I'll be sticking to 2 small portable propane grills and hope to be able to push out food fast enough.

"hemichemi" said:
If you need help with setting up and cooking, let me know. I do all the cooking chez moi.

There's a BIG difference between cooking and grilling! You gotta have some big stones to grill for a bunch of muskie nuts! [smilie=brows.gif] You up for the challunge?

"Steve S" said:
Tom, are you bringing chemicals from the lab for secret sauce?

Shhhhh!

Some info on the lake, for those who are coming:

The weeds are pretty fabulous this year, in sharp contrast to the devastation that happened in July/August last year. There aren't a lot of emergent weeds, but the submerged weeds are a lot more extensive then they've been recently. I've been finding fish at the submerged edges fairly regularly. These occur at ~10-11' almost everywhere. 95% of the weeds are eurasian milfoil; the rest is coontail, but that's fairly spread out.

There's a decent algae bloom going on right now; lots of floating green powder on the surface yesterday, and a greenish tint to the water. Water was in the low 60s, with about 3-4' visibility, mostly from the usual tea-staining but also some moderate turbidity, varying from place to place. Follows are not easy to see, at least for me. When the sun is shining, you can make out the nearly-emergent edges fairly easily; not so much when it's overcast.

The new launch is 100% complete, and except for having a larger parking lot and different parking layout, it's almost unchanged from before. It's still a one-way flow-through launch, with prep and tie-up lanes in the same place as before. The new access road to it is on Price Road about 300 feet east of the Shepherdsville Road intersection.

There is a large L-shaped dock at the beach now, and hopefully the "drawbridge" to it will still be down on Saturday. It was still down yesterday… That'll make it more amenable to pulling up for lunch!

See you all there, hopefully.

I agree! The food was great and the price even better. It was nice to meet some more people.

I stayed till around five and was able to move 1 fish once some of the weather cleared. Just a tease with no love to report. [smilie=brickwall.gif]

"Steve S" said:
Dan, was that fish by one of your markers? 🙄

I marked it and made a return trip later with no luck… so, sorta?

A guy could have alot of fun with those at the Bruce Memorial Tournament. We could start a pool amongst the MMA members as to how many non MMA people fish a marker strategically placed in the middle of BFE. 😈

Thanks Scott for the food it sure hit the spot at lunch. Hope to see you at the Bruce this year.

The outing was fun even though the weather sucked. I am looking forward to The Bruce and getting back on Ovid soon.