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How is everybody doing? We have three does. I have gotten two and son has gotten one. Was out between tower and Embarrass the other day and saw something I have not seen before, A sharptail.

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I passed on two fawns today. I hunt for meat. I don't have a warm place in my heart for fawns, but it's not the last day of the season with unfilled tags yet.

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How is hunting in the snow?? I wish we had some where I hunt! It sure looks and feels like winter out there.

Steve...Don't feel bad about passing up fawns. You don't get a whole lot of meat off of them anyways. By the time you get the hide off and de-boned, you have about enough meat to bring over to Zups and get 3 or 4 weenies made. grin.gif Well, on the other hand, fawns are pretty darn tasty-like eating veal! wink.gif

I am getting pretty darn excited to head back out again this weekend! Good luck to everyone hunting this week!

Justin

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Nothing like a little snow to either confirm or deny the rumor that you're actually hunting in a place that HAS DEER! grin.gifgrin.gifgrin.gif

Not much snow, just enough to tell the tale. grin.gif

Ran across a scrape that looked like someone exploded a grenade in there after Monday's snow. Bucky was not at home. No doubt he was out servicing his whole group of desperate housewives, but I'll come knocking again soon. blush.gif

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stfcatfish: I read your post on another thread about giving your spot to another party and having to settle for a subpar location yourself. It gave me such a feeling of melancholy. I don't know about this deer hunting sometimes. It's such a mixture of things. There's this big slot of a season in the NE but it slides through my fingers in fits and starts. And then it's a couple pages in my journal to read next season. Sometimes a deer meanders nonchalantly into a shooting lane and the season might be over or I sit and change locations and the lack of deer seems a judgement of some kind upon me. "Why the heck am I perched on this swaying poplar in this particular place and on this particular night for anyway?" And then I'm at the Duluth Christmas Parade of the North with my daughter on my shoulders (can't do that much longer), orange hats everywhere, with the WI season just about to commence and the MN season with its last weekend. Where did that all go. And get stuck at home because of commitments and smell the neighbor's woodsmoke and the tang of this peculiar November air with a heaviness and an expectancy to it and wishing I was in the woods.

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stfcatfish: I read your post on another thread about giving your spot to another party and having to settle for a subpar location yourself. It gave me such a feeling of melancholy. I don't know about this deer hunting sometimes. It's such a mixture of things. There's this big slot of a season in the NE but it slides through my fingers in fits and starts. And then it's a couple pages in my journal to read next season. Sometimes a deer meanders nonchalantly into a shooting lane and the season might be over or I sit and change locations and the lack of deer seems a judgement of some kind upon me. "Why the heck am I perched on this swaying poplar in this particular place and on this particular night for anyway?" And then I'm at the Duluth Christmas Parade of the North with my daughter on my shoulders (can't do that much longer), orange hats everywhere, with the WI season just about to commence and the MN season with its last weekend. Where did that all go. And get stuck at home because of commitments and smell the neighbor's woodsmoke and the tang of this peculiar November air with a heaviness and an expectancy to it and wishing I was in the woods.


Yes, you have it exactly.

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Some of you are so poetic...it just runs thru my blood to hunt and fish. Its like defining what porn is. I can't quite put it to words, but I know it when i see it.

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Hunted with a fellow FMer today on one of his stands near Tower and popped a nice fat yearling 3-pointer. That'll be about 50 pounds of sweet tender meat for the freezer, and it takes the pressure off. Now, for that doe . . . . grin.gif

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Nice job Steve, good to see that you'll be enjoying some tasty steaks and burger this winter. I'm planning on being out near the house at o'dark hundred tomorrow morning until i have to take Jr. to a birthday party. Same deal on sunday, with maybe a couple hours in the evening....sure would be nice to have some straps with onions/bacon and a couple sauteed garlic cloves on the plate sunday night!!!

Good luck and safe hunting to everyone this weekend.

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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
    • leech~~
      As I get older it's really not just about sending bullets down range.  Some of it's just the workmanship of the gun and the wow factor. The other two guns I have really wanted which I'll never have now because of their price, is a 8mm Jap Nambu and 9mm German Luger.   Just thought they always looked cool!  
    • 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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