After a bumpy start, Steve gets to South Haven, MI, where he recruits the help of local charter captain Grant Gulley; Steve, Grant, and a local fabricator put in ten hours of work getting the boat ready to fish for lake trout in 100 feet of water.
Steve takes the boat from Lake Michigan up four hours north to Boyne City, where Steve's good friend Janis Putelis will assume the helm.
Dos Boat crosses the Straits of Mackinaw and heads west to the Wisconsin, U.P. border.
Dos Boat heads west to meet up with Oliver Ngy and Kevin Harlander in North Central Wisconsin. Oliver and Kevin are here for two things: big musky and delicious panfish.
MeatEater's Ryan Callaghan and Miles Nolte travel to Minnesota to learn more about, and even try to catch, big mouth buffalo.