Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Question: SavageFest in 2020 - Escanaba, MI

Looks like you have a Ranger boat. What model 620 or 621 ? Year?

I am interested. What time of year were you thinking?. Seeing this would be the first one for Michigan I would make the trek north and bring lots of Savage rifles and one shotgun. I spend a lot of time in the summer and fall fishing on the Manistee and Pere Marquette Rivers, and would cross the Big Mac and head west. Great Idea, thanks! 300 Savage

Thanks for the initial input.

Yes, there is an airport in Escanaba. Delta airlines flies in there. The airport code is ESC.

I am thinking late spring, early summer. Probably around early June.

Again, it’s just an idea at this point. There is a ton of cool stuff to do if you can stay longer.

If you want to store your stuff, rent an inside storage unit for about $70.

For those who've never had a chance to explore this area, I stongly recommend doing it as a week long trip, not just a in and out for the weekend. Little Bay De Noc is some of the premiere walleye fishing to be found anywhere in the upper midwest. Lots of run stuff to do. Take a week-you won't be disappointed, and you will come back again.

Jeff-I PM'd you, but figured I'd post here. Count me in for sure. Most likely, I'll be bringing my wife along and doing it for a week. We'll have to go somewhere for some pasties with these yahoos.

Hope this comes together. Count me in, and let me know what I can do to help.

It's too bad the guys will miss the Brown Trout run, but that probably doesn't get going till September. Dad talked about catching so many brown trout up there in the Little Bay De Noc that his arms hurt from reeling them in. Johnson hammered copper spoons were the ticket back then.

Mentioned this to my wife after posting, she is more interested than I am so it is more likely I can make it than I originally thought.

With wives along many probably won't be able to go look at pasties and what recall seeing the times I was in the U.P. would not have me risking the wife's ire.

Or, are you not thinking of the same pasties I am? 🤔

Well, I'd just say we're talking about the edible ones, but that could still get in a peck of trouble......

Picture a pot pie without gravy. That's the pasties we're talking about here.

OH, so that is what you are talking about!😀

The last time I was in the UP was with my wife and mother. They said they were going out to buy pasties and asked if I wanted to go with. I looked at them with horror in my eyes and emphatically said, "No, I don't want to shop for pansies with my wife and especially my mom!"

They looked at me funny and then left. Later, I had to explain to my wife what I was referring to as she is rather naive to that side of life. She then proceeded to hit me. I am much abused.

The last time i drove thru the U.P. they were having a logging show,i remember a chainsaw throwing competition!!!! that and you better like listening to Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the Edmond Fitsgerald !!!

I hear talk of lots of trees and trout but are there women?

Not many Gary! if Jeff has this shin dig, Jerry and I will make sure to get you up there! Maybe you can talk to Joe and his other brother Joe in PA. to make the trip also!

Im seriously thinking about it John. Just waiting to hear the date.

Joe

That only a stones throw from where I've been deer hunting for the last 7-8 years. I would definitely be in for it. I love the U.P. Best smoked fish and pasties to be had.
Gary, there be perty womens in abundance. Its the Uppers best kept secret..

The area is primo if you like the outdoors in the north. I am currently looking for camp property with 45 minutes of the house. About 80-100 acres.

You will have to bring your own women. I can recall a time on the Pere Marquette when two two Canoes with attractive women passed by, I was fishing with my son, who is a dead ringer for Brad Pitt, when he asked the folks in the canoe,
"how much for the women". They were gone in a heart beat with paddles flying in the air. I just thought he was trying to help his old dad out. I think by boy was trying to get his old dad Hooked Up, as the kids say!

Oh those crazy Finn broads, donchknowyasureyoubetcha!

Those crazy Finn women will get you in the sauna and beat your fanny with birch branches, eh?

Only when you're rolling in the snow outside the sauna,

Cathy and I will probably make this a week's vacation. If anyone want's to go out on a charter boat, maybe we could put a run together. Maybe I'll bring my boat. I can seat 4 comfortably if I do. We could go that route too. Hope to be staying in a cabin on Little Bay De Noc.

Yes, I forgot about those Wonderful UP Pasties. Love those meat pies!