12poundbass

As I continue to phase out some older reels from my arsenal and add new, I’m looking to bring new workhorses into the stable. Looking at the Okuma Hakai it checks many boxes for me. What’s been your experience with the Okuma Hakai?

One of the towns I’m building right now is Grand Haven. I’ve been making trips out to the pier to check things out. With spring coming and getting the itch to fish I figured I’d do a little research about fishing off the pier and stumbled upon this from a website. I found this section on smallmouth quite funny. Did I stumble upon a hidden gem? I’m leaning towards a tiny bit of a fisherman’s tale. 😂 Grand Haven Smallies usually reach weights of over 10 pounds and live in Lake Michigan’s deeper waters. All the regular methods, such as trolling, casting, and jigging, work well for Smallmouth Bass fishing. If you’re looking for Largemouth, head to shallow, weedy areas or fish along the river’s edges. Grand River anglers can also fly fish for Bass.

I hear ya! It’s nice out but the ice cap just came off so there’s water is a bit too chilly for the fish to cooperate (from my experience) and it’s too early to chase birds. Last weekend was warm so I washed the front of the house, this weekend it’s a bit too chilly to do the north side. I need to go get crabgrass preventative before the soil warms too much. But I’m with you, my drive this weekend isn’t there.

The anglers report their catch and weight, although I don’t believe they are required to. Some that are showing zero may not have caught one yet, may not report their catch, and in some instances may not have cell service.

Thankfully we don’t have hurricanes up here and tornadoes which can produce those type of winds albeit not sustained for long periods of time are very rare.

Here in Michigan the towers like you’re referring to and the ones like @Catt posted are transmission lines. Transmission lines come from the power plant and usually to go a substation where the voltage is dropped down to a distribution level and from the substation they go to feed houses and so on. The transmission towers here are huge and like you said those puppies aren’t coming down. It’s quite possible what you’re referring to are distribution lines and if that’s the case you guys are very fortunate. 27 years without losing power is awesome!

They have redundancy which is always nice to have. We build our fiber optic infrastructure with redundancy.

Along power lines there’s usually what’s called a utility easement and that’s typically 20-40’ on Esther side of the power lines so the utility company can’t do anything beyond that which means they can trim the branches but can’t cut down the trees. In some case they can cut down the tree depending on the health of the tree. Still, that means the majority of the trees are safe from being cut down which means a good storm could still bring that tree down and the power lines underneath it which means power outage to hundreds or thousands of people.

People get a false sense of reality by having buried power lines. At some point they go from aerial to underground. The only way you’re going to have any sense of security is if you live in the plains states which we don’t. The tree trimming we have going on definitely helps but it doesn’t give us 100% security. As someone who in the underground utility business, to install underground utilities it would cost a MINIMUM of $15 per foot so that’s not an option, therefore outages will always be a part of our live to some capacity. To make matters worse, people complain about power outages so utility companies employ tree trimming companies to help with this but then you have homeowners who constantly complain about the tree trimming because it affects their privacy so it’s a lose lose situation. I’ve experienced this first hand several times over the past 15 years I’ve been doing this. Go figure!

Hey man it’s fishing. You did great and that’s all that matters. Nonetheless, you made it to the top tier! Well done Clayton!

She’s an angry lake today! The wind is whipping and out of the SW which seems to produce bigger waves.

If I remember correctly, last year Clayton was told not to tell anyone the outcome until it was announced by Bass and it was delayed like it is this year.

Wow, way to drop the ball Bass. To be fair, I wouldn’t care if I didn’t know someone in it. 😁

This exact same thing happened last year. The tournament has been over for well over 12 hours and they hadn’t posted the results. Come on Bassmaster!

They were fishing 11 hours today since yesterday was canceled so, they are probably just finishing up. It might be a while before we have results.

It’s been a long winter for me too. 😁

He’s referring to his rod and reel

I wish that had Basstrack for this. I remember back a few years ago watching @everythingthatswims fish in the college final live and it coming down to the weighin. A lot of on here were watching and posting. That was a lot of fun!

@Glenn how are you following the leaderboard? I go to the page and it says results are unavailable.

I’ve never had one remotely close to that! That looks pretty bad. Getting stuck from a hook never bothered me at all. When a dorsal fin gets me for whatever reason that is sore for a couple weeks and the skin around it is hard and you can see where it pierced my skin.

When I went through my chemo therapy I paid attention to the different colors they gave me. I was given a cocktail that was yellow, orange, and red. Each time I received these cocktails required a weeks stay in the hospital. Yellow, no big deal, orange, I was a little weak and lethargic, and the “red stuff” I called it, absolutely knocked me on my butt and I did nothing but sleep for about 14-16 hrs a day for about two weeks. My schedule was in a week out two. Keep in mind this was 23 years ago, my treatment was very aggressive because my cancer was very aggressive but also responded very well to treatment. Regardless of how you feel, I highly recommend you have someone go with you and sunscreen of some type is an absolute must because I’m assuming they’ll put you on steroids. I’d highly recommend someone take the fish off for you as well because your immune system is going to be highly compromised. Keep fighting and a positive mindset goes a long way.

I took a walk out on the Grand Haven pier today on my lunch. Still plenty of ice chunks to probably 600’ out. Hearing the waves move those chunks around was a pretty cool sound. No bass on beds. 😂

They can fly up to 55mph too, albeit for a very short time. And to think, that ugly bird was going to be our national bird. 😂

I’m Irish and I hate cabbage and I can’t say I’ve ever had corned beef. I was told I’m a disgrace today. 😂

I’m 5’ 10” on a good day. Both sides of my family are Irish. Interesting story, my mom’s side changed their last name when they came over here to Rogers which I’m told is English. They did that because Irish were looked down upon at the time and thought they have it a bit easier if they changed it to an English name. My mom said some of them were horse thieves so they may have changed their names but didn’t change their ways. 😁