Hawg

It’s so crazy because I’ve done a deep dive on this lately as I was going to stay at my friends house next spring on torch lake and travel the area and fish some of the nearby streams for brown trout steelhead salmon etc. I got to thinking that I should fish torch lake even though he warned me that it was tough to fish. I looked it up and found out that people catch Atlantic salmon out of it. I noticed that there is a do not eat warning associated with that species because of high concentrations of mercury, PolyChlorinated Biphenyls (PCB’s), and dioxins. That is where the rabbit hole started… From what I gather much of the state has high levels of PFAS in the river systems and they’ve gone about warning people many times not to eat the fish and have published species specific guides on consumption. There’s a lot of ambiguity on what the safe levels are but I believe it was either the EPA or the state of Michigan declaring that 19 ppm was the high tolerance for drinking water. Some of the fish they have tested are showing up with HUNDERDS of thousands of ppm in them. Apparently a bunch of the pollution is caused from all the manufacturing in the state and is also in Lake Michigan. The other major factor is the fact that the military constantly does drills using fire fighting foam which is loaded with PFAS. Some of the stuff I read says it’s contaminated groundwater up to 100 miles away from these bases. 3M Has been under fire for a long while about the pollution they manufacture and only just recently stopped producing PFAS. Its been hard for me to discern between environmentalist pearl clutching and real deal environmental emergency. That said the whole point of my trip was that my son wanted to go camping in the wild and eat what we catch and I told him that we are going to find somewhere else to go.. https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/importance_of_using_the_eat_safe_fish_guide https://patch.com/michigan/across-mi/state-officials-issue-do-not-eat-warning-fish-pond

Turns out a Voodoo shrimp under a popping cork can catch a bunch of speckled trout before they tear it up once I locate locate the fish..

I’ve never fished Louisiana. But in Alabama and Florida I get the kids to catch blue crabs and ghost crabs for bait and I throw the cast net for mullet. The crabs (cut the big ones up) catch black drum as well and I seem to catch more reds with the mullet. 8 inches is ideal size…

Nice job. Can you give details of put in and take out? I want to do that run..

Thanks for posting this 👍

Would it be easier to autoclave(pressure cook) the bottles?

I caught a baby tarpon in the gulf in a creek/marsh with the fly rod tossing out a clouser. Silver carp the same way in a creek south of St. Louis that flows to the Mississippi. I’ve tried to catch walleye at chain of rocks after a guy told me how he does it, no luck.

Great thread here.

I caught a the first and last one on your list last year by surprise. Do you have a plan for the sturgeon?

Works well on this loose “dusty” type snow before the sun hits it.

Thanks man. I taught myself and I frequently wonder if im missing out. Have always wondered about the equipment. That said being an angling addict and fishing just about every water I see, I’ve been forced to get better in highly technical and undesirable situations. When I fish with others I sometimes see them making these elaborate casts and here I am giving the minimum effort within my ability to get the fly near the fish. I usually catch more than my company haha.

Nice

Ill try to grab some. Dang

Panther

How is that done?

50s is great for getting stuff done outside, 40s too if the wind is low. 30s and below you can keep it.

Haha I just noticed that you pop started a ten year old thread!

splatamaran

Had a deer cross the road out there the other day and had to lock em up. Blood Alley is bad enough without the rut making the the deer fearless of cars. My folks hit one last year on 21 this time last year..

Had no idea there were women on this forum..

Cheating is one thing. The fact that they’ve cheated and there is money and other assets involved is going to open up them up to civil and criminal fraud….

No pics. 😕

A buddy of mine was healed from sciatica by cupping (haha I know) and acupuncture. I walked in on it once and will never forget that sight unfortunately.