I upgraded my graphs to be what I thought would be compatible once 2.0 came out, but unfortunately that is not the case.
Looks like when I’m ready to bite the bullet it will be garmin

Information was released today in Amsterdam mega live 2.0 is coming in the spring along with humminbirds new model xplore. Unfortunately it is not compatible with the helix model. It’s on mega live Facebook groups and crappie fishing forums, guys are upset and rightfully so.

I use the Liv fishing ones and have no complaints. I bought 24 of them, seems like they’ve had the buy 6 get 2 free deal going all year long. I bought different colored ones to help with who’s rod is who’s in the locker.

Socials is a pretty good place to eat at. Just down the road from home depot. Otherwise there is a really good Mexican place called fiesta brava in the strip mall. Keep going into to town and turn left after walgreens.. this time of year alot of places stop serving food at 8. I’ll be up there in 2 weeks for work myself, usually hit socials, or drive further on 94 to Rothsay and eat at the Powerhouse.

Water temp on north end was 70-72 all weekend. It was 78 last weekend up there.

Looks like they are pulling docks tonight at hok si la and roschen, closing down the ramps with the rising water.

fishthumper wrote:

I’ll throw in 2 more that come to mind. The hot – n Tot and the Jitterbug

The hot n tot is deadly being pulled on leadcore, caught tons of eyes on mille lacs and lotw last year. I even loaded up on more of them this spring.

Boone,
the no cull is not a Minnesota reg. For walleyes fishing on the river as long as you only have 3 eyes in your livewell you can keep upgrading, its once you box number 4 you can no longer cull because you have your daily limit (mille lacs used to always have No Culling allowed when you read the regs, back in the day when a guy could keep a few). If they would have allowed 2 fish over 20″ 1 would have to have been from the pro and 1 from the co angler, since wisconsin doesn’t allow party fishing or culling. Yes being only limited to minnesota waters would be wierd.
If I remember right probably around 6yrs ago BASS had an event in la crosse, Brandon Paulinick got DQ’d after leading day 1 because he culled a fish while in wisconsin water, but thought he was on the minnesota side, he was about 50yds off of the line.

I think it was to make it more competitive along with it being a no cull event. When the schedule was first announced for Red Wing it was also going to be limited to only Minnesota waters. Enough anglers scrutinized the NWT’s decision and that changed it to both minnesota and wisconsin waters.

Sometimes dropping them in can give them a quick jolt to take off right away, versus setting them in gingerly and holding the tail and moving back and forth to revive them.

Some friends of ours from crane lake have kids shooting in it, I would be going over to roch to watch, but got roped into working the next 6 days in pelican rapids.

Nets can go in at anytime, most pack up and head back to Wisconsin before opener to avoid potential conflict with state anglers, they also can net in the fall, but I believe the ones that do are mostly the mille lacs band.

If they reach any quota for any species before walleye they have to be done, but that has never happened in all the years. I believe it would happen if the netting was actually regulated and had an official in each boat when nets are pulled.

One note would be after your rinse, fry up a small piece to test for saltiness, if too salty for your liking then rinse or let soak in water a bit and then repeat.

If you have a cabelas close by they used to do the update for you if you brought your graph in, at Owatonna anyway they did

Out of the 40 some fish we caught, only 1 was an eye, all be it a fatty 20.5″ that went back to hopefully grow to the caliber size eyes pool 4 is known for. Biggest sauger we got was 18.5.

I was boat number 10 on Sunday to launch at the back channel. Fish were biting

hyvee has bone in shoulder for $1.69lb going on right now, had the wife run out to our store today but they were out. Going to have to stop one night this week to try again, got about 60lbs of venison to make into sticks and sausage.

gregory wrote:

Just got word one unit is up and running. Here comes the warm water

Not sure if you seen the post on the book of face from the guys at the nuke plant about the water discharge statistics.

They’ve been discharging since Wednesday the 24th, just not at full capacity from the one unit. They were hoping to have that one at full power this weekend, that’s probably what you heard.

However, the water they discharge is never more than 5* warmer than the inlet temperature when fully operating. On Wednesday the inlet temp was 32.5* and discharging at 32.8*, Also they only discharge 200 cfs of water. So they only contribute to 1.5% of the flow and 0.3% higher water temp. I think the warmer temps and the runoff increasing the flow is going to make more of a difference in opening up the river than the reactor coming back online.

Regardless I’m excited to see the river open back up and hopefully get the boat out again.

Purchasing the vx chip gets you a 1 yr subscription to the one boat network app. The shaded relief is nice to display the contours and be able to see a saddle or steep break alot easier when cruising. The attached pictures are the same exact spot on Mille lacs with and without the relief on.

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Check Amazon for pricing.. In November I was able to get the premium chip for the same price as the regular vx chip so it was a noBrainerd, having the shaded relief is nice.

gimruis wrote:

I’m hoping that Batteries Plus has a flash sale on Friday. I intend to buy two new deep cycle AGM batteries and even 15 or 20% off would make a substantial price difference

Batteries plus has 18% off starting today and going thru Nov30 with code Loyalty18.

orve4 wrote:

Anybody have an in on that Pure fishing deal? I wonder if thats going to happen again.

That was at the beginning of December when this deal went down. If it happens again I know my bank account won’t like it.

Jimmy, download the rulebooks on your phone, that way you will have it with you at all times if a question comes up, I do that with all 3 books (fishing, hunting, waterfowl)

Bearcat89 wrote:

I honestly always just purchased a muzzle loader license. I didn’t realize a bonus rolled over. Learn something new everyday

Bearcat you still would need to buy a regular muzzleloader license, but could use a bonus tag that you had bought during regular firearm season if you decide to take a doe and wanted to save the main muzzy tag for a buck.

Yes you can use a management tag (bonus tag) from one season to the next, page 63 in the law book covers it if you want to take up a little reading.

Check out Rogers sporting goods online. Buy all my steel loads from there, free shipping over $99. If there will be any rebates its usually around Aug 1st is when they start. Before prices went up the other year I could get a case of 3″ 1 1/4oz federal speed shok for $99 and then a $50 mail in rebate on top, I quit reloading steel because it was cheaper to buy a case from rogers.

jbg1219 wrote:

Reel up… the crank or rig should run over the weeds.

I think what Andy is referring to is the floating vegetation that he is picking up and sliding down his line and fouling his cranks..

There is a countdown at the top of the page in the link and that would put it at starting at 8, not 7. Regardless I’ll check in at 7 just to make sure I didnt miss it if it does indeed start at 7.

I’m a big fan of the purple pillow, been using one for about 3 years now. My wife did not care for her’s so we gave it to our 11 year old son for his bed. He says that he doesn’t toss and turn as much and falls asleep much faster.

gimruis wrote:

Around 12:15, what appeared to be a formula one racing boat hauled ass from Malmo to the south end of the lake in just minutes. That thing musta been going over 100 mph. Loudest boat I’ve heard too. That was quite a sight.

Anyone else out there hear or see that thing today?

Yes I seen it, it launched from agate bay where im at, it has twin 700hp racing mercs on it and can do 140mph, it came from lake Havasu. The thing just sounded knarly!!