The mouth of Third river is usually a busy place but its also a big place. Lots of room.

My old neighbor growing up use to swear by the major/minor times when it came to dark house spearing northers in the winter.
Of course the only time he would go would be during peak times. Sometimes only for that hour. Swore the peak time was always the best.
I’m sure it never made a difference that he wasn’t in the spear house during low times.

I have a 2013 1825 lund pro guide with a single axle shorelander bunk trailer. Those brackets look very familiar to whats on my trailer. I can only imagine they are put on a ton of trailers. Maybe one had a defect which caused others to fail. But either way should be warrantied. Noticed they are assembled in the lowest hole making the bunks the highest they can be. Maybe they get weaker positioned like that? Mine are in the middle hole.

buschman wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>bigcrappie wrote:</div>
Do not mess around use Composite, there will be holes drilled into your epoxy covered wood then water will just rot the wood again.

I have an old boat and that transom held up for 20 years.. If I can get 5 more years out of my great! I am happy with that to be honest.

I will take a look at composite and cost.. I do hear ya but not terribly worried about it either.

If you’re not worried about doing it right why do it at all?

Yep got mine the other day too. Kinda sad a couple years ago the federal wardens were doing a road side check on our way home from ND. I got a $130 ticket for not having my federal stamp on me. I had bought it but it was in my truck where I met my buddies on the way. I got lectured like a 5 year old for not having my stamp on me. And now they don’t even send them out till 3 months after season.

Beast wrote:

the natives took 140 <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>walleyes in a couple of hours on one of our local lakes a couple of nights ago, I believe there was 15 participating in that part of the lake, not sure what the quota was set for this year, heard everything from 400 to 700 fish for that lake.

Where is “local” to you?

The boy and I fished for a couple hours Sunday morning before we took off for home. I missed one, lost one and caught 1. But the one I did put in the boat was 28 3/8” so made that bite count.

Theres a certain group of Minnesotans that have no problem with this. Its their heritage!

Bearcat89 wrote:

We caught alot of fish today. Best day of the trip by far. Took some dialing to figure it out, but after a while we were catching fish both dragging, and flowing down river vertical. And we would find a pod spot lock and pitch to them. Was a great day. The kid finally felt better at about 3 and came in the boat. Lots and lots of 25s and 26s caught today

Well i guess i just suck.

Up 18. Boy stuck a 27.25.

The boy and i came out of birchdale about 8:30 this morning. Fishing down just past the island. Caught 12. 22” biggest.

I put 2 Li Time 100ah batteries in for the trolling motor. Had them charged about 80%. Before I went up to rainy I plugged them in to top em off. App said they were both at 30 degrees. The bms would not let them charge. I put a heating pad in the battery compartment. One started charging at about 34 degrees the other one started at about 37. I think on their website it says charging temp is 32 and above. So a little off in charge temp protection but not bad. Fished the whole day Sunday and one battery was at 85% other was at 75%. But the second one is also setup on an isolator to help my power steering pump on the 90hp outboard. Very happy so far. Plus took 50+lbs out of the front of my boat.

BigWerm wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Red Eye wrote:</div>
Sunday we stuck to Canadian side with all plastics out of vidas.

Did the Mounties mess with you at all? Saw them buzzing some people in a helicopter which seems pretty over the top and slightly dangerous.

We got checked by Canadian wardens on Sunday. The one asking the questions was very nice. Checked licenses asked if we had bait then asked if we were keeping fish? We said no then asked if we could? Said we could keep 2 in canada but he was sure about bringing them back across the river. We weren’t going to keep any anyway. The other guy that was driving never said a word. As far as the helicopter. We seen it on Monday but we were on the MN side and didn’t see them harassing anyone. Guys are saying they were mounties but has there been any confirmation on this? From the video I seen of them hovering over a boat I hope someone called them into MN dnr? Faa? Doesn’t seem legit?

Two of us fished Sunday Monday Tuesday. Sunday we stuck to Canadian side with all plastics out of vidas. Caught 21 biggest was 24”. First time committing to plastic for both of us so learning experience. Monday slept in cause of the cold. Got going about 10:30 out of birchdale. Fished minnows till dark. Caught 18 biggest was 24.5”. Fished sunup till 12:30 Tuesday with minnows out of vidas. Caught 19 biggest was 26.5. Water temp ranged from 35 up to 37. Of course the nicest day was when we had to head home. Maybe head back up Friday or Saturday.

Was also going to say if you go online and request a callback it is usually way faster than waiting on hold depending on time of day. Then just go about your business until they call you.

Truthfully I couldn’t care less about turkes. Except my 12 year old has gotten into hunting them so I take him out. He’s been owl hooking in the backyard for 2 weeks now before school. I do know I’m not a big fan when I plant my deer food plot and the next day I have 30+ turkeys scratching the seed back out of the ground. And most farmers with plastic covered feed pile’s would rather see them all dead. They like to sit on top of the piles tearing holes in the plastic and causing spoilage. When the boy asks permission he gets, “ya you can hunt but you gotta shoot 5 of them dam things.”

Ya as hard as us 2 farm boys and those 3 chessies ran them cats dont think they ever caught one. Now wood chucks were another thing. We had a 100+lb male that would get a death grip on their head/shoulders and the our female and a older pup we had would literally tear them in half. Good times

We had cats on our farm but would not consider any of them tame. They were there for one reason. The only thing they got fed was a couple quarts of milk at the end of each milking. Sometimes we had up to 20 around. In all the years I think we only had one you could pet. It was my aunts before she moved off the farm. It didn’t stay tame for long. Only time they got handled was if we found a batch of kittens then dad would give them a distemper shot.
It sure was a hell of a time when me and my brother would let our 3 Chesapeakes in the barn at the end of milking. We would run them cats ragged till the ole man started yelling. Good times.

And no questions about the 8 gas cans that we had strapped to the trailer with our snowmobiles

We crossed in Baudette last Wednesday at about 2:00pm. 4 of us stopped and grabbed a case of beer each at duty free shop. Got to boarder. They never asked about any groceries or homemade food or milk or eggs. Asked about alcohol and bait. We had to go inside and pay $43 Canadian total for the duty and were on our way. Thought it went very smoothly.

acarroline wrote:

“Rippin Lips” with a picture of an aggressive toothed walleye

Good buddy of mine has this on his boat minus the walleye picture. It was on from the original owner but he never removed it.

The vapes are hooking kids bad. My wife is a high school teacher. Says they find them everywhere. Kids out of sports constantly because they were caught vaping. Kids leaving class every hour to go to the “bathroom.” They have taken to locking the locker room doors so they can’t vape in there during school hours. Even a bathroom that is in a seldom used hallway is locked. There were a pair of sixth graders that were caught recently high on a weed vape during school hours. Its bad.

I have never smoked a cigarette or weed in my life. I’m not gonna say I didn’t drink some beer during high school but never during school.

Swell bay is some the area was looking at on the map.

fins wrote:

It’s 100% worth it. Fish the Canadian side all day for size and numbers and then stop on the way back to camp to get some dinner on the Minnesota side. Just make sure you know all the rules.

Can’t keep fish in canada?

Last time I did mine the sticker came off but the color didn’t. Was like I took the outside clear off but the color remained. Put new one over the top.

So I’m confused when this regulation actually went into place? This picture was posted online yesterday which looks like a sign at a landing that says March 4th. The article here says today the 11th. Guy I know was there Saturday. Got checked by a warden with well over 5 fish and warden never said a word. With how much regs change on mille lacs I wouldn’t be surprised if the warden’s can’t even keep up.

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Bearcat89 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>FinickyFish wrote:</div>
Reviving this thread as pool 2 proved my 8 yr old trolling motor batteries are ready to be replaced. Looking at 2 12v Litime batteries to run in series for a 24v setup. Have of you that switched to 12.8v lithium batteries replaced your on board charger to handle lithium or have you gotten by with your original on board charger?

I switched to 2 litime 12v 100ah trolling motor series batteries. My old charger wasn’t compatible, so I bought a noco that works great. But right now li time has their chargers on a good sale. My dad and I were just putting his order in a little while ago for a single 12v and charger for his power drive.

Hey BC I know you have talked about how much you like the LiTime batteries. Wondering what size did you get? They have group 24 and group 31 batteries. They are both 100ah so kind of confused what the group size means. I will be ordering 2 of these very soon. Where did you order them through?

Yep ‘96 was first year with 3 classes.

I build my hole hopping panfish rods at 44-45.” It lets me get the tip of the rod to the water so wind isn’t pushing my line. Love fishing with them but they are a pain to deal with sometimes. Made rod protectors out of 1 1/4 pvc and usually just throw them on the dash of the truck.

According to Carl at Timberline in Blackduck there is a new one coming. But as he said didn’t really know what they would improve.