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Trout: Hi yodas
yodas: Hi guys
Trout: Yes and then where will it stop?
Mr.Ed: Hey Yodas
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yodas: I'll tell ya these gas prices ARE the pits
Mr.Ed: They lost between 50,000-100,000 gallons with the pipeline break.
Trout: I paid 169.9 today
yodas: I paid $1.90 today
Trout: That5s chicken feed to the oil companies ed
webmaster: Guys the new baiting regs are posted, have you seen them?
Mr.Ed: That's cheap. Filled up today at 1.99 for regular unled
Mr.Ed: Not yet.
Trout: Hey web did you get the boot
yodas: No, when did you post them
Trout: Two gallons of bait won't effect me
Mr.Ed: Maybe be chicken feed but they will stick it to us.
webmaster: yes, my isp sucks, cable modems are coming. Just posted the regs in the forums.
Trout: Yes in a big way :(
Mr.Ed: How much will a package of Deer Crack fill?
yodas: brb
webmaster: Depends how many pound you buy
Trout: I'd rather use scent drippers
Trout: with mock scrapes
Mr.Ed: Probably 5 at a time.
Mr.Ed: I' do that to Trout. But is nice to get them to stop for a nice broadside shot.
Mr.Ed: Especially when I'm bowhunting.
Trout: They'll stop for a gallon of corn
webmaster: Fred's talking about the special early season for kids. Saying they should have special hunts for ethnic groups as well.
webmaster: Sept 2-3 hunt for churchgoers only?
Trout: Martin Luther King deer day ?
webmaster: Special weekend for women?
yodas: I'm back
webmaster: Special weekend for first time hunters only?
Trout: Yoopers special hunts?
Mr.Ed: Nine months for us Polacks
Trout: :)
yodas: All ready have one of them, opens July 4th :)
webmaster: I mean if it gets more kids involved I guess its ok but it came from the governers office. Is this where hunting policy should be made.
Mr.Ed: And we can take 'em any way possible except for explosives.
webmaster: Proposal G says we should adopt regulations based on sound wildlife management information.
Trout: Youth hunts are ok just don't single out anyone
Mr.Ed: brb
webmaster: They have singled out someone. 14-16 year olds. Should they have a womens only weekend?
webmaster: Not many Chinese Americans hunt in MI, should we have a special weekend for them in August?
Trout: NO
webmaster: Sorry, this is one I agree with Fred on.
Trout: Might thin out the cats and dogs
yodas: You really don't like the youth hunt do ya web
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Trout: Oh I might get sent back to the minor leauges
webmaster: Well, no. And I do have two sons. The oldest one I took hunting last year for his first time....Didn't need a special season to do it.
Trout: Thats what I thought at first but hey if it give a kid a chance to learn I say good
yodas: What the HECK are you talking about trout :)
webmaster: By the way Trout thanks for the nice article. Still need to get that hunting library shaped up. I'll get off my soap box now.
yodas: Did he hunt web, or just tag along ?
Trout: I am saying I'm all for the kids hunt
webmaster: He just tagged along. Was only 6 at the time.
webmaster: When he gets old enough he will hunt.
Trout: you missed the comment I made that way about cats and dogs so I'll forget it
webmaster: I think the people that are going to take their kids will do it anyway without a special weekend.
Mr.Ed: I agree
yodas: Yes they will, But it's nice to have a hunt just for them
Mr.Ed: Isn't that the first weekend after school starts.
Trout: I don't believe they will ,too selfish
Trout: They are safer in the woods
Mr.Ed: Kids will be doing other things like football and soccer. I don't know how well it will be used.
Mr.Ed: That is true Trout.
yodas: alot of truth to that one Ed
webmaster: Speaking of kids, I need to help get mine in bed, brb
Mr.Ed: My wife used to work security at a middle school here and said she couldn't beleive what was going on at the schools now.
Trout: I really believe the youth holds the KEY to huntings future and the numbers are dropping
yodas: Trout, any more news on you working out west ?
Mr.Ed: You are right Trout.
Trout: I got my nephew into the JAKES program for 5 bucks
Mr.Ed: I don't have any kids, but would love to help out.
Trout: Well the guy wants to pay me the same as here and no room and board
Trout: So I think I'll pass
Mr.Ed: Heck my parents don't hunt. I am the only one I know of in my family that does and do catch some grief because I kill Bambi.
Trout: It was only for 30 days
yodas: To bad it didn't work out
Trout: My brother and I are the only hunters in my family of 7 kids
Mr.Ed: Yodas thanks for all the info for my vacation.
Trout: Might go to Kentucky this winter
Trout: inside work metal studs
yodas: Not a problem, I would just hart for the U.P. to get a bad name :)
Mr.Ed: My brother is getiing his degree in wildlife biology from CO state U. He is the only one who backs me because he realizes it helps the population of certain species.
Trout: what are you talking about :)
Trout: yodas
yodas: Man trout, If your going to jump around like that you might as well move to the U P
Mr.Ed: We are gong to the U P off south Manistique Lake.
yodas: Talking to Ed on his vacation
Trout: I think we need to promote hunting in a big way real fast to our young people
webmaster: back
Mr.Ed: But how do we do it Trout?
webmaster: So take your kids out hunting!
Trout: Got to make the money first yodas and I was kidding you a few lines up :)
webmaster: Turn off the TV, pack em up in the truck and go.
Mr.Ed: We are going against things that are immediate gratificaion. Lots of kids don't have the patients because of video games.
Trout: I don't have any but if you know of any kids who would like to hunt birds send them my way
yodas: To tell you the truth, I think it is to late for us and the hunting thing, it's on its way out I just hope I'm dead and gone before it REALLY kicks in
Trout: Matter of fact I'll post that under hunts and trades for free
Mr.Ed: Don't be so pessimistic Yoda.
webmaster: That's why we need to join organizations like MBH, TNUSA, etc.
Trout: Well I'll die trying to save it
yodas: :)
Mr.Ed: So will I. I don't have any kids either.
Mr.Ed: But will do what I can.
Trout: Heck we get all them geese you miss and they need thinning out so I guess you are helping in your own way
Mr.Ed: I am thinking about Bear hunting in the future. Probably not till 2002. What is the cost of a tag in MI? and where is a good place to go? and will I need a Guide.
yodas: Us people in the U.P. will just do what ever we want anyway (A guy that sits on the NRC board told me that last deer season at deer camp)
Trout: Plus join the NRA so you have a gun to hunt with
yodas: Head NORTH Ed
Trout: I think you will spend about 600.00 or so
webmaster: Still working on the tee-shirt, hat thing. Getting excited about this now.
Mr.Ed: I saw one outside of Frederic while deer hunting last year.
yodas: Dam Trout I'd do it for half that
Mr.Ed: My Elk hunt next fall will almost cost me that for the tag alone.
webmaster: I would love to just see one while hunting. That would get your heart beating.
Trout: Check out the guide at www.houndmangsk.com ed
Mr.Ed: If you need some one to go with you next year Yodas let me know.
yodas: Elk Or Bear Web
webmaster: Trout, that guide is going to advertise with us. That's something I'm trying to set up tonight while I'm talking to you guys.
Trout: Yodas thats the going rate do you want to start a guide service I'm ready
webmaster: I'd like to see a bear Yodas
yodas: I don't bear hunt much any more ed, But if you draw a tag let me know
Trout: Web glad it worked out for you
Mr.Ed: So am I.
Mr.Ed: I will let you know yoda.
yodas: I was doing a little guiding when I lived in marquette
webmaster: If he signs up for a year trout you get a hat :)
Trout: ALL RIGHT :)
Trout: full of money too :)
Mr.Ed: Will my .300win mag work for bear. Or will I have to get something else.
yodas: What are we signing people up for now trout
Trout: I do this for fun web
yodas: More than enough gun Ed
Trout: advertiseing
webmaster: Don't know if I can do that trout. Not yet anyway. This new host is going to cost me a bundle per month.
Mr.Ed: Good. Don't think the wife will let me get another rifle.
Trout: I do this for fun ;)
Trout: 300 mag is my next gun Ed
webmaster: Trout by the way, what is that guides URL again?
yodas: Got my downriggers today
Trout: Power and flat and a good range of bullets all you need in one gun
Trout: www.houndmangsk.com
Trout: What type yodas
Mr.Ed: That is why I got it. Figured it would take anything I would like to hunt.
yodas: The only problem with the .300 mag is most people are afraid to pinch the trigger :)
Trout: Hey I talked to allen in alaska and he said it would work there
Mr.Ed: Look at the Winchester Model 70 Trout. I love mine.
yodas: Walkers, kingFishers
Trout: I just sold mine in 270
Mr.Ed: Mine doesn't have any more kick than a 12 gauge.
Trout: I hope you catch a bunck of salmon yodas
Mr.Ed: I think Win. are some of the finest high volume rifle you can find.
Trout: Yeah I shoot 3" slugs ouch!!!!!!!
yodas: Look at that remington ULTRA MAG .300
Mr.Ed: It doesn't look that much better on paper and the ammo is more expensive.
Trout: Is that the one they just bought it was a custom gun?
yodas: These gas prices don't start moving back down I'll have to take a bunch of gill nets with me the one time I fish this summer :)
Trout: Just empty the ones out there already
yodas: It's not a custom job,
yodas: The owners of them don't care for that to much
Mr.Ed: It is a new caliber for Remington to sell.
Trout: oh
Mr.Ed: A friend bought one and wishes he didn't. Says it kicks like a mule.
yodas: I thinkj the shells are BIGGER than my 10ga shells
Mr.Ed: Trade in his .300win mag
webmaster: I think just about any larger gun would kick my !@#$@#$. I'm not a big guy.
Mr.Ed: Where is everyone else tonight?
webmaster: Don't know ....its nice outside.
Trout: Heck I'm a smaller guy but you only have to pull the trigger a few times
Mr.Ed: I'm not either. That's why I tested some out first before I bought the 300
webmaster: Think I'd tear my shoulder off.
Trout: If you shooting at a game animal you never feel it till afterwards
Mr.Ed: My shoulder is half numb so it does not bother me.
Trout: I've got two staple in my right shoulder and I shoot 3" mags
Mr.Ed: They want to rebuild mune. No thaks I can live with it.
yodas: taple gun get away from ya trout :)
Trout: My biggest fault is not holding guns in tight and raiseing my cheek off the stock ouch!
Mr.Ed: They already did the knees. That was enough.
Trout: I have shot myself with nail guns before just pulled it out and kept working
yodas: Oh, the .300 will LOVE you for that
Trout: fell through a floor last year and kept going too
Mr.Ed: You sound like me Trout.
Trout: Pain is only in your head no brain no pain
Trout: Thoose elephant guns scare me
yodas: Ok, Trout, lets see what kind of tricks you will do with a shock collar on :)
Mr.Ed: I have a hollow head. When my wife says knock on wood she naps my head a few times. Sounds like a hollow coconut.
Mr.Ed: Those collars sure do work.
Trout: Hey my dog has one maybe I could borrow it yodas
yodas: Never had one on ed
webmaster: Trout, I just got Jim's account set up. Should start around the middle of June.
Trout: Like magic Ed
Trout: Great web
Mr.Ed: Trust me they do. Chalk it up to stupidity
yodas: Give it a shot trout, Just make sure cindy sends me a picture of it when your done
Mr.Ed: I wont go any further with that story.
Trout: I was holding a wet leash and zapped the dog and me WOW they work
yodas: Ed, You didn't ??
Trout: I can turn my dog 180 degrees real fast
Trout: It saved his life many times
Mr.Ed: I did not think it would work. Wife asked me to put it on. I did. Dropped me to my knees. Needless to say it went on the right quick.
Mr.Ed: Went on the dog that is.
yodas: I KNEW IT,
Trout: ]Had the dog catcher here about my dog chaseing the neighbors ducks
Mr.Ed: I said it was a case of stupidity.
Mr.Ed: That and a few too many.
yodas: Trout you been fishing at all
Mr.Ed: Ever see the episode of cheers when Cliff was going through shock therapy. That says it all.
Trout: Was going tonight but I think I'll just paddle around in the lake
Mr.Ed: Seeking of Fishing how is it now in da U P Yoda?
Trout: Maybe I'll long line a rapala floater
webmaster: Sounds like the trout hatches are ready to take off in the lower.
Trout: Web I checked out TSS
yodas: SLOW, for the walleye, But from what I hear the pike are slammin things
Trout: Registered under Dr. Henry
Trout: my dogs name that'll get them high noses going
yodas: We took the boat out in the lower river monday, Marked a ton of fish in the shipping channel
Trout: St Marys yodas
yodas: Ya
webmaster: What did you think of TSS Trout?
Trout: I heard you can fish off shore pretty good on that is that true?
Mr.Ed: What is TSS?
Trout: It was OK just skimmed through tit web
webmaster: The Steelhead Site
Mr.Ed: Thanks.
Mr.Ed: How about perch Yoda?
yodas: Ya, the do very well on walleyes right next to the sugar island ferry
Trout: brb
yodas: Perch are a spring thing up here
Mr.Ed: ok
Mr.Ed: How about any other pan fish?
Trout: Hey guys I'm hitting the lake in my pirouge Have a great week see ya all sat night
yodas: This area is not noted for its pan fish ed, Mostly walleye, trout and whitefish
webmaster: Later trout.
Trout: The water is flat
yodas: See ya trout
Mr.Ed: Later Trout.
Trout: BYE
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webmaster: Hello Hunter333!
Hunter333: Hello all, kinda quiet tonight
yodas: whats new 333
Hunter333: Must because of the nice weather :)
Hunter333: Not too much, just waiting to hear more about the Outing
webmaster: I'd like to think that's what it is.
Mr.Ed: I gotta go too guys. Next Thursday for me see you then.
yodas: Looks like rain up here
yodas: see ya ed
Hunter333: See ya Ed. take it easy out ther
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Hunter333: So whats the haps tonight?
yodas: Any fishing plans for the UP this year web
Hunter333: Any of you from the UP?
yodas: I am 333
Hunter333: My wife and I would love to go camping there this summer but not sure what route to take
webmaster: Ya know yodas I haven't been up there in about 15 years. Now that I have kids its hard to take off like that. I'd love to go up there for about a week of brook trout fishing.
Hunter333: Heading from the west side of the lower P
Hunter333: We both teach so we have August to take off and enjoy the outdoors
yodas: I'd head right up the west shoreline 333, there are some nice camp grounds over there
Hunter333: What about once we get there, any certain points of interest other than Pictured Rosck and Tequeman Falls?
Hunter333: I went there with Boy Scouts but other than that I havent been up that way
yodas: Depends what your looking for and how much time you have
webmaster: I would have loved to go to Isle Royal. But I'm afraid I'm not in good enough shape for that anymore.
Hunter333: 2-3 weeks, not the tourists traps
yodas: They have a motor on the boat that takes you there web, you don't have to row any more :)
Hunter333: My wife has never been up there so anywhere is just about good to go
webmaster: Yeah, but I don't know if I could take the hiking for days at a time.
webmaster: Maybe when my boys get old enough.....
Hunter333: Are the camps sp booked that we will not be able to get a sight if we just show up?
yodas: With the gas prices the way they are you should not have a problem during the week, I would try to book for your weekends though
Hunter333: Maybe I could find someone on this sight that would let us pitch a tent?
webmaster: Probably could Hunter.
yodas: If your sight seeing the west end is the place to go
Hunter333: Go from day to day, she would love that
webmaster: Keewenaw P is awesome.
yodas: If your tenting, the Macormick track would be alot of fun
yodas: YES it is web
Hunter333: Where would I find info on that?
yodas: West of Marquette, by Champion
Hunter333: If anyone has phone numbers, campsights, routes, please email me
webmaster: Seems so pristine. That's the only place I ever saw a black bear besides the zoo. It was in the Copper Harbor dump.
webmaster: Not the most pristine setting I guess, but I was still awestruck.
yodas: Its off the pasheke grade, VERY VERY RUSTIC though
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Hunter333: I havent ever seen a bear in the wild
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Hunter333: THat or a moose, elk....
Hunter333: Hey there Stalker
webmaster: Good evening Stalker.
Stalker: Hello everyone
yodas: When we stayed up there, the bears TRASHED the town main street every night
yodas: Hi Stalker
webmaster: In Copper Harbor?
Hunter333: My East side state wife would love that, anything "wild" :)
yodas: Ya, it was unreal
Hunter333: Well all, I must call it a night. Thanks for the info
yodas: Every trash can in town was tipped over and spread out
Hunter333: Goodnight
yodas: See ya 333
webmaster: Wow, must need more bear hunters up there.
webmaster: Yodas, have you seen Estivant Pines?
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yodas: That was about 5 years ago, they had a real bear problem,
Stalker: Does anyone know where there is a web site on Preventing Bear attacks.
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Troll4Now: hello all
yodas: No I haven't web
webmaster: Troll4Now welcome. Is this your first campfire?
Troll4Now: Yup, first time here
yodas: I like that name :)
webmaster: Stalker I don't know of one but have you ever seen the guy with the grizzly bear suit?
Stalker: I just found out my Sister and her family are going to be camping five miles from wher that lady was killed in the smokies
webmaster: Well welcom Troll. What's on your mind tonight?
Troll4Now: I post on the fresh water fishing site pretty regularly, mostly walleye fishing on the St Clair river.
yodas: How far under the bridge do you live
Troll4Now: Port Huron area
yodas: Way down under
Stalker: No web .What's he all about
webmaster: What's your name on the forums?
Troll4Now: RemFire
webmaster: Well its going to be hard to explain here Stalker...
yodas: Gotta go guys, have to work early tomorrow
webmaster: Ok troll, I remember that name.
Troll4Now: I hunt walleye's and whitetails, use a remington on whitetail, and whatever they bite on for walleye
Troll4Now: bye yodas
Stalker: See ya Yodas
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Troll4Now: What is with the DNR, I hear they are going to do a special youth rifle hunt in Sept?
webmaster: Stalker the web page for that suit I'm talking about is http://www.trillium.net/grizzly/
Troll4Now: Anyone know anything about that?
webmaster: Yes Troll that is true. What do you think about it?
Stalker: Did anyone catch the news about the outdoors EXPO at MSU
Stalker: Thanks Web
Troll4Now: no
Troll4Now: I think it's good for the youth, I bowhunt and I expect it to mess with opening of bow season, but so what, we need more youth hunters. Hope it's a big hit. I know my two daughters will be going.
Stalker: It will be Aug 5th and 6th I think Put on by MUCC and MSU]
Troll4Now: What do you think web?
webmaster: I have mixed feelings about it.
Troll4Now: Well, wife calling, wanted to check this out...good hunting and fishing all...walleyes are getting hot down here now if interested.
Troll4Now: see ya all later
webmaster: Gotta go too guys. Take care of some web business. See ya.
Stalker: goodnight all
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marty: anyone home??
shotgun: yup
marty: howdy wher's everyone tonight??
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shotgun: quiet, eh marty?
marty: yepper guess everyone went to bed
shotgun: is there usually a lot of folks on this chat?
marty: yea sometimes
marty: where u from shotgun??
shotgun: traverse city...you?
marty: greenbush over near oscoda
shotgun: not far from harrisville. Have a brother in law there.
marty: nope not far at all whats his name??
shotgun: Stoddard.
marty: dont know him but have probably seen him kinda of a smal area
shotgun: What's your sports interest?
marty: hunting fishing and working on my property
shotgun: What do you do on your property?
marty: improving whitetail habitata
shotgun: Good thing to do. Then do you shoot em?
marty: sure but not all of them I try to let the little ones walk
shotgun: This thing sure is slow. Maybe it's my machine. Is it usually like this?
marty: yea sometimes maybe the lines got overheated today lol
shotgun: Retired?
marty: yes from the air force
shotgun: Good. Me too. Nice, eh?
marty: yea not bad still keep pretty busy
shotgun: That's sure easy to do. Seems like one could control that sort of thing, but it happens.
marty: yea when do you retire??
shotgun: I have several 40's in the UP. Haven't even been up there yet this year.
shotgun: Retired from Mich. Dept. of Agriculture...May 1997.
marty: cool I guess i'm becoming a farmer learning how to manage these food plot plantingtrees and shrubs
shotgun: I'm actually a forester.
marty: cool I got them on my place right now they're cutting off a ten acre parcel and I'm going to make deer cover
shotgun: Good. I had some cut several years ago. Almost time for another cut.
shotgun: Take care, Marty. Have to depart.
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