Sometimes a picture tells another story. A few years back I was working with this old boy from Houston. When I told him I was from Detroit, lived there all my life, he told me about a discovery he made when he was a young man. It seems our old boy was born and raised in Houston and, like so many Texans, never saw much need to venture across the Red River. In time he took a sales job that found him on a plane, heading for Grand Rapids, Michigan. In January. In the pre- Al Gore 70's. It was cold. Driving to his sales call, he spied some shacks out on an inland lake. When he met with his customer he asked about the shacks. The customer told him they were for ice fishing and he laughed and laughed. He said up until that moment he had heard stories about ice fishing but was convinced those stories were legends passed down by father to son; a real fish story.






LAKE ERIE-- Some people call Lake Erie the "Walleye Capital of the World - in fact, I'm one of them - and, since Michigan can boast hundreds of miles of Lake Erie shoreline, that walleye capital honorific also extents to this state, particularly for those southeastern locals extending from Detroit to Monroe, and all the way to the Ohio border. There is nothing better for a walleye fisherman then trolling, jigging or drifting the reefs of Erie when the bite is on, landing these most delicious of fish and bringing home that well earned dinner fare, as though channeling the hunter-gatherer of our ancestors.