Even with the new buddy heaters which are indoor safe and have a low oxygen censor, you should still always have a carbon monoxide detector. If i am not sleeping in the shack i don’t typically bring it, but if your sleeping absolutely have one! Its a cheap insurance policy. Mine went off in the middle of the night. Not sure if the buddy heaters don’t burn as clean when the tank gets low but once I changed tanks everything was fine.
Just spent two nights in mine on Bay De Noc with a buddy. Worked out great even with it being -22 at night. I used 1/2″ foam anti fatigue squares from harbor freight on the floor and it did great. You got a little bit of water by the heater but other than that hardly any water from the ice melting. Brought a Deep Cell battery and a inverter to run my tv and antenna and we were able to watch all the football games that weekend plus charge electronics.
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Check ebay for the lakemaster plus chip. Found it for around $118 new.
I’ve stayed at Bearpaw and they were great guys. Caught a lot of fish!
I just got back from URL last night. Stayed with portavilla in one of the wheelhouse. We used both Gold shiners and chubs. Nobody has shiners around Red Lake so if you want them I would suggest stopping before you get to rogers. We found shiners at river rat bait and tackle by grand rapids. We caught fish on both chubs and shiners but shiners worked better. Jigging was tough and only picked up a few. Small 1/16 gold spoons tipped with minnow head and very suttle jigging motion. Otherwise dead stick with a red hook and bobber. Small bobbers are a must because if the fish felt any resistance they would spit it. Rattle reels worked good caught a fair amount on them. Again red hook with a shiner 6 in to 1 ft from the bottom. Picked up a 33 in pike on the rattle mid day. Caught some nice perch mid day. Again small spoons tipped with a minnow head. As for tip ups I wouldn’t bother. Snow is very deep off the plowed spot for your shack so it would be very hard to see a flag and with the cold I wouldnt want to be running flags. -22 without the windchill monday night. Monday was a high of -4 without windchill. I would suggest giving brad hawthorne a call early to get out in the portables. We went out for the night bite monday night. Didn’t do very good which is very unusual for him. Guys he had set up In the shallows did good…. I guess thats why its called fishing. Great guy and he will give great advice. He said its a tough time right now so to expect 40-50 fish days like back in december isnt realistic. No need for the auger extension. Have a great trip we had a blast and will be doing it again.
