How far will you go?

  • Aaron Kalberer
    Posts: 373
    July 11, 2017 at 4:08 pm #1703632

    Just wanted to see how far back in the sticks people are willing to go to get to there fishing holes. I have a few walleye havens that I can no longer get to beings I went from a 2004 Silverado 1500 crew cab short box 143″ wheel base to a 2008 duramax crew cab standard box 153″ wheel base. I no longer fit down those trails. Lets see or hear some stories how far back you will go to get to some secluded fishing.

    This pic is from a early spring fishing trip for crappies. Had to bust out the chainsaw and almost needed a winch to back out, the fishing was well worth it but made me wonder my sanity at times on the drive in.

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    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    July 11, 2017 at 6:12 pm #1703647

    Sticks?! Heck, drive through the heart of Minneapolis to get to some spots. Chainsaws are manageable, try avoiding a BLM march, or MPD bullets.

    At this point I’m just glad I’m not black or a pitbull. chased

    IceNEyes1986
    Harris, MN
    Posts: 1304
    July 12, 2017 at 7:15 am #1703720
    nhamm wrote:

    Sticks?! Heck, drive through the heart of Minneapolis to get to some spots. Chainsaws are manageable, try avoiding a BLM march, or MPD bullets.

    At this point I’m just glad I’m not black or a pitbull. chased

    rotflol rotflol rotflol No thanks, I’ll pass!

    Charles
    Posts: 1978
    July 12, 2017 at 7:48 am #1703728

    Nah find the fish, another reason I have been pondering a kayak lol.

    I have a few spots that are up in the sticks and I recently just started carrying a chainsaw and a come along in my car when I take my boat out on these journeys. lol.

    biggill
    East Bethel, MN
    Posts: 11321
    July 12, 2017 at 8:16 am #1703735

    The adventure is sometimes better than the fishing.

    Back in the 90’s may dad and I went 10+ miles on one of those to a lake that a local used to do well on but hadn’t been there for a few years. The drive was like yours but the fishing was terrible. The road was overgrown for good reason. Great memory though.

    Aaron Kalberer
    Posts: 373
    July 12, 2017 at 8:38 am #1703745
    Bass_attack wrote:

    Is this in northern mn?

    I guess it depends on your definition of Northern, it would be in the Detroit Lakes / Park Rapids area of MN.

    nhamm wrote:

    Sticks?! Heck, drive through the heart of Minneapolis to get to some spots. Chainsaws are manageable, try avoiding a BLM march, or MPD bullets.

    At this point I’m just glad I’m not black or a pitbull. chased

    rotflol That sounds like a pita, glad I am where I am!

    tim hurley
    Posts: 5845
    July 12, 2017 at 10:09 am #1703772

    Check out Cruiser lake-1st you take a canoe accross Vermilion leave your canoe at the trail head then hike you gear over a hilly winding trail. Coming back the wind was so strong we could not make it across Vermilion, then we almost got rammed by a huge boat who clearly did not see us. Mostly though I love to go to lakes that are hard to get to its part of the adventure and you are usually (not always!) rewarded with great fishing and a quiet lake.

    tegg
    Hudson, Wi/Aitkin Co
    Posts: 1450
    July 12, 2017 at 12:12 pm #1703810

    Can one assume you’re ruling out multiday remote camping trips by foot or canoe. It’s a fairly common idea and can allow access to waters you cant drive to.

    Aaron Kalberer
    Posts: 373
    July 12, 2017 at 4:13 pm #1703869

    I am not ruling out anything just like to hear of peoples adventures going into the hard to reach areas, whether you can drive there or walk. I love multi day hike in trips on some of the larger tracts of tax forfeit land in my area.

    slipbob_nick
    Princeton, MN
    Posts: 1297
    July 12, 2017 at 10:43 pm #1703967

    Harder to get to the better. Have one trout lake we like to partidge hunt on way in and cast from shore have struck and have had some luck. Trip like that a couple fish and couple birds equals a good time. Did it in the rain once that was a death march

    Yellow Fever
    Kingston Ontario
    Posts: 81
    July 13, 2017 at 5:56 am #1703986

    Well….each spring I drive 9.5 hours to Port Clinton Ohio to fish for a week and they don,t have a Starbucks.

    jwellsy
    Posts: 1585
    July 13, 2017 at 6:39 am #1703994
    Yellow Fever wrote:

    Well….each spring I drive 9.5 hours to Port Clinton Ohio to fish for a week and they don,t have a Starbucks.

    They do have Put-In-Bay toast

    crappie55369
    Mound, MN
    Posts: 5757
    July 13, 2017 at 8:50 am #1704022
    jwellsy wrote:

    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Yellow Fever wrote:</div>
    Well….each spring I drive 9.5 hours to Port Clinton Ohio to fish for a week and they don,t have a Starbucks.

    They do have Put-In-Bay toast

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    ill go pretty far for that

    Yellow Fever
    Kingston Ontario
    Posts: 81
    July 13, 2017 at 7:59 pm #1704235

    So…there is a STARBUCKS at Put In ? Just Kidding, Possibly a side trip coming up

    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    July 13, 2017 at 8:21 pm #1704241

    Heck I can drive 35 minutes to see a bunch of rich stuck-up white chicks in bikinis at a couple bars on Tonka if I wanted that coffee

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