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thanks! I'd planned to stop the gallery at 108 - but we'll see. The fall waters here are increasingly clear and still a quite comfy 50F in my 5mm suit.

Beautiful guns on the site you have in your sig! And very reasonably priced.

I should get some of the coast up - where the pictures in the big lake were taken is along the sleeping bear national lakeshore - miles of beautiful secluded beach and bluffs. Next summer I hope to get out to South Manitou Isle - there is a sunken/beached freighter a couple hundred yards out off the south end in fairly shallow water - people used to climb around on it until they started falling through the decks. Should be a really interesting habitat still though.

I've written the DNR here about spearfishing regs. Can you imagine if we could get seasonal freedive spearing of lake trout and salmon legalized! it would be sort of a midwestern version of bluewater hunting.

Personally I'd be down with taking the occasional fish for dinner - but mainly I like taking pictures while freediving. Though for the Lakers and Salmon spearing would be every bit as challenging.

Here are three pics - one looking south, one north and one east from a hundred or so yards out in the area where most of the shots of freshwater drums and the burbot were taken. Bluffs right there are about 200 feet high. Note the absence of other humans - generally only a few people in site during the summer. Pretty much none the rest of the time.