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Posted

We are drawing close to the day folks and things are beginning to come together again nicely.

Here is what we know thus far and I will try to keep an active up-date moving so we stay connected with this event.

Saturday January 7th is the day that this will take place. The hours are: 9:00 AM until 3:00PM, with the clean-up of the lake and surrounding shoreline being done first. This is usually only about an hour long when we all dig right in.

After the trash is gathered we will set down for some serious fishing. At some arbitrary time we will want to have all of the kids who participate gather up for some pics. At this time, any tackle handouts will be doled out.

Something new this year will be to send by e-mail the pics to those who would like them.

We will gather shortly before the starting time at the NE corner of the lake at the sand boat ramp. I would like to have everyone sign in with their name, a screen name as well if a contributor to FM and their e-mail address.

If we get weather, coming and helping is not going to be expected. Many of us live quite close to this lake and do not have to travel much to get there. Snow storms and ice storms can toss a (Contact US Regarding This Word) in any plans, but I stress the need to stay safe and when travel is an issue, we all will understand if reluctance to do so gets in the way of your getting there to help out. No date in the case of event departure is planned.

There you have it. We'll ad-lib some of the stuff we've talked about and a real formal schedule is not in the mix here. We want this fun and plan most of the time being spent doing exactly that.

See you there!

Posted

Tom,

I'm planning on being there. I will also be bringing a few FMers from South Dakota. Looking forward to helping out and maybe icing some fish. Let me know if there is anything else I can do.

I've got about 10 spare ice fishing rods (and reels) that I'd be willing to bring and lend out to anyone who is interested.

tyler

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Tom, my son and i plan on being their for the clean up but i was wondering ifyou could send me in the right direction off the dike road by wabasha to possibly catch some crappies or gills , I'm going over on Friday am and any help would be nice--Thanks,Greg

Posted

Would have loved to be there to help Tom but have a trip up to Red Lake scheduled for that Thurs-Sun!!! mad.gif Oh well, will try another time, I am gonna have to stop in sometime and get me some Crappie lures from the pro that can handle them crappies on Red!!! Hope everything goes well for everyone and have a happy holidays!!!!!

Posted

E dog....

Welcome to the site! Is your dad's name Fred by chance?

Posted

Coyote....

I haven't been down on the back waters for a couple weeks now and didn't do too hot the last trip down. I favor them a bit later in the winter, thus the date set for the Brawl down there. (Hint, hint.) If I were heading to the river, I'd be chugging toward waters below the Alma dam area. The Finger Lakes, West Newton, the area about a mile south of the power plant in Alma on the sconie side. If you intend to stay above the dam, check out Wilcox, but that may have been beat to death by now or the spots of tradition off the Wisconsin shore just below Nelson. You might want to check on the area right off the dike road at the second parking lot, south side, but be careful of the ice with current back in there a ways. You might want to give the harbor(marina) in Wabasha a try around the boat dock pilings.

At this time of year I really do prefer pool 5's waters, but there are unlimited options in any of the backwaters.

Posted

Nope, don't know any Fred's here Tom!!!!! confused.gif

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