Matt Moen wrote:

All the lakes in that area are good <em class=”ido-tag-em”>bass lakes…..Chisago is a good one as is Green. I don’t bass fish either a ton but am familiar with both. Good numbers and some decent size.

Awesome! Thank you!!

ALL STANDS SOLD

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it is the Alpha 2. I guess I don’t know what clips you are talking about. the sticks do seat onto the stand for transport.

UPDATE: 1 SOLD, TWO LEFT.

Glidebaits are incredible. Thrown over weed beds and aroud docks. I caught my PB large and smallmouth on the S waver 168. Also the Megabass I slide 185 is another go to of mine. They are a bit more expensive but you get what you pay for. Always swims true, perfectly balanced and catches the biggies. I throw this on a Megabass Orochi XX Launcher with 15 pound Tatsu Fluorocarbon. Line has enough give to let the bait glide how it should, and has a little extra strength if a northern decides to take a run at it.

For swim baits I throw the 6 and 8 Megabass Magdraft exclusively. The 8 inch is a BIG bait (3 ounce). People laugh at me throwing them for bass until they see it work, and it does. Just slow rolling them back to the boat. The Magdraft has a magnet that does a good job of keeping the hook against the body and helps prevent it from catching on weeds. I throw these on a Megabass Destroyer Mark 48. I use 65 pound braid to a 25 pound Fluorocarbon leader.

I highly recommend taking the time to learn how to fish these baits. They can make for some incredible fishing!

Hope this helps!

tegg wrote:

Granted this is in MN but if you go to the MN DNR ice out page you can use the quick zoom feature to pick out individual lakes. All the historical ice out data they have for that lake is available. You could pick a handful of lakes that are of comparable latitude to get a sense of the ice out variations you may expect in your area of Wi.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ice_out/index.html

Awesome! Thank you!

https://icebug.com/p/sorix2-bugrip-r-black

Give these a look. Built in studs. Zero slip. Very warm. Just don’t wanna walk on your wood floor with these! They have held up very well for the past 5 years.

mnrabbit wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>tangler wrote:</div>
$408M; $261M; $204M; $142M

Vikings, Twins, Wolves, Wild.

I agree. Minnesota is a huge basketball state.

Gunflint Trail wrote:

I bought an adapter off of eBay. The hobbyists use the adapter to power bikes and other things with the M18.

So does that convert it to 12 volts?

Gunflint Trail wrote:

I bought an adapter off of eBay. The hobbyists use the adapter to power bikes and other things with the M18.

I’m very interested to hear these results!

Gunflint Trail wrote:

Yes, it is the state of the art drill battery. I used the Garmin 12 volt to power my Clam flip over hit. The M18 has 50% more watts than the other one so I should get a full day fishing. Need some ice to find out.

WOW! That is insane. Did you hard wire it in?

Wait…isn’t that a battery for a cordless drill???

Gunflint Trail wrote:

Questions:
1. What Battery?

I use the 12AH Milwaukee M18 which leaves me enough room in the battery compartment to store the <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>ice fishing transducer.

2. Where do you have the “black box” mounted?

I put the Livescope box directly behind the Echomap holder, vertical with cable sockets up and have it tie-wrapped to the handle.

Ok, the panoptix ice bundle comes with garmins battery. Im curious what sort of run time you will get out of that Milwaukee battery.

also where do you have the “black box” mounted?

Are you just using the standard battery to run livescope? I have heard that the standard battery isn’t nearly enough to get any serious run time.

I love my Lakemaster Smart strike chips. They really help give you a few ideas on where to start based on time of year/day. It has actually helped me quite a bit when trying new lakes. I have the Smartstrike MN, WI, and LOTW/Rainy chips.

I’ve posted on this lake before and didn’t get much feedback. I know its a popular lake, but maybe not in this community.

I know there are quite a few “green” lakes. hahah! Sorry, I should have been more specific.

Green Lake in Spicer MN.

Panfish Sweetheart from Thorne Bros.

My wife is more likely to let me go “check on the fox” rather than “go check on the smallmouth”

HAHAHAH! We all could use a good laugh! Thats great!

1hl&sinker wrote:

@daddy
Thanks for sharing.I may lay light of things but I am grateful of your account on the fox.

UPDATE! Almost 30 days later, this fox is still living on Spirit Island.
In this video you can see him trying to pounce on a little bird. We ended up tossing him some sucker minnows, which he quickly gobbled up!

I fish out of an 8 inch hole, and drill a hole in between my buddy and I. We both use my panoptix screen. He leaves his Vex at home. It still works great in a separate hole. I’m totally fine with fishing like that. Set it and forget it.

That tail might look awfully enticing!