Flying out to Michigan tomorrow, and we're in an adjacent valley dropping the dog off for a week of running around a ranch and chasing anything it wants. Went out looking for a few deer. Wish I would have brought a bigger lens.
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THWAK1
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A couple of good bow shooters in there. Thanks for sharing. Have fun in MI, everytime I go back there I remember how much I hate the humidity!
noharleyyet
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...nice food plots.
I will speak in hushed tones while exclaim how difficult it was to sit behind a hay bale and shoot them at 3/4 mile. Then I will get in a helicopter with Ted and shoot non-natives. This is all for my new reality show: fat man and the food plot.
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Hey Ben! Where all are you going to be here in my home state on your visit? It's finally cooled off here a couple weeks ago after about as hot and nasty a summer as I can remember up here in decades. We also finally got some rains over the last 2-3 weeks to really help the field crops that were in tough shape. Most of our tree fruit got clobbered by frost up and down the west coast and very few things are available in any amount.
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We're staying outside of Traverse City at my wife's family's lake house. I'll be chasing bass and vodka tonics.
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Traverse has grown so much over the last few decades it's ridiculous. I've had a place on 20 acres about 30 miles east of Traverse since 1973 and that's where I do most of my deer and turkey hunting in MI. I live down about 180 miles south of there (south of Grand Rapids 45 minutes and nw of Kalamazoo 30 minutes).
recon6036
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I didn't know you were a troll
. I moved back to the U.P. about 4 years ago after residing in Grand Rapids for 10 years. Traverse is a great area....enjoy your vacation Ben!
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I'll be chasing bass and vodka tonics.
Good luck on the topwater bite. I don't know much about bass, so you're on your own there.
Looks like a bunch of shooters in those pics, especially with a bow!
Good luck on the topwater bite. I don't know much about bass, so you're on your own there.
I may eschew the traditional fly rod and go with a baitcaster and frogs. I don't want to have to set my drink down too much.
I was born in Traverse, lived on Bass Lake. Miss that place. Top Gun is right, Traverse has grown exponentially over the years, I don't even recognize the place. My grandparents had a place on Lake Ogemaw for 30 years. I loved going there, bass and blue gill fishing was phenominal. It was funny, as soon as you step on the dock 100's of blue gill would flock as my grandpa would buy day old bread by the garbage bag and feed them. I think that is why the bass spawned off the dock because of all the gills. Funny cause we would do a fishing trip on the pontoon then end up just heading back as the fishing was best at his dock! Good stuff. Wish they were still with us, good folks.
Ben, Have a safe and fun trip. Nice pics. Hopefully you'll get to hunt that deer property in season. I assume you won't be back for Sept 1. I'm buying hamburgers for my oldest daughter and her husband and my wife at the Oasis in Manahatan, then hunt doves on public land on the Missouri until sunset. We'll be thinking of all of you who left MT during the hunting season!
Tom
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Those are some awesome deer!
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Traverse City was fun when I was a kid. I have family in Houghton Lake and we would go up to the Sleeping Bear Dunes in the summer. I haven't been up there in years but I have heard it has really grown! I also remember an awesome putt-putt mountain place up there that had go-carts and other fun kid games. Also, all of the roadside side stands selling cherries...they were my favorite!
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The weather has been perfect. I just got home last night from 5 days in TC. I was in my sisters wedding on Sunday afternoon at my families cottage on Long Lake. The salmon fishing was ok at Frankfort, but the Bluegills over on Lake George were crazy good.
I was born and raised in TC. It has changed so much it's crazy. That's the main reason I don't live there anymore. I'm so happy to be back in MT.
I was born and raised in TC. It has changed so much it's crazy. That's the main reason I don't live there anymore. I'm so happy to be back in MT.
Nemont
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Ben,
Sounds like fun,
Nemont
PS, you should not quote a guy accused of the assholism thing
Sounds like fun,
Nemont
PS, you should not quote a guy accused of the assholism thing
