i think that's up in the upper peninsula - on Lake Superior - be some gorgeous diving there - very clear - but also cold. Alot of my diving is along the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore.
By 'soft grip' I assume you mean the sort of textured handle they put over the nylon/glass grips. I like the grip fine - though I wouldn't mind if Riffe did what Omer does with the MA and T20 - provide and extra, larger grip with a thumb rest that you can slide on. Still, it's very comfortable and certainly easy to aim
I got mine with the enclosed track - which I think lets you load up a thinner shaft a little more.
The most interesting grip I've seen so far is on the Merlo guns.
Feign - michigan spearfishing laws are annoying. The most difficult kind of spearing - for most species - a speargun - is also the most restricted. I thought Burbot were legal but it turns out only for hand spear and bow. They really need to revisit that regulation if you ask me. With our water clarity there is the possibility of a modest but robust tourist trade for midwestern spearos. And the most difficult and desireable species are more than abundant.
If you haven't seen the great lakes - the biggest thing to compute is their size. Lake Michigan is 301 miles long and 118 miles wide with a surface area of 22,300 miles - it's the sixth largest lake in the world and averages 279 feet deep - 925 at the deepest.
When Cousteau and his crew explored it they were quite freaked out by the the intense wave action - alot of them got seasick!
Lake Superior is also Huge and deep - in fact it's bigger than Lake michigan at 31,700 square miles - second biggest lake/inland sea in the world- second only to the Caspian Sea!. It gets so rough that awhile back a 720 foot freighter - the Edmund Fitzgerald - broke in half and sank with all hands during a storm. It's 350 miles long, 160 wide (widest obviously) averages 483 feet deep with a max of 1332. It contains 10% of the worlds surface fresh water!!
Right now Visibility in Grand Traverse Bay - where I took most of my pictures - is 40-60feet! I hope to go for a dive again tomorrow.
Lake Michigan also has areas that have the same sort of terrain - rocky bottom is very nice for visibiliy.
