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Title: Anybody going North?
Post by: HD on April 04/03/17, 05:15:47 PM
Are you going North for Loopers?

With Turkey season being so spread out this year. (Sodak & Minnesota) I may have little time to do my annual North shore runs.....

But, it's always in the back of my mind!
Casting a fly on the tributary streams of Lake Superior....pretty close to the same feeling while turkey hunting...

Are you going?  confused-3316.gif

I hope I have time this spring!
Title: Re: Anybody going North?
Post by: pickelfarmer on April 04/03/17, 08:04:31 PM
I'm hoping to go up for the smelt run..
Title: Re: Anybody going North?
Post by: LPS on April 04/03/17, 08:14:56 PM
I have never done the smelt run but it sounds great.  Can a guy go and get a gallon of them these days???
Title: Re: Anybody going North?
Post by: Boar on April 04/03/17, 08:56:31 PM
i miss the old smelt frys, our little towns would put on a smelt fry, baked tater and a veggie, and many kegs for 10 bucks........i think iremeber those....
Title: Re: Anybody going North?
Post by: mike89 on April 04/04/17, 07:40:29 AM
they just had a feed last Friday in Long prairie, $10.00 all you could eat, tons of people.
Title: Re: Anybody going North?
Post by: Jerkbiat on April 04/05/17, 07:08:18 AM
I just heard the commercial on the radio up here for the smelt fry coming up in Grygla in the next week or two at the community center. Sorry I didn't catch the exact dates though.
Title: Re: Anybody going North?
Post by: pickelfarmer on April 04/05/17, 01:57:11 PM
Quote from: LPS on April 04/03/17, 08:14:56 PM
I have never done the smelt run but it sounds great.  Can a guy go and get a gallon of them these days???

You can get quite a few if you hit it right.. I normally head up there armed with a good fishing pole and tackle for shore fishing during the day and then we either join the crowd on park point with our minnow seine or dip one of the rivers going up the north shore with hand nets. Pretty fun when you do hit it at the right time. Year before last I hit it good in the river and could feel them hitting my legs as they swam into the river.
Title: Re: Anybody going North?
Post by: glenn57 on April 04/05/17, 05:52:55 PM
I was up in Duluth today and asked PK.... they said not yet but soon. said ya gotta fight off the hmoung!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Anybody going North?
Post by: HD on April 04/05/17, 06:33:02 PM
The Park is a little crowded for me....I hit the tributaries....you get less, but the crowds are less.

I'll be heading up prolly this weekend and the weekend of the 22nd & 23rd.....the weekend between, I'll be in Sodak....

I might miss it this year.....I'm thinking the weekend of the 15th & 16th.....
Title: Re: Anybody going North?
Post by: pickelfarmer on April 04/07/17, 07:55:40 PM
Quote from: HD on April 04/05/17, 06:33:02 PM
The Park is a little crowded for me....I hit the tributaries....you get less, but the crowds are less.

I'll be heading up prolly this weekend and the weekend of the 22nd & 23rd.....the weekend between, I'll be in Sodak....

I might miss it this year.....I'm thinking the weekend of the 15th & 16th.....

IDK, is there any relation between the loopers and the smelt run? Sounds like you might be right HD, the smelt run might hit between your weekends. Hope you can hit it just right!