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Some friends took thirteen nice keepers not far from the open water south of the rock pile. Not enough ice there for my titantic shack. Guess I'll just have to keep catchin the small ones. tuk.

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Hey Fowlguy, did you move yet? Or are you still where you were New Years Eve? Headin up tomorrow after work. tuk.

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We have to kill that one. Looks like we get the same fish!!!

Took the house off tuesday due to weather. Hope to get it back on monday. laugh.gif

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Tried it last night again and didn't even catch that 12incher. Some kids parked a shack about 10' from mine and made a lot of racket this didn't help any and perterbed me to say the least. tuk.

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Going to move the house out today to the same old spot.They have to bite some time this winter cool.gif

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Fowlguy,No I didn't, I felt sorry for it. It came into my possession by "holding onto" a 5" chub! Poor sucker couldn't even fit it in his mouth I had no choice but to admire his appetite and turn him loose. tuk.

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Hi Tuk

That 12" fish must be a male as i got a 8" yesterday. Has to be the cold weather!!!!! grin.gif

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Hi Tuk

Last night 1 perch, (1 crappie 2#} 6 keeper eyes grin.gif how did u do? Saw your truck when i left the lake.

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tipup king or fowlguy just wonder where a good starting point wood be thinking about pulling the house up there for a weekend which park would be good to drive off or any tips thanks skinnylee

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Best bet is to go on at the county park. There is a good landing there. Not many fish this week, sat from 11:30am to8:45pm yesterday & got 1 perch. frown.gif Good thing i had a good book with grin.gif

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Jr, How do you expect to catch any fish if your house isn't out there? Just keep your van off also!

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State Farm Man,

I wonder who you are? Where are the fish biting? Don't say the mouth either.

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fishin4fun, looks like it wasn't the big pond where you guys went last weekend. Of course, its tough to catch fish when your locked onto the bottle bass cool.gif!!! Nice Crappies at Red Lake...should have went there. Hope to get the house out this weekend if there isn't too much water on top at LB. They have got to turn on eventually!

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Heard a report of a pickup going through this weekend. Does anyone know about this?

State Farm guy,

Ya The big pond was full of bottle bass, no walleys or perch though. Maybe next year!

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Heard the same thing but dont know for sure. Will find out today and let u know. Put the house out yesterday & the ice looks good. Got five eyes one was really big 12". All the rest were under that grin.gif State Farm Guy ,I did not drop the van in.

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It's a car that went in & it's still there. Right off the point at the county park.Look's like it's all the way down ooo.gif

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Ouch! Haven't had any phone calls this morning. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Glad you didn't do the same Fowlguy...Let me know when its worth it to go fishing again!!!!!

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They got the car out yesterday. A body shop from Arlington SD. got it out. Looked like not a fun job. Sat from 11 am to 7:30pm & got two eyes, 10" each frown.gif We need some snow to bank the house with.Boy is it cold out there.

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Fowlguy, brought the shanty home. That 12" eye we were catching had no lips left so I figured I might as well give up. See ya next year. OH yeah, how is it that shooting range coming over there? tuk

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Where did the new car go in at? I'm sure that rain yesterday did some damage on the ice. It's time to start thinking about getting the boats ready.

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    • Brianf.
      I'm not there, so I can't tell exactly what's going on but it looks like a large area of open water developed in the last day with all of the heavy snow on the east side of wake em up Narrows. These two photos are from my Ring Camera facing north towards Niles Point.  You can see what happened with all of snow that fell in the last three days, though the open water could have been wind driven. Hard to say. .  
    • SkunkedAgain
      Black Bay had great ice before but a few spots near rockpiles where there were spots of open water. It looks like the weight of the snow has created a little lake in the middle of the bay.  
    • LakeofthewoodsMN
      On the south end...   Thanks to some cold spring weather, ice fishing continues strong for those still ice fishing.  The bite remains very good.  Most resorts have pulled their fish houses off for the year, however, some still have fish houses out and others are allowing ATV and side by sides.  Check social media or call ahead to your favorite resort for specifics. Reports this week for walleyes and saugers remain excellent.   A nice mix of jumbo perch, pike, eelpout, and an occasional crappie, tullibee or sturgeon being reported by anglers. Jigging one line and using a live minnow on the second line is the way to go.  Green, glow red, pink and gold were good colors this week.     Monster pike are on a tear!  Good number of pike, some reaching over 45 inches long, being caught using tip ups with live suckers or dead bait such as smelt and herring in 8 - 14' of water.   As always, work through a resort or outfitter for ice road conditions.  Safety first always. Fish houses are allowed on the ice through March 31st, the walleye / sauger season goes through April 14th and the pike season never ends. On the Rainy River...  The river is opened up along the Nelson Park boat ramp in Birchdale, the Frontier boat ramp and Vidas boat ramp.  This past week, much of the open water skimmed over with the single digit overnight temps.   Areas of the river have popped open again and with temps getting warmer, things are shaping up for the last stretch through the rest of the spring season, which continues through April 14th.   Very good numbers of walleyes are in the river.  Reports this week, even with fewer anglers, have been good.  When temps warm up and the sun shines, things will fire up again.   Jigs with brightly colored plastics or jigs with a frozen emerald shiner have been the desired bait on the river.  Don't overlook slow trolling crankbaits upstream as well.   Good reports of sturgeon being caught on the river as well.  Sturgeon put the feed bag on in the spring.  The bite has been very good.  Most are using a sturgeon rig with a circle hook loaded with crawlers or crawlers / frozen emerald shiners. Up at the NW Angle...  Ice fishing is winding down up at the Angle.  Walleyes, saugers, and a number of various species in the mix again this week.  The bite is still very good with good numbers of fish.  The one two punch of jigging one line and deadsticking the second line is working well.   Check with Angle resorts on transport options from Young's Bay.  Call ahead for ice road guidelines.  
    • CigarGuy
      With the drifting, kind of hard to tell for sure, but I'm guessing about a foot and still lightly snowing. Cook end!
    • PSU
      How much snow did you get on Vermilion? 
    • Mike89
      lake here refroze too...  started opening again yesterday with the wet snow and wind...  very little ice left today...
    • Hookmaster
      A friend who has a cabin between Alex and Fergus said the lake he's on refroze. He texted me a pic from March 12th when it was open and one from 23rd when it wasn't. 🤯
    • SkunkedAgain
      I don't think that there has been any ice melt in the past few weeks on Vermilion. Things looked like a record and then Mother Nature swept in again.   I'll give my revised guess of April 21st
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