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Trout: Hi yodas yodas: Hi guys Trout: Yes and then where will it stop? Mr.Ed: Hey Yodas *: webmaster just logged on to Jabber Chat. *: webmaster just entered this channel. *: Welcome to The Michigan Sportsman Campfire! *: Regular Chats held Thursdays, Saturdays at 8pm EST *: or whenever arranged with other Sportsmen *: Type HELP to see a list of available chat commands. *: You are on channel 1 with Trout, Mr.Ed, yodas. *: You are on channel 1 with Trout, Mr.Ed, yodas. yodas: I'll tell ya these gas prices ARE the pits Mr.Ed: They lost between 50,000-100,000 gallons with the pipeline break. Trout: I paid 169.9 today yodas: I paid $1.90 today Trout: That5s chicken feed to the oil companies ed webmaster: Guys the new baiting regs are posted, have you seen them? Mr.Ed: That's cheap. Filled up today at 1.99 for regular unled Mr.Ed: Not yet. Trout: Hey web did you get the boot yodas: No, when did you post them Trout: Two gallons of bait won't effect me Mr.Ed: Maybe be chicken feed but they will stick it to us. webmaster: yes, my isp sucks, cable modems are coming. Just posted the regs in the forums. Trout: Yes in a big way :( Mr.Ed: How much will a package of Deer Crack fill? yodas: brb webmaster: Depends how many pound you buy Trout: I'd rather use scent drippers Trout: with mock scrapes Mr.Ed: Probably 5 at a time. Mr.Ed: I' do that to Trout. But is nice to get them to stop for a nice broadside shot. Mr.Ed: Especially when I'm bowhunting. Trout: They'll stop for a gallon of corn webmaster: Fred's talking about the special early season for kids. Saying they should have special hunts for ethnic groups as well. webmaster: Sept 2-3 hunt for churchgoers only? Trout: Martin Luther King deer day ? webmaster: Special weekend for women? yodas: I'm back webmaster: Special weekend for first time hunters only? Trout: Yoopers special hunts? Mr.Ed: Nine months for us Polacks Trout: :) yodas: All ready have one of them, opens July 4th :) webmaster: I mean if it gets more kids involved I guess its ok but it came from the governers office. Is this where hunting policy should be made. Mr.Ed: And we can take 'em any way possible except for explosives. webmaster: Proposal G says we should adopt regulations based on sound wildlife management information. Trout: Youth hunts are ok just don't single out anyone Mr.Ed: brb webmaster: They have singled out someone. 14-16 year olds. Should they have a womens only weekend? webmaster: Not many Chinese Americans hunt in MI, should we have a special weekend for them in August? Trout: NO webmaster: Sorry, this is one I agree with Fred on. Trout: Might thin out the cats and dogs yodas: You really don't like the youth hunt do ya web *: You are on channel 1 with Trout, Mr.Ed, yodas. Trout: Oh I might get sent back to the minor leauges webmaster: Well, no. And I do have two sons. The oldest one I took hunting last year for his first time....Didn't need a special season to do it. Trout: Thats what I thought at first but hey if it give a kid a chance to learn I say good yodas: What the HECK are you talking about trout :) webmaster: By the way Trout thanks for the nice article. Still need to get that hunting library shaped up. I'll get off my soap box now. yodas: Did he hunt web, or just tag along ? Trout: I am saying I'm all for the kids hunt webmaster: He just tagged along. Was only 6 at the time. webmaster: When he gets old enough he will hunt. Trout: you missed the comment I made that way about cats and dogs so I'll forget it webmaster: I think the people that are going to take their kids will do it anyway without a special weekend. Mr.Ed: I agree yodas: Yes they will, But it's nice to have a hunt just for them Mr.Ed: Isn't that the first weekend after school starts. Trout: I don't believe they will ,too selfish Trout: They are safer in the woods Mr.Ed: Kids will be doing other things like football and soccer. I don't know how well it will be used. Mr.Ed: That is true Trout. yodas: alot of truth to that one Ed webmaster: Speaking of kids, I need to help get mine in bed, brb Mr.Ed: My wife used to work security at a middle school here and said she couldn't beleive what was going on at the schools now. Trout: I really believe the youth holds the KEY to huntings future and the numbers are dropping yodas: Trout, any more news on you working out west ? Mr.Ed: You are right Trout. Trout: I got my nephew into the JAKES program for 5 bucks Mr.Ed: I don't have any kids, but would love to help out. Trout: Well the guy wants to pay me the same as here and no room and board Trout: So I think I'll pass Mr.Ed: Heck my parents don't hunt. I am the only one I know of in my family that does and do catch some grief because I kill Bambi. Trout: It was only for 30 days yodas: To bad it didn't work out Trout: My brother and I are the only hunters in my family of 7 kids Mr.Ed: Yodas thanks for all the info for my vacation. Trout: Might go to Kentucky this winter Trout: inside work metal studs yodas: Not a problem, I would just hart for the U.P. to get a bad name :) Mr.Ed: My brother is getiing his degree in wildlife biology from CO state U. He is the only one who backs me because he realizes it helps the population of certain species. Trout: what are you talking about :) Trout: yodas yodas: Man trout, If your going to jump around like that you might as well move to the U P Mr.Ed: We are gong to the U P off south Manistique Lake. yodas: Talking to Ed on his vacation Trout: I think we need to promote hunting in a big way real fast to our young people webmaster: back Mr.Ed: But how do we do it Trout? webmaster: So take your kids out hunting! Trout: Got to make the money first yodas and I was kidding you a few lines up :) webmaster: Turn off the TV, pack em up in the truck and go. Mr.Ed: We are going against things that are immediate gratificaion. Lots of kids don't have the patients because of video games. Trout: I don't have any but if you know of any kids who would like to hunt birds send them my way yodas: To tell you the truth, I think it is to late for us and the hunting thing, it's on its way out I just hope I'm dead and gone before it REALLY kicks in Trout: Matter of fact I'll post that under hunts and trades for free Mr.Ed: Don't be so pessimistic Yoda. webmaster: That's why we need to join organizations like MBH, TNUSA, etc. Trout: Well I'll die trying to save it yodas: :) Mr.Ed: So will I. I don't have any kids either. Mr.Ed: But will do what I can. Trout: Heck we get all them geese you miss and they need thinning out so I guess you are helping in your own way Mr.Ed: I am thinking about Bear hunting in the future. Probably not till 2002. What is the cost of a tag in MI? and where is a good place to go? and will I need a Guide. yodas: Us people in the U.P. will just do what ever we want anyway (A guy that sits on the NRC board told me that last deer season at deer camp) Trout: Plus join the NRA so you have a gun to hunt with yodas: Head NORTH Ed Trout: I think you will spend about 600.00 or so webmaster: Still working on the tee-shirt, hat thing. Getting excited about this now. Mr.Ed: I saw one outside of Frederic while deer hunting last year. yodas: Dam Trout I'd do it for half that Mr.Ed: My Elk hunt next fall will almost cost me that for the tag alone. webmaster: I would love to just see one while hunting. That would get your heart beating. Trout: Check out the guide at www.houndmangsk.com ed Mr.Ed: If you need some one to go with you next year Yodas let me know. yodas: Elk Or Bear Web webmaster: Trout, that guide is going to advertise with us. That's something I'm trying to set up tonight while I'm talking to you guys. Trout: Yodas thats the going rate do you want to start a guide service I'm ready webmaster: I'd like to see a bear Yodas yodas: I don't bear hunt much any more ed, But if you draw a tag let me know Trout: Web glad it worked out for you Mr.Ed: So am I. Mr.Ed: I will let you know yoda. yodas: I was doing a little guiding when I lived in marquette webmaster: If he signs up for a year trout you get a hat :) Trout: ALL RIGHT :) Trout: full of money too :) Mr.Ed: Will my .300win mag work for bear. Or will I have to get something else. yodas: What are we signing people up for now trout Trout: I do this for fun web yodas: More than enough gun Ed Trout: advertiseing webmaster: Don't know if I can do that trout. Not yet anyway. This new host is going to cost me a bundle per month. Mr.Ed: Good. Don't think the wife will let me get another rifle. Trout: I do this for fun ;) Trout: 300 mag is my next gun Ed webmaster: Trout by the way, what is that guides URL again? yodas: Got my downriggers today Trout: Power and flat and a good range of bullets all you need in one gun Trout: www.houndmangsk.com Trout: What type yodas Mr.Ed: That is why I got it. Figured it would take anything I would like to hunt. yodas: The only problem with the .300 mag is most people are afraid to pinch the trigger :) Trout: Hey I talked to allen in alaska and he said it would work there Mr.Ed: Look at the Winchester Model 70 Trout. I love mine. yodas: Walkers, kingFishers Trout: I just sold mine in 270 Mr.Ed: Mine doesn't have any more kick than a 12 gauge. Trout: I hope you catch a bunck of salmon yodas Mr.Ed: I think Win. are some of the finest high volume rifle you can find. Trout: Yeah I shoot 3" slugs ouch!!!!!!! yodas: Look at that remington ULTRA MAG .300 Mr.Ed: It doesn't look that much better on paper and the ammo is more expensive. Trout: Is that the one they just bought it was a custom gun? yodas: These gas prices don't start moving back down I'll have to take a bunch of gill nets with me the one time I fish this summer :) Trout: Just empty the ones out there already yodas: It's not a custom job, yodas: The owners of them don't care for that to much Mr.Ed: It is a new caliber for Remington to sell. Trout: oh Mr.Ed: A friend bought one and wishes he didn't. Says it kicks like a mule. yodas: I thinkj the shells are BIGGER than my 10ga shells Mr.Ed: Trade in his .300win mag webmaster: I think just about any larger gun would kick my !@#$@#$. I'm not a big guy. Mr.Ed: Where is everyone else tonight? webmaster: Don't know ....its nice outside. Trout: Heck I'm a smaller guy but you only have to pull the trigger a few times Mr.Ed: I'm not either. That's why I tested some out first before I bought the 300 webmaster: Think I'd tear my shoulder off. Trout: If you shooting at a game animal you never feel it till afterwards Mr.Ed: My shoulder is half numb so it does not bother me. Trout: I've got two staple in my right shoulder and I shoot 3" mags Mr.Ed: They want to rebuild mune. No thaks I can live with it. yodas: taple gun get away from ya trout :) Trout: My biggest fault is not holding guns in tight and raiseing my cheek off the stock ouch! Mr.Ed: They already did the knees. That was enough. Trout: I have shot myself with nail guns before just pulled it out and kept working yodas: Oh, the .300 will LOVE you for that Trout: fell through a floor last year and kept going too Mr.Ed: You sound like me Trout. Trout: Pain is only in your head no brain no pain Trout: Thoose elephant guns scare me yodas: Ok, Trout, lets see what kind of tricks you will do with a shock collar on :) Mr.Ed: I have a hollow head. When my wife says knock on wood she naps my head a few times. Sounds like a hollow coconut. Mr.Ed: Those collars sure do work. Trout: Hey my dog has one maybe I could borrow it yodas yodas: Never had one on ed webmaster: Trout, I just got Jim's account set up. Should start around the middle of June. Trout: Like magic Ed Trout: Great web Mr.Ed: Trust me they do. Chalk it up to stupidity yodas: Give it a shot trout, Just make sure cindy sends me a picture of it when your done Mr.Ed: I wont go any further with that story. Trout: I was holding a wet leash and zapped the dog and me WOW they work yodas: Ed, You didn't ?? Trout: I can turn my dog 180 degrees real fast Trout: It saved his life many times Mr.Ed: I did not think it would work. Wife asked me to put it on. I did. Dropped me to my knees. Needless to say it went on the right quick. Mr.Ed: Went on the dog that is. yodas: I KNEW IT, Trout: ]Had the dog catcher here about my dog chaseing the neighbors ducks Mr.Ed: I said it was a case of stupidity. Mr.Ed: That and a few too many. yodas: Trout you been fishing at all Mr.Ed: Ever see the episode of cheers when Cliff was going through shock therapy. That says it all. Trout: Was going tonight but I think I'll just paddle around in the lake Mr.Ed: Seeking of Fishing how is it now in da U P Yoda? Trout: Maybe I'll long line a rapala floater webmaster: Sounds like the trout hatches are ready to take off in the lower. Trout: Web I checked out TSS yodas: SLOW, for the walleye, But from what I hear the pike are slammin things Trout: Registered under Dr. Henry Trout: my dogs name that'll get them high noses going yodas: We took the boat out in the lower river monday, Marked a ton of fish in the shipping channel Trout: St Marys yodas yodas: Ya webmaster: What did you think of TSS Trout? Trout: I heard you can fish off shore pretty good on that is that true? Mr.Ed: What is TSS? Trout: It was OK just skimmed through tit web webmaster: The Steelhead Site Mr.Ed: Thanks. Mr.Ed: How about perch Yoda? yodas: Ya, the do very well on walleyes right next to the sugar island ferry Trout: brb yodas: Perch are a spring thing up here Mr.Ed: ok Mr.Ed: How about any other pan fish? Trout: Hey guys I'm hitting the lake in my pirouge Have a great week see ya all sat night yodas: This area is not noted for its pan fish ed, Mostly walleye, trout and whitefish webmaster: Later trout. Trout: The water is flat yodas: See ya trout Mr.Ed: Later Trout. Trout: BYE *: Trout just logged off. *: Hunter333 just logged on to Jabber Chat. *: Hunter333 just entered this channel. *: Welcome to The Michigan Sportsman Campfire! *: Regular Chats held Thursdays, Saturdays at 8pm EST *: or whenever arranged with other Sportsmen *: Type HELP to see a list of available chat commands. *: You are on channel 1 with Mr.Ed, yodas, webmaster. webmaster: Hello Hunter333! Hunter333: Hello all, kinda quiet tonight yodas: whats new 333 Hunter333: Must because of the nice weather :) Hunter333: Not too much, just waiting to hear more about the Outing webmaster: I'd like to think that's what it is. Mr.Ed: I gotta go too guys. Next Thursday for me see you then. yodas: Looks like rain up here yodas: see ya ed Hunter333: See ya Ed. take it easy out ther *: Mr.Ed just logged off. Hunter333: So whats the haps tonight? yodas: Any fishing plans for the UP this year web Hunter333: Any of you from the UP? yodas: I am 333 Hunter333: My wife and I would love to go camping there this summer but not sure what route to take webmaster: Ya know yodas I haven't been up there in about 15 years. Now that I have kids its hard to take off like that. I'd love to go up there for about a week of brook trout fishing. Hunter333: Heading from the west side of the lower P Hunter333: We both teach so we have August to take off and enjoy the outdoors yodas: I'd head right up the west shoreline 333, there are some nice camp grounds over there Hunter333: What about once we get there, any certain points of interest other than Pictured Rosck and Tequeman Falls? Hunter333: I went there with Boy Scouts but other than that I havent been up that way yodas: Depends what your looking for and how much time you have webmaster: I would have loved to go to Isle Royal. But I'm afraid I'm not in good enough shape for that anymore. Hunter333: 2-3 weeks, not the tourists traps yodas: They have a motor on the boat that takes you there web, you don't have to row any more :) Hunter333: My wife has never been up there so anywhere is just about good to go webmaster: Yeah, but I don't know if I could take the hiking for days at a time. webmaster: Maybe when my boys get old enough..... Hunter333: Are the camps sp booked that we will not be able to get a sight if we just show up? yodas: With the gas prices the way they are you should not have a problem during the week, I would try to book for your weekends though Hunter333: Maybe I could find someone on this sight that would let us pitch a tent? webmaster: Probably could Hunter. yodas: If your sight seeing the west end is the place to go Hunter333: Go from day to day, she would love that webmaster: Keewenaw P is awesome. yodas: If your tenting, the Macormick track would be alot of fun yodas: YES it is web Hunter333: Where would I find info on that? yodas: West of Marquette, by Champion Hunter333: If anyone has phone numbers, campsights, routes, please email me webmaster: Seems so pristine. That's the only place I ever saw a black bear besides the zoo. It was in the Copper Harbor dump. webmaster: Not the most pristine setting I guess, but I was still awestruck. yodas: Its off the pasheke grade, VERY VERY RUSTIC though *: Stalker just logged on to Jabber Chat. Hunter333: I havent ever seen a bear in the wild *: Stalker just entered this channel. *: Welcome to The Michigan Sportsman Campfire! *: Regular Chats held Thursdays, Saturdays at 8pm EST *: or whenever arranged with other Sportsmen *: Type HELP to see a list of available chat commands. *: You are on channel 1 with yodas, webmaster, Hunter333. Hunter333: THat or a moose, elk.... Hunter333: Hey there Stalker webmaster: Good evening Stalker. Stalker: Hello everyone yodas: When we stayed up there, the bears TRASHED the town main street every night yodas: Hi Stalker webmaster: In Copper Harbor? Hunter333: My East side state wife would love that, anything "wild" :) yodas: Ya, it was unreal Hunter333: Well all, I must call it a night. Thanks for the info yodas: Every trash can in town was tipped over and spread out Hunter333: Goodnight yodas: See ya 333 webmaster: Wow, must need more bear hunters up there. webmaster: Yodas, have you seen Estivant Pines? *: Troll4Now just logged on to Jabber Chat. *: Troll4Now just entered this channel. *: Welcome to The Michigan Sportsman Campfire! *: Regular Chats held Thursdays, Saturdays at 8pm EST *: or whenever arranged with other Sportsmen *: Type HELP to see a list of available chat commands. *: You are on channel 1 with yodas, webmaster, Hunter333, Stalker. yodas: That was about 5 years ago, they had a real bear problem, Stalker: Does anyone know where there is a web site on Preventing Bear attacks. *: Hunter333 just melted into a meaningless puddle of ooze and is now gone. Troll4Now: hello all yodas: No I haven't web webmaster: Troll4Now welcome. Is this your first campfire? Troll4Now: Yup, first time here yodas: I like that name :) webmaster: Stalker I don't know of one but have you ever seen the guy with the grizzly bear suit? Stalker: I just found out my Sister and her family are going to be camping five miles from wher that lady was killed in the smokies webmaster: Well welcom Troll. What's on your mind tonight? Troll4Now: I post on the fresh water fishing site pretty regularly, mostly walleye fishing on the St Clair river. yodas: How far under the bridge do you live Troll4Now: Port Huron area yodas: Way down under Stalker: No web .What's he all about webmaster: What's your name on the forums? Troll4Now: RemFire webmaster: Well its going to be hard to explain here Stalker... yodas: Gotta go guys, have to work early tomorrow webmaster: Ok troll, I remember that name. Troll4Now: I hunt walleye's and whitetails, use a remington on whitetail, and whatever they bite on for walleye Troll4Now: bye yodas Stalker: See ya Yodas *: yodas just logged off. Troll4Now: What is with the DNR, I hear they are going to do a special youth rifle hunt in Sept? webmaster: Stalker the web page for that suit I'm talking about is http://www.trillium.net/grizzly/ Troll4Now: Anyone know anything about that? webmaster: Yes Troll that is true. What do you think about it? Stalker: Did anyone catch the news about the outdoors EXPO at MSU Stalker: Thanks Web Troll4Now: no Troll4Now: I think it's good for the youth, I bowhunt and I expect it to mess with opening of bow season, but so what, we need more youth hunters. Hope it's a big hit. I know my two daughters will be going. Stalker: It will be Aug 5th and 6th I think Put on by MUCC and MSU] Troll4Now: What do you think web? webmaster: I have mixed feelings about it. Troll4Now: Well, wife calling, wanted to check this out...good hunting and fishing all...walleyes are getting hot down here now if interested. Troll4Now: see ya all later webmaster: Gotta go too guys. Take care of some web business. See ya. Stalker: goodnight all *: Troll4Now just melted into a meaningless puddle of ooze and is now gone. *: Stalker just logged off. *: shotgun just logged on to Jabber Chat. *: shotgun just entered this channel. *: Welcome to The Michigan Sportsman Campfire! *: Regular Chats held Thursdays, Saturdays at 8pm EST *: or whenever arranged with other Sportsmen *: Type HELP to see a list of available chat commands. *: You are on channel 1 by yourself. *: People online now (all channels): shotgun. *: marty just logged on to Jabber Chat. *: marty just entered this channel. *: Welcome to The Michigan Sportsman Campfire! *: Regular Chats held Thursdays, Saturdays at 8pm EST *: or whenever arranged with other Sportsmen *: Type HELP to see a list of available chat commands. *: You are on channel 1 with shotgun. marty: anyone home?? shotgun: yup marty: howdy wher's everyone tonight?? *: People online now (all channels): shotgun, marty. shotgun: quiet, eh marty? marty: yepper guess everyone went to bed shotgun: is there usually a lot of folks on this chat? marty: yea sometimes marty: where u from shotgun?? shotgun: traverse city...you? marty: greenbush over near oscoda shotgun: not far from harrisville. Have a brother in law there. marty: nope not far at all whats his name?? shotgun: Stoddard. marty: dont know him but have probably seen him kinda of a smal area shotgun: What's your sports interest? marty: hunting fishing and working on my property shotgun: What do you do on your property? marty: improving whitetail habitata shotgun: Good thing to do. Then do you shoot em? marty: sure but not all of them I try to let the little ones walk shotgun: This thing sure is slow. Maybe it's my machine. Is it usually like this? marty: yea sometimes maybe the lines got overheated today lol shotgun: Retired? marty: yes from the air force shotgun: Good. Me too. Nice, eh? marty: yea not bad still keep pretty busy shotgun: That's sure easy to do. Seems like one could control that sort of thing, but it happens. marty: yea when do you retire?? shotgun: I have several 40's in the UP. Haven't even been up there yet this year. shotgun: Retired from Mich. Dept. of Agriculture...May 1997. marty: cool I guess i'm becoming a farmer learning how to manage these food plot plantingtrees and shrubs shotgun: I'm actually a forester. marty: cool I got them on my place right now they're cutting off a ten acre parcel and I'm going to make deer cover shotgun: Good. I had some cut several years ago. Almost time for another cut. shotgun: Take care, Marty. Have to depart. *: shotgun just logged off. *: marty just logged off. |
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