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Way below bullheads?! Whats wrong with bullheads? I've had some darn good eating bullheads, maybe not from the St. Louis, but in other places they are superb.

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Im glad you like eating bullheads...eat um all up...every single one in the whole state... throw some ruffe's in that bullhead frying pan too.

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Anybody having any luck on the bay? I have went off parkpoint a couple times now in the last week and I fished anywhere from 6-14 fow and nothing. Anyone have any tips for the last week or so before I put the ice fishin gear away for another year??

Thanks

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Its SLOW out there. I got 2 10"ers and 1 23"er tonight. Unless we get fresh fish in real quick it will be slow til the end.

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just got back from texas was away for 2 weeks anyone fishing off wisconsin point on the big lake or any word on the bay

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Nobody on that ice. Its in and out as far as I could tel. The bay is slow as I stated in the post before yours.

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is there anywhere to get on the ice up stream of the bay safely?somewhere between spirit lake & high bridge from mn side? or do i need a wisc license to get on ice from wisc side?does anyone also think maybe the fish are hold up somewhere there or spread out all over the river.thanks.

northlander...are you ok?lol forums been quiet lately.

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I believe that your okay with your mn license because the river is a border water. I do not know of any good access points down there, but I do encourage extreme caution. With this last weeks weather, ice conditions could of changed. I personally don't mind roughing it on foot rather than driving, it's good excersize anyway! Good luck this last period of fishing for the season!!! Open water will be flowing soon, then all of us that bought new summer gear at the boat show can log some consumption time. Later dudes!!

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is there anywhere to get on the ice up stream of the bay safely?somewhere between spirit lake & high bridge from mn side? or do i need a wisc license to get on ice from wisc side?does anyone also think maybe the fish are hold up somewhere there or spread out all over the river.thanks.

northlander...are you ok?lol forums been quiet lately.

My thought is they are between the 2 big bridges. From talking to guys who have fished arrowhead area and spirit they arent seeing any big runs of fish yet.

Ya Im ok but a little sick lately. I think its a sinus infection or something. Its cutting into my fishing time but I suppose now is a good time to rest up for the march crappie bite. Plus if I post too much on the bay lately I get too much hate mail and flaming. crazy

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Anyone catching fish out in the bay?

Did you read my post right before yours man? Its been SLOW!

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I was out on Wednesday and it was dead. Maybe there is one more good day left before closing.

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Dead people, I have been looking for places I would go if I was a running walleye. Places where you'd think they would be congregating. No luck. I would guess that more walleyes will start to show up after close of season. Obviously! Good luck these last days. Getting pumped for crappies and gills. Never have I ventured for pannies on the river. Anyone know of a good starting point. I have been told kimbals bay produces some crappie action

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Jarrid getting good crappie info for the river is like trying to get muskie and steelhead info. Your pointed in the right direction for starters though.

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Was out there last night...3 cigars. Seems like its mostly small resident fish. Not many fresh fish moving in. You would think there would be more numbers moving in by now?

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It was the same exact deal last year, by mid feb fishing shut down. What i think is a group of "early fish" come in the river first, about a month or two before all the other ones come in and thats what we got in jan and early feb. All the others will start coming in soon as the temps warm up and it gets closer to spring.

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Ya I agree Grant. Im thinking about hitting arrowhead tomorrow afternoon. Either that or Fish Lake Crappies.

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tried just upstream from bong & the spinning train bridge on wisc side.only there for 2hours.got nothin.in 25 fow.

good luck on these last days of wally & norskie fishin.

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finished out the year last night with a couple friends and had a blast. the fish are further up the river and they were hungry. fun night for one of the guys for sure as he had 6 walleyes on in 30 minutes. well, now we wait for the open water walleyes...

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doesn't the harbor usualy end one week after mn season? is it different this year?

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I think this year it was one day, Mar. 1st. Cause I beleive that is when the Wisconsin season closed.

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Hey hows it going guys? Fishing opener is right around the corner.... I was just wondering do you think the Walleyes are done spawning.... If so were would you fish if they are done... Would u go down to Spirt lake or is that to far away from the dam.... Thanks for the info Fishing opener here we come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Northlander I need some help u always have some good answers

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Fish will be all the way from the d a m to the entries. We have caught post spawn females on the lake for about 3 weeks.

Im sure most fish have spawned and will have the feed bag on. Lots of males will still be up top and females can be anywhere.

Ill be up top jiiging for some action and then move down on the flats later. I like any flat no matter how small. A place where the eyes will go rest out of current and put the feed bag on.

Spirit Lake always has fish in it this time of year. Arrowhead flats will as well. The bays will too.

This year there will be fish all over and it will probably be a little harder to find the big females but finding walleyes shouldnt be hard at all.

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Where is Arrowhead flats on the river? I see people talking about it on here sometimes but I have no idea where it is.

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Hey Northlander can u help us out and sort of give us a lttle help on where that Arrowhead flat is????? Thanks again

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