Aronson Island (including the boat launch) may be closed for all or parts of next week, Oct 21 - 28. They are going to be dredging in the Escanaba Harbor.
I went out of Cedar River Thursday night and there was a crew dredging right at the mouth of the river in the dark. I had no problems going past the rig on the way out, but on the way in, I almost hit a wire cable they had strung out from the rig. I was able to pass right under it with no incident, but had to tell my partner to duck as I didn't see the cable until it was right above the nose of the boat. Kinda scary for a second there. BTW - fishing was very slow - we only got 1 walleye.