I just got back from northern Michigan, where I grew up. I have been a fishing guide here and there (not that I was particularly good at it). I went to Michigan Tech and knew the UP pretty well. Before the Goby's and Zebra mussels screwed everything up, smelt dipping was one of my favorite outdoor things. Blackened Great Lakes Whitefish is possibly my favorite food.

As much as it seems to suck now, the hunting is still way, way, oh so much, infinitely, better, here. The only big game animal I saw last week was a semi-hibernating bear. Fishing is a tie. Politics is a tie. Northen MI and the UP are blood red but the trolls control everything.