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Offline Angry Perch

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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #150 on: January 13, 2022, 09:02:32 PM »
Vermilion? Used to go every summer and stay at Ludlow's.
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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #151 on: January 13, 2022, 10:22:30 PM »
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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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #152 on: January 13, 2022, 10:24:34 PM »
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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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #153 on: January 14, 2022, 01:44:58 PM »
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.
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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #154 on: January 14, 2022, 02:18:47 PM »
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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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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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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #155 on: January 14, 2022, 02:31:12 PM »
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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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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!
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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #156 on: January 14, 2022, 02:37:33 PM »
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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.
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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #157 on: January 14, 2022, 03:09:24 PM »
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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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #158 on: January 14, 2022, 03:12:49 PM »
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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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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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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #159 on: January 14, 2022, 03:14:34 PM »
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.

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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #160 on: January 14, 2022, 03:16:59 PM »
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.

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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #161 on: January 14, 2022, 03:17:55 PM »
No kidding, right?  They all smell the same.
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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #162 on: January 14, 2022, 03:38:54 PM »
This all makes me smile. It's the little things in life...except the sucker minnows!
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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #163 on: January 14, 2022, 03:42:18 PM »
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. .. :bash:




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Re: Bring on the Hardwater!!!!!
« Reply #164 on: January 14, 2022, 04:24:34 PM »
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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