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The river has come up quite a bit in the past few days. There are major floaters....everywhere.

Last night about a handful of times, I was grateful to be in a 'pro. We hit quite a few, some by accident, some by "that shouldn't be too bad".

Keep a close eye out, many were right below the surface. frown.gif

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there were lots of floaters in the granite to franklin areas also, we seen whole trees floating down the river. the water is only going to go up more for we had between 4 to 6 inches here, with more coming tomorrow.

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LOL. I like your "that shouldn't be too bad" comment. I looked at the riverpro website, the dude here must be in like 3 inches of water toward the front of the boat! Holy cow, I bet that boat is fun to drive.

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FUN/SCARY to ride in at times depending on the Driver. But if you make it out to the cat gathering I'm sure they'll be some Demo rides.

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Yes.. there are a ton of floaters on the Minnesota and the current is insane right now(as of 2 days ago anyhow). I made it out to an old faithful spot with hanson to see a few full size trees floating as we were trying to launch, then we got down to the eddy we were going to fish and we had 2 full size trees cycling in our eddy making it tough to fish... soon we had 2 more come in and we had a tough time getting out without getting the boat pushed on shore by 40' trees floating and spinning in the eddy.

Not wanting to give up that easily.. I timed out the trees and got the boat on the inside of them and carefully pushed them out into the current with the nose of my boat and sent them downstream.. It was a bit hairy and I nearly crunched my prop a few times on the logs I was trying to push.

It was wasted energy trying to get the daytime bite going, I didnt hang around for the night bite(no spotlight).

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man, and i thought i was crazy. but them whole trees are floating down the river in the franklin area also, since friday night.

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hey dtro- I saw your reply on the Vermillon post and was wondering if you fish that neck of the woods alot? I am taking the wife and kids to Kab or namikin this Aug and was looking for some pointers.

Thanks!

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I'd love to make it on the 24th...but no go. In fact, I had the boss's permission to go and everything, but we're going camping to URL instead. I'll get out cattin one of these days. I've never tried it, but by the looks of things on this msg board, it's a pretty fun deal.

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man, and i thought i was crazy.


I thought we were too but this eddy was looking too nice to let a few floaters wreck our day of fishing. To be honest, I was less concerned about the floating trees and more concerned about the undermined cutbank toppling into the boat! Yeah, we tied off to tree roots sticking out of the cutbank. blush.gif The way I was figuring, if the swallows were comfortable enough to nest in this cutbank, we would be good to go, eh?

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hey dtro- I saw your reply on the Vermillon post and was wondering if you fish that neck of the woods alot? I am taking the wife and kids to Kab or namikin this Aug and was looking for some pointers.

Thanks!


slayer, feel free to email me dtro(at)mn.rr.(com)

I'll try to help in any way. I grew up fishing Vermilion and like to think I know a thing or two about the lake.

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