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Any Reports from Friday 1/14?


Mudflap

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If I plan to hit URL today I should be getting on the road about now. I walked out to to the mail box to get the paper and it's brutal out there.

Someone please tell me a positive fishing story that happened yesterday and I'll let the dishes stack for another day.

Right now all I can think about is slabs, but then I think about tearing equipment down afterwards and reality sets in.

Let me know... as I'm running the water in the sink. Suffering from crappie landing/cleaning hands is better than dish pan hands.

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I just got back and the fishing was phenomenal. I got clients set-up at 1 pm, and decided to fish for a bit. Ended up with a limit and was off the lake and home by 5:30. They were aggresive!

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Thanks Matt,

I never made it today but I'm going tommorrow.... Been playing catch-up all week.

I had the same results as you last Sunday. I just hope I can get back to my remote spot. How's the cross country travel?

I understand we share the same passion....Upland bird hunting.

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It sure has been a sucessful year up there! I'm sure you'll do well tomorrow too! I'll be up there tomorrow as well, if you see a black F-150 with my sponsor decals on it say hello!

The off-road travel is still okay, I did pull out my first stuck truck today though, but it wasn't a 4x4.

Birds aren't the only thing we have in common. I think hardwater 'bees and living near Nymore as well.

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Thanks Matt,

Just got back from the Beaver hockey game...

I guess I really live up the hill but I grew up in Nymore...until my Dad got a job! I still like that joke.

I'm proud of my past. I moved back from the Cities just in time for my kids to close down old Lincoln school.

I'm also into Deer hunting season Whitefish and March Grassy Island Pout. Call me sick, but they are the best when the bite is on. My co-workers love it when I bring in smoked fish.

I have never found the Tulibee bite on Bemidji. A while back I used to fish them on Leech but that became kind of a craze. Have you found them locally?

I understand you also know Hollywood Pete. I got to know him on this Forum and he ended leaving the Metro to work up here at the same company I work at. He was out chasing swamp bats with with me this October... Nice guy, considering he grew up in Aitkin.

I'll probably be up Sunday somewhere between Hillman's and Westwinds. Lookind at the GPS, I seem to be migrating south to keep away from the crowd.

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