fins wrote:

Question for you guys from the Minnesota metro area or southern Minnesota. Why do you drive all the way up to the Rainy River when Green Bay is so much closer? For size structure and numbers of big fish I personally think Green Bay has Rainy River beat. Just wondering. It has to be well over an hour closer with way more amenities and room to spread out plus an optional night bite.

I live a couple hours west of the twin cities.
So for me it’s an hour farther to Green Bay than the Rainy River.
I do want to fish Green Bay though.

I have been looking at what is going to be hit with tariffs off and on all day.
No new vehicle for me. My Tundra is paid for and it doesn’t break down.

I really don’t see many things that are going to affect me. A few grocery items is all I can come up with other than gas. Considering how volatile oil markets are and as Gim pointed out earlier OPEC + is going to pump more oil. I don’t know if the tariffs will even be noticeable.

I do know one thing the US dollar should go up in value and it will open up manufacturing in the US again.

Bottom line is I knew when I voted for Trump that there would be Tariffs coming.

buckybadger wrote:

March 25th at 8:26am

Can two have that date and time? That would be my guess too.

I haven’t seen any reports yet on people checking on the river.
Here is today’s image.
It looks like it’s really close to Loman.

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dirtywater wrote:

Someone make a coherent argument in favor of the president of the United States of America spending even 10 seconds worrying about sporting events at any level. Guess this is one of those highly important issues we shouldn’t let the states decide on, unlike access to birth control and abortion. Tough to keep it all straight I tell ya!

And I still haven’t heard anyone chime in with their first-hand account of how a trans kid ruined their daughter’s competitive sports experience.

Have you heard of title IX? Biden tried changing the rules of title IX at the last minute that would have allowed boys in girls sports. A Kentucky district judge over turned it. Now you have Trump enforcing the original title IX rules and in the process banning males from competing in female sports.

For those that want cheaper egg prices they should thank Biden. After all 166 million chickens were killed under his watch.

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Bearcat89 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>West Brown wrote:</div>
1 x 24v always.
2 x 12v in series is just bad planning.
That was typical for lead acid batteries. But these are LiFePo4 and have BMS’s. Unless you want to disconnect them for maintenance every few months. (Which defeats the point of buying batteries that are designed for no maintenance)

Not bad planning at all. I bought 2 12s just in case one went to sleep and I could jump it back to life. As well as they were way cheaper then 1 24v. Running 1 jumper wire to make 24v literally take 10 seconds.

That was my thoughts as well. If a battery goes to sleep I wanted a quick way to get it woke back up. 2 – 12’s does that.
Not to mention including my electronics battery I would have to run 2 different chargers. This way I can still run my 3 bank charger.
Now if they are below freezing I have a different plan for charging.

How soon we forget the infamous thumbs down vote from John McCain when republicans tried to repeal Obamacare during Trumps 1st term.
But yeah let’s keep blaming Trump.

JEREMY wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Full draw wrote:</div>
Here is a head scratcher for you.
The democrat women in Congress wore pink last night to support women.
But they all voted against stopping males in female sports this week

Did you look closely at them? Are you sure they were really woman and not just identifying? Some pretty ugly old broads out there.

You could be onto something. One of them was Pelosi.

Here is a head scratcher for you.
The democrat women in Congress wore pink last night to support women.
But they all voted against stopping males in female sports this week.

smallie83 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>big_g wrote:</div>
The kumbaya lovefest of D’s and Rino’s in here is so cute. I don’t consider myself a fiscal conservative ? I consider myself a person who uses commonsense first. Does it make sense to spend money on a piece of art in a park or on strengthening our depleted military ? Again, Trump is handed a military that is depleted and weakened, that is gonna cost money to fix. I would rather my tax dollars go to securing our country, because no matter how much art is in the park, there are people who want ALL Americans dead. You don’t have to worry about it though, because its all rainbows and kittens in your world. Thank you to all the commonsense folks, who work real jobs and could be fired in a second, if you didn’t do 5 things in a week on the clock… I won’t call them out by name.

You thought it was common sense to print money to give out not one, but 2 stimulus checks under Trump? While leaving our country in even more debt then when he was inaugurated? Haha Maga people are hilarious. I didn’t support any of the 3 stimulus checks, before you bring that up.

You thought it was common sense to get in a trade war with China and then print money to give farmers welfare? How did that end? A real common sense group.

I wasn’t in favor of any of the stimulus checks under both Trump and Biden. Maybe I am bias since I never got a check.

This farm bill you speak of, are you talking about the 31 billion that got pushed through on January 3rd? Farmers have been getting bailouts for years. At least it’s money spent on Americans and not some transgender study in the Middle East.

We have an economy that is propped up by government spending.
For 50+ years we have been in the ballpark of 17% GDP for tax revenue. At the same time we have ballooned to 26% of GDP for government spending.

This is how crazy our government has been the last 2 years. The Fed raises interest rates to dry up the money but our government has increased its spending every budget bill.
Trump has his faults but he has been in office for a little over a month.

If anyone believed that inflation could be fixed on day 1 is not paying attention to how we got here.

If you want inflation down we need a Reageness approach to it. Low taxes, less government spending and deregulation. Get the private sector cranked up.

Bearcat89 wrote:

We have all had ups and downs, we have all had lay offs. Government employees should be able to survive off the severance package they were offered. Between that and unemployment they will get to the next job just like the rest of us. Jobs are not a guarantee, I see layoffs happen all the time. End of the world, not at all.

I agree 100%.
I have worked construction most of my career. I always joked and said it’s the one job you bust your butt to get laid off from when the job was done.

I have seen projects get shut down for various reasons and every one is sent packing right away.

big_g wrote:

I voted for DT.. who could vote for the kackler and tampon timmy ? Are you serious ? Tell me you voted for them !!! I voted for Trump because he is doing EXACTLY what he said he would do. He is trying to end senseless slaughter, but why should you care, they are an ocean away. As far as the comment about his first term , he had this country rocking… he was on his way to his 2nd term then and then….. the plandemic. So crooked that Biden had to pardon the fools involved, Fauci back to 2014… wtf ??? The attention span and absorption rate of information that people retain, is so low these days.. anybody remember when Bidens kid made million$ in Ukraine, flew hookers out from Cali to have some fun ? Most have moved on.. nothing happens, no accountability at all. And people still believe what MSM says ? Doctored interviews… to try and make a candidate look smart.. that was not election interference. Sit back and let the adults handle it.

Well said.
Trump does care and is trying to right the ship. The one thing I didn’t like in his first term was the spending but then again Congress controls the purse strings.
I did vote for him but I don’t consider myself a Republican.
As for his first term. He has said numerous times there was some things he didn’t know when it came to how Washington worked. You can definitely tell he has learned this go around. Another thing about his first term. He had way too many people that wanted the job but didn’t accept the vision he had and ran on.
Last but not least he was on defense a lot as well. The whole Russian collusion hoax. Hillary definitely funded it but it originated in Ukraine. Between Covid, the Russian collusion hoax and Biden’s cognitive decline I trust no main stream media.
I tend to look at politicians as + and -. Here lately there isn’t many democrats that get any +’s with me if any at all.

The thing about the spending cuts is the house needs to put together a Rescission package and get it pushed through Congress. No filibuster on Rescission.

Here are a couple of screenshots from what Zelensky out on X an hour ago.

He mentions security guarantees. I don’t see that happening but we will see.

I still think Zelensky was out of line when at the Oval Office and I still don’t think Trump and Vance embarrassed us on the world stage.

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OG Net_Man wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Full draw wrote:</div>
Thank you for the heads up. I just looked again. Didn’t pay attention to that when I looked the first time. It gives approximate heating time with @15A.
I wonder if my 10a will run it and just take longer or do I need the 15a.

I seen someone previously asked if anyone has tried a 10 amp charger on the heated models and if it worked but I have not ever see a response to this question.

I had watched a independent review video on the heated LiTime battery. I believe that his charger was 20 amp. During the heating process his equipment showed approx. 9.6 amp draw and when the battery got warm enough it changed to the charging cycle and then shown approx. 20 amp draw.

Thank you again for the info.
I purchased a LiTime 20a charger. I am just going to buy a couple extra Anderson connectors and charge the 3 batteries one at a time when it’s below freezing.
The only time I would charge below freezing is a Rainy River trip or the first couple of trips to chamberlain in March.

I am curious what the temps were there last week and how thick the ice is now.

Big Stone lake on the SD border had over 2’ until last week. It has shrunk to 18”. A pick up went through yesterday in a spot where a fish house had sat for awhile and the ice had deteriorated a lot. Unfortunately the driver didn’t make it.

OG Net_Man wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Full draw wrote:</div>
I just bought 3 – 12 volt 100 A/hr LiTime batteries with built in heaters.
2 for the trolling motor and one for the electronics.
I was kicking around buying a 24 volt battery. Ultimately decided I didn’t want to buy a 24 volt charger when I have a 3 bank charger now.

The built in heaters take a bit of juice. I am surprised that you had a existing 3 bank charger that would handle this. LiTime states 15 amp per bank for the built in heaters. There has been some discussion if 10 amps would actually work but I personally have not heard any one confirm if 10 amps work.

Thank you for the heads up. I just looked again. Didn’t pay attention to that when I looked the first time. It gives approximate heating time with @15A.
I wonder if my 10a will run it and just take longer or do I need the 15a.

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I have been told it’s best to not leave them stored for long periods of time with a 100% charge.
I plan on pulling mine and try and store them with a 60% charge.

There is a chance here in Granite Falls we could see 70 next Monday.
Ice won’t last long with the way this forecast looks.

I just bought 3 – 12 volt 100 A/hr LiTime batteries with built in heaters.
2 for the trolling motor and one for the electronics.
I was kicking around buying a 24 volt battery. Ultimately decided I didn’t want to buy a 24 volt charger when I have a 3 bank charger now.

Wow BP wins and had enough weight after 3 days that he didn’t even need to fish today.
Some pretty big fish lost on the last day. Not sure if it would have changed the outcome if they were not lost but that hurts when you don’t fish clean through out the whole tourney.

The DNR has ice out last year as March 16th.
If that is c correct I would think this year will be similar.

March 25th this year

I have heard reports that Ukraine has been selling arms that we gave them on the black market for 20 cents on the dollar. I will believe it when it’s confirmed. It’s easy to want to believe it when you know Ukraine has been a very corrupt country long before Zelensky came along.

I am tired of funding Europes security and funding Ukraine’s war.
As for Vance goes well I guess Zelensky should have stayed off the campaign trail with Harris/walz.

Karry Kyllo wrote:

Trump and Vance treated Zelensky like crap. Those two embarrassed the US.

I disagree entirely. With all the money we have given Ukraine you would think Zelensky could have bought a suit and tie.
Bottom line is don’t come into our house all cocky and arrogant when they need our help.

As for the rare earth minerals. Those will be ours even after today. Ukraine and Europe as a whole need the US. They just need to be showed that again.

Well after todays fireworks hopefully we won’t be sending any more money over to Ukraine.

Wow what a day 2.
BP skyrockets into 1st place with 58 lbs and on oz.
After catching back to back 9+ lbers and a 7.5 lber he gives a couple of other anglers fishing the canal a crank bait he caught the big fish on.
Greg DiPalma left that area and still put together a good bag.
Minnesotan Bob Downey is inside the top 10.

It would be nice to have the second line.
I cast jigs a lot and will at times drag a jig by the boat when in SD. Or I cast one line and run a slip bobber on the other.