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Up at a lakewide meeting in Manistee and got invited fishing on a MDNR biologist's boat with a couple other DNR guys - all big fishermen. Launched around 6 PM and headed out to 150 ft. Nice to have deep water so close to shore, crazy structure too. Wish we had that in the south end.

Fishing was slow but the company was good and weather was gorgeous. Ended up 1-1 with a 13 pound king. Most people seemed to be getting only a few fish, but they were all nice. Even some reports of fish staging in Pere Marquette Lake, and saw a couple dark fish at the cleaning station

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having issue with uploading pics, got a message that says "server error"

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Thanks for the update Ben. Thats really interesting about stagging kings already and dark ones at that. Wonder if the 70% of the natural kings have started making their own "strains". Similar to summer run steel and winter run. Any insight on this ben?

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having issue with uploading pics, got a message that says "server error"

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Decrease the quality / image size from your phone (assuming your using phone). I am guessing your using an Android? If you have any issues, others can help here.

Jeff, this was from computer. tried direct attaching, and also linking to imgur.



Tim, as far as kings running, yes and no. There's always been a few early-running kings, and some late. Just natural variability, similar to some kids hitting puberty early or late. We typically have a handful of kings in Trail Creek in late July/early August, but the bulk of the run is in Sept/Oct

It's also related to the environmental conditions in any given year. Factors such as lake temps, river temps, amount of bait nearshore and offshore, etc. If you have fat kings, their gonads could be mature early, and if you have upwelling of cold water, some rain in the tribs, and not much bait around, those conditions might favor an early push of kings. If you have skinny fish, warm water near shore, and lots of bait offshore, maybe the fish hold off running until their internal clock tells them its now or never

That said, some Michigan rivers are known for early runs of kings - particularly the Little Manistee, because they shut the weir down and close upstream migration on August 15th. Over time, that places pretty heavy selective pressure on the kings. Meaning, the fish running prior to August 15th are the only ones that get upstream and have access to spawning habitat. Over the decades of that happen, that selective pressure has created an early run on the Little Manistee, because the successful reproduction is from early running kings, and that trait has been gradually selected for

Thanks for the info. Kinda the idea I was getting at.

Ben - what is the image file size? I am guessing it is too large. I have to restrict the files sizes else the server space will get out of control

Also, for using the image tag, you used a page url instead of the exact image url, this is why it didnt show up. Here ya go.

Nice King! MC_Angler are you at the Lake Michigan technical committee meeting?

Yes, the LMTC meeting is what I was attending

MC_angler, what did the LMTC come up with as far as recommendations for the LMC managers? They meet in a week or two to discuss further Laker reductions among other things correct?