Is the public able to launch from barnacles?? Last I had heard was only barnacles seasonal guests were going to be able to launch from there, otherwise everyone else had to go out of red door
Any insight on that Alex?
Received my card in the mail today for the boat. Just an FYI for guys if yours is expired and thinking you might hit the water between now and March 4th to get yours renewed.
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Castaways has roads out on carlsona.
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Not sure if your current situation is up-to-code (or if you care) but I believe any outlet in proximity to a water source needs to be on a GFI circuit. Easy enough to switch it over if it’s not already.
With it being a garage, all 120v receptacles have to be gfi/tamper protected regardless if by water or not. The stove will also need to be gfi protected.
Rain coming friday, melting snow, above freezing temps should dirty the water a bit and maybe bring a little flow. I’m contemplating myself about going over Sunday.
It’s a Norsk battery. They are sending me a new one. Asked them if they wanted the faulty one back (hoping they would say yes so I could get rid of it), but they said no.
I’m dealing with the same issue from norsk. They sent me 2 duds, however the guy i talked with (jake) said if i did not have a way to recycle it that i could ship it back to them and then they would reimburse the shipping costs. My county has a hazardous recycling so I can dispose for free. (County tax dollars at work)
Well I certainly hope the OP’s kid has gotten his license by now seeing how this post was made 18yrs ago, that’d put him at 34.
Looks like Dec 9, at 11:09am Mark Zona is going live to unveil the xplorer depthfinder and mega live 2.0
I’ve got a bunch of snow geese that I’ll make jerky out of, but, have any of you used them to make sausage (obviously mixed with pork). Is it similar to deer?
Not snows but Canada’s I’ve made snack sticks out of and people can’t even tell it’s goose. Another thing I’ve done is goose pastrami that’s dang good.
If it wasn’t at this last years Icast I can’t imagine it will be released before next years icast in July.
Not necessarily true, mega live 2 was just announced in Amsterdam last week and expected to be released early spring.
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.
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.
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.
