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    July on the Great Lakes

    You wouldn't happen to have worked with Guy Fleischer. He transferred to a National Marine Fisheries Service postion from one with USGS at their Great Lakes Lab. in Ann Arbor. Guy did the coordination and analysis of their acoustic sampling effort to determine forage fish abundance for Lake...
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    July on the Great Lakes

    Northern Lake Michigan along the archipelago islands that define Green Bay's northeastern boundary Lake Ontario is a rift lake basin, like Superior with water that is deep blue. The high concentration of dissolved carbonate and bicarbonate ions in solution and suspension shift Lake Michigan...
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    July on the Great Lakes

    Carl, large fish get smoked in cherry or applewood chunks after being dried post brine soak for 34 hours. During grilling weather skinned and red-line removed fillets get coated with Paul Prudhommes Seafood Magic liberally and grilled on perforated foil and doused liberally with fresh lemon...
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    July on the Great Lakes

    The alewife are in there, just not readily visible, Brad...
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    July on the Great Lakes

    ...actually the bite started the week prior the July 4th holiday, then slowed as the alewife finished spawning.
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    Favorite Decoy Carving Foredom Bits/Burs

    And a white crayon pencil along with some soft graphite pencils for layout. Symmetry while carving is aided by continuing to replace your reference marks and lines, particularly on heads and bills. Hide the pricey head stock for a while... Plus, Dad will aid his organization by setting-up a...
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    Favorite Decoy Carving Foredom Bits/Burs

    Pete's choices plus a cylinder head in both 1/4" and 1/8" shanks for feather edges, bills (1/8") and tapering wood tails (1/4" coarse) from base to outer edge. I use a t-8 flex handpiece with a diamond tip cylinder head with a 1/16th shank for detail on bills since I hand carve like the HULK...
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    Any TDB insight would be appreciated

    I think that '88 was the first full year of production for the 17'. Photobucket restored my pics, so this might be of value to you as you go forward: http://www.duckboats.net/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=289028
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    Perfect Songs

    something more upbeat and reflective: Crosby, Stills & Nash - Southern Cross - Bing video
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    Perfect Songs

    Steve and Eric, her voice is so clear it lends to the song's lyrics, why I opted to post it over her cover of Prine's epic song. Steve, Dylan's song also was 'perfected' by Hendrix. Dave Mason does a good cover as well, to one of my favorites. Speaking of Dylan and his influences: Bob Dylan...
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    Perfect Songs

    From an era when perfect songs were frequent occurences: Tracy Nelson - Down So Low - YouTube Little Feat "Dixie Chicken" - YouTube The Allman Brothers Band - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed ( At Fillmore East, 1971 ) - YouTube Bonnie Raitt w Lowell George, John Hammond, & Freebo -...
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    Must be Summer Vacation

    I guess I should correct your to you're, as long as we are pointing out each others spelling gaffs. Lyme disease used to be a Wisconsin based issue, seldom diagnosed in the UP. Then it was only in the Wisconsin tier counties. Over the last handful of years, case counts have gone up in our...
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    Must be Summer Vacation

    Vince, deer are the principle vector for deer tick spread, a proportion of them infected with a spirochete bacterium the causes Lyme disease.. On the other side of the tick spread campaign, three years ago we had four red fox kits at one den site. Last year the kit number ran up to ten at...
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    What's on your WORK BENCH - JUNE 2021

    Nice lines, Pat!
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    What's on your WORK BENCH - JUNE 2021

    I look forward to seeing your progress. Where did you purchase decoy sized chunks of balsa?
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    Tdb 17 questions

    What do you have for power on this hull?
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    Tdb 17 questions

    They were made by a fiberglass shop in Fenton, Mi. I have no idea how many or what hull types they turned-out. The new owner bought the molds and inventory from the Poke Boat folks who allowed production to languish. From what I recall there was a dispute over copyright infringement with...
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    Tdb 17 questions

    No such beast ever was built by TDB until after the fire that occurred after Christian purchase the company from the Clark brothers, which was around 2000. I have a 1996 Classic. That said, I think they started making the 17 Classics in 1989 The first few years of manufacture, the splashwell...
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    What's on your WORK BENCH - JUNE 2021

    Bob,is that body material balsa?
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    Bought Another Oliver Today

    You left-out Oliver Travel Trailers- best four season trailer on the roads.
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