I have started seeing a number of expensive 1-2 yr old boats with low hours coming for sale…and not guide boats. I’m guessing either inflation costs made these unaffordable or not as much time to fish compared to the covid years

FYI if you want to dock your boat overnight you have to pay through your boat club. I don’t remember the exact amount but I think it was like $40/day and didn’t include electricity to charge batteries…..so because of that I didn’t stay there

7 inches of snow in the central MN today…it was a gut punch and depressing. I don’t see myself living here much longer, the duration of winter is too much. 4 of the last 5 winters have been top 10 all time snowfalls

This certainly isn’t a small subset using forward facing sonar anymore. Last year I rarely saw a livescope pole hanging off the side of the boat. This year boats on all sorts of lakes have it. There’s definitely times I’m seeing livescope set ups that cost more than the boat itself. This is particularly changing musky and big walleye fishing as you can now target the basin suspended fish that previously were a needle in a haystack.

The old joke in medicine is the orthopedic surgeons prescribe salt tablets for low sodium.

High or low sodium is a water problem, not a salt problem. Too much or too little fluid. Unless you’re sick or have kidney failure your sodium will be fine.

tim hurley wrote:

FYI year before last and the year before that he had great stuff on SI-last year more content was on 360.
What? Where? When? How? When he is at his best he answers all these questions very well-some people making vids make no effort at all to educate, they just reel in fish.

This is what he excels. He usually does a great job educating the important aspect of what he’s looking for on a graph and gps map. He not only describes but screen shots to show people. It’s very applicable to anyone who is not an electronics guru.

That is the reason I can hardly watch any videos from Lindner media anymore, it’s basically an informercial set between actual commercials. They do very little education and what they do is usually highlighting something they’re paid to use.

I am a big boley fan. He has helped a lot with building walleye knowledge.

I think he has developed a lot of content specifically for the app that is not on his YouTube page. Based off the free videos that are available to view(the three videos in the middle, not the ones linked to a month)I think it will be a lot more technical and graph related, less showing fish catches than his YouTube videos.

If I was just starting off or new to graphs I think the subscription would be worth it, but watching him for a couple years now I don’t see it adding more than he already has online. I understand the need to generate income but I hope his YouTube doesn’t suffer for content in the name of promoting the app.

I ordered this past fall…still anxiously waiting delivery….going on 4 months

Like James I picked up my graphs and add ons over the fall/winter as it was apparent the supply chain wasn’t going to suddenly catch up.

Facebook has been a more active source for me in the process as there is much more involvement of brand specific and even boat model specific groups

At least for Minnesota lake front properties are starting at $250-300k for small lots that have less than ideal shorelines. Even that low of a price is not common. Good size lots or great shoreline are commanding much more. The market for lake homes is in overdrive.

I don’t see lake home prices dropping either. The rate of increase will hopefully come down, but I do not foresee the actual sale price to drop

Walleye talk

2 guides from Longville have a weekly podcast during the open water season. They usually review how the bite in the longville/leech area has been and what they’re anticipating for the upcoming week.

How old is your truck?

I have a 2019, parked outside all winter it’s first year in north central Minnesota. Never had a problem. Still leave outside at work all day and starts without issue, never plugged in.

Livescope has shown all sorts of fish behavior that I would have never known.

Loons are fun to watch when they dive, but you can also see the fish all scatter deep. Now I usually leave the area when loons come in.

You’ll also really like it when someone comes off plane or uses their big motor driving by you. Live might lead to some fights when you can watch the school bust when they do that.

iowa_josh wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Sioux wrote:</div>
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic with no use in this scenario. Even the manufacturer of the drug explicitly states there is no benefit for Covid. The few doctors who prescribe this are treating without evidence, against consensus recommendations of true experts, and are outliers in the medical field.

By the way, the last patient I put a tracheostomy and feeding tube in tried ivermectin unsuccessfully with one of these doctors.

It is an antiviral drug as well. You probably know that. The merck company got 368 million dollars to say that the off patent drug didn’t work. Only to develop a new drug that is $700 a dose instead of 50 cents.

It is not an antiviral drug. In vitro studies have shown ivermectin may effect cell transporters and disrupt the ability of certain viruses(Covid not one) to infect a cell but this is only in vitro and has not been shown to be the case in real world trials.

If ivermectin, hydroxychloraquine or vitamins worked that would be great, but when put under true clinical trial, the evidence isn’t there. Anecdotally it can look good because many people who get Covid do recover, so going by hearsay doesn’t work as those people were likely to recover regardless of what they took.

The new drug is not a “repacked ivermectin” despite what social media says. It is a different class of medication that works via completely different mechanism.

In almost every other aspect of medicine people come to us and trust our recommendations and yet now with Covid and only Covid is there this aspect of trying to argue medical evidence with social media hearsay. And this is not unique to message boards, it happens in icu rooms as well. It’s going to be hit or miss for most of this winter and I hope no one here has to experience this first hand.

Ivermectin is an antiparasitic with no use in this scenario. Even the manufacturer of the drug explicitly states there is no benefit for Covid. The few doctors who prescribe this are treating without evidence, against consensus recommendations of true experts, and are outliers in the medical field.

By the way, the last patient I put a tracheostomy and feeding tube in tried ivermectin unsuccessfully with one of these doctors.

I will also add, pre-covid, it was rare to have patients hospitalized for more than a week or two. These were either complex trauma patients or medically complex that required prolonged stays. Covid patients take up hospital beds and often icu beds for weeks at a time if not months. Normal patients can require icu care but would improve and transfer out. Now Covid patients just linger and linger without improvement. So one Covid patient can occupy an icu bed that could have otherwise provided care to multiple icu patients prior to this.

Please get vaccinated.

I work in a hospital and see it daily. It’s very bad right now. I would do everything possible to avoid injury or illness.