My local bait shop in Sauk Centre has one on its wall and has been there forever.
What about asking Denny Fletcher if you can borrow it. To make a copy. If it’s a big one, then ask the guys up at Kramer lumber (formerly Steiner’s) if they could print you a copy from their house plan printer.
Worth a shot.
Next question, do I need an extension? Just messin.
I think that question is actually pretty valid!
If you’re drilling inside a house, I’m pretty confident you might need one. Otherwise direct on ice it’s getting close.
I was out last Thursday and helped two different guys that couldn’t get through inside their wheelhouses. And it’s been nothing but cold since then.
If nobody reaches out, I’d really think the General Store in Osakis could help you out.
Settings? As in low or high? I use my drill on low.
Good luck with the Makita. Have you used it already? I use Makita for work. Got a pile of drill, saws, nibblers….. And a hundred batteries. Anyhow, the drills and batteries did not perform well with an auger. I was getting 5 to maybe 10 holes tops with a 5.0 battery. I talked to a couple Makita reps about this and they explained that they have experienced the same issues. It’s the star technology and the chips in the tool and battery that didn’t work well with drilling ice. They gave way more details, but after that, all 3 guys told me to buy a Milwaukee.
Glide Lites. The new Bitcoin…. 
The shark is black walnut and the base is eastern red cedar drift from the Mississippi.
“We’re gonna need a bigger….coffee table!”
Very nice work! 
I used a k-drill direct to Milwaukee last week and I have a Milwaukee on a clam plate. I don’t have one with a gear box. I much prefer the Clam Plate. I like the handles better. When drilling in deeper ice I feel like I have superior control vs just the drill, even if the drill has the stabilizer on it. With my setup (with a SM Laser auger) I don’t ever feel the need to clean a hole out halfways through. So I really bogged the k-drill in the thick ice and it wasn’t the easiest pulling it back out with just a drill until I put it in reverse.
Some of that will probably be hairier based off which lake you’re planning on using them on. Such as Mille Lacs having a limit on Tullibee, which would probably make them a game fish. Lake Osakis not so much. I know that I have no idea.
Good luck with this one.
I always say, wish in one hand and pi$$ in the other and see which one fills up first.
Well, that kind of implies that you’ll lose everytime! Until you completely run out of pi$$!
Also, the pi$$ kinda leaks out between the fingers. So there’s usually room for more. 
Its obvious that a few teams are destined to be terrible for very long terms at a time. Regardless of high draft picks or FA signings. Clearly then they suck at scouting, signing, and coaching. The Giants, Jets, Browns, Bears, until recently the Lions. They really turned it around.
Obviously a good mix of draft picks and free agents is best. But you also need to cut guys that are simply just kinda good.
The Chiefs made the post season for like 4-5 years straight with Alex Smith. He was “good”. Then they drafted Mahomes and even after another postseason with Smith, they gave Patrick the reigns and said let’s go.
Not trying to compare JJ to Mahomes, but if they would’ve kept sticking with Alex Smith, what would’ve happened?
If you go to JJ you have to accept some regression in the win column in exchange for a larger “window” and more opportunities in free agency over the next 4 seasons.
Yes! Kinda what I was digging at. Occasionally, you have to look a few years down the road. Take a deep breath, be patient and know you’re investing in the future.
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I was actually hoping for a 4-7 win season.That’s only 11 games. They play 17. Did you mean to type 10-7 or 4-13?
I meant exactly what I typed. A 4-7 win season.
As in anywhere between 4W-13L up to 7W-10L.
Didn’t think it was that difficult to understand. I was hoping we would finish where it was originally projected. Then, as long as our front office didn’t screw everything up, we’d be higher in the draft. If I’m not mistaken, we didn’t have much draft capitol this year due to previous trades. So, being a few extra wrungs up the ladder would help.
So be the bears year in and year out? How’s that working out?
Sam is not resigning long term. Agree that would be foolish.
If you are a losing organization all that does is build that atmosphere in the building and get people fired year after year. I would much rather have overachievers than be underachievers
That’s what you thought I typed? Geeze you guys. Nobody wants to suck forever. But why on earth do we think every year we should patch things together just to crawl into the post season and get embarrassed? Maybe….Maybe it’s okay to not patch for a season or two. Put out the team we have and if they aren’t that good, fine. Then get some actual draft picks that will create a long term nucleus of a team and be something special for 5 to 10 years. A mid pack team isn’t special. And that’s what the Vikings have been for 35 of the last 40 years!
I wonder if some of you are missing the point. Lots of internal findings with the DOGE team showing accounts receiving SS payments past 110-300 years old. Obviously that department hasn’t been cleaning up much.
I felt like the season in general was kind of a waste. In the ultimate goal being, win a Superbowl. If you can’t win a Superbowl then you want to be entertaining for the home fans. I guess we got that. I for one am not entertained by a team seemingly squeaking out wins. I’d love to get behind a dominant team that really beats it’s opponents. Gets up by multiple scores and doesn’t give it all back in the last quarter. So, I can honestly say I haven’t been real entertained with the Vikings in quite some time. ’98 was amazing.
I was actually hoping for a 4-7 win season. As tough as that can be to watch, it would’ve meant better draft picks this spring and a better team next season when we were originally hoping to be good. There’s nothing wrong with a season or two of gaining the right pieces and then putting all hands on deck. Realistically you won’t be in contention every year. So why do we make it seem like you have to?
And there’s always gonna be that 1 or 2 stars on a team that you kinda waste their prime by not winning now. That’s only been happening league wide for 70+ years. You can’t fix every problem every year. But you certainly can’t fix team personnel if you finish in the top 10 but never win the big one. Re-signing Sam Darnold in my opinion would be terribly ridiculous. He’ll always be Sam Darnold with a couple shiny moments sprinkled in. He piled up stats with the receivers the Vikings have. He made some great throws, but so did 25 other quarterbacks. When the pressure really mounted in some of the regular season games and particularly the end of the Packers game through the Rams, he sucked. I don’t believe he’ll find a way to perform under that pressure any time soon.
Let’s move forward with JJ and see what he’s got. He could be great, he could be another mediocre guy. Only one way to find out.
What chaps my ass is if you can only drive 40 in a 55 why in the hell do you have to floor it when I pass you?
Also, while passing a semi, they go .0000000000001 mph faster than the semi. So it only takes about 7 miles. Then as soon as they’re clear, it’s HAMMER DOWN!!!
I do have more patience these days after putting my kids out on the roads, my wife drives slower, and we all have a few older folks still driving in our family. I’d hate to think of someone berating one of them as they’re focused on driving safely. But I preach to all my kids to drive your best at a consistent pace, and if there are cars behind you, it’s never shameful to pull over and let them go.
Lumpy, Bumpy, and Iowa (the flattest one) 
Awesome fish!!
Did it spit out any jumbo perch?
I can’t believe I just read all that.
I agree Jimmy, those weren’t she/her’s.
There’s so much of this garbage in our world today. Lack of good parents. Lack of faith and morals. Heck, kids having phones and Internet so early in life and believing so called “friends” that they’ve never met, about how they don’t need to listen to their family or church or whatever anymore.
The day you notice one of your own kids or young family member or even a neighbor kid starting to behave oddly, becoming reclusive, not interested in doing things anymore…. You better reach out quick because it doesn’t take long to lose them to this kind of psycho circus.
RIP to the border agent and the other innocent people killed and caught up in this and similar tragedies.
I haven’t tried, but I’ve seen hand written signs at a couple Fleet Farms and a gas station stating that licenses won’t be available until March 1st. Take that for what it’s worth.
If he saw the wolf and reported it to the DNR he would of been told, nope you saw a coyote there are no wolves this far south.
That’s what they should say, right?
I feel like there was a couple shot 5-10 years ago down by New Ulm area, maybe Fairmont. So, not common, but surely often enough to never say never.
Pail of perch I’ve been using one like that for years. It’s one from Pizza Hut we got free when purchasing some pizzas.
I had one of those same ones years ago but busted it long before I ever thought of putting minnows in it. Come to think of it, I just saw a couple of the pizza hut ones at an antique store. 
Did you go out and fish with Joe? He’s a great guy. We traded concrete work for a couple days fishing. We became buddies through that, its always great fishing with him.
We’ve had plans to fish together a couple times, but plans usually change for one of us. But we update each other on the current bite when fishing the same lakes. I’ve rented a wheelhouse from him a few times for a kids night or two. He works hard and is the nicest dude. We also hunt almost next door to each other. So I’ve met his brother Jeremy and Dad . Just gave his Dad a bucket of Tullibee for smoking last week.
I was visiting at his house a couple years ago and he’d mentioned you’d been up doing some concrete work for him.
Sharon, that’s a pretty fare statement. Sometimes the successes and failures we’ve gone through build our characters and blaze the trail we venture down.
But if things could work out mostly the same, I wish I could have made much better financial decisions earlier in life. The struggles I went through helped me learn a lot! I could have invested, or put all my money into purchasing land back when it was $250 an acre…… Anything besides the worthless debt I basically purchased.
I love to laugh when people ask, “What was that animal doing WAY down here, or WAY over there……” Not being a jerk. But it’s just funny to me. They’re animals! They can cover a hundred miles in a little over a day/night. They have no idea about the gray shaded area the DNR claims is their home range. They go where they want when they want. And should they choose to stay there, they will. I also put zero faith in when the same DNR claims that there isn’t a breeding population of a particular species. Cause, they have some kind of control over that somehow…..
All that aside, there’s way more wolves shot every year in MN than the DNR would ever know about. Most aren’t “accidents” and most folks never mention it.
B-man, I also am an old school budget minnow guy. I’ve been using, and I’m on my 2nd in like 15-20 years, Coleman 1/2 gallon thermos. I’ve never messed with an aerator, but I also only use it for ice fishing and crappie minnows and fatheads. I might have to change water once a day, but it fits into a six inch hole. So changing water works pretty easy. I keep a small plastic dipper in with the minnows and we’re good to go.
I was just showing Joe Scegura the other week and he thought it was pretty clever. Any bait shop guy always has to comment on it too.
If you’re traveling light and only taking a scoop of minnows with, it’s hard to beat $15. 
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puking off the side of the roof
Always interesting to see if the grass on that side will grow better or worse this year……
We’ve had what seems like the normal sicknesses that go through households most every year. I didn’t feel as if any were worse or extreme. And I don’t recall anyone going to the Dr for a diagnosis for anything other than a family bout of bronchitis years ago. Not sure what actual things we’ve had, but never really worry about it. RSV, flu, covid, cold….. It’s an illness and most all get better with hydration, electrolytes, rest, and sunshine. Not being sarcastic, just the way we roll. I would worry if something was really bad.
No shots for our family since around 2015.
I should mention, Tullibee and perch are generally in the same area as they eat a lot of the same stuff. But!, if you’re catching tiny perch, I’d move. Not very often you catch tiny perch and big perch together. Move further away from the flats. More basin and deeper water. 30+ feet.
Not sure how much you fish perch, and not trying to mansplain…. Just offering some tips.
who can point me in the right direction here?
Chris, it’s a big lake, right!?
I was out a couple weeks ago, today, and I’ll be out tomorrow. Each time has been pretty similar. Haven’t exactly crushed them yet, but we’ve had decent action and caught a few toads as well. Fish off the deep edge of structure first thing in the morning and last thing before dark. And further from the structure midday. Mud or soft silty bottom is best as the perch are gorging on bugs that live there. Nearly every one pukes out a good pile. When you’re in a good spot, you’ll have schools of perch coming through every 10 minutes or so. You pick off what you can and be ready for the next school. They’re constantly on the move and in a different mood every hour. Today live minnows actually worked pretty good. The other 3 days was only jigging. 1 day minnow heads were best. 2 days it was larva.
Fishing on Mille Lacs this morning. It’s an hour and 47 minute drive to Hunters point for me. Coldest temp on the truck was -35°. Temp was -25° when we setup the house. Actually quite pleasant out. And quiet!!!
I did see 4-5 pickups that clearly weren’t looking the cold.
if play-offs
I would assume playoffs
Playoffs!!! Playoffs? Really! Playoffs!???
What is sticking out of the front of that little silver car? Did someone javelin a sign through the grille?
That’s his forward facing sonar. Can never be to far ahead of the game…..
