Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!

[Angry Perch]

Vermilion? Used to go every summer and stay at Ludlow's.

[Russ McDonald]

Vermilion? Used to go every summer and stay at Ludlow's.

Winner winner walleye dinner!  Lake Vermillion has more shore line than California,  New York and Hawaii combined.  Over 1200 miles.  It would completely freeze over.  Sometimes the ice would not come off fully until May somw years. 

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[Russ McDonald]

Ice making depends on temps if it keeps below freezing it shouldnt slush up even with snow on it.  Ice will groan when it is making ice.  Grew up listening to it out in the fish house.  Sounds creepy if you have never hear it before.  I grew up on yhe 5th largest lake in MN.  We would get up 3 plus feet of solid ice.  We didn't run hand augers most of ours were powered.  We did catch eel pout all the time.  What you call burbot.  So my question for you all.  Do you not use live bait.  Usually we throw a minnow with a spinner on and slay the walleyes.  Catch burbot with thay to.

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I believe Washington state says we can’t use live minnows 

Wasnot sure about winter time.  I k ow summer time it says no live bait but not sure if thay is only certain lakes or rivers. 

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[Angry Perch]

Vermilion? Used to go every summer and stay at Ludlow's.

Winner winner walleye dinner!  Lake Vermillion has more shore line than California,  New York and Hawaii combined.  Over 1200 miles.  It would completely freeze over.  Sometimes the ice would not come off fully until May somw years. 

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Ya, it's more a huge collection of bays and narrows than a lake. Exact opposite of Mille lacs. Never fished it in the winter, but sure loved our time up there in the summer.

[Jingles]

I believe Washington state says we can’t use live minnows 

Wasnot sure about winter time.  I k ow summer time it says no live bait but not sure if thay is only certain lakes or rivers. 

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I believe minnows can be used as long as they are not game fish and are from the body of water they are used in. Don't have regs in front of me at present.
I know growing up we always would stop and get 3 dz just before heading out to the ice.

[Angry Perch]

I believe Washington state says we can’t use live minnows 

Wasnot sure about winter time.  I k ow summer time it says no live bait but not sure if thay is only certain lakes or rivers. 

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I believe minnows can be used as long as they are not game fish and are from the body of water they are used in. Don't have regs in front of me at present.
I know growing up we always would stop and get 3 dz just before heading out to the ice.
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Nope. No live fish for bait in freshwater. Oh what I'd give for a bucket of crappie minnows in the boat in the spring.
When I go back to Minnesota, I always stop in a bait shop just to look at all the minnows!

[NRA4LIFE]

I always stop in a bait shop just to look at all the minnows! 

That just made me laugh out loud.  I was hunting in MO in November and the cabin we rent has a gas station/bait shop on the property.  I always take a peak in the minnow bins.  I don't know why.

[Russ McDonald]

Vermilion? Used to go every summer and stay at Ludlow's.

Winner winner walleye dinner!  Lake Vermillion has more shore line than California,  New York and Hawaii combined.  Over 1200 miles.  It would completely freeze over.  Sometimes the ice would not come off fully until May somw years. 

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Ya, it's more a huge collection of bays and narrows than a lake. Exact opposite of Mille lacs. Never fished it in the winter, but sure loved our time up there in the summer.

Mille Lacs and Leech are bigger for sure.

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[Russ McDonald]

I believe Washington state says we can’t use live minnows 

Wasnot sure about winter time.  I k ow summer time it says no live bait but not sure if thay is only certain lakes or rivers. 

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I believe minnows can be used as long as they are not game fish and are from the body of water they are used in. Don't have regs in front of me at present.
I know growing up we always would stop and get 3 dz just before heading out to the ice.

Nope. No live fish for bait in freshwater. Oh what I'd give for a bucket of crappie minnows in the boat in the spring.
When I go back to Minnesota, I always stop in a bait shop just to look at all the minnows!
[/quote]Would use big suckee or pike minnows for walleye and northerns.  Crappie minnows fo4 crappie of course.  Summer time we would use leeches for walleye sometimes winter. 

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[h20hunter]

The smell of a good midwest bait shop......tanks bubbling, minnow nets dripping,  pot of coffee on.....always a tank with a big ol bass or maybe a snapping turtle... . .....takes me way back.

[snake]

First thing I'd always do is run to see how big their sucker minnows were. like a kid in a candy store. Rural Minnesota is such a cool place.

[NRA4LIFE]

No kidding, right?  They all smell the same.

[Angry Perch]

This all makes me smile. It's the little things in life...except the sucker minnows!

[KFhunter]

Washington sucks, these other states got stuff figured out compared to this state.

I can't remember the last time I was in a real bait shop, prolly Florida or S Carolina. ..

[Russ McDonald]

I think I brought up the mivie Grumpy Old Men but it really was like that out on the lake.  Minus the gal selling stuff.  4 holes in each corner rods down with minnows on and bobbers.  Fire in the fire place.  Pot if venison doinkers (polish dogs) going with a case of Schmidt beer out side.  We would go house to house drinking and seeing what someone caught. If Eelpout/burbot was caught we would through it out in the ice so we could play ice football.  Miss those days for sure.

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