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outdoors a fishing thread

I spent the past week in Canada fishing Lake of the Woods. That's it for ice fishing this season for me. A lot of lakes are already wide open here in Minneapolis.
 
The first few days we had beautiful weather. I was sitting on the ice in a t shirt with the sun beating on me. It was glorious. Almost all the snow was gone.
 

 
One of the morning catches (lake trout, whitefish, and tullibee)
 

 
A slab of trout ready to get wrapped up and thrown on the grill (I didn't get a cooked pic)
 

 
Then the weather changed, and we got some snow. It went from t shirt weather to a winter wonderland overnight.
 

 
It made for a slow drive home...
 

 
About halfway home the snow disappeared, and I was anxious to get home, so I tried to make up some time and immediately got a speeding ticket. First one since the 90's.  :banghead:
 
Oh well. It was still a great trip. I think my liver needs a little break though. I can't keep up with those damn Canucks. They cray cray...  :drunk:
 
muskymojo said:
I spent the past week in Canada fishing Lake of the Woods. That's it for ice fishing this season for me. A lot of lakes are already wide open here in Minneapolis.
 
The first few days we had beautiful weather. I was sitting on the ice in a t shirt with the sun beating on me. It was glorious. Almost all the snow was gone.
 

 
One of the morning catches (lake trout, whitefish, and tullibee)
 

 
A slab of trout ready to get wrapped up and thrown on the grill (I didn't get a cooked pic)
 

 
Then the weather changed, and we got some snow. It went from t shirt weather to a winter wonderland overnight.
 

 
It made for a slow drive home...
 

 
About halfway home the snow disappeared, and I was anxious to get home, so I tried to make up some time and immediately got a speeding ticket. First one since the 90's.  :banghead:
 
Oh well. It was still a great trip. I think my liver needs a little break though. I can't keep up with those damn Canucks. They cray cray...  :drunk:
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I love the natural pink color on the trout, from its diet!   NYC supermarket lake trout has white meat from the feed.
 
muskymojo said:
I spent the past week in Canada fishing Lake of the Woods. That's it for ice fishing this season for me. A lot of lakes are already wide open here in Minneapolis.
 
The first few days we had beautiful weather. I was sitting on the ice in a t shirt with the sun beating on me. It was glorious. Almost all the snow was gone.
 

 
One of the morning catches (lake trout, whitefish, and tullibee)
 

 
A slab of trout ready to get wrapped up and thrown on the grill (I didn't get a cooked pic)
 

 
Then the weather changed, and we got some snow. It went from t shirt weather to a winter wonderland overnight.
 

 
It made for a slow drive home...
 

 
About halfway home the snow disappeared, and I was anxious to get home, so I tried to make up some time and immediately got a speeding ticket. First one since the 90's.  :banghead:
 
Oh well. It was still a great trip. I think my liver needs a little break though. I can't keep up with those damn Canucks. They cray cray...  :drunk:
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Don't know if I'll be able to hit that lake this year but for sure next year. Some decent sized Cisco you got there, what did you catch the Whities on?
 
D3monic said:
 
Carp love corn and sweet stuff. Even though they are large they are careful eaters and will lightly bump a line. Sometimes picking up and dropping a hook several times before taking the bait. Gotta use small hooks , Mine only held  3 corn kernals. Had a tiny weight. They put up a really good fight.  
 
It's a shallow limestone bed river. 1-4' deep decent flow. Large and small mouth bass, carp, redhorse, supposedly pike but never seen one in it, channel cats, bullhead all the little fishies like blue gill, rock bass, crappie ect. 
 
He used to have a reverse eddy right there that would bring the cats in to feed but a neighbor a few doors down built a stone pier and screwed up the flow. 
 
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Some of those fish have are really scrappy.  I've caught tons of them at the mouth of the Deschutes river here in Oregon. 
 
What's ironic is that I almost like catching them more than the fall Chinook who make their way back from the pacific ocean via the columbia river. 
 
I just bought my dad a brand new steelhead rod yesterday for his birthday.  I'm thinking of going back and buying one for myself.  I really want to get back into fishing like I used to be.
 
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It's that time of year for us Ontarian's, Steelhead action is ramping up. Another 4 weeks(roughly) before the season opens & we can go chase them up river. That being said though, we do have quite a few old, broken damns that really should be removed or at least have a fish ladder installed but in the mean time volunteering at a fish lift is a great way of giving back/meeting other folks....hell if you're really savvy you can capture a bullshit photo & say you landed a monster!
 
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If you live in the Great Lakes region & your local trib (or not so local) has a fish lift take the family for some fun.
 
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Found a few Slabs. Been tough this year, almost have enough crappie in the freezer for a fish fry.
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Go to Greenie jig was getting it done.

Still breaking in this new Wilderness Systems Ride 115X. Liking this kayak!
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Forgot the battery to my fish finder. I'll be going back and checking out what is under this dock with the Lowrance Elite 5
 
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