Michigan Muskie Alliance

With gas at $3.39 here, predicting $3.75 by April, and i've even heard $5.00 thrown around by July, will these prices affect the way or how much you fish?
If they stay this high there will definately be less trips to Saginaw Bay for me this year.

Bomba wrote:With gas at $3.39 here, predicting $3.75 by April, and i've even heard $5.00 thrown around by July, will these prices affect the way or how much you fish?
If they stay this high there will definately be less trips to Saginaw Bay for me this year.

Well, I probably won't be hitting some of the lakes I was hoping to hit this year.

I'll be fishing Long lake a bunch if that's the case.

Another option I've been thinking about is using the wife's mini van to pull the boat when I go very far away.

I'm only a hour from Hudson, 1hr 20min from Ovid, Thorn and Austin so that's not bad. The boat dosen't suck up that much gas, just have to deal with it. It would be so much better if I could find a job!!

I'm going to make sacrifices elsewhere......no massive spring orders etc..still going to fish where I want to. Sucks !

Boy, and all of our outings this year are a ways away. Ovid = 1hr 15min, Upper Antrim = 3 1/2 hrs, Margrethe= 2 1/2 hrs, St. Clair = 3 hrs. Either I'm going to be disappointed this year, or my wife is going to throw a fit. Looks like it will be the year of compromise...

Why are they predicting the price of gas is going to get so high? Is it from the BP spill?

I won't be making any day trips longer than an hour and a half drive. Looks like if/when I go to St. Clair I'll be making it a 3 day trip to get the most out of my gas money. Still planning on the I Chain May 18-22 at Cedars. Probably have fewer evening outings, and focus more on fishing long days when I do go out.

I may also start tackling Macatawa quite often

ccmovi8 wrote:Why are they predicting the price of gas is going to get so high? Is it from the BP spill?

My guess is that the spreading revolution/unrest in the Middle East (first Tunisia, then Egypt, and now Libya, and who's next? Algeria? Bahrain? Iran? Saudi Arabia? Kuwait?) is making oil traders uneasy, driving the price up because they're worried about the supply drying up and they're buying more than they normally would as a hedge.

Libya is more worrysome than Tunisia or Egypt because it exports more oil (especially to Europe) and their oil is high-quality, and their revolution is much more bloody and uncertain. Not knowing who will be in control when it's over is highly unsettling and worrysome to the oil trading community.

Scott Williams wrote:I may also start tackling Macatawa quite often

Speaking of which are there any Muskies in there coming in from Lake MI?
How is the smallmouth fishing up there?

Yes, it will effect my fishing trips. Its already tuff making ends meet.

Scott Williams wrote:I won't be making any day trips longer than an hour and a half drive. Looks like if/when I go to St. Clair I'll be making it a 3 day trip to get the most out of my gas money. Still planning on the I Chain May 18-22 at Cedars. Probably have fewer evening outings, and focus more on fishing long days when I do go out.

That is my plan too. If it's far away I'll make a weekend of it.

The extra money I spend on a campsight and food will not be as much as the money to drive there and back a couple times.
Plus going by myself camping is DIRT cheap, vs with the family=not so much.

I might try to put one legal muskie in a small kids pool in my yard and see how many times I can catch her this season.

I finally found a job with my degree, so me driving to murray won't hurt my bank account anymore since i was making so little working part time.

Im still gonna be in holland, but i may start staying the nights at my cousin's several times on murray this summer and just fish both days on the wkends during lowlight hours