Top 4 fish house rentals ?

[Ya Hey Der]

I am planning a trip for 6 and would like to know what your top 4 resort recommendations are. Looking for sleepers with stove, bathroom and card table. I don't know if most places are booked but we would like to fish Feb. 13th and 14th. We are still undecided about fishing Gull or Mille Lacs. Any suggestions on which to fish would also be helpful as well.
Thanks for all your help.

*posting a copy on Brainerd forum as well.

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[City_Slicker]

McQuids is top notch. Me and a couple of buddies rent a sleeper last year and it was fun has....well you know Had a burner slept 5(not their biggest houst) Table,TV,radio and yes a toilet. And I tell you one thing I would want the job of cleaning that thing after 5 college guys got down with a weekend of drinking and eating Burgers and junk food. But yeah McQuids is awesome.

[Ears]

Mcquoids has some of the nicest houses I have been in. Actually, leaving tomorrow am for a couple days in the houses! Nice new beds, clean houses with everything you would need. For 6 people, look at the lodge. It has 7 beds and 14 holes, the thing is huge!!!

[23jhamre]

ears or city slicker---did you catch any fish.? i am heading up there the 5th of february.thanks!!

[Iceman73]

It all depends on how nice you want the house and how much you are looking to spend. I have gone the super nice route (McQuoids) and the modest route (Dickie's). With McQuoids, you get more features and a nicer house, but you pay a bigger chunk of change. My group goes up to fish somewhat, but mainly to have a good time playing cards, drinking beer, etc. If the fishing is good, we'll stay interested, if it's not, we have other things to keep us busy. I want to say for the weekend last year compared to this year, we paid $175 more at McQuoid's. For that $175, we got a TV, radio, electric lights if needed, and a fishhouse as nice as any. If you don't need an immaculate house with all the bells and whistles, my advice would be to shop around. As far as the fishing went, it was slow at both locales, but as stated above we didn't fish too hardcore. Good luck and have fun.

[MNice]

Been going to McQuoids for years with no regrets. But this year the guys wanted to try somewhere else, just to be different. We are going this weekend to Lybacks. One thing Lybacks has is a apt. size 4 burner stove with oven which will be very nice. I'll post Tuesday when I get back.

[Chad Anderson]

I used to like Eddy's, but i think their prices may have gone up a bit.

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eat, fish, try to sleep

[MNice]

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[slab slayer]

MNice-

Do you know anything about the fishing out of Lybeck's? Got a few fellas heading up and we have a house that Lybecks pulled out. Was up there two weekends ago with not a whole lot of action. We got some nice sized perch Sat. and Sun. mornings put had to jig for them pretty hard. Guessing we had a school of Tullibee cruise through late Sat. night early Sun. morning, had every rattle reel waking us up with only one pulled up. Other than that we had one marble eye pulled up 14.5 inches. Our house has got some light stained wood siding if you're in the area stop in. There will be a white dodge and a blue ranger outside. Good Luck.

[MNice]

Slab Slayer, nope, don't know anything about Lybacks. Back in the late 60's, my Dad and brother used to go up out of there, but I was pretty young. I have been fishing in the gerneral area before, but have not ben up yete this year. Thanks for the invite, If I see your house I'll say Hi.

[Iceman73]

We had a 4 burner stove in our fishhouse and a full size oven. Just as we were about to head to the store for a stack of frozen pizzas, we read the little sign on it that said it didn't work. Talk about a letdown. Frozen pizza, beer, and cards, what more could you ask for? Oh yeah, some walleyes would be nice too.

[Ears]

Just got back from Mcquoids. Lots of small perch. A couple of nicer ones, but mostly the 4 inchers. 1 23" walleye and a couple pout. Nothing to great, but the houses were really nice! The houses are on Hawkbill reef in about 23 feet over the rocks.

[MNice]

Lybacks report. Bottom line, I'd rent there again, nice people, good price. We had a 10 x 20 with 4 bunks, 4 burner stove and the oven worked!! Lasagna & garlic bread was great. Fishing was VERY slow, but you can't fault the resort for that. Sat. night did get chilly in the house, it was around -10 and very windy, the furnace never shut off, just to much wind going through the house. Under normal conditions the house was very comfortable, small computer fan on ceiling to not have the guys at the top get roasted.

[slab slayer]

MNice-

How'd you do? Our house was very slow, not even a lot of takers. Lot of chasers on the graph but nothing biting. Thinking about heading up again this weekend. The early weather report sounds a bit more promising!