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Hookmaster

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Tonka Thursday afternoon. The earliest I’ve ever been out in a boat on that lake. Most of the lake still had ice so that’s why I’m putting this in the ice fishing thread.😁 Didn’t find anything shallow. They were still where I caught them last October. Water temp was 41.2 in the bay and 42.4 in the shallow channel in the cattails. I think ice out will be Monday or Tuesday. Many would come up to the 1/16 oz jig but few would take it. Did best with a 4 mm tungsten jig.
Showing pics of the school on the Helix and the LiveScope to show the difference.
I was fishing the top of the school. None of the fish showed signs of barotrauma.

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Was on Tonka yesterday. Bays open that I saw were Stubbs, Maxwell, North Arm, Crystal, Smiths and LaFayette. Carmens was open from what I could see from county road 19. Browns was locked up which also stopped the water patrol on their ice out excursion.
I tried a few shallow channel areas and didn’t find any panfish in them yet. Saw ~5 hammer handles and a fungus covered carp that looked like a ghost and could go belly up at any moment. Panfish still deep and less cooperative than last Thursday. Only boated 1. I did mark some in 10-15 ft off some weeds but they wouldn’t bite either. Yard work today and I’ll give it another try tomorrow.

Tonka main bays were 44 up 3 degrees from last Thursday. Shallows varied between 45 and 47, up from 42 last Thursday.

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Drove around some of Minnetonka today. Most backwaters have froze over and some dock areas that have turned off aeration have also. A few rigs out.

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1 hour ago, smurfy said:

What you talkin about willis!

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I said tomorrow!  

 

Maybe this will help? 🤭

 

Kamala Harris 

 

“Today is today, and yesterday was today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today, tomorrow. So live today, so the future today will be as the past today, as it is tomorrow,”

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On 12/26/2024 at 1:34 PM, leech~~ said:

 

 

Kamala Harris 

 

“Today is today, and yesterday was today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today, tomorrow. So live today, so the future today will be as the past today, as it is tomorrow,”

Are we all unburdened by what has been and what will be? Or are we burdened? I'm confused 😕 

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8 minutes ago, Kettle said:

Are we all unburdened by what has been and what will be? Or are we burdened? I'm confused 😕 

We are burdened by what has been done.  Let us be unburdened and let there be ice!

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Sure is wet out there.  We’re monitoring area lakes; some guys want to get their big houses out really bad but are rightfully leery about the conditions for it.  I saw a tandem axle house out on Christmas Day though, and would feel OK about getting one out with a dolly and wheeler.

 

We might go out for an afternoon bite - those first crappies were de-lish in the beer batter.  But really just focusing on maintenance of everything this weekend before going north for a 4-5 day run, hopefully on Winnie next week.  Depends on if and where we can get out.  Stepping up to a tandem axle house has its drawbacks for sure.

 

The goal is to pack everything, including the spearing gear.  I don’t think I can stay put in the house for that many days straight.  Of course, if the rattle reels rattle and line alarms sing all night, it’ll be easy for me to talk myself out of doing much but napping a lot!

 

Good luck all!

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2 hours ago, Wanderer said:

Sure is wet out there.  We’re monitoring area lakes; some guys want to get their big houses out really bad but are rightfully leery about the conditions for it.  I saw a tandem axle house out on Christmas Day though, and would feel OK about getting one out with a dolly and wheeler.

 

We might go out for an afternoon bite - those first crappies were de-lish in the beer batter.  But really just focusing on maintenance of everything this weekend before going north for a 4-5 day run, hopefully on Winnie next week.  Depends on if and where we can get out.  Stepping up to a tandem axle house has its drawbacks for sure.

 

The goal is to pack everything, including the spearing gear.  I don’t think I can stay put in the house for that many days straight.  Of course, if the rattle reels rattle and line alarms sing all night, it’ll be easy for me to talk myself out of doing much but napping a lot!

 

Good luck all!

Looks like some cold coming back in 2 weeks bud, becareful out there. 😬

I'm pretty sure I will be reproducing this same picture from last New Years eve in the back yard!  😕

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I'm west of the cities enough that we didn't get any rain. most of the snow has melted and have water on the ice but the 12" of ice is still solid. I did go out and moved my house to fresh ice. I think I will take it off tomorrow.

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i'll be doing that fire thing tonight!!!!!!

 

and you goofballs were getting somewhat off topic with that blathering about what confsious say!!!!!! 

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We were blathering about Confusion, not Confucius!  
 

Enjoy your fire!  I coulda brought some wood if I’d known!  I gotta get this thing unloaded tomorrow.  My buddy didn’t pick it up today.

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      Are we all unburdened by what has been and what will be? Or are we burdened? I'm confused 😕 
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