I usually just ask, hey do you mind if I use these holes as long as I keep my distance.
I’ve never been told yes I mind.

The league has an eight player minimum of nhl vets playing. Maybe they need some type of maximum as well.
Granted the home team almost always loads the roster and the away teams don’t because it’s better for the home fans. But last night was kind of cruel to the Wild youngsters.

Just because they took less money to play here doesn’t mean we didn’t overpay.
IMO they should have been offered a 6-8 year deal.

For whatever reason that has always been the issue with the Wild. I think that was one of the reasons they overpaid Parise and Suter. Thinking they would be able to draw talent to sign.
Worked out in the opposite.

Find an area in your drive time and start looking for a resort. Get your name on the list of as many as you can. One will have an opening and you can always wait for the resort you really want to open up. Some will want you to remove your camper at season end, some will open the gate at the start of the season and close at the end.
Some will let you use your lot in the winter. North Star resort Mille Lacs lake.

I had this exact issue with my units, assuming you are running a network box.
My issue was the power cord to the network box was bad. Intermittent connection. New power cord. Problem solved.

My guess is when it wrapped the cords on the rod holder it pulled somethig loose.

There is a reason ground hogs are called woodchuck, and they do Chuck wood.
If he gets under a wood building he’ll make a mess of it.
Luckily they are easily removed, a 22 between the ear and eyeball usudoes it. Also when they are out they usually want to be out and will come back out after being scared into their hole.

Rat poison?

By the list of bars I will guess that no one here is from Shakopee. I believe it was called the Jug back then, now it’s gone.
But I remember Arnie’s the most because it was open at 8 am for us night shift workers and he always had enough money to cash our pay checks.
He would also allow you to order 6 at last call and stay till they were gone. Getting of at midnight really puts a cramp on a fun time for a young guy.

This game may come down to the crappy ice in Florida.
If it’s hot and humid the may turn soft and that would be advantage Panthers.

Edmonton also needs to stop playing so fancy. Last night they continually passed up shots from the slot to make a pass to the faceoff dots. Shoot the puck already.

Yes, it’s not that hard to do.

Eric, do know what happened to the Mayfly hatches?
Did the Zebras, spiny water flea, or the septic clean up cause the lack of Mayfly?
Does the Mayfly loss affect Walleye or Perch the most.

Dutchboy wrote:

100 years from now they will still be arguing about Mille Lacs. As long as neither side trusts the other nothing is changing. FWIW, the Mn DNR likely trusts the bands DNR, but Mn anglers don’t trust either one.

But if the Minniesota DNR was as straight forward and forth coming as Eric has been much of this distrust might be abated.
But the DNR seems to think we’re all a bunch of hicks that couldn’t possibley understand this subject.

Eric when they look at the harvestable surplus do they take into account all of the other predator species that consume the baitfish population?
Is there ever going to be a point where the decisions need to start addressing the growing smallmouth population?
Or is this just Walleye?

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>JoeMX1825 wrote:</div>
I saw a few more stories on this trading for Necas idea, one speculated a Rossi and Spurgeon (to make the capspace work) for Necas trade…

Absolute insanity. This would be the kind of deal Fecktard Fenton would do.

Necas is bigger, right shot and averaging 3/4 points per game over his career, but I agree with Grouse.
Not worth what the cost.

How would the Wild possibly come out ahead by moving Rossi AND a top 2 defender for a 24 goal/53 point guy? Rossi will EASILY beat that goal and most probably point tally next season so Spurgeon would be given away for zero gain.

The only Rossi package deal where the wild actually gain would have to involve packaging an underachiever player that wild want to dump anyway. Break even trades don’t do the wild any good. We have to have a trade that actually gets us something more than we have or it makes no sense.

Thank you Eric! I wish our DNR was that straightforward with a reply.
Do the DNR and Bands do forage base assessments as well as prey?
As a fisheries biologist is there a preferred age ratio to individual fish species, so the age classes are more broadly represented?

I’d be willing to bet that they’d like to. I’d also bet they know the lake can handle some harvest and could use some. I don’t believe there is any comanagement. I think their hands are tied by the tribe and they won’t admit it. Instead they twist data to justify their ultra tight regs. It’d be interesting to know why that is. My guess is money and politics.

The management of Mille lacs lake is unlike any other body of water in the state and I think that is because they are not allowed to manage it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>perch population actually came back if they allowed some harvest of walleyes. And I’m not talking about 1 fish between 20-22 type harvest.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if you were 100% correct!

With the introduction of zebra muscles, the water fleas,rusty crayfish and the reduction in mayflies the forage base has changed so 200k+ harvest is a thing of the past.
Cannibalism has happened before you would think they would have learned.
BigWerm is right though, the hooking mortality is not accurate enough.
I don’t know what figure they use, but the the bands did a telemetry study and I believe their mortality was 5%.

It would seem to me the DNR should be trying to keep a more sustainable forage to prey ratio.
Much the same as a rancher only puts out enough cattle in a pasture as the pasture will feed.
Only difference is we would be removing large fish instead of not putting out cattle.
How to get the bands to agree is probably the issue though.

The troubling issue will be when there isn’t enough baitfish to feed all of the big fish in the lake.
When that happens the walleye year classes fail, due to canabalism. Then you end up with no new fish to replace the big fish after they die.
It’s great if you want to see Mille lacs turn awY from walleye and more smallmouth, but imo it will be bad for walleye in the future.

The DNR says there isn’t a lot of forage in the lake (not enough baitfish) that’s why the bite is so awesome.
If they don’t remove some predator fish we’ll be back to skinny fish and canabalism.
There are TOO many big fish in that lake. Big Walleye, big smallmouth, big pike, big muskie.
But nobody wants to remove big fish.
There needs to be a balance.

Right here!

What a difference viewing angle makes. I stayed up to watch the lights but spent the time looking up at them. Very little color when looking up vs looking to the horizon.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

So do the Leafs deal Marner? Salt Lake City would love to make a splash and they have the picks, prospects & capspace to easily get it done…. Logan Cooley would probably be the main piece going to the Leafs…

If I was Salt Lake I don’t know if I would make that trade.
Cooley looks like he has a future and Marner has proven to dissappear in the playoffs.
Granted they need to make the playoffs first.

tswoboda wrote:

In 16-17 that same Avs team with Mackinnon, Lande, Rantanen, no Makar, but include guys like Duchene and Jarome freaking Iginla and then throw Semyon Varlamov in net. That same team ended with 48 points and was the worst team in the cap era until this years Sharks who ended at 47 points. Make it make sense.

Your post made me curious so I looked it up.
That horrible year is how they got Makar at #4.
Having a random horrible year really does pay off.

I begrudge Vegas nothing they are the only ones with big enough balls to take advantage of the league rules.

I don’t think it’s that they have the balls.
I think it’s that they have the deepest pockets to pay all of those players, playing and on the injured list.
Just because Stone and the others were off the cap, doesn’t mean they were off the payroll.

Obviously you want to finish in the bottom 10 to even have a chance at getting the #1 pick (3.5-5%)
And that’s why they should have started playing their 4th line more much earlier.

You don’t want your 7th D to be a guy that is 21 and can still get a lot of minutes in the AHL vs sitting in the press box most nights. Hunt. That’s just not how you develop.

So yeah Merril is your guy for the 7 spot. If an injury happens that is when a younger player like Hunt comes up and mixes in.

Good point, it would be nice to get an upgrade over Merrill, but it could be worse as well.