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9 hours ago, leech~~ said:

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Would you mind if I shared this one on the dark side?

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1 hour ago, Wanderer said:

Would you mind if I shared this one on the dark side?

Smurfy already did for me.  🤗

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3 minutes ago, leech~~ said:

Smurfy already did for me.  🤗

Guess I didn’t see it!!!

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1 hour ago, Wanderer said:

Guess I didn’t see it!!!

Merry Christmas in the photo thread. 

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3 hours ago, Wanderer said:

Merry Holidays to you all too!

 

Thanks for the holiday wish!  The wife and I pulled some Christmas Day crappies up to 13 inches this afternoon.

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Nice, local area lake?  😆

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9 hours ago, leech~~ said:

Nice, local area lake?  😆

Yeah, not too far from home.

 

Within driving distance. 😉 

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8 hours ago, Wanderer said:

Yeah, not too far from home.

 

Within driving distance. 😉 

Leech trying to get fishing spots from Wanderer!  😒

 

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Hope everyone's Christmas was great. I had 28 at our house. Very nice time.

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Was driving to st Francis today and hit a rooster doing 55. It flew right into the car. Hazel was not impressed when I got home. 

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I went one last time yesterday afternoon with a friend for a few hours.  We each got one, and we each missed one.  Raised about 20 birds at four spots, plus one deer.  Unfortunately, the season is now over.

 

It was a superb season though.  Second best season I've had with this dog.  She just had her 13th season.  I hope she can do it again next year.

 

I'll be sorting my sock drawer now for a couple months...

 

 

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2 hours ago, gim said:

I went one last time yesterday afternoon with a friend for a few hours.  We each got one, and we each missed one.  Raised about 20 birds at four spots, plus one deer.  Unfortunately, the season is now over.

 

It was a superb season though.  Second best season I've had with this dog.  She just had her 13th season.  I hope she can do it again next year.

 

I'll be sorting my sock drawer now for a couple months...

 

 

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Sounds like you had a great year. Thanks for sharing all the reports and pictures with us. 👍

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Well I crushed the walleyes on Mille Lacs lol ! My friend and I caught like 20 each, BUT the biggest was 17 1/2 and the smallest was 3 inches. We also end up with 10 jumbo perch. This was on Sunday we tossed a few 9-10 inch perch back. I would say 95 % the eyes were from 7-14. 
 

ice was 15 inches and growing. Bring cleats as there is no snow to speak of. 

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3 hours ago, monstermoose78 said:

Well I crushed the walleyes on Mille Lacs lol ! My friend and I caught like 20 each, BUT the biggest was 17 1/2 and the smallest was 3 inches. We also 10 jumbo perch. This was on Sunday we tossed a few 9-10 inch perch back. I would say 95 % the eyes were from 7-14. 
 

ice was 15 inches and growing. Bring cleats as there is no snow to speak of. 

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Fun, action is action.  It's a good sign, hope my grandsons can keep a few someday!  👍

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Any ice reports ? I will get an updated one when I go out Sunday.

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Ok the ice was 15-16 inches and less than 2 inches of snow. It’s was -15 this morning and the weekend looks to be cold again. The fish were there but not biting with change in weather. 

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Just got a picked up a clam legend XT Ice Team and am going to put it together today

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Very nice one man house. The straight front wall makes much more useable area than if it was slanted. I got one two years ago but only have used it a few times. 😬 An extra pair of hands are handy when attaching the skin to the tub. Going to get it down from the shelf in the garage and it will reside in the back of my truck the rest of the season. 😀

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🤣emoji! Good thingbi took a second look, thought you were talking the blanket cabinet  🙄

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On 1/19/2025 at 9:11 PM, smurfy said:

🤣emoji! Good thingbi took a second look, thought you were talking the blanket cabinet  🙄

I helped bring that into the house. The wife painted it. It does have e etched wood ducks on the glass. 

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Nice! 👍

I got a Eskimo Wide 1 thermo a few years ago. It's nice have a hand putting together. 

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