Charter Fishing on Lake Michigan

We always try to go on a charter fishing trip out of Grand Haven for my work. Its how we celebrate the end of our seasons. Well today we went and man was it good fishing. We booked 2 charter boats and split up in groups of 4. Our morning started with a fish on before the first mate could get the second line in and while Paul was fighting that fish we had another on and Kevin brought him in. For the next hour and a half it was like that. We had multiple doubles and ended up coming up one short of our limit of 20. 19 fish in 4 hours not to shabby. The other nice thing was they were really nice fish. Except for about 3 of them they were 8-12lbs. Looks like we will be eating Salmon for a while.

Kevin hauling in one of his 5 Kings.

Scott with a big King

One of my Kings.

This is a beautiful sight right there.

This is even more beautiful. Someone else cleaning our fish.

Knocking on the door

I cant believe its that time of year again. Man am I ready. I just helped my father-in-law sight in his new crossbow. What a difference between those and a regular compound. He let me shoot it also, I am sticking with my bow but they sure are nice especially for someone like him who has some issues moving and adjusting in the stand. I think its going to work out really good for him. Julie was shooting her bow tonight as well and she is more than ready, I probably said it before but range finders are difference makers. Ever since we got ours there has been such a noticable difference, it is quite something.
Below are the top three bucks on our "hit list". I hate that term but it works I guess. The first one is really nice 2.5 year 9 point that we have been getting a lot of pictures of and we have a great plan in place for him. The second is another deer that I believe to be Sanctuary but its tough to tell. He is a 3.5-4.5 10 point. I have a long history with this deer and would love to see him at 20 yards this fall. He is the reason I was moving my tri-pod stand in March already. I am so excited to get in that stand. The third deer is a buck we call Peeping Tom but now I just call him Tom or Tommy. He is a 3.5-4.5 year very wide 10 point. He showed up last January during a really long cold spell when Barry had the only food for miles I think. We watched him eat the landscape bushes 10 feet out the window one night at about 2am. Thus the name peeping tom. If he stayed on the property I have a feeling he will be where I put the tri-pod for sanctuary. Now you know why I am so excited to get into that stand.
Anyway those are the bigger bucks we are hoping to see. There are numerous other smaller deer that I have a lot of pics that I believe stayed so it should be a pretty good year. I will keep you all posted.