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Current Info from Manistee to Big Point Sable
Posted on 5/12/08

15.311 x 25.436 154 FOW floating line
15.230 x 25.384 144 FOW balled up net on bottom
13.250 x 25.450 138 FOW
08.450 x 27.320 105 FOW
07.090 x 28.900 121 FOW
06.870 x 29.680 130 FOW floating Line
05.970 x 29.930 120 FOW
05.570 x 30.740 175 FOW
05.280 x 30.700 150 FOW
05.060 x 31.000 151 FOW
04.720 x 30.990 100 FOW floating line

RED = DANGER
BLACK = JUST STAY AWAY

Floating line locations could indicate 10' to a hundreds of feet of yellow polypropylene line.  Polypro floats and this stuff will get stuck in your props!

Info Posted on 4/15/08

These are confirmed net locations. 
There are more nets out there but I have not confirmed them yet.


N44-04.287 x W86-31.223 One staff buoy.


N44-04.712 x W86-31.001 Two bullet floats.


N44-04.854 x W86-31.252 Two floats tied together one single float near by.


N44-04.997 x W86-31.022 Four floats tied together.


N44-05.496 x W86-30.744 Staff without flag only.


N44-05.939 x W86-29.895 Staff with flag only.


N44-05.736 x W86-29.691 Staff with orange over black flag.


N44-05.242 x W86-30.677 Floats only.


N44-06.866 x W86-29.294 Floats on surface


N44-08.331 x W86-27.345 No surface marking


N44-10.351 x W86-25.937 Yellow poly line on surface


N44-13.777 x W86-24.928 Net and line on surface. No markings.


There are more nets to the north and I will give you those coordinates.

Capt. Dave Deforest

 

Whitehall, MI
Net has been washed ashore,
removed from pier heads

Take extreme care out of this port until more info 
is made available
Approximated locations

Onekama to Big Point Sable as of 8/22/07
Do not use this coordinates!
This is archived info from 2007!!!!!

Manistee
N 44-26.14 x W 086-19.57
N 44-25.17 x W 086-19.71
N 44-20.4 x W 086-21.8 
N 44-15.4 x W 086-25.3
N 44-14.9 x W 086-25.3
N 44-13.2 x W 086-24.9
N 44-13.2 x W 086-25.2
N 44-11.3
N 44-11.0

N 44-07.1 x W 086-28.9
N 44-06.8 x W 086-29.3
N 44-06.4 x W 086-30.1
N 44-06.1 x W 086-29.9
N 44-05.9 x W 086-30.3
N 44-05.4 x W 086-30.8
N 44-05.3 x W 086-30.5
N 44-04.9 x W 086-31.2
N 44-04.8 x W 086-31.0
Big Point Sable

Ludington

N 43-50.535 x W086-30.720 in 125 fow.
N 43-51.632 x W 086-30.633

Use this page only as a precautionary guideline, 
 because new nets can be set & older locations moved!


Safety First

Stay alert and have your crew members on lookout too.
If you do get tangled in a net, immediately cut all lines
and chalk this up to the price of staying alive!

3 sport fishermen in a 22' Starcraft Islander drowned after getting
their trolling gear entangled in a net in the late 1990s in northern 
Lk. Huron. Their boat filled with water over the stern, then capsized.

Here's an email received from Capt. Dave Deforest from Enforcer Charters in Manistee, MI. on the morning of 6/2/07.  Capt. Dave is boat a charter skipper and tribal law enforcement.

Morning Capt. John:

One last email before I leave. I thought I might clear up a few things. I know of no plan to have a processing plant in Manistee. The building they refer to behind Burger King is the old Oakgrove building that is owned or leased by the Tribe. Good Thunder motorcycles is in one half and the other half is used by the Tribal fishers to work in and store their equipment. They make more money selling the fish in the "round" than cleaned or filleted. They sell some fish to the people that bought out Ron Walters in Ludington. The majority of the fish are trucked to Chicago.

Here is a current list of boats operating out of

Manistee:

"Ida S" All white chub boat
"Shamrock" Small trap boat. It is really too small so they use it to run leads
"Sandy" Main trap boat
"Cierra" Large trap boat not in the water waiting for engines.

Ludington:

Tommy Battice's trap boat and I can't think of the name.
Art DeBrees will have a chub boat, but it's not here yet

Muskegon:

Jensen State License
Peterson State license
"Mercury" the green and white chub boat that used to be in Manistee
"Jennifer" Unknown what type of boat, I believe trap

Whitehall:

"Capt Bill"  It used to be in Manistee. It is the one with the boom

I have a joint C.O.R.A. patrol the 13th and 14th from Grand Haven to Arcadia. This will include the GT band, LTBB, Bay Mills, Soo, MiDNR, and us. I should have every trap and chub net location after that. I know some have been moved and there are some new ones. It's hard to keep up when I'm gone. I'm getting quite frustrated not being one the water as much as I should......

Take care,

Dave 

A Huge round of applause should go out to Capt. Dave Deforest for this inside info.  He's the best thing we have working for all parties concerned.  Dave is a retired police detective from 30 years of service with the Cadillac PD.  

He's what I consider a tough, but fair cop, kinda like SGT. Joe Friday on the old TV show "Dragnet" play by Jack Webb.  Dragnet was on the air from 1952 thru 1958 and revived again in 1967 and stayed on the air thru 1970.

All the information on this page has been supplied by him.

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