birchdale is open to big boats now hopefully frontier is pushable for the small boats wedesnday when we get there. and hopefully the river calms down quite a bit also, the current and depth are starting to get a little out of control already according to gail @ clementson’s. to soon for that my biggest walleye’s have been landed in our 14′ aluminum (sea biscuit) also. seems like my kids always out fish me during the summer in the big boat, but that’s just fine with me . another plus to the little boat is we didn’t even burn 4 gallons of gas last year on the water, and ya don’t even no it’s behind truck pulling it. that always results in more money

it would be fine with me if they let it open naturally, alot less boat traffic if you have to push across ice

sounds like the county isn’t going to be busting out any ramps this year. so you’re probably gonna have to call up there before you take off. landing looked sloppy today but it’s supposed to cool down quite a bit for the rest of the week, so maybe the top would firm enough for the car. clementson resort or the royal dutchman would have info for you.

i’m trying to stay positive, just goin nuts sittin around home all’s i can say is rain rain go away come again on like april 16th or something

seen some pics of some nice females coming out in the pine island area, guessing their getting ready to hit the river. bring a boat to, the river will be ready then

birchdale is at mile marker 156 which is quite a ways from baudette. most likely you were in the vidas area or even closer yet to town. not sure what is there just on the east edge of town, i’ve never used them. let’s hope this thing keeps opening nice and slowly

james, it’s open at franze jenze, open on the east edge of birchdale rapids, manitou rapids is good to go also for sliding across the ice with smaller boats. if they get the rain later today and tommorrow that their supposed to bidrchdale should be no problem later tommorrow or tuesday for sliding boats across the ice at birchdale. yesterday we decided to stick with our original plans and wait till the april 1st. that’s 9 more days for that thing to bust wide open and possibly turn to mud . or could continue to open nice slowly and all we will have to deal with is the thousands of boats out there at that time. i hope we made the right the decision, but if i was you i would definitely have my open water gear with

ya, i read another site that they were in a conflict with this certain site i was looking at and for some reason it was screwing with clementson’s website therefore no updates on the progress of open water. the posts were deleted about an hour after i read about this conflict, so i guess i i’m not sure what’s going.

with this warm wheather, the ten inches of snow they had last tuesday, and all the snow they already had i have a feeling the first weekend in april is gonna be to late. i’ve been trying to get an update on the open water progress the last two days with no answers. if there’s any locals out there let us know. for some reason clementson has updated since last wednesday. i guess if it is muddy i while be using my ice gear again, after i just got my open water poles spooled up yesterday

that would be “double dipping”. when you heading up this winter? i think you might of been looking to meet up late last season for crappie fishin, but we ended bein there at different times. i believe my first trip will be jan. 3-6th hope to get lucky with limits of crappies again

cookie monster, left a message for ya this afternoon. give me call, so i can set some dates. have the truck ready cuz i’m sure we’ll need it after i bury B O B’s pretty boy truck

if you go up the 28-31 let me or dwoody know and maybe we can hookup

headin up there last weekend in march, hope it’s to late by then

ya it smelled great goin to rainy river the last weekend in march might have to stop by and see ya on the way home, so put some pontoons on the truck so we can get to that honey hole . and yes deerwoody, you do have a new fishing partner. where you takin him next

tell the P.R. he’s banned from the ford. cost me 50 bucks to get that crap cleaned out of my truck by the way, the ford had to pull out 2 chevy’s during this last snowstorm

good report i also downsized my minnows that i was using last weekend, it seemed to help. i forgot all about your houses for sale when we were up . sounds like my wifes step dad will be back up there next week, so i will give him your number as he is the one looking for a house

i got the 2 x 5 question right at the very beginning of the show

I believe i just got the boot from the other site

the pics were taken at 9:30 saturday morning when cookie stopped. we had just got done pulling a flury of slabs that started right after sun up. we ended with another 10 or 11 crappies before we left sunday morning after the flury saturday morning the bottle of jag came hence the picture of my truck the next morning when we woke up i got a little to brave with the old ford the night before

leaving in 8 hours me or deerwoody will let ya know how it was . also let ya know how tricky the ice is for gettin around scoutin, sounds like it’s a whole new world after the fifty degree day they had up there today major ice shifting, some new pressure ridges and plenty of open cracks now four days of fishin on red, yep goin back to crappie heaven

nice

i’d start with all the numbers above

nice can’t wait for thursday at red man ruzeks brotherinlaw caught a 34 inch (14.2 lb) eye on red last weekend unbelievable, he’s got the spot marked. wouldn’t that be somethin, catchin monsterous slabs and then hook that thing. guess maybe we don’t have to shoot up to lotw on friday to get a chance at wallhangin eye

thanks, i will be coming up this thursday thru sunday. i’ll find ya cuz my father in law is looking for a house and he will be with me

are you guys quitting or what’s going on with dumpin everyting. oh yeah, when’s a good time call for info

good report that just goes to show it usally takes alot of drilling, cuz you need to be right on them to hammer em’. good to see you guys were able to get em’ out of the hard house we portabled 2 weekends ago and it wasn’t much fun BURRRRRRR!!!

johnson’s guide service (spider) 320-304-1617
cookie’s on upper red 218-647-8391
bear paw guides 218-368-3755
waskish minnowstation 218-647-8652
their all good and will put on crappies

run one bobber line or dead stick with either a red or glowing hook or a demon on it. jig with a buckshot or a flashy spoon. stay on the move and you should’nt have a problem finding crappies i don’t know when your planning on going, but if you can do it during the weekdays you’re that much further ahead goodluck to both of you

u suck!!!!!!!!!! i’ll be having way to much fun at the birthday parties

a couple of guys are trying to put together a tournament to raise some money for jeff (their thinkin march) i’ll keep you posted if i here anything more on it