The nice thing about Mackinaw City is that about two minutes out from the slip, you're in the lake. No more 20 minute trek through a no wake channel to get boating. Better yet, deep water is then only a mile or so away.
This is where I've been setting lines. Buoy #1.
Then head toward the south tower.
Catch the morning sunrise over Mackinac Island.
And catch a fish as well.
I had four of my six bites this weekend in that one mile stretch of water.
There was a bit if commercial traffic this morning.
That freighter captain and sailboat skipper in the distance had words. Seems there wasn't much wind so the sailboat was tacking side to side across the channel. The captain of the freighter told the sailboat skipper in no uncertain terms to pick a side of the channel and stay there. We later heard a couple captains dreading their navigation through the 350 sailboats in the Chicago to Mackinac race that is occurring now.
Anyway the freighter Joseph Block passed us by.
Not exactly a planing hull.
I held up the center span of the bridge with my line so he could pass safely underneath.
Just one of those camera shots that kind of turns out to be something a little different. You can see we were in some really nice lake conditions.
Not long after that, we had some action.
It was actually a double. I landed my fish. Kathy botched hers.
A bit later the tug Zeus motors by.
We saw that tug in Ludington a number of times.
That was followed closely by the Algoway.
That was it for the action so we headed in and set up to clean the two fish.
I finished that job, cleaned things up and headed south.
Until another time...
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