My 6 year old granddaughter, Isla, is up from Georgia with her family and one of the things on her list of things she wanted to do was go fishing with Grampy and Mr. Jeff. The weather for Tuesday looked promising, 73, sunny and 6mph winds.
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I got a PM from birdbander earlier this week: do you want to meet up Saturday and fish my home lake? Heck yeah! I picked up vbottom at 5am, hooked up his Lund and headed north. When we got to the lake it was dead calm and the lake was covered
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Every once in a while in the fishing world everything lines up perfectly and you experience success beyond belief. Today was one of those days. First off, the weather was amazing, high 70's, light wind and not a cloud in the sky. Secondly,
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I got invited to go crappie fishing with Jeff and his daughters friend, David. Being that David hasn't fished a lot we decided to go to our favorite crappie lake, Morrison, hoping the bite was still hot. We were on the water by 8:30 and started
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Despite the weather man saying hot and humid, Jeff and I made the decision to try and catch a few crappie today. We picked Pine Lake in Barry Counties Prairieville Township. Neither of us had ever fished it but the satellite view looked promising.
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I'm putting on a fish fry for my family in a couple of weeks and after weighing the fillets I have on hand I found that I didn't have enough for the 100 or so that are expected to show up. Dang it, we had to go fishing to try and add to my
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....to get out the ice fishing gear. Checked some northern Ionia/southern Montcalm County lakes and found fishable ice on several. After Monday and Tuesday below zero weather we should be good to go on most lakes. Planning a trip on Thursday,
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I played hookey from work on Friday and tagged along with vbottom on a crappie fishing adventure. The lake we went to usually has a decent fall crappie bite but we managed to put just three in the box. That doesn't mean it was a bad day, we
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I had a few hours today so I decided to throw the gear in the truck and head down to my early spring honey hole, a canal on a private lake that when the bite is on is you tube video worthy. When I got there I was disappointed to see that the
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My kids are home for their summer visit. My daughter, son in law and granddaughter, Isla, are in from Georgia and my son is in from Louisiana. Thursday was chosen as the day to take Isla out in Grampys boat, hopefully to catch a fish or two
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Jeff and I took a trip down to Delton on Sunday to try our luck on Crooked Lake. If's been so long since I've been fishing I wasn't sure if I remembered how. We got on the water about 6:30 and were the first to launch, with a line of boats
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Jeff(vbottom) and I took the SS Greybeard out for the first of hopefully many fishing trips. We hit the backwaters of Weber dam on the Grand River near Portland. Our goal was to find downed trees and logs in water deep enough to hold fish and
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This afternoon I got a group text from my niece, Tanya, who owns Courageous Coffee. She quit roasting early today and decided to take her son, Caleb (5), who is autistic, fishing. She let him pick out his new rod(camo) and let him choose crawlers
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Jeff and I took the newly made over Grumman boat for a ride this afternoon on the Grand River in Portland. Other than testing it for leaks, this is the first time I've had it in the water. Our goal was to run the motor, do a check of the electronics,
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Made a trip over to Morrison Lake today with my son and his half brother, Cody, (my ex's son) to try and find a few crappie. A little background first.
I am amazed at some of the jigs the Crappie.com members tie. I thought it
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I need to thank everybody that made the spring camp a success. First and foremost are those who so generously donated prizes for our Friday night "freeby" give away and our Saturday night raffle.