deer river/talmoon area

[glenn57]

on wed last week i stopped at the spring lake store to get some pepper jack cheese....really good and comes from Bemidji!!!! anyway the gal that was working used to own the store with her hubby, still works there. i've known her for as long as i remember. we got to talking. she was saying this past winter was a pretty tough on the small business owners.

first she said there isnt near as many deer hunters as in the recent past, wonder why?? i know bear hunters in that general area is pretty non-existent too!! she said with the lack of snow and bad ice there wasnt a lot of activity up there. she said the Timberwolf always has people there staying, and there right on the grant in aid snowmobile trail, but they were pretty empty all winter.

[Gunner55]

I'm sure it was the same for Tim & Chris at the Bstore, & they get a lot more traffic by there. He never mentioned it 'til we asked if he'd plowed our place, cause it looked like somebody had been there.

[Gunner55]

Pat had a post on Nextdoor yday with some pics of our access being torn up. A couple of slabs had buckled & a couple more in the water had separated. He called the DNR & they told him that it's like that all over & it's from the water level being so low. They were working on fixing 'em but it might take a bit.

[glenn57]

We have them on our access abd they were fine!

[Gunner55]

Official ice-out here has been adjusted to a week ago today, according to the lake association. It looked like the DNR still had their nets/pens set up over on Lil' Cutfoot to me too. I didn't see any people or pelicans over there, however.

[glenn57]

According to Sundins report earlier this week most the walleye weren't really all that ready.  He Aldo said by the end of the week they should have there 900 qts

[Gunner55]

  Who is Aldo?    

[glenn57]

Who is Aldo?    

he's ALSO's brother!!!!!!!

[Gunner55]

  So where is W.......ALDO????      

[glenn57]

HEY Gunner.........on your trip for the paper......stop and tell Geigers to get there webcam fixed!!!!!!  its been down foe 3-4 days!!!

[Gunner55]

  Give 'em a ring, I'm sure they'll get right on it for you.   Heard this morning that Snug Harbor has no harbor. Water's too low to go over the outside edge. Neighbor was over talking to Lakewood when he was up. All of their floating dock is sitting on bare ground along the shore over there. The 2 longest sections must be at least 60-80', maybe 100', long.

[Gunner55]

Had a local tell me that the DNR had already been to the Bowstring CR 35 access as well as Big & Little Jessie's. So, with it being so nice yday I took the wheeler down to the Northern Acres 1. Nothin done there & there's 2-3' of mud at the end of the concrete, so it's not usable. My brother rode over to our access it was fixed & the dock was in. It looked like 1 of the barge guys was on the lake, probably JJ & up at Island View, helping put in gear. Might need to run 1 of the new dock sections along the shore to get deep enough this year. It needs a little fabrication before we can use it that way though. We'll be out an extra 14' then, 54' total, with the roll-out.

[LPS]

That is a lot of dock.

[Olie67]

Bowstring is so low right now, I can't imagine what it's going to be by mid-summer.

[Scenic]

Unless we get some serious rain here I plan to add 100' to mine.  I have 2- 50' sections ready to add on.  Last year I had 74' out and had to pull the boat in because it got to shallow.   The lift never made it in the lake last year.    3 neighbors have their docks in but they have their lifts sitting on shore. 

[glenn57]

Bowstring is so low right now, I can't imagine what it's going to be by mid-summer.

in all the years that i have been going to that area, since about 1965, i have never seen the lakes that low as they are now!!!!!!! even some of the smaller ponds/puddles on the way up had no water in them.

[Gunner55]

Bet we had at least 5-6 lifts just on this end of the lake that weren't being used anymore by mid to late August last year. Ours had about 1/2 of it out past the end of our dock by the time we left in November.

[Bobberineyes]

That stinks you guys,  lack of snow and frost is showing it's ugliest.  Our place if the water is to high with big winds the run away bogs are all over. Low water we can't get thru a channel to the fish. Gotta take what the coarse gives ya and make the best of it.

[glenn57]

That stinks you guys,  lack of snow and frost is showing it's ugliest.  Our place if the water is to high with big winds the run away bogs are all over. Low water we can't get thru a channel to the fish. Gotta take what the coarse gives ya and make the best of it.

i know where you catch those elusive sheepies!!!! you could always trailer it to the access.  but iffin its like when we fished it a few years ya best get there by 5 am or ya gotta walk a half mile to park!!!

[Bobberineyes]

That stinks you guys,  lack of snow and frost is showing it's ugliest.  Our place if the water is to high with big winds the run away bogs are all over. Low water we can't get thru a channel to the fish. Gotta take what the coarse gives ya and make the best of it.

i know where you catch those elusive sheepies!!!! you could always trailer it to the access.  but iffin its like when we fished it a few years ya best get there by 5 am or ya gotta walk a half mile to park!!!

Yep had to do that a couple of times, bout 6am the launch is pretty busy.

[glenn57]

Gunner.......with the recent rains.........has it impacted the water levels on the lakes????

[Scenic]

 I see ours has came up a little this morning but a long ways to go yet.

[fishwidow]

Same here. We could use another month with weather like the last couple weeks.

[Gunner55]

We're sitting at ~ 3.5" since the neighbor went home on 4/13, so I don't think it's went down. But it's not real noticeable that it's come up much either. Rode over to our PA in the neighbor's new SxS yday & took a good look. I'd guess that there is probably < 2' of water at the end of the concrete & there's a big blowout hole from all the big boats power loading at the end of that too. Neighbor wanted to go up to Leino's in Squaw Lake & eat on Saturday, so we did. Had 1 of the locals we know come up & tell us that Georgene's on Bowstring has 300' of dock out but they still only have 18" of water at the end.

[glenn57]

  so whts this Leinos in squaw lake??? never heard of it but i dont get out much up there much lessd that way nowadays!

after some googlin.........think its the old harbor grill and pub??????

[Jrasmussen]

We're sitting at ~ 3.5" since the neighbor went home on 4/13, so I don't think it's went down. But it's not real noticeable that it's come up much either. Rode over to our PA in the neighbor's new SxS yday & took a good look. I'd guess that there is probably < 2' of water at the end of the concrete & there's a big blowout hole from all the big boats power loading at the end of that too. Neighbor wanted to go up to Leino's in Squaw Lake & eat on Saturday, so we did. Had 1 of the locals we know come up & tell us that Georgene's on Bowstring has 300' of dock out but they still only have 18" of water at the end.

That really has me worried about coming up on the 17th. Mine can float in that but how many boats can park there? 

[Gunner55]

so whts this Leinos in squaw lake??? never heard of it but i dont get out much up there much lessd that way nowadays!

after some googlin.........think its the old harbor grill and pub??????

Yeah glenn, it's actually a bit north of where the old Harbor was. The family that has the resort on the west side of that bridge bought that old stucco building right next to the river on that side. They made it into a bar & grill that has really good broasted chicken with a smallish meat raffle on Saturday.

[Gunner55]

Hey glenn, Hwy 169 is closed north of Aitkin & the detour goes all the way over McGregor so we'll being going down Mn 6. Where is it that you always say you stop for gas, again?

[glenn57]

Hey glenn, Hwy 169 is closed north of Aitkin & the detour goes all the way over McGregor so we'll being going down Mn 6. Where is it that you always say you stop for gas, again?

crosby ironton. i will assume you may turn off before you actually get on 210. but the holiday is about the same price as the quick mart in ironton.

Emily holiday is usually the most expensive..... i wont even stop there to pee!!!!!

[Gunner55]

  Think we stopped there the last time we went down Hwy 6.