4mm and plastic or a pinhead w nothing on it catches almost all of my panfish these days. Shallow or deep, doesn’t matter, they just work.

isu22andy wrote:

Did they have auger wars/battles mines better than yours in the gas auger era ? Or is that just an electric auger thing now ? I was around when the propane craze was out but that was about the start of my ice career . Serious question .

A quick search on yt found auger races dating back to 2004. So yes.

walleyesforme wrote:

The goofy handles are what bother me the most I think, makes it tough in a wheel house. I also remember more than one time people I’ve been with had those clip things come out that hold the bit on. They are super short. Poor battery life, slower than most

You’re entitled to your opinion but every one of these points says you’ve never used or seen the alpha.

That’s amazing! Probably just box it up and ship it home separate.

I’m all for reduced limits on fish. 4 walleye is plenty. 5 crappies and gills is also plenty.

Fear: mahomes(and the refs), Allen, daniels, hurts(assuming his knee still hurts)

Like to watch: Allen, daniels, hurts, mahomes. I am just so sick of the chiefs in general.

Been out 2x this week and would say the bite was fair one day and great the other. All on a 1/32 pinhead. Much needed bite after a dud of a guys trip up in ottertail last weekend.

Stick a bump board down the hole and hook the lip on the bottom of the ice.

BigWerm wrote:

You guys getting the perch on minnows or waxies?

We caught some with minnow heads, nothing, and plastics. Didn’t really make a difference. The ones that wanted to eat just freight trained it.

Based on your list looks like next up is either Fort Peck lakers or last mountain lake in sask for giant everything.

buckybadger wrote:

The clam boxes with slit pieces of foam are the best I’ve used. I can get maybe 30 spoons in a box and they never tangle or touch eachother. I can get 3 of them in the bottom of my rod box.

This is also what I do. Pinheads in one, kastmaster in another. Everything else in a tangled mess because they don’t get used like the pinheads and kastmasters do.

I can’t speak for your particular unit but on the 106sv + lvs34 setup it’s Menu>sonar setup>layout >reverse range

If we have multiple trucks going we bring a small grill for burger and brats.

Aquatic management area

The lack of showing actual footage of it on the water is an interesting choice. Palaniuk showing actual footage on his Instagram stories, looks much more like lvs32 so a big upgrade from mega live 1. Unless you already have a compatible graph for mega live 2 I’d still be going with a garmin for a dedicated FFS.

So sad. Drove by this lake on Thursday and there were several holes the geese had kept open. Woodbury with two different rescues in one day.

Absolutely amazing how well the lake has rebounded from the spring survey!

This is great news for the local businesses though as long as they get good ice. I will be making a couple trips up there this winter mostly targeting perch but wouldn’t hate catching a slot fish. Spring and summer, at least for us, the majority of the walleyes boated were 21-23 though.

I was wondering how it compared to last year, seemed to see a lot more outrage last year.

For me:
Walleyes
-jt gold digger: purpledescent rattlemaster
-Elliot rippineyes: jiggin rap

Panfish
-tucr bullwhip:perch pinhead minnow
-2 cheaper noodle rods:gold and wonderbread jigs+plastic
-Elliot paragon: 1” hyper rattle

Have an evolution series 42” noodle too but that just stays in the box these days, much prefer the 36” bullwhip.

In NYC for opener…… Probably skipping it all together this year though. One of those who’s spot is way up north with just the wolves around.

I’ll be duck hunting as even on the slowest of days the pheasant hunters on opener get the birds moving. Might go for a quick walk when we’re done with the ducks since we’re already there and there’s been a good amount of roosters around.

Good luck to everyone.

Surprisingly there was actually a good push of new birds for the “reopener”. No one else seemed to be hunting though so made it tough to keep the birds moving. I got my 6 including a green head, eclipse pintail, 2 blue wings and 2 green wings. This weeks forecast looks awful again… here’s to hoping for cold and north west winds.

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Western MN. Seems like with the north winds the birds that were there took off and didn’t get replenished.

Today was a grind but got our 2 man and 2 bonus geese. 9 blue wing, a green wing, a very brown Drake mallard, and a redhead. Far fewer ducks and much less movement. praying for some fresh birds for next weekend.

We shot our limits pretty quick so wasted some time waiting for the geese. Listened to the other group of EIGHT in the slough unload on every duck that flew within 60 yards. They must’ve gone thru an entire case. Our bag was 9 blue wings, 1 green wing, 1 Drake woody, a gadwall, and 1 goose. So many spoonbills around but they get a pass for now. High hopes for the morning with a full moon and north winds.

isu22andy wrote:

Where is lock port ?

Just north of Winnipeg

Lots of roosters cackling while sitting in the duck blind this weekend. Sounded like quite a few were younger birds. Fingers crossed they make it to late season when I prefer to chase them.

They moved it out of October quite awhile ago now to appease the guys that wanted to shoot teal and hunt in warmer weather but this year is especially early. Hate it. Would love to see it go back to October now that we are doing a teal season.

11 blue wings and 1 green wing today for us, the geese we did see had their own plans. Fun 2 days and looking forward to opener in a few weeks.

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11 blue wings, 1 green wing, 1 goose for my dad and me. Back at it tomorrow. Not a ton of birds around but there’s enough and lots of water.

A 3 man dove limit sounds amazing.