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Sheels in St. Cloud had over 30 of them when I bought mine last weekend

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You could get by without one if you shovel down close to the ice, it's just that there's so much snow now.

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I got an extension from scheels in st cloud on Monday. They had 5 or 6 left. The lady at the counter said they were a hot commodity and they are going fast.

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You could get by without one if you shovel down close to the ice, it's just that there's so much snow now.

Some lakes you don't need one yet, but others you won't get to the bottom of the ice without one.

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Made it out to one of the area lake for a bit today. Found a few crappies still roaming the basin area of this lake. 25-28ft was the magic depth, plastics were the only thing I could get the bigger fish to bite on. full-26589-43025-20140301_152138.jpg

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Even kept a few for dinner tonight grin

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Guys,

Wayzata Bait has got plenty of extensions left both for Jiffy and Strikemaster augers. $30.00 each.

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Made it out to one of the area lake for a bit today. Found a few crappies still roaming the basin area of this lake. 25-28ft was the magic depth, plastics were the only thing I could get the bigger fish to bite on. full-26589-43025-20140301_152138.jpg

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Even kept a few for dinner tonight grin

VERY NICE CATCH!

Under brutal conditions, during super high barometric pressure. smile

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Location was key to all of my success today. Find good numbers and a few are bound to bite wink

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It was an interesting but yet fun day..... today. Like Rick, numbers were key. Wave after wave of basin fish usually put out only one or two "dummies" at a time......lots of blank stares, a decent amount of chasers, but only suppose about 20 biters. Got fish off of waxes, euroes, minnows, and plastics....essentially equal amounts.... you just had to find the one that was hungrier than the others. Truthfully, do not think what was tipped really mattered, but threw everything at them regardless. Similarly, had to work, high, low, and even fishing nearly blind in the middle because the screen was so full....any opening had to be tried. My poor pops, pretty new to the primetime crowded flasher game, had a hard time even figuring out where he was. Ultimate key to success was to locate the chasers and keep them chasing with very little action.....

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Ya I was using a camera and at times even dead sticking a live euro on a diamond jig was the ticket

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Out again today. Hit a different lake, but fish were just as deep basin oriented as the lake we hit yesterday. Most years,by the first of march the panfish have begun to migrate tward their late ice locations, this has been anything but a "normal"year. The fish we targeted today are in pretty much the same place I have been finding them since first ice.

A few ft made all the difference in the world today. We were fishing a super soft muddy spot that is surounded by a bit harder sand/silt bottom. While the crapies were activly roaming around the harder bottom area, the softer bottom was holding them like a magnet. Once you got off the mud the fish only hung around for a short time once you found a school. Needless to say we spend most of our day on the small mud patch grin

My Vexilar looled like this for a good part of the day . Bottom is the thin line at 26ft, we were in super soft mud. Not much for a bottom return, even the jigs were hard to see. full-26589-43039-20140302_133013.jpg

Getting them to bite was pretty easy, but overall size ran smallish. Did manage a few nicer ones though.

This one fell for a ops panfish jig tipped with a crappie minnow. full-26589-43043-20140302_140437.jpg

Most bit on the Northland Mooska tipped with a plastic tail. full-26589-43041-20140302_151115.jpg

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Someone forgot to inform the walleyes the season is over. Got a few suspended right with the crappies full-26589-43044-20140302_162920.jpg

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Great info Rick. Thank you.

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Nice report Rick.You guys work hard out there all winter long and its been fun seeing what you guys come up with day to day on the ice. smile

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Cool report rick

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Awesome report Rick! Looks like lot of fun, keep it up... Hoping to get out next week for some pan fishing. If this weather ever warms up frown

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It was great to get out today for 2hrs. Nobody on the lake beside me, makes for good fishing. Kept 7 crappies. A good start for the lent season.

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Headed out around 2pm today.Took for ever to find fish.Started in 17' and found a couple of sunnies in each hole then finally moved out of the way somewhere and fished in 10'-12'and first two holes I was marking fish 2-6' off the bottom.Stayed semi busy with Gills and a few crappies mixed in.Torwards the last hour decided to keep some for a friend.Did ok today useing plastics and small jigs.Popped a new spring bobber on before I started and seemed to do the trick for getting those light twitches.

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Good catch Jeremy, what can I say, "wish I was there?"

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Great Fish!!! Love the snot hanging from the nose shot. laugh

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Very Nice Jeremy!

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First class report, bud smile

I like the runny nose shot, adds a bit of "real" to the pic's...

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Went out on this beautiful day and hit a lake I have been having questions about. So I treked out to Mayhew lake just to give it a shot and see if there was any life left in it, It had a bad winter kill last year. Well got on at the public access and dragged my gear all the way down to the north/far-middle of the lake. Talk about a workout. punched some holes in 14-15 FOW and set up shop. Right away I had life on the vex. I started getting perch on with descent size I caught about 50 of them and came home with 18 eaters for perch. I also hit 5-6 slimmers all about 16-22 inches long. they would scare my perch away. So I had no choice to catch them and transplant them in another hole I drilled about 40 ft from my pop-up. all in all it was nice to see some life in Mayhew and the action was non-stop from the time I punched holes till I got the second part of my workout hauling it all back, BOY that snow is deep when your the only one breaking trail. full-46894-43163-img_20140308_150443.jpg

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Great report Nick, glad to see the life you found out there. Did you stop by the gym on the way home?

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Hey guys! Are you getting through the ice w/o an extension?

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Nice find Nick.Thanks for putting in the time out there.You showed there are still fish in Mayhew.Great report! By the way Nick.You gave me your number way back ago and lost it when I got a new phone.Pm me your number again.

Vitreus-depends where you go.I been lucky not to have to use one except for a couple of lakes.

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Made it out today with a few friends. Fishing wasn't easy smile for most of us anyway wink really had to work for the fish we got. full-26589-43197-20140309_171955.jpg

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Got all of our fish just off a shallow feeding flat, 11-20ft of water is what we were fishing. Various plastics and live bait caught fish, though I would say that the plastics won the numbers game. I would have thought the fish would have bit bettet today than they did smile

We did get one out of season non target fish... full-26589-43201-20140309_142734.jpg we weren't too sure what he had on his line for a while, it put up one heck of a fight. After a few quick photos Little Red slipped this big girl back down the hole full-26589-43202-20140309_142852.jpg

This is Rileys biggest walleye to date.It made me very happy to see the youngest member of our group score such a great fish grin

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Those were some memorable moments. It was funny we didn't take him serious at first laugh By the way the eye went 27". smile

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Them (all) some impressive fishes!

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He wasnt the only one that caught a non target fish. I was looking for crappies and I found a few but this bad boy hit like a mack truck and was one heck of a fight. The fish were shall I say not too cooperative today which was honestly quite a shock but it was beautiful outside thats for sure and well worth the trip out!!!

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Nice northern, JD smile been an off year for me and the snot rockets, I think I only got one all winter crazy

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