I was in the Crosby area yesterday and the snow has taken a serious beating already. I live North of St Cloud and its going extremely fast here too. By the weekend the snow on the lakes up there will be minimal I bet.
Thanks for the report Cptn.
i’ll be heading up the weekend of the 25th-26th. hoping the ice is still good, and landings are good enough yet for wheelers.
heard that geigers on bowstring shut down there access to trucks yesterday and the webcams on bowstring and sioux narrows look like soggy landings and lakes!!!
Pretty much was non stop, I only kept a few.
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Awe man can’t wait. 
I did tell Ed to get off his hinder and make sure you had parts so you didn’t have to work Friday!!🤣
He apparently isn’t a team player!!! 
Awe man can’t wait.
I did tell Ed to get off his hinder and make sure you had parts so you didn’t have to work Friday!!🤣
He apparently isn’t a team player!!!
Oops double post. Must be happy hour!! 
Awe man can’t wait.
I did tell Ed to get off his hinder and make sure you had parts so you didn’t have to work Friday!!🤣
He apparently isn’t a team player!!!
I asked Ed if he was coming but he just mumbled something and kept walking! lol
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>glenn57 wrote:</div>
Awe man can’t wait.I did tell Ed to get off his hinder and make sure you had parts so you didn’t have to work Friday!!🤣
He apparently isn’t a team player!!!
I asked Ed if he was coming but he just mumbled something and kept walking! lol
he doesn’t want to be out fished!!!🤣
Made it out today for a few hours on pokegama, bite was not as good as Fridays but moved around till we found more active fish. Between the five of us we brought home around twenty tullibee and two white fish. The slush was brutal.
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You are on a good bite gino. Looks like a blast. I’ve never specifically targeted them. But have caught lots on accident.
Today’s wrong species was white bass.
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Made it out today for a few hours on pokegama, bite was not as good as Fridays but moved around till we found more active fish. Between the five of us we brought home around twenty tullibee and two white fish. The slush was brutal.
looks promising!!!
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Gino wrote:</div>
Made it out today for a few hours on pokegama, bite was not as good as Fridays but moved around till we found more active fish. Between the five of us we brought home around twenty tullibee and two white fish. The slush was brutal.looks promising!!!
Hopefully a little easier going next weekend. We would be fine on top and then bust through the top layer of ice into around eight inches of slush water, pretty hard on the machines. I’d say about half the time we would stay on top and the other half was busting through. My friends were using spoons with droppers and waxies and minnow heads, I just kept rifling through my jigging raps with no bait.tullibee stomachs were full of smelt.
You are on a good bite gino. Looks like a blast. I’ve never specifically targeted them. But have caught lots on accident.
Today’s wrong species was white bass.
There a blast, I’d highly recommend it. It’s almost like fishing lake trout with the cat and mouse game.
gino.you ever cut there bellies open and use any of whats in there gut if its intact for bait????
we did that on leech years ago, they had mayfly in the bellies then!!!
gino.you ever cut there bellies open and use any of whats in there gut if its intact for bait????
we did that on leech years ago, they had mayfly in the bellies then!!!
I did not, but they were full of baby smelt
Tullies are wise to eat smelt. 2 weeks before I do this trip, hope ice can hold on.
Will it be worth coming up this weekend for one last time?
Which landing would be best to go out of that would make the foot travel a little easier? If anyone can post a heads up ice condition that would be much appreciated.
At this stage I think ice safety is really day to day and must be evaluated at the lake. I would think it’s fine and I’m planning on going but I’m not going to just say yes it’s fine. As far as what landing,I’ve really only been using one so I can’t speak to that. With the last snow we have gotten and warm temps today I’m sure it’s going to be wet.
Thanks Gino! Please give an update on the ice conditions if you do go.
i just got back from up there this morning. was going to meet up with Gino to chase tullibees, but he said that lake was pretty ugly wirh wet slush..so we didnt go.
we checked bowstring on thursday…….no go there either…geigers said they had open water an holes all over and recommended walking only. the cty rd 35 access was huge trouble just looking at it and we seen only one person on bowstring way out but close to shore and appeared he walked out.
if i would of went out on the cabin lake i would of buried my 4 wheeler or snowmobile. we got on a little lake behind us but we didnt venture far out….there’s jst plain a whole lot of water and slush right now. the holes we did drill had a good 6 inches of the snow/slush ice and a goof foot of solid clear ice.
like Gino said i wont…..WILL NOT advise anyone on going out or not.
Yuck! Would say it could dry out in a week but they are expecting more snow by wed.! Slush may frustrate me but does not stop me. Thanks for the report.
Yuck! Would say it could dry out in a week but they are expecting more snow by wed.! Slush may frustrate me but does not stop me. Thanks for the report.
I’ll do more than frustrate you if you get hung up in it. But hey good luck!!
will be walking so should not get too hung up, if its too sloppy I’ll go get a burger and a beer, that for sure will work in GR
As glenn said it’s getting ugly, could we have gone ? Probably, would we have had problems? Definitely. Last Sunday I was out and we kept braking through the top layer and down into the slushy water between the crust and ice. That was very hard on my machine. My guess would be it’s the same conditions now with the cold lately. But from what I seen the ice possibly had holes or very soft spots in it . I figured there has been water on top the ice for over two weeks now and that’s not good for ice. Maybe it’ll freeze back up, but looking at it on Friday afternoon I decided a cold beer in the garage looking at my boat was a better option.
As glenn said it’s getting ugly, could we have gone ? Probably, would we have had problems? Definitely. Last Sunday I was out and we kept braking through the top layer and down into the slushy water between the crust and ice. That was very hard on my machine. My guess would be it’s the same conditions now with the cold lately. But from what I seen the ice possibly had holes or very soft spots in it . I figured there has been water on top the ice for over two weeks now and that’s not good for ice. Maybe it’ll freeze back up, but looking at it on Friday afternoon I decided a cold beer in the garage looking at my boat was a better option.
Yea we had are share of refreshments Friday afternoon too!!
And with this wind today we could of ended ice sailing!!! 
Maybe conditions will be better closer to Aitkin where we will be staying-thanks for the reports.
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