deer river/talmoon area

[glenn57]

Glenn, I have heard that JM his a Genz wannabe. Gunner, don't know for sure where he caught them but it was a bigger lake from the camera shots. They did have drone footage of the resort and bay. They were nice size fish, much bigger than the pictures I've seen from Glenn.     

it's what I've heard to.

Gunner ..

[Gunner55]

The neighbor is good friends with the new owners of LL as he has permission to use their access whenever he wants & since he's usually up here by himself he does a lot. I thought they told him that JM & Worrath went to Big Jessie to catch those fish that day. I do know JM was gone the next morning really early as he had some guide work scheduled back out in ND that day or the next. They can do wonders when they are editing/making a video these days & it wouldn't be too hard to make it look like they caught those fish here.

[Bobberineyes]

You got that right gunner. My brodder fished with several back in the day, sometimes Winnie but usually the big pond. He was in the boat during a lure promotion with the white haired and bearded fella ( not gonna mention any names) but fish were caught and re fought on the promotional lure for filming.  Think that was the last he fished with him..

[glenn57]

Ha that sounds like fella from the brainerd area??

[fishwidow]

I used to go to Lake Michigan every year and got to know the charter crew pretty well. They told me that they had one if the well known TV guys and their crew out one year. Action was really slow so they decided to tie a coffee mug on one of the lines. Then They filmed the rod tip bouncing like crazy while they talked about the tremendous fight the fish put up.

[Gunner55]

  It looked to be a busy weekend over at the resort to me. All the tracked toys that started showin up on Tuesday/Wednesday were gone by Friday. A couple pickups, 1 with a trailer, & 3 sleds with 4-5 people showed up but they were gone by Saturday. We found 4 pickups but no trailers or even signs of any sleds or wheelers/SxS's over there yday early. Nobody out of there out on the bay Saturday or Sunday that we seen either.

[glenn57]

Hey Merc, have you been up that way lately???

Gunner, when at the meat raffle anyone talk about lake conditions??

I'm getting serious cabin withdrawals!! but pretty much know it be a wasted trip 

[Gunner55]

Nope, it was mostly locals except for 3-4 groups on sleds.

[Gunner55]

Bet there was only about 1/4 the usual # of wheelhouses on the road Wednesday when we went to town too.

[Gunner55]

We did see 4-5 shacks out on Bowstring today when we went for the paper. They were all west of the PA on 35 though as we never pulled in there. It did look like there has been more traffic in & out of there than before to me.

[glenn57]

If the stars align after some of the snow melts a guy from grand rapids is going to take me out on pokegema chasing tullies!!!

Then I'll think about hitting bowstring and a few other lakes

[Gunner55]

  You're expecting Mother Nature to start likin you now?                             

[merc]

We've been planning trips almost every week but the weather keeps making us wait. With basically only Bow to fish we are waiting for the snow to melt down some so we can get out to our lakes we normally hit. It has  been tough not getting up there much this winter, especially every month when I get my plowing bill. Problem is when the snow starts melting it is going to be a short spring ice fishing season. All the water going through the ice will take a toll.     

[glenn57]

We've been planning trips almost every week but the weather keeps making us wait. With basically only Bow to fish we are waiting for the snow to melt down some so we can get out to our lakes we normally hit. It has  been tough not getting up there much this winter, especially every month when I get my plowing bill. Problem is when the snow starts melting it is going to be a short spring ice fishing season. All the water going through the ice will take a toll.   

i hear ya Merc.......after new years its been brutal up there.

i'll be ready in a days notice when it happens though!!!!!!!!!

[mike89]

talking 6 to 10 inches of snow this Saturday here...   way to early to get worked up   but it's enough to make one watchful   

[merc]

Mike, I'm looking for some good news not this more snow stuff.   

[mike89]

Mike, I'm looking for some good news not this more snow stuff.   

me too!!!!

[Gunner55]

   i hear ya Merc.......after new years its been brutal up there.

i'll be ready in a days notice when it happens though!!!!!!!!!

Whenever we've gotten a chance in the last week or so we've been pullin snow of our roof. We finally got around to north side of the garage this PM. The side opposite the lake(east) on the cabin still has a drift that has to be 3' tall about 1/2 way up. Bet there hasn't been many more than ~ dozen people on the bay since we got here on 2/3 & 2/3 - 3/4 of those have struggled just to get around out here. TWC now has us getting 4-6" with most of that coming Saturday night. This AM it was 1-3".

[glenn57]

Well they predicted with this last go round we were supposed to get 8-15 inches, we might have got 3.

I wouldn't hold your breath them be accurate.

[Gunner55]

  Since you want to come back up we'll probably get 10-12". 

[mike89]

Since you want to come back up we'll probably get 10-12". 

ouch!!  too funny!!   

[Gunner55]

  Actually, I hope he's right , as it may be mid-April before we see much green grass up here now anyway. The new forecast today is now saying 1-3" during the day on Saturday & another 3-5" Saturday night, however. What we don't need is a bunch of warm rain & have it all melt way too fast. There'd be water everywhere.

[Gunner55]

A couple pickups & 1 bigger toy hauler trailer over at the resort by early yday PM. Another there today with a big flatbed type trailer when we come back from GR today. It looked like 2 guys with 1 sled were just settin up a portable out front of our place when we came home, ~1:30. A couple more sleds & 3 people went out to basin area on the other side of the bay around 3 too.

[Bobberineyes]

They need to sit on pails if dey wanna catch fish.. 

[Gunner55]

  There's some advertising on the toy hauler for a lawncare business that says at least some are Cheesheads so...................................         

[Gunner55]

  We were a bit earlier than normal again yday but the busiest place we seen was the gas station.

[Gunner55]

Called the neighbor today, he just had rotator cuff surgery on Tuesday, & he told me we are 1 of the 50+ lakes with the new sunfish regs. So, I had to look it up & it says there's 5 sunfish limit all the way from the Co Rd 35 bridge up past Rice Lake to Co Rd 145 bridge. That includes Portage, Little Sand, & Birdseye as well.

[glenn57]

You can't catch any anyway so shouldn't bother you. 

[Gunner55]

  It should keep some of the meat hunters I know away though.         

[glenn57]

It should keep some of the meat hunters I know away though.         

if you're referring to me I can leave all them little stunted snot rockets alone in your system 🤭 it's the only thing I fish for there!!