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Looking to take a fishing trip up to LOW. Never been up there so just kinda wondering what is going to be the best place to try and hit up for a trip..

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You can't go wrong with the major names of resorts . There all pretty good. Family resort to me is Arnesens. Group of guys besides just the fishing is Sportsmans or any in that area of the lake. Just my picks.

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I've never been there either but just booked a trip a couple of days ago. We are going the middle of February and going to Zippel Bay Resort. Cannot wait for this trip!!!

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gwiff100 -

What's your email? I'll send you my recommendation, I probably can't post it on here since it's not a sponsor.

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Depends if you have a sleeper and comfort level you want. I would say if you want the best fishing to go out of Long Point. Lots of reefs and structure. Zippels is about 4-5 miles closer on the same road, but has little structure or islands to fish out on, more of just a bowl, but is by far probably the Best place for cabins, food, bar, fish cleaning and everything else. They really have a nice setup. Were Long point really has nothing like Zipples. Morris point is nice and has a decent setup, but again not a lot of structure. So here is what I do. I go to Long Point and head out on the sleeper. Then after 4pm when the bite is done I just drive 5 miles to Zipples and hit the restaurant and bar and talk with the people and hang out.

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Twister-I'm assuming you get off the ice and drive to Zippel? You have your own sleeper at Long Point or you rent? I was wondering how far Zippel was from the Whiskey Flats area? Can that be traveled by ice? Just trying to get a feel for distances between all the resorts/fishing areas up there.

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I started using Wigwam this year and couldn't be happier. JP has to be the easiest man ever to work with. I just returned from a New Year's weekend trip and JP put us on fish. He is just good people.

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Wiskey Flats has to be 20 miles from Zipple. You could run it on snowmobiles by taking the trail along the shoreline to Warroad and then up. Cross country can be done if you're careful and use the buddy system.

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Twister-I'm assuming you get off the ice and drive to Zippel? You have your own sleeper at Long Point or you rent? I was wondering how far Zippel was from the Whiskey Flats area? Can that be traveled by ice? Just trying to get a feel for distances between all the resorts/fishing areas up there.

Ya I just come off the ice and drive to Zipples. It warms the truck up which needs to be done anyways and is only 5 miles away. Whiskey flats is for snowmobiles. BTW I would get bait somewhere other then up there. Cause it has been really bad this year. I would make a suggestion, but I got banned for a day for saying it on here.

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Are you talking about getting bait from somewhere other than the LOW area or a specific store?

Before the LOTW area! BTW i missed the question about if I rent or have my own. I have my own wheelhouse.

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    • Brianf.
      I'm not there, so I can't tell exactly what's going on but it looks like a large area of open water developed in the last day with all of the heavy snow on the east side of wake em up Narrows. These two photos are from my Ring Camera facing north towards Niles Point.  You can see what happened with all of snow that fell in the last three days, though the open water could have been wind driven. Hard to say. .  
    • SkunkedAgain
      Black Bay had great ice before but a few spots near rockpiles where there were spots of open water. It looks like the weight of the snow has created a little lake in the middle of the bay.  
    • LakeofthewoodsMN
      On the south end...   Thanks to some cold spring weather, ice fishing continues strong for those still ice fishing.  The bite remains very good.  Most resorts have pulled their fish houses off for the year, however, some still have fish houses out and others are allowing ATV and side by sides.  Check social media or call ahead to your favorite resort for specifics. Reports this week for walleyes and saugers remain excellent.   A nice mix of jumbo perch, pike, eelpout, and an occasional crappie, tullibee or sturgeon being reported by anglers. Jigging one line and using a live minnow on the second line is the way to go.  Green, glow red, pink and gold were good colors this week.     Monster pike are on a tear!  Good number of pike, some reaching over 45 inches long, being caught using tip ups with live suckers or dead bait such as smelt and herring in 8 - 14' of water.   As always, work through a resort or outfitter for ice road conditions.  Safety first always. Fish houses are allowed on the ice through March 31st, the walleye / sauger season goes through April 14th and the pike season never ends. On the Rainy River...  The river is opened up along the Nelson Park boat ramp in Birchdale, the Frontier boat ramp and Vidas boat ramp.  This past week, much of the open water skimmed over with the single digit overnight temps.   Areas of the river have popped open again and with temps getting warmer, things are shaping up for the last stretch through the rest of the spring season, which continues through April 14th.   Very good numbers of walleyes are in the river.  Reports this week, even with fewer anglers, have been good.  When temps warm up and the sun shines, things will fire up again.   Jigs with brightly colored plastics or jigs with a frozen emerald shiner have been the desired bait on the river.  Don't overlook slow trolling crankbaits upstream as well.   Good reports of sturgeon being caught on the river as well.  Sturgeon put the feed bag on in the spring.  The bite has been very good.  Most are using a sturgeon rig with a circle hook loaded with crawlers or crawlers / frozen emerald shiners. Up at the NW Angle...  Ice fishing is winding down up at the Angle.  Walleyes, saugers, and a number of various species in the mix again this week.  The bite is still very good with good numbers of fish.  The one two punch of jigging one line and deadsticking the second line is working well.   Check with Angle resorts on transport options from Young's Bay.  Call ahead for ice road guidelines.  
    • CigarGuy
      With the drifting, kind of hard to tell for sure, but I'm guessing about a foot and still lightly snowing. Cook end!
    • PSU
      How much snow did you get on Vermilion? 
    • Mike89
      lake here refroze too...  started opening again yesterday with the wet snow and wind...  very little ice left today...
    • Hookmaster
      A friend who has a cabin between Alex and Fergus said the lake he's on refroze. He texted me a pic from March 12th when it was open and one from 23rd when it wasn't. 🤯
    • SkunkedAgain
      I don't think that there has been any ice melt in the past few weeks on Vermilion. Things looked like a record and then Mother Nature swept in again.   I'll give my revised guess of April 21st
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    • jim curlee
      I had a guy hit me with a lightly used 1969 BAR, he wanted $1650 with an older Leupold scope. More than I think they are worth, I made an offer, he declined end of story.   You know if you look at the old brochures, a grade II BAR sold for $250 in the late 60s, $1650 would be a good return on your investment.    Why would anybody want a 50 year old gun, they are heavy, have wood stocks, and blued metal.  I guess mainly to keep their gun safes glued to the floor. lol   You can probably buy a stainless rifle that you never have to clean, with a synthetic stock you never have to refinish, is as light as a feather, and for half as much money, perfect.   I'm too old for a youth gun, although I've shrunk enough that it would probably fit. lol   No Ruger 10/44s.   Jim      
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