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With the slow fishing locally, we rolled the dice and took a ride north. Unfortunately our main motor developed low power and a light miss, so we stopped at 100fow and made a few zig zags while trolling back into port with the kicker. I changed the plugs but no better. We did manage one laker, a small king we released, and a drive by. Weather was good and we still had a great time like always. Once home, I poked around and found the primer bulb soft. Hooked up the water to run it, and when squeezing the primer bulb, the idle picked up and smoothed out. Likely fuel pump went out. Will see.

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Good report! what's the approximate driving time from Michigan state line to Grand Haven ramp? What's the launch name?
thanks again.

Harbor Island Boat Launch. Open 24hrs, has a kiosk and $15. Nice place. There are channel markers to follow out to the pier heads, and quite a ride, maybe a mile or more? It's a 2hr ride from LaPorte area, so 1hr 45min from state line. Easy trip and route straight up 31N.

Others that went out deeper had good boxes of fish at the launch. Reports north are outstanding. We had a one day time crunch, so didn't have enough time to go further. Gets to be way too much for a one day turnaround for us since we try to keep it fun.