Even though I had camera problems most of the day I managed to get enough video of last weeks 10 hour day of smallmouth and crappie fishing to put together this video. Some of you may have seen a few of the photo that I posted ...

For the past 11 years we have lived in Gladwin County, on, or within just a couple miles of some outstanding crappie fishing waters. Recently that all changed when we moved north about 45 miles. Although the move wasn't all bad because it landed my family and I just a couple blocks from Houghton Lake, the largest inland lake in Michigan. Houghton Lake also happens to be a lake I grew up fishing and have hit some good numbers of slab crappies in the past few weeks. The down side of the move was that I hadn't been able to fish any ...

When Sunday, September 28^th rolled around, I was ready to hit the water bright and early. The last couple weeks weather, with the cold and rain two weeks ago, and then the wonderful warm up this past week, the autumn panfish bite was pushed into full swing. By the time my wife left for work at 5:50am, I had already been awake for nearly an hour and a half loading my kayak and all the gear needed for a day of fishing. I had planned on being in my Native Watercraft Ultimate 14.5 kayak for the majority of the day, so I wanted to make sure I was prepared. ...

And yet another great day on the water in my kayak. For some reason, when I was packing all my gear, I had feeling that it was going to be a good, but long, day of fishing. Usually I will use a stringer or bucket to keep my fish in while on the water, ...

As evening approached on Wednesday, June 11th, I began to really get anxious for six o:clock pm to arrive so that I could close up the store and head north to my buddy Luke’s house to begin my two days off. I don’t often take two days in a row off so it was something that I had been looking forward to for quite some time, and the fact that both my days off were set aside for fishing made it that much better. I had the keys in my hand and the second the clock struck six, the lights were off, the doors were locked and I was on my way to Grayling.

Luke and I have been running woods and waters of Northern Michigan together for the better part of the past 35 years since we met in junior high school in the late 70s. Over the years we have created more great hunting and fishing memories than a couple old Pollocks ...

I am not sure if this is something you would like to share for this Memorial Day weekend or not. If so please feel free to post it. The video is something I wrote and edited and speak the narrative. The young Marine at the end is my middle son, who is now out of the service and living back at home. ...

So once a week I commit a day to spend with my 3 and 5 year old grandsons. It’s a day of kid’s movies, playing in the yard and a walk or two down the road to the ditches, mud puddles and small woodlots near the house. I love my grandsons dearly, and nothing could be more precious, but as I am sure any of you other grandparents are well aware, precious occasionally wears off and the terror comes out. It just so ...