Round Two

[Iambjm]

I got this off the national weather service:

.Rapidly Deepening Low Pressure From The Central Rockies Will Ingest Deep Tropical Moisture From The Gulf... Bringing Heavy Rains To Northeast Minnesota Early Thursday And Northwest Wisconsin Thursday Afternoon. This First Shot Of Rain Will Diminish From West To East As The Deepening Low Moves Over Lake Superior Thursday Night. A Second Low Will Deepen Over The Mid Mississippi Valley Thursday Night And Bring A Second Shot Of Heavy Rain To The Area Friday. A Changeover From Heavy Rain To Substantial Snow Will Reduce The Flood Threat From West To East Across Northeastern Minnesota Friday And From West To East Across Northwestern Wisconsin Friday Evening. Snow... Wind... And Temperatures Well Below Seasonable Levels Are Expected To Reduce The Flooding Threat Friday Night And Early Saturday.

There Is A Potential For 3 To 4 Inches Of Rain During The Flood Watch Period. The Ground Is Nearly Saturated From Recent Heavy Rains. Vegetation Is Dormant And Unable To Absorb Large Amounts Of Rainfall. Melting Of Remaining Snow Cover Is Not Expected To Be Significant With This Potential Flooding Situation. Again... A Changeover To Snow... Gusty Winds And Subfreezing Weather Is Expected To Mitigate The Flood Threat During The Weekend.

Koochiching-Northern St. Louis-Northern Itasca-Central St. Louis- Northern Cass-Southern Itasca-Southern Cass-Crow Wing- Northern Aitkin-Southern Aitkin-Carlton/Southern St. Louis-Pine- Including The Cities Of... International Falls... Ely... Bigfork... Hibbing... Walker... Grand Rapids... Pine River... Brainerd... Hill City... Aitkin... Duluth... Cloquet... Hinckley 427 AM CDT Wed Apr 23 2008

[EXTREME]

Hope you don't live next to a river....cause it is going to flood. At least you can look at the bright side...just think how many mosquitos will have new spots to breed .

[kingkobbla]

Good thing I'll be bass fishing in South Carolina for the next week!!

[Jim Almquist]

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just think how many mosquitos will have new spots to breed .

Like they need anymore spots

[jigglestick]

hey, maybe we'll just skip summer this year and go right back inot ice fishing!!

[EXTREME]

Hey Jigglestick...has Moose started coming out from the edges yet?? How bout Little Moose? Just wondering. This rain might raise heck with the ice, especially if it gets windy.

[jigglestick]

scroungie and I just walked out onto moose today. about three hours ago in fact.

from the campground access, it is good to go for atv's.

the north side of the lake where the two creeks come in it's open maybe thirty yards from shore all along that north east corner, over to dipsh its resort.

the rest of the shore looks pretty solid yet.

little moose I do not know.

it just won't let go.

I'm heading to the creek tonight to nose around. I can't stand this sitting around.

pretty soon the wife will want me to paint something!!

[EXTREME]

I hear ya. I drove by Mckinney lake this morning and it looks to be almost all the way out...tough to tell it was raining so dang hard. I will almost bet money that Deer lake is froze on opener. Last lake to freeze...last to open. Only 15 days till opener. Usually I am getting pretty darn excited but it has been tough to get too wound up about black ice.

[wayne123]

Are you referring to the Deer lake my Moose? If so do you fish it on opener and do you have any luck?

[EXTREME]

Wayne; I usually don't in the morning, but have made frequent stops there for opening evening. I would bet that the day that this lake opens, it will be hot...all day. You will get a lot of pre-spawn walters in there....that is assuming that it does not open before opener. I fished it on opener one year about 15 years ago...the only thing that was open was Mayflower bay. We pounded them. Caught a dozen nice eyes and about 50 whitefish. What a good trip. The rest of the lake went out about 2 days later.

[jigglestick]

no pesky slot to deal with on there either.

a guy can actually catch and keep nice 18-19 inch eaters.

this will be a spring to remember.

[Iambjm]

Yahooooo Ice is out on my lake!!!!! Now if the snow would hold off.

[Fishin=Easy]

Any one up around Trout or Spider seeing any open water on smaller lakes?

[stinkweed129]

Barb - what lake are you on? That's good news that we are finally losing the ice. Kinda stinks when you can't ice fish OR soft water fish!!

[Iambjm]

I am on Hanson by Wabana, drove passed them today and they still have ice.

[wayne123]

Depending on the ice I might have to give it a try. I usually fish it late summer for walleyes.

[Iambjm]

I was wrong, ice is only half gone.................

[glenn57]

that bug must of left some stuff on your glasses. hehehe.

[Iambjm]

Kinda cute ain't he? May have to squash him tho, I wouldn't want to drive every one nuts.