Yea, the common theme here is the cheap barrel swivel, which is exactly what I have tied on. I am going to buy some better ones and try that. Definitely cannot hurt to try. Thanks for the replies!

tim hurley wrote:

If you have a lure that is perpendicular to the line and you drop it down twist will happen no matter what, the farther you drop the more it happens. Stuff might help, line, swivels but twist will still happen. The inline reel makers tried to imply that that kind of reel would eliminate twist, but they do not and now you can buy those reels at a great discount! Anything that falls falls in a spiral, spirals create twist-IMHO

This seems like it would make sense. I guess it just seemed a bit excessive on all my rods, didn’t seem to matter what type of lure, spoons, jigging raps, ect.
and I do have dedicated rods for each.

It is my understanding that when they sold, restocking got left to the supplier of the items. I have been in the Waite Park store multiple times and saw non Mills people stocking different items. Is it on all items? I can’t say that for sure but it seems like more of the tools, auto, hunting and fishing are the things that are not stocked very well. Or those are the only things I really go there for and that’s why I notice them.

Jamin wrote:

I’ll be at Arnesen’s this coming Fri and Sat. I’ll report ice conditions on Sunday in case anyone is interested.

It would be greatly appreciated!

Justin riegel wrote:

Hey river i am going up out of a week from today. If you could give me report when you get back i would appreciate it.

We switched up our plans and are now going to be heading up in 2 weeks, hopefully let it thaw a little more. If you could let me know how it is, I would really appreciate that!

CaptainMusky wrote:

I was in the Baudette area Friday through Monday. A forecasted 1″ snowfall Saturday night into Sunday morning turned into like 8″ in Baudette. That was an unpleasant surprise. Saturday we fished on Adrians road which can take you literally as far as you would ever want to go, but no idea the condition after that snowfall. Sunday we went West out of Long Point who only received about 3 inches so snow was not a problem there, but man, getting around off the road is a mess this year.
The East side off Adrians road there is not many places you can get off the road because of all the busted up ice. I’m talking HUGE sheets of ice that stick 10 feet plus in the air and are like 8 inches or more thick.
Long Pt has some massive pressure ridges right out front and roads navigate around them East and West of the resort.
Prior to this weekends snow there wasn’t much snow or it was very hard. Travel would be easy provided you are in an area without all the busted up ice.
I talked to guys that went out of Morris on Friday and they said travel was easy, so they must not have the busted up ice there.
I would think if you are going around zippel, morris areas you should be good for truck travel most places based on what I heard from guys this weekend, but elsewhere it may be tough in the main lake at least the area near Pine Island anyways.

Thanks for all the info, really appreciate it. We will being going out of Morris so hopefully all is good on that end.