You can find old lake maps of a lot of lakes in MN on the recreational compass/lakefinder tool. If you click the lake depths tap it usually gives you some options. I have downloaded these files and then edited/cropped them and gotten enlarged prints/posters made at office max or office depot. Buy a cheap ikea frame and you have a really nice piece to hang on the wall. Looks like they have an old map of Osakis on the website. For reference here is one of Kab I did for my house.

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Looks like Sphunge Island East K31 is avaliable too, which is more wind protected and has a dock.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Ya seems like a lot of the dock sites are reserved already and I did notice that there are some that you can reserve until the week prior. Looks like Pine Point K45 is one of the only ones I can find that has a dock on Kab side. Worried that if its blowing out of the west it might be an issues, prob the reason its still available.

I would use discount tire to get them mounted. You can do some searching online to find the best price for the tire you want and then just click the “found it lower” link on their website and they will usually either match or beat the competitors price. They also will balance the wheel when they install the tire.

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I have a 13 Engel and it seems like the right size. I have had one of the cheap amazon lithium aerators for a couple years now and it has worked well.

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Just a heads up walmart.com is similar to amazon where a lot of the items are from 3rd party sellers. More than likely Milwaukee would not honor a warranty claim from one of the random 3rd party sellers, but that is a pretty good deal for a 12 amp hr battery. They would go off the serial number date to determine when the warranty starts, not the purchase date.

I have bought a car through a member on IDO and it worked out smooth. I have also bought and sold a handful of cars on craigslist and marketplace over the years. When dealing with large amounts of money from a stranger I would only accept cashiers checks and sometimes go with them to the bank to get the check. Good to go to the DMV to to know the title gets transferred correctly. It is nice to be able to vet people you are dealing with through marketplace.

I still use craigslist more as a search tool because you can create saved searches for items and really narrow down what you are looking for and it will send you an email when something gets posted that meets your criteria.

If anyone has a used Toyota Sienna minivan they are looking to sell, depending on the year and millage I would be interested in upgrading our current one.

Craigslist is still an option too

What is the Make/Model/Year?

I was up there this past weekend and just barley could get through the ice with my pistol bit not having the safety ring run into the top of the ice. We caught a handful of jumbos but they were hard to stay on and seemed to move so fast that we only really caught 1 or 2 at a time. Hindsight we probably should have just setup the hub and let them come to us, but we tried to run and gun with minimal success. You had to be in 30 plus fow and when you have active fish make sure you get a bait right back down or they will be gone.

I wonder if age of the boat factors into the registration price similar to a vehicle. I just payed for my boat and it was $75 (2005 17.5ft boat), but I honestly can not remember how much it was 3 years ago. My canoe was $40.

I have a beaver dam 32″ noodle rod that I use for a deadstick with a ceymar bait feeder and it is a perfect setup that doesn’t break the bank. I use it with a finicky fooler and its just right.

Not sure if you are local to the MN metro area or not, but a Millwright would be a good labor job, that he would learn some real world mechanical skills if he ever ends up going for a mechanical engineering degree. I work with Lovegreen a decent amount who are located in Eagan, but they travel all over. Looks like they are hiring for millwrights right now even.

https://lovegreen.bamboohr.com/careers/96

Finally had a chance to try these out hunting. They are comfortable and only really drowned out a little bit of sound. I was able to have a conversation while hunting and could hear the dog working in the brush. They stayed in my ears and never fell out. I would recommend them for the pretty minimal cost of $150, compared to the electric ones. Came with a handy zipper pouch to keep track of them.

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Nice pictures guys. I hunted most the day Sunday and for a couple hours on Monday in SW Minnesota. Really windy both days. We struggled to really put anything up on Sunday and never fired our guns, saw maybe 4 birds that all got up wild out of range. Monday we hunted a different area and probably put up about 20 birds, lots of hens, in the the couple hours we hunted and should have bagged 2 roosters, but at least got one of them. Most of the birds got up out of cattails.

Is there a way you can highlight the properties that are public on the county GIS website. Honestly I have only ever done this for deer hunting up north, and the only way I found one was because the county guy told me that it had just been sold.

Does the easement show up as public property on ONX? Are you unsure if you can access it in a legal public right of way or are you unsure if once on it you are even aloud to hunt it? I had some luck last year calling the county office and talking to the land surveyor on some property that became public, but was not yet showing up on ONX to verify it was legal for me to hunt. I would keep trying the DNR and the game warden sooner or later someone will pick up. Good luck, go ahead and send me the coordinates and I will do some digging for you!

I have both my wife and my credit frozen. I did get a letter in the mail a while back saying one of my daughters health care info had been compromised and it got me thinking if I should freeze my kids credit as well. Looked into it a bit and it sounds like a little more work than freezing an adults credit. Its on my list of things to do, but definitely forgot about it until reading this. Anyone else have one of their young children’s credit frozen?

Thanks for the feedback guys. I ordered a couple RR off amazon for $29 each. I plan to hammer the 4 gun safety rules in to them. Can practice muzzle control without them loaded for them to learn more. Not sure how hard it will be for them to cock them back, so to start I will probably have to help with that.

These seems like a decent video to start with:

Did a little more digging on the Petsbest and the only hangup I see is that for the “accident only” it would not cover an ACL surgery.

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Ended up ordering some from a local company in the north metro named Alclair. They have a office/shop that you can stop in at without an appointment and get the molds done for free. They have a passive plug that has a filter in it similar to the Westone’s. Price was competitive at $157 shipped to my door. I ordered them about two weeks ago so hopefully getting them any day now. They also make an electric style that are much more expensive, but it sounds like they run 30% off sales now and then.

Haha no need to bow. The name is derived from St. Louis County up in Arrowhead of Minnesota. We have always loved that area of the state and we were already leaning to Louie for a name.

We have been giving our older springer glucosamine since he was about 10. Definitely helped him the past few years. We were just giving him normal glucosamine/chondroitin for humnans from Costco since the vet said it was fine and way cheaper than the dog marketed stuff. I listened to this podcast last year and it has a bunch of pretty good info for older hunting dogs.

https://music.youtube.com/podcast/r4qXc7AROWQ

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Thanks for the input. Ya I have never had to get a prescription for flea and tick meds, but heartworm meds it seems you have to have a prescription and at our current vet they require an annual blood draw before you can get the prescription.

Just got a quote for accident only for my new pup that would be 10,000 annual max and $250 deductible through Pets Best. Looks like it would be $108 per year. Doesn’t seem too bad.

The new pup’s AKC registered name is going to be ” Willowbrook’s St. Louie of the Arrowhead”, but will go by Louie.

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Thanks guys. Still trying to decide on one. Have a couple in mind, but want to see which one fits the best after getting to know him a little better.

Well that happened faster than I thought. Picked up the newest addition to our family today. He is already 15 weeks old. Smaller breeder in centeral MN. Had good bloodlines so we pulled the trigger. WillowBrook Kennels

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Got out for the first time earlier this week. The two we got held really close (father in law shot the head off of the one) and we kicked up a handful of hens too. Pretty happy for only driving about an hour from the south metro.

Kind of bittersweet since my springer that is now blind was not in the field with me for the first time. Just not the same without your own dog out there. Time to get another pup.

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Just looked it up on the Westone website and the Mendota Heights location is listed as an option. The doc was trying to talk me out of getting them and said you probably don’t even need hearing protection for pheasant hunting. The whole appointment was just strange.