We got out this weekend and did so-so despite decent weather friday and considering some of the other great reports we heard around town. * We fished right outside the escanaba harbor trolling south along a steep break that comes up to 6' of water from 50+. *It was difficult to keep the boat at depth with the crosswind wanting to pull us into the shallows. *Picked up gear and pulled mussels/weeds off the deeper lures. *Marked quite a few fish and hooked about 10 fish friday night, kept a 28"27"22 and 20" fish. *The rest went back per the slot limit rules.... some real nice fish. *

Saturday evening we had a bugger of a time, if it could go wrong it did. *We looked at the wind and decided not to fish out of escanaba, since Gladstone would be more sheltered from the wind. *I think we would have been ok, just would have been a bumpy ride across the bay for a bit. *Anyhow, we trucked up to Gladstone instead (and yes, there was floating ice all around the harbor... but there were lots of other boats who had broken that up for us). Locked my key in the truck at the launch, hooked a deadhead or something on the first trolling pass. We werent marking much in that area anyhow, so we headed up north and scouted for fish, found some (few_ north of the first set of reefs in about 25 fow and put down the gear but the wind had shutoff, like someone pulled the plug on the wind machine, and the fish did too. *We hooked one 22" fish til about 11 when we called it quits.

Wish I could have stayed another night, but duty calls. *Hope for some better results next year.

I gotta say I was real happy with the Yarcraft I bought this summer. the motor ran great, the new terrova with iPilot worked well, and the hull is certainly ideal for this fishery. Look forward to more time on the water next year, including a weeklong trip in early June and hopefully a full week at the end of November/early december next year!