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On Monday, January 09, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Big A said:

Do you own a telephone? :whistle::confused::crazy:

Geeze, in all fairness who do you call?

I sure dont know.

Got a number?

Got an answer for a legit question?

 

Loc8or,

I believe there is a road out of swift ditch going out to 5 mile.  I have had a buddy go up that way earlier this month.

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Yes, there is a road out of swift, it goes out to the 5 mile reef area.

 

I live up here and I don't even know for sure who you would call for that road these days.

 

I do have an old number for the guy that used to plow it, if he's still doing the road the number might still be good.

 

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Ya I do have a phone. Guess I asked the wrong question so here ya go Big A. Anybody have a phone # to call for info on the road out of swift ditch??? Can only guess what "big a" means!

Thank you for the info anyfish2 and shawski. Long way to go to find out no road.

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10 hours ago, loc8or said:

Ya I do have a phone. Guess I asked the wrong question so here ya go Big A. Anybody have a phone # to call for info on the road out of swift ditch??? Can only guess what "big a" means!

Send me a PM - I can give you the number I located using my smart phone and Google, took me about  2 minutes and 45 seconds... I even took a nap afterwards, it was exhausting.

 

I'd be happy to help. But you'd have to catch me in the right mood, cuz sometimes I don't have patience for a lack of common sense. Good luck and happy fishing.

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Don't be a douche and learn how to spell so you don't have to go back and edit it. 

 

It's a legit question loc8or, and this is the right place to ask. 

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Offering a solution isn't being a "douche" .... But thanks for your assistance. Don't worry, I typed slowly to avoid a spelling error, would hate to upset you

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Definitely the place to ask this type of stuff, I have asked many questions like this and have gotten a ton of help. Don't let people like Big A stop you from posting questions like this in the future. Thanks to people like SHAWSKI and ANYFISH2, we don't have to bother the guy who plows up there with 100's of phone calls, we can just get the info here. Thanks.  

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1 hour ago, ducksnbucks said:

Definitely the place to ask this type of stuff, I have asked many questions like this and have gotten a ton of help. Don't let people like Big A stop you from posting questions like this in the future. Thanks to people like SHAWSKI and ANYFISH2, we don't have to bother the guy who plows up there with 100's of phone calls, we can just get the info here. Thanks.  

 

 

How right you are, I have a phone number for the guy but I can tell you he's hard to reach. (used to be anyways). I honestly think he just turned his phone off or had the ringer off, too busy working to field calls all day.

I believe it's kind of a 2 party effort these days, a guy from the immediate area and I'm thinking a younger relative or friend possibly from fertile or red lake falls area?

 

Anyways, they aren't a resort like rocky point, zipple bay, sportsmans lodge, springsteel etc. So it could be hard to know who exactly to look for or what to google search for. If you did get a hit on google it may be an old post from someone like me on a fishing forum like this one. The info could easily be outdated as these freestyle type efforts are very fluid from year to year. A guy can easily get burned for his efforts and say the hell with it and a different guy picks up the effort the following year and tries to make a go of it. It happens a lot.

 

That's why I said I have a number but I'm not sure if it's good any more. I'm not certain who exactly is making the effort out of swift ditch this year.

 

 

But I do know it's there this year because I know several people that have used the road this year.

 

 

 

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