We're still have to go to it, right?
We've got to go to it, okay.
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 the home over here.
This is their summer residence where we
grew up and spent the 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.
They're certain to ask for hardwoods,
and now pretty much wood in the water helps fish.
So, you know, if you put poplars in,
you put the pine in there,
and it goes right past through the anything else.
So there we cut down that birch.
We've got this tree here.
This is a pine.
So 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.
Actually, it looks pretty.
This is not only provides excellent habitat,
invertebrates, little fish, big fish, turtles, wood ducks.
But if you're a decent fisherman,
it's a good place to go fish.
This particular bay has a lot of properties.
So the property fisherman should be...
You really wouldn't know that these were all deliberately cut.
No.
They look somewhat natural.
There's so much underbrush
that new trees are going to cover everything up.
We won't even know.
We could go to a place that's
there may be up to 200 trees in the water per mile.
There 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 in the water.
So we used to put fish sticks in,
which we do in the wintertime, but it takes two skidsters.
Here, the guys trained well enough
where the chainsaw kept the tree down.
Now, take it from the DNR.
From the DNR, from zoning.
You know, zoning is probably harder.
It takes three dollars.
There's a law or the rule of zoning.
But you can't cut it.
You get a nice little...
So is that like a county permitting or like a lake association permitting?
Well...
Myself and another guy are the walleyes.
We get our money from the lake.
And I'm not on board.
So we permit ourselves.
Our name is Adam.
And the DNR wants to be four and a half of the trees.
So I like the 50 trees.
I don't know if this sucks.
And then...
So that...
It's just a little...
Any dad with a daughter or a son?
He's got to be able to look at this and say,
this is probably just looking at you down there.
Bobber in real fish.
So this goes for a bile.
And there's a big marsh over
beyond this point.
And then there's more shoreline than a bluegill bay that you cut trees.
So we have
26 more
shoreline ponies that are now officially permitted
in the real contact environment.
We've got to have some of this here.
I don't even want to wait until winter.
There's some really...
Some of the people are just summer people.
And we have to really get them now.
The good part about this, I was worried that the ice would shovel the wood.
Once we freeze again this year,
that ice is going to push all of these logs down
and then it's going to be removed.
They'll just slowly rot away.
So, was this all done not get in?
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, we can do that. And we have the 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
for their eggs on woody structure.
They lay a little tube of eggs. So they need something
for them. And yellow perch is number one bait fish.
In this lake. So over here,
pretty good example of cows with a little bit of wood
between the neighbors. And if they've got their mold clear path.
So I was just saying, hey, can we drop one or two of those trees that are in the field?
So they get a claw fire and that, I could do that.
Okay, you give them that, try to do that.
They're just built the black home or the charcoal colored home.
And he's got, luckily he did put the, that black barrier
in the trap. But you can see that
that property has been mowed right to the bottom.
And that one tree off to his right are
left. He'd say, gee, I'd like you to drop that in the water.
And not to adapt. Why don't you stop mowing
the plant. So I mean, that's gonna be between
these houses over here. There's that little space right there. We could drop
one or two trees. And I
give my pontoon and I get Nate Thomas, our biologist.
And we go by property owners who have requested
and Nate and I both look up. No. Yep. No.
And decide who can.
So this guy, nice home. I congratulate him.
But man,
that would be for those two trees in the middle are cut down because they're blocking his view.
That's right. I'm not gonna cut down. So he'd say, hey, can you cut that
oak right there? And I'm gonna go, no. You can't cut that
oak. So, I said within
35 feet of the water? So the zoning will say
you can't cut anything from shoreline to 35 feet.
So that has to stay. And
you know, unfortunately I see people that just do it anyhow
and I go, wow, that's really unfortunate.
Now, we didn't cut any of our trees.
Yeah, so the thing you want to view, you're just gonna hear some room.
What are you doing?
I'm gonna show you where you can see the water.
I'm gonna use the guy.