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Royce Aardahl

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Well not a lot of fish but nice. Tried to get my son on a nice picture fish but I had the luck today. 19 1/2 inch smally and a 21 inch eye both on a Mepps. Cruddy day so we came home early.

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well I'll see if I can figure this out.
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3rd times a charm smile.gif stop laughing
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All nice fish. What stretch of the river were you on? I was between the coon rapids dam and river park and only saw one other boat for the day.

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I like to fish the stretch from the beaver islands all the way up to Rivers Edge north of Sartell. I hope to explore more towards Clearwater this summer.

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wow those are nice fish! So do you fish on the top side of the dam? Where do you put your boat in? My friend and I fish the dam from shore and we are thinking of putting in my boat just wondering the best place to put it in.

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My son got his biggest smally today. A nice 18 incher. BIG smile!! The access spots are below the dam, up by Cathedral high there is one, Wilson Park, north of Sauk Rapids, and north of the papermill. TONS of rock between Wilson park and the Sartell dam. If you go there be very carefull or it's prop time.
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Well, we got out a couple of times and picked up some nice fish. But when it gets right down to it.... it doesn't matter how many I catch its this guy that is important to me. My son said after he caught this 18 incher "Well that's my first bigger one for the season" Anyway, between breaks in the rain he picked this one up on a senko rigged wacky style. We'll see if this works... Hmmm....still trying.... again??
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nice one! my son fished a lot with me when he was younger then took about 3 years off. He started fishing again last year at 14 and he's getting hooked again. Making memories on the mighty mississippi smile.gif

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man this kids starting to outfish dad! this was his biggest today. dandy 19 incher.

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Too much fun. Nice fish eyeguys son!! We obviously were both out there today. Amazing fishery isn't it... All 60 miles of it. We took a few more snap shots today... just had to post a few. We ended up with well over 40 fish in the boat between the three of us, what a great way to spend the day together.
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we musta had the same parents or something smile.gif yes it was an awesome day!!
were you by the st. cloud golf course today?

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Yep that was us. The ugliest boat on the water grin.gif

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I thought I recognized that camo. Good area!

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Awesome fish guys!! And ask the kids if they will give me a lesson smile.gif

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