In here or we're still have to go
to it right? We got to go too.
Where we're going is
their land right here,
straight across from us,
the cabin that you see on
the hill here is
a two season
cabin.
They built a home over here.
This is their summer residence
where Wayne,
who I don't even know how old Wayne
is, maybe 88,
where he grew up and spent
his summer.
So here we started about
at their
cabin.
We don't cut trees down so they get
a better view.
We cut the trees that provide fish
habitat.
We used to ask for
hardwoods,
and now pretty much wood in
the water helps fish.
So, you know, if
you put poplars in...
So there we
cut down that birch.
We've cut this tree here.
This is a pine.
We cut that.
It's chained to the stump.
So we did this 43
times along this
one mile of shoreline.
So you can see the birch on
the shore.
Probably didn't chain that one
because it's sitting on the shore
and actually it looks great.
So this not
only provides excellent
habitat.
Invertebrates, little fish, big
fish, turtles,
wood ducks.
But if you're a decent fisherman,
this is a good place to go fish.
This particular bay has a lot of
crappies, so the crappie fishermen
should be
well, I'm gonna give it a try and
tell you how it goes.
You really wouldn't know that these
were all deliberately cut.
No. I mean, they look somewhat
natural.
Um,
underbrush.
New trees are going to cover
everything up. You won't even know
it.
If you go to a place that's...
There may be
up to 200 trees
in the water per mile,
where we
cut everything down
to the water and
then let it
grow up, but it doesn't have,
the forest is not old enough to
drop trees into the water.
So we used to put fish sticks in,
which we do in the wintertime, but
it takes two skid steers.
The guy's trained well enough with
a chainsaw to
cut the tree down.
From the DNR,
from zoning, you know,
zoning is probably harder.
Law or
the rule that
you can't cut.
So is that like
a county permitting or like a lake
association permitting?
Myself and another guy are
in the walleye project.
We get our money from the lake, but
I'm not on board,
so we
commit ourselves
to our names on it.
And the DNR wants
before and after victory, so I've
got to take that into consideration.
Oh, yeah,
it sucks.
The ends are coming around.
Any dad with
a daughter or a son,
he's got to be able to look at this
and say, hey, let's try this.
I'll put the nature down and
throw a bobber in real
quick.
So this goes for
a mile and
there's a big marsh over
beyond this point which I'm
not going to take you through.
And then there's more shoreline
in Bluegill Bay that we've cut
through.
So we
have 26 more.
Shoreline owners that
are now officially permitted and
we will contact
them and then cut the
trees.
We got happening this year.
I don't even want to wait till
winter. There's some really,
uh, you know, some of the people
are, are just summer people and
you have to sort of get them now.
The good part about this, I was
worried that the ice would shove the
wood.
Once we freeze again this
year, that ice is going to push
all of these logs down into
the surf and they'll never move.
They'll just slowly
rot away.
Was this all done?
That's good.
You know, when I was watching
the wind, when the ice
came out, and I thought,
you know, I sure hope
the ice doesn't push all of the
logs, and it didn't.
It's just perfect.
So that's what Greg Sass.
Semi wild we
can do that and we have a number of
homeowners that don't mow to
the water's edge that
have asked for fish sticks or woody
structure and so we have another
26 locations
and once we accomplish that
then we're going to really open it
up
and provide some definition
and see if we could get
maybe a couple hundred.
Maybe you'd get a hundred trees in
the water. That would be phenomenal.
And if you have that on
44 miles of shoreline...
You know, those are places for
everybody to fish.
Lots of, so Yellow
Perch, for example,
put their eggs on
woody structure.
They lay a little tube of
eggs. So they need something firm
to, and Yellow Perches is
the number one bait fish
in this lake.
So over here,
a pretty good example of how Swift,
a little bit of wood between the
neighbors and then they've got their
moat cleared path.
So I would just say, hey, can we
drop one or two of those trees that
are in between us?
Are they going to qualify or is it
that I could do that?
Okay, you give them that.
But, you know, the guy who just
built the black home or the
charcoal-colored home, and he's
got, luckily, he did
put that black barrier,
but you can see
that that property
has been mowed right to
the bottom.
And that one tree off
to his right, our
left, he'd say, gee, I'd like
you to drop that in the water.
I'd say no, I'm not doing that.
Why don't you stop mowing and
plant? So I mean, that's.
Put it between these houses over
here. There's that little space
right there. We could drop, you
know, one or two trees.
And I get
my pontoon and I get
Nate Thomas, our biologist.
And we go by property owners who
have requested.
And, you, know, Nate and I both look
up, no, yep, no.
And decide.
So this guy,
nice home, I congratulate
him.
Before those two trees in the middle
are cut down because they're
blocking his view.
That's right I'm not gonna cut them.
So he'd say hey, can you cut that
oak right there?
And I'm gonna go no You
can't cut that.
Oh
Is it within 30?
Five feet of the water.
So the zoning will say
you can't cut anything
from the shoreline to
35 feet.
So that has to stay.
And unfortunately, I see
people that just do it anyhow.
And I go, wow, that's
really unfortunate.
I think I did it with Marina
and my wife.
We bought our place just because we
did. So we're taking it out for a
walk.
Now, we didn't cut any of our
trees, but we trimmed off
a few. Yeah.
So the thing you want to do, you're
going to get this guy here.
So, bro, what do I do?
I say, bro.
So what do you do?
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