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By Brianf. · Posted
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. . -
By SkunkedAgain · Posted
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. -
By LakeofthewoodsMN · Posted
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. -
By CigarGuy · Posted
With the drifting, kind of hard to tell for sure, but I'm guessing about a foot and still lightly snowing. Cook end! -
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By Mike89 · Posted
lake here refroze too... started opening again yesterday with the wet snow and wind... very little ice left today... -
By Hookmaster · Posted
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. 🤯 -
By SkunkedAgain · Posted
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 -
By leech~~ · Posted
As I get older it's really not just about sending bullets down range. Some of it's just the workmanship of the gun and the wow factor. The other two guns I have really wanted which I'll never have now because of their price, is a 8mm Jap Nambu and 9mm German Luger. Just thought they always looked cool!
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Tom Wilson
To Everyone,
I read GClark's post below and versus answering him there I thought this should be a seperate post. At the end of last season my 2 year old MinnKota Maxxum 74# started to act up and get sticky. Turns out it was something common to that motor, but that's not what this post is about. I called up Motor Clinic in Bloomington. They are an authorized repair shop for MinnKota. They used to be located over on the east end of town, but are now on the west end of Bloomington off of Old Shakopee. When I called there the guy I talked to said he'd bet money that the problem was what they had seen before, but to bring it in to be sure. I took the motor in on Monday at 11:30. At 2:36pm he left a message on my machine at home that my motor was fixed good as new and I could pick it up before 4:30 or the next day. I called him back to let him know that I couldn't get it Monday, but that I would have my wife stop in and get it on Tuesday after work. She did just that. The reason I'm writing this is because of what I found when I got home. They didn't fix a simple little problem. They had to repalce half of my trolling motor. (all covered by the fantastic 3 year warranty that comes with a Maxxum.) Turns out, that the whole shaft had to be replaced, The roller bearing assembly on the shaft had to be replaced, the pinion gear assembly in the head had to be replaced, and the directional arrow indicator now works.
I'm not trying to start any wars amongst service places, but how many places in town, can you take your motor to, and them have that many parts in stock without the dreaded news of "sorry, but we have to order that part". Those guys down there were fantastic, and if you are having trolling motor problems, that's who I suggest you call first. They even carried that 100 lb monster out and put it in my wifes car for her. That kind of service don't grow on trees, and is getting harder to find everyday. My hat's off to everyone at Motor Clinic.
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