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Any Ice at the landing at Alma


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I will be coming down next week to fish and just wanted to know what boat I will want to be in. Do you have to slide across any ice or not. I grew up down there my folks live just above the dam but dad doesn't get out much unless I kick the easy chair. I need to rely on all you good FMers. cool.gif

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Hey Beeonkey, Any relation to Chuck Bianchi of Mountain Iron, Bloomington and Lake Vermilion fame?

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See last post under Wabasha dam. The river side part of the dock is wide open and the inland one should also be open by this weekend.

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Yep Capt. Quicksteel he is a very close relitive. He and my dad grew up together on the range.

How do you know him?

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He and I are neighbors up on Vermilion. I just talked to him by phone last night from his place in Florida. I recognized your Beeonkey moniker from his sign in our driveway. Great family, they make summer at the lake just that much more fun. If you are coming down sometime in the off season and need someone to go down to the river, give me a call. By the way, guys our age don't like it much when our smartass kids come home and kick our easy chairs!!!!

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Which side east or west by George's place? I didn't make it to Vermillion last summer to see them, and I only live in Hermantown. We spent too much time in Namakan. I love Vermillion smile.gif

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I'm between George and Chuck, it's Larson's old place. We had an island up on Sand Point. When they made the park, they confiscated it by eminent domain with a 25 year lease. About 10 years ago we realized that we needed to plan for a replacement and we lucked into Larson's place. I never thought I could love anything as much as that island but Vermilion is as good as it gets. Maybe we'll run into each other up there some time.....

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I'm the one that Chuck asked if he could park a RV at your place. My dad almost bought that place ya know. I can still remember the days with Larson's boy's running the 6 horses on little fishing boats out and around the little island out front of your place. That was only about 1970-71 it's just like yesterday. The old diving doard off uncle Danny's dock. Man memories..... smirk.gif

I am heading south to see my dad and fish the old river. I guess my dad went over and looked at the landing and its good. The gates are opening and water clouding up a bit, it should be good.

If you had a place on Sandpoint you can give me some good hot spots for up there. We have been fishing Namakan hard by hammer bay alot and done well all late summer. I know there are more spots to fish than there.

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We'll have to talk when it gets closer. I'll give Chuck a map with some areas marked on it. We mainly fished for walleyes in the east end of Namakan and upper Sand Point. It's a great fishery and the slot limit just made it better. Small mouth fishing is good all over the system too....

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    • leech~~
      Nope not me.  May want to go nextdoor and ask around?  
    • smurfy
      Looks to me like Leech brought his chair home!!😅😆
    • 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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