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Mike Schoonveld

Know your insurance coverage before taking a vehicle out on the ice

Blogs, Fishing, Michigan, Opinion /

I recently saw a photo of an airplane that landed on the ice of a frozen lake and then skidded onto thin ice where it nosedived into the water below. 
Until then, I’d never even heard of a plane landing on an ice-covered lake, but I suppose in “up-north” areas where lakes seem to be ice-covered more than they are open water, it happens frequently. I’ve seen dozens of photos of cars, trucks, snow machines and ATVs that took the plunge.

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Army Corps of Engineers triples down on invasive carp barrier effort

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, Opinion /

The best hope for keeping invasive Asian carp from infiltrating the Great Lakes, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the Brandon Road Project.
That project, however, is about a billion dollars short of getting full funding and likely a decade or more from completion – when and if someone does find the money. So much for government efficiency to handle what has been labeled the most significant threat to the ecology of the Great Lakes in the past three decades.

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Mike Schoonveld: Cisco fishing can be easy, but not always

Featured, Features, Fishing, Michigan, National Fishing /

Just when I thought I had it figured out, I found out there’s more to cisco fishing at Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay than I thought!
It reminds me of the time an acquaintance told me, “I took a charter on Lake Michigan once. The fishing was easy. We left the harbor, the captain and mate set some lines and our group caught fish all morning.”

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Winterizing your boat means more than just focusing on mechanical parts

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing, Opinion /

A spring “shakedown cruise,” is normal practice for many boaters. This is when they go to the lake specifically to check to make sure everything is working as it should be after a winter of hibernation.
Usually, if the proper winterizing steps were taken, the mechanical parts of the boat will be perfect. If there are problems, it’s usually something that unexpectedly didn’t weather the winter. That’s why the word “winterize” is important to Michigan boaters.

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Strategic (devious) plan nets big fish while on family vacation

Featured, Features, Fishing, Michigan, National Fishing /

My wife says our vacations are always fishing trips. Wrong!
Obviously, she forgot the times our fall vacations took us to South Dakota for ducks and pheasants, or the time we went down to the Rio Grande where I went quail hunting every day. Just saying. It’s not my fault two of my brothers and I owned boats and that family vacations on my side of the family were often planned around fishing and boating.

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Best management practices for winterizing boat batteries

Blogs, Featured, Features, Fishing, Michigan, National Fishing, Opinion /

There are dozens of opinions about how a boat battery should be treated in the offseason. Some say just top off the charge and pull the tarp on Ol’ Wavewacker.
“A fully charged battery is freeze-proof to about 90 below zero,” they say. “Even the U.P. doesn’t get that cold.”
Some people say, “Just hook a trickle charger to it and come back in the spring.” I’m sure it works for some, but certainly not for everyone.

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Belly contents of fish can brew contentions among anglers

Blogs, Featured, Fishing, Michigan, Opinion /

I showed up at a fish cleaning station one day just in time to hear a friendly argument between a couple of fishermen, each claiming to have caught a bigger fish than the other. They’d been fishing together and the first fish of the day was a large lake trout. Both agreed the laker was a great specimen as it was placed in the cooler.
The second fish of the day, caught by angler number two, was another substantially heavy laker, almost identical to fish number one. Or was it?

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