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Location: Lac Labelle, MI | Subject: Don Winslow, USN
I was tagged with this name when I got off active duty. He was in a comic book similar to Steve Canyon. |
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Location: Renton, WA | Subject: RE: Don Winslow, USN
Welcome aboard... grab a black n bitter and go find the next reel for the movie that's showin'... |
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Mess cooking
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Location: Lac Labelle, MI | Subject: RE: Don Winslow, USN
thanks Don, I'll do that |
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Master and Commander
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Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Don Winslow, USN
Lac Labelle!! Whooowooo! You are right up there in the tip of Kewanaw Penninsula. That's where God invented snow and keeps a year-round supply, ain't it? I remember riding a couple commercial gill-net tugs out of Beta Greis back in '69. Lake Superior can get as rough as the North Atlantic up there. Absolutly beautiful country, though. I usta live in Munising back in the day.
Welcome aboard, Don! Make yourself at home.
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Location: Lac Labelle, MI | Subject: RE: Don Winslow, USN
yes we get a lot of snow here, so I leave after deer season and head for south Texas in early Dec till 1st part of April. I run a charter fishing boat out on Bete Grise in the summer. You left a lot of fish here, someone has to catch them. The spring, summer and fall are great here. Last year we only had 340 inches of snow for the year. |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: Don Winslow, USN
Welcome Don....Sounds like you are a Yupper. Don't blame you for heading south in the winter.
Only 340" of snow? Gawd, that is way beyond my comprehension to comprehend or visualize....
Spring, summer and fall must last all of 3 weeks up yonder!
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Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Don Winslow, USN
Yep, I remember a couple 400" winters in Munising. That is the widest streach of Lake Superior... 160 miles. All that artic air coming across the lake dumps snow into Munising bay and they don't dig out till April. But hey, its the snowmobiling capital of the World!!!
Don Amund will check in on you soon, I reckon... he is in Champion. So you ain't the only Yupper aboard. As they say in "Escanaba in da Moonlight": "We got bear as tall as Norway pine and Bucks as big as buicks."
I would love to come up and go fishing with you sometime. Are there any Lake trout left?
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Location: Lac Labelle, MI | Subject: RE: Don Winslow, USN
ya theres alot of lake trout left, the Indians have a fish hatchery in the Barage area and they plant a lot. The sportsman's plant king salmon down in Marguette and they mone all over the lake. Its a good fishery, not much pressure
We usualy have real nice weather between June and October. In November the gales and wind start, winter not far behind |
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Location: Foothills of the Ozarks | Subject: Nice area of Yewper Land
Don Winslow's little piece of Heaven
I get a kick out of the description of the great swimming beaches up there. That water is plenty cold and I think only the Finn's would enjoy swimming in it.
Most of the fish will thank you for pulling them out of it.
I guess you have to clikka da link to see the area.
Edited by Doc Gardner 2008-10-15 8:55 AM
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Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Don Winslow, USN
yumpin yemminy, das pitcurs look good, ya sure!  |
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Don Winslow, USN
