Au Sable Steelhead

[lonehunter]

Hey, they are picking up ! Nice fresh crome (10# to 14#) , saw one full of color but she was a big lady , maybe 17 lbs.
I'm headed over next weekend to give them another go after I hang the stands up .
Dress warm !!!!!!!
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[Jaackrabbit]

Are you floating between Foote Dam and the mouth? Or are you casting from shore/wading? River is pretty deep not to many places to use the waiters. Of course I havn't been on the other side of Foote in a long time. Mainly we fished walleye between Foote and Cooke Dam. LOTS of stumps in that river. I've lost A LOT of tackle to the Ausable.
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[lonehunter]

I do both , the boat gets me to a lot of great spots where I can get out and wade the shoreline .
Actually saw some locals diving the river for lures and lead at different spots .
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[Jaackrabbit]

My dad and I would dive for lures off shore in the Ausable. We just used mask snorkle and fins off shore. Mainly we were only getting our own lures off the couple of normal log jams we would fish but once in a while we would find a couple from other people.

My dads favorite thing to do while down there was to break open clams and feed them to the young walleyes that seemed interested in what we were doing down there. They would take them almost out of his hand once he broke them. We always saw smaller walleyes down there in our normal bass fishing spots but we never ever caught any. Guess we should have used broke open clams instead of crawlers !!!
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[davetclown]

I was just plain lazy, I would catch the divers coming out and offer them a quarter more per pound than what they were turning them in for at the shop.... 10 bucks we would have more lead then we wanted to carry...
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[lonehunter]

Old waterpipes every time they buldozed down an old house , pipes were solid lead .
Explains a lot about the good old days , huh ?
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[davetclown]

ya, I know, my neighbor had a new septic put in and in the process dug up a solid lead water tank...

sheesh, now it is a 500 pound lawn ornament...
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[lonehunter]

SWinkers , shot , a lifetime supply just sitting there [crazy] .
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[lonehunter]

LANSING, MI--A bill introduced in the Michigan Legislature proposes a multi-step phase-out of most lead tackle, including sinkers weighing 1 ounce or less, jigs and other tackle items containing lead. Michigan Democratic Rep. Chris Kolb is sponsoring the bill and says its passage would protect water birds from ingesting lead jigs and sinkers.
Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Natural Heritage Unit Supervisor Ray Rustem says the ban's potential impact on the wildlife population would be insignificant considering the economic costs to anglers.
"For the benefit to be derived from this ... it's not worth the economic impact on the angler," he says.
Rustem also says far more loons are killed by commercial fish nets than by lead sinkers.
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[davetclown]

I cant deny ducks get killed by lead, they also get killed by steel just as easy as they get killed by lead.

60% of every time one gets shot at with lead or steel a duck dies...

in my opinion, more ducks die needlessly every year from pwc's than any thing else.... I dont see those things getting banned... LOL
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[Jaackrabbit]

So did you make it up to Oscoda this weekend? Had some nice weather for it.
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[lonehunter]

No , didn't make it .
We had a fire at the house , careless smoker thru a butt out the window and set our trees along the road on fire . My youngest (real proud of the way she handeled it ) called 911 when she saw the blaze , then called her mom . the wife called me . as we rushed home , my kid grabbed the house hose and battled the blaze herself untill the wife showed up . The fire department showed up next , my kid had already put the flames out and was watering down the hot spots , the fire department finished that part up as i pulled up .
My kids quick thinking prevented a forest fire .

that was friday . news on saturday was snow for tuesday , gas prices what they are I'm holding out untill then to shoot up to put stands up for roosterfish (another bft member )and myself .

Spent the weekend winterizing the boat , cleaning the yard and cutting/splitting/stacking wood for the fireplace and woodburning furnace [cool].

a grouse flew into the side of our house today , found him dead in the yard [] .
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[davetclown]

if you were planning on coffee in fairview the trail side resturant took a hit sunday afternoon....
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[Jaackrabbit]

Wow quick thinking munchkin you got there. I future fightfighter maybe....
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[lonehunter]

Her granddaddy was a fireman and she's seen her pappy pull over and jump out of the car to help a farmer or two out with one untill the firetrucks roll in .
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