lake Michigan (St. Joseph. Mi) for a day on the lake fishing for salmon..
The day was great.. The water was reasonable with about 5 to 6 foot rollers coming through.. We didn’t get the big haul I was hoping for, but we did boat our share [...]

Sporting Clays Takes Practice Apparently

July 22 0 Comments Category: Outdoor Life

So the wife has a damned cool boss.. He’s in town from Arizona and invited the folks to join him at Back Forty Sporting Clays for a morning of target shooting.. For those of you not familiar with target shooting sporting clays, skeet, trap, etc., you basically move through several, in this case 10, stations [...]

Tying Knots in Fishing Line

June 26 0 Comments Category: Outdoor Life

I love to fish.. Never get to fish enough.. Well, hardly at all this year..
The problem is that I pretty much suck at it.. I’m fabulous at sitting in the boat, driving the boat (or is it piloting?), even parking at the pier next to the tavern with a 26′ pontoon in a current.. [...]