Hey mike whats ur deal,,, dont tell the location of ur fishin holes,,, There has been enough people fishin these locations,,, yea i have seen u there and u make alot of people unhappy cause u keep everything that u catch.and yeas we know its u..,, please for the fish sake,, keep the location of where ur fishing down,, tell them what ur using, depth of water and the thickness of the ice, thats all that is nessary,, i have been livin here in nelson for 20 years now and i have never seen the preasure so bad,, please get some brains,,

hey,,, the airsacks can come out of the fish in 30 feet of water,, i have been ice fishing lake pepin alot and have been cing this happen,, the trick is to real the fish up from the bottom as slow as possible, yea that might mean ur going to loose some fish but ur also not killing everyfish u catch,, the wierd thing is that i have never seen the airsack come out of any other fish besides the walleye and sauger,, there are some old guys from town that say that u can pop the sack and they will live,, i really dont belive it!!!!!!

8 inches a couple of days ago when i was fishing near lakecity

well guess what me and this guy from wabasha were talking about this too,,, about 7 years ago we use to have a perm shack out in the middle of lake pepin and we were catching whitties and sauger in the same holes,,,, we fished them right on the bottom like we do walleye’s… what we used for bait was the ole jigging rap and using just a bobber and a walleye minnow,,, we never got into many big schools of them so i dont know if the schools of whitebass suspended or what,,, well good luck

when i was down there the other day they were catching gills everwhere ,,,, in the first cut and way out, didnt seem to catch any slab crappies but plenty of gills

yea i have been finding this in rockers also,,, u have to go to sheel’s they have the good ones still,,, atleast last yr they did,,,

Ussually at alma the river will open up if u get 3-4 days of 40 degree weather,,, the problem is that the landing freezes up and it takes alot of warm weather to make that clear if ice,, the local people ussually push there flats across the ice and then go out.. If u dont have a flat bottom u would have to go to the down by bufflo city,,, theres a flowing channel down there that keeps the ice clear… that run is alot longer to the dam

hey,,, my favorite ice fishing tactic for northers are going in the back waters and setting tip-ups,, for bait its hard to beat the ole shinner minnow,,,, i tend to put the minnow about1-2 feet below the ice,, northers will always look up… chubs work good too but not for unagressive fish,,,, good luck

MY automatic for perch however is the ole rocker tipped with 2 spikes or waxies…. The only problem with this presention is that the little ones tend to bite the waxies and spikes,…

hey.. my favorite way to fish perch is with a jigging spoon,,, about 2 inches long with with a trouble hook on the bottom,,,, and a head of a minnow,,,those perch will inhale the whole spoon,,,, its hard to beat a fish fry with perch,,,,,

So what r ur plans to go out and catch,,,

There is nothing wrong with fishing from shore,,, when the water is up especially,,, every spring i can go right off the banks and get limits while the boat fishermen arent doing worth a hoot,,,, the fish come from the main channel threw out the day making shad drives up against the banks,, .

Hey dan,, ur going to have to tell ole steve to bring some of those bad boys home to the alma dam and release them,,get the genes going arround here,, (is it a carp,,, maybe a cat,,, no a 17lb eye) ,,,nice fish..

u have to admidt,, even though john is part loon,,, he can sure find the guides that put him on fish,,,,Well they must b good if he can even put some in the boat,,

Hey Dustin,, i was wondering if u snagged that ole boy or did u get it in the mouth,,, i heard from some people that there a plankton and veggy eater,,, just curious,,,, that fish is one that i wouldnt want to mount above my fireplace,,,

a guy has to wonder how many of those lunkers are swimming arround in the ole mighty mississippi…..

Thanks for the info jon j,, i will have to try that some time for some eyes… sounds like a fun and effective method

What i have found out with these people that anchor is to leave them alone and dont say a word,,, i have said a word or two in my day at them and thats when the problems start,,,they start casting in front of u and all of that other good stuff,,, when they c u drifting by and catching more fish then they are ,,, they will pull the cement block from the bottom and start drifting anyhow,,,

Hey jon,,, just wondering,, what does the fish ussually hit,, the jig or the floater,,, have u ever cought a double while fishing for walleyes,,, we ussually use this method while fishing for whitebass,, works great,,,

hey….. we have been going to koshabowie for the last couple of yrs… its a allright lake i guess,,, the day bite is real slow but theres alot of quality,,,, the night bite is where it is at,,,,i think the day bite is so slow cause the lake is so clear and deep,,where do u ussualy fish on it,, its so darn big,, we catch most of our fish up by tom schmudes house,, the guy with the plane, this spring we ventured to lac mil lac,, thats not how u spell it im sure,,,, but its just north,,, the fishing up there is out of this world,, we were catching 40 eyes an hr in about 1-3 feet of water,, the water is a copper color and they bit all day long,,, i cought 2 27 inchers in like 2 hrs of fishing,,,

hey,, my favorite presentation for the fall bite is pitching the shallows and bulking up,,,,,,Most of the time i like to throw ringworms or 7 inch rubber worm…, walleyes are head hunters and they will ingulf the worm,,, if u ever disect a walleye or a sauger,, there is ussually one or more 5 inch gizzy’s in there stomach,, and there is not a bite mark in the side of the shad…

hey mahumba,, all of these 30 inch fish ur catching comming from canada,,,, what lakes do u fish arround thunderbay,,,, have u ever fished lake koshobowie

Hey jared how long was it and what was the weight,,,,

i was the kid that always talked to u on the dikeroad when we were slaying the walleyes.

This time of the year the baitshops pretty much dont carry them,,, u can go out and retrieve some urself,,, i saw some people from the RCL on the dike road netting them,, we use to use pop cans and trap them,,, Expect to pay alot for willowcats if u can find some in a bait shop

This time of the year the baitshops premuch dont carry them,,, u can go out and retrieve some urself,,, i some people from the RCL on the dike road netting them,, we use to use pop cans and trap them,,, Expect to pay alot for willowcats if u cant find them

hey steve,, did u use to work for the minnesota Dnr….

i think when they say camping,, is when u pitch a tent,, not to sure on this one,,i dont know if u can have a fire or not either,,, we stayed in the bottoms over night and some local people harrased us about it,,alls we did was sat there and grilled,, so who knows,, i jsut got done reading the waterfowl book and it didnt say a work about camping,,,

Smithkeith is right,, u cannot camp out in any refuge,, wether its open to hunting or not,,, u may camp on the main channel,,, good luck and dont catch too many

so is this a annual tourney or what,,,was it for fun,,, any money involved