Hillmans/beacons or Rogers road

[wmn luv me walleye fearme]

Was heading up with the wheelhouse tommorow. Originally was planning on going to winnie but sounds like that might be pretty tough (generally i only have good luck on winnie when I'm popping a lot of holes but w/o a snowmobile and if I can't go off road with the 4 runner i will be pretty much grounded) I usually go out of rogers but it sounds like they are pretty condensed at 1.25 miles out. Does Hillman's have a little more room to spread out a bit? Since i can't really do much off roading probably just hunker down in the wheelhouse for a couple of days. It just seems when I've been on Red I've done well as long as it hasn't been too packed in with houses.

Thanks

[mnhunter3]

I was up with beacons a 2 weeks ago and and Dean was really great, He does a good job up there and put us on fish. All three guys came home with limits.

Beacon Harbor Resort = A+++++++++

[Fishalittle]

Its been pretty quiet on here so far this week. It would be great if all the resorts could give an update on their roads after this storm. We wanted to go up there so bad last weekend but the storm kept us home. Will probably try to go up Friday night. I think hillmans road stays shallow are the fish still in the shallow water or have they moved out deeper...anyone have the recent action reports? South shore gets deeper quicker but if there is limited room? What to do???

[wmn luv me walleye fearme]

Thanks for the info. Always used Rogers as they always have been great to us and helpful, but always read good things about Hillman's on here and now it seems like Beacon Harbor pretty good as well from your comments. (used Hillman's one time about 6 years ago with Johnny and Kelly renting a house before we built our own but didnt really ask them for any info since we weren't finding our own spot) Sounds like I can't go wrong regardless.

[tsande00]

Heading up for the first time tomorrow morning. Trying to decide which access to go out of. Renting a house near Rogers but thinking I might get more plowed road and less people if I pick an access further north.

Any thoughts/opinions out there?

[Neiko]

Sounds like you can only go out 1.3 miles out of Rogers which sucks. A group of us are heading up next weekend to rent 2 houses out of Alpine who uses Rogers road. Not looking forward to fishing only 1.3 miles out. I think you would have more options going farther north.

[kelly-p]

That I know of I think all the roads are running into bad ice at about 1 to 1 1/2 miles out. Hillman's/Beacon's roads are 7 or 8 miles long but staying within that 1 1/2 miles from shore. Jon scouted with the snowmobile yesterday and found good ice in the areas that we would like to get to but no way to get there yet if ever this winter. Deep slush, 2 foot wide fresh cracks and thin ice for 1 1/2 miles. It seems like from 1 1/2 miles out to 3 miles is very ugly all around the lake.

[magnum mike]

We went out of Rogers after Christmas. On Tuesday it was a circus of people stuck inside the 1.3 mile barrier. We headed about 2 miles east looking for structure and solitude on the UTV and ran into slush and 6" ice. Everywhere we drilled was a geyser of water that flooded the area in minutes. We drove around until we found some windblown “high ground” and set up camp. We did better than anybody according to the reports Joni had when we quit. I feel sorry for the outfitters in that area being handcuffed to a small area in relation to the number of fisherman that want to spread out. This was all before the New Year’s storm. The ice is terrible and I don’t see it getting better any time soon.

[chalupa]

Neiko, that group you are talking about thats coming up, is it supposed to be cousins gettin together?

[kelly-p]

A friend and I were looking at the structure map today and all the places we think there would be fish but that we can not get to. We decided that this was like a little kid waiting for X-Mass but when X-Mass comes he's told he can't open the presents.

[Neiko]

Chalupa, no mostly my brothers,friends and a nephew.

[chalupa]

I also will be up there , we are renting a couple of houses out of rogers and its supposed to be all of the cousins, So maybe we will see you up there. I dont know whos all showing so i thought maybe you were one of our clan.

[magnum mike]

Well stated Kelly