2/4/12  Keeping your boat batteries charged during winter layup will save you big bucks in the long run.  Batteries are expensive like everything else nowadays.
            Batteries need charging during the offseason to make sure you when turn the key in the spring the motor starts ...being plan 1.  Make sure if it's a lead acid battery there's enough water/electrolyte in the cells.  Click 2/3/12 winter battery charge
            Plan 2 is a trip to the auto parts to buy new a battery, if have the lead plates have became sulfated & can no longer accept, or hold a charge.

2/3/12  Livingston County, MI has their own version of the better known ground hog Punxsutawney Phil who hails from a PA town with the same name.
            Our MI ground hog is a female named Woody.  She has a better track record than the PA's highly regarded world famous ground hog, Punxsutawney Phil.
            Miss Woody's folklore prediction of an early spring came from not seeing her shadow due to socked-in cloud cover blanketing MI yesterday.
            Believe it, or not, ...the official start of spring 2012 is 3/20/12 and that's only a about 7 weeks away ...to the outside. Click 2/3/12 MI's Miss Woody Chuck
            Do you believe in this passed down ancient German superstition about animals not seeing their shadow, or is this a bunch of groundless hog wash?

2/2/12  Ground Hog Day where folklore steps in to predicted how much more winter we can expect.  See Mr. G. Hog says about what's in store for Manistee, MI tomorrow!
             Added a couple more basic "how to" videos to my YouTube channel.  Those that are new to Great Lakes fishing will benefit most from the basics.  It's important not to forget we were all new to this kind of fishing once.
             Knowledge is meant to be shared and YouTube is an excellent place to do it.  Seeing cuts to the chase.  Besides, it's far easier to show somebody, compared to reading instructions in any kind of a print medium.  New videos are listed above.

2/1/12  If yesterday's high temps in the 50s didn't taint you with a early dose of spring fishing fever? ...nothing will!  Wonderful best describes Manistee, MI's weather that's been downright balmy for central to northern MI thus far! Click 1/31/12 Manistee
             Made good use of the 50s we were blessed with yesterday by doing boat interior prep cleaning.  Today part of the plan is to clean the inside of my boat's windows and get my Brown Trout stickbaits in top notch order.  Earliest I ever fished Lk. MI was March 23 in about 1999.  Probably sooner this season the way it's going.