deer river/talmoon area

[Gunner55]

Rode the Grizzly down to the Northern Acres access yday ~ 4 & found 3 rigs parked there. They were all roller trailers but 1 looked to be big enough for a 17' Crestliner like ours. The other 2 were for smaller boats.

[glenn57]

This fella was 10 ft from the boat.

[mike89]

had that happen too!!!  cool as all heck!!!   

[Gunner55]

Stopped at the CR 35 access on the way to get the paper yday & found somebody with a 20.5' Skeeter parked in front of the ramp. We kept on going & checked there again on our way home. No rigs in the lot when we came home. We could get a look at the ramp on our way back home though & it looked like there was still 2-3' of sand at the end of the ramp to us. The dock isn't in over there either.

[Gunner55]

The neighbor & his wife went to town yday & on their way home the eastbound traffic was backed up in DR all the way to the casino at ~ 2:00.

[glenn57]

hey Gunner....or scenic, even JB or LPS...........just curious......how bad are them skeeters up there???????

[Scenic]

HORRID!!!!!!!   They came out in full force a couple days ago.  B-52s with daggers

[glenn57]

HORRID!!!!!!!   They came out in full force a couple days ago.  B-52s with daggers

oh goodie!

[Iowaboy1]

Back in 84 ,,,not 1984,,just 84 when I started fishing the beltrami area Glen Curtis landed a prototype bomber at the airport and the line guy was a bit crosseyed and mistakenly put 300 gallons of avgas in a skeeter.
Ya ya ya,old joke I know but theres a few young folks aint never heard it before.

[fishwidow]

Got clouds of them gathered around the windows. Watering flowers on the porch brings them out of hiding like the Luftwaffe.

[Gunner55]

  Think I've seen 4 of 'em & I KO'ed 3 of them. I sent the other 1 up to Dallas Lane. Seriously, they haven't been that bad here, but the neighbor gave them a good dose of Talstar on Sunday.

[LPS]

They were terrible until they sprayed on Monday evening.  Now they are almost non-existent.  That spray really works.

[Jerkbiat]

Terrible at our place. I need to spray.

[LPS]

Back in 84 ,,,not 1984,,just 84 when I started fishing the beltrami area Glen Curtis landed a prototype bomber at the airport and the line guy was a bit crosseyed and mistakenly put 300 gallons of avgas in a skeeter.
Ya ya ya,old joke I know but theres a few young folks aint never heard it before.

So what happened them IB?  Did they have to drain the tanks?  Had he started it?  I got an old Ford diesel just for a knock around truck.  Big 3/4 ton about amid 80's.  Cool as heck driving that diesel.  A week after I got it I was at the local station putting "gas" in it and said a big OOPS vividly.  Had two tanks so one was good fuel. Put diesel in the other one and drove to the local mechanic shop and had them take care of the situation. 

[glenn57]

Think I've seen 4 of 'em & I KO'ed 3 of them. I sent the other 1 up to Dallas Lane. Seriously, they haven't been that bad here, but the neighbor gave them a good dose of Talstar on Sunday.

that be the nieghbors to the north end of the lake!!!! where on Dallas Trail!!!!!

thats fine i'll deal with them little bastages when i get there!!!!!!!!

[Gunner55]

  Close enough................they should be able to hear you partying from there.            

[glenn57]

Close enough................they should be able to hear you partying from there.            

oh yea i really whoop it up nowadays!!!!!!!!!

[Bobberineyes]

They are flat out horrible west of you Glenn! We arrived to see almost 5.5 inches in the gauge and shin high grass. The neighbor came over with his Kubota when I started cutting and we knocked it almost out in a hour, just the lakeside left. He wanted to spray but I was reluctant with the 4 pooches here.

[glenn57]

They are flat out horrible west of you Glenn! We arrived to see almost 5.5 inches in the gauge and shin high grass. The neighbor came over with his Kubota when I started cutting and we knocked it almost out in a hour, just the lakeside left. He wanted to spray but I was reluctant with the 4 pooches here.

what was he going to spray it with?????

i expect the same scenario when i get to the cabin.  once i get the lawn cut it'll spray it also but i use a homemade potion that contains water, mint mouthwash and epsom salt........works pretty damn good!!!! down by the fish cleaning house i use the skeeter beater granules. only thing with that stuff....once its wet its worthless!!!! but it works. that skeeter beater works pretty good for flies too!!!!!!!

[glenn57]

just a quick report on last weeks fishin adventure. we did pretty good with pike and sunfish. tried a new lake up the road towards Wirt from us. called Whitefish lake.

in my experience its about the same for pike as Sand and little sand...........lots of little ones. great for the picklin jar and smoker!!!!! i'll go back. when i get up there myself i'll be checking it out for other species, as its got a few shallow humps in the lake.........not to mention 50 ft  holes!!!

[glenn57]

One outing.

[glenn57]

Whitefish lake, different outing.

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[roony]

Lotsa good eating.

[mike89]

Lotsa good eating.

2nd that!!!   

[Jerkbiat]

Most definitely some good eats!

[glenn57]

so......i did a little DNR Lakefinder research on this whitefish lake.

lotz of pike and way more perch, i mean alot of perch.
very few sunfish....not to bother with ,some crappies,
more punkinseeds then real sunfish.
walleyes seem the be the 3rd most abundant fish in the survey. 

so I think i'll stick to helping the DNR on them little snot rockets. 

[Gunner55]

I've never seen as much water coming through the dam at the paper mill in GR as there was yday. The gate closest to the building looked to be wide open & the 1 next to it must've been 3/4 of the way open. So, there was a lot of water on the other side of that bridge. 

[roony]

Crazy weather you have up here Gunner

[glenn57]

looking at the cams up there, looks like Geigers and lakewood added some temporary dock extensions on shore to get to the docks so ya dont get wet feet!!!!!

actually kinda nice to see!!!!!

[Gunner55]

We had a foot of sand in front of our 10-12' of rip rap where the dock sits in late April when the dock went in. Now, more than 1/2 of that rip rap is under water. I think the water has to be up 16-18"in the last 2 months here.