New to MNO? Please introduce yourself

[nightfisher]

my names mike, im 42, married 20 years, 4 kids, 3 grand kids. i love fishing, hunting, camping, and anything to do with family, and the outdoors. fishing sites i have to many.

[Bufflehead]

 Welcome aboard Mike

 Nice to have you join us.

 Chuck, AKA Bufflehead

[millelacs_angler]

Hello All!

Its a quiet night up here on the pond and I am a little bored myself. As soon as the wind calms I am hitting the lake! I just found this site tonight. I have to say I am glad I did. This is really cool. I have not spent much time on-line but today we got high speed internet so maybe I will use it more. I am a full-time fisherman up here on Mille Lacs. I am 42 years old and have been in these part my whole life. I was born and raised in Aitkin and lived around the lake since then. I'm going to break the 30 in. mark tonight. I'm getting pretty pumped.

Anyways, neat place and thanks.

Tom

[Spinach]

Hello All!

Its a quiet night up here on the pond and I am a little bored myself. As soon as the wind calms I am hitting the lake! I just found this site tonight. I have to say I am glad I did. This is really cool. I have not spent much time on-line but today we got high speed internet so maybe I will use it more. I am a full-time fisherman up here on Mille Lacs. I am 42 years old and have been in these part my whole life. I was born and raised in Aitkin and lived around the lake since then. I'm going to break the 30 in. mark tonight. I'm getting pretty pumped.

Anyways, neat place and thanks.

Tom

Welcome to the site ML Angler and thankyou for the nice words. How did you stumble across us, referral, search engine? Please tell all of your fishing and hunting friends about us too. We are always looking for nice pictures for the sites main page, send them in if you feel like. spinach@mnoutdoorsman.com

Oh, I like the name you picked for the site, I'm surprised it was still available.

[Bufflehead]

Welcome aboard ML

 I live in Northern Aitkin county, use to work in Aitkin

 I'm 42 also and hunt and fish alot

 Tell your friends to come join us too, great place to chat with others with the same sickness...Outdoor fever...no cure for it but frequent trips to the lake and woods does relieve symptoms

 Bufflehead

 

[JD]

Welcome MLA, I'm glad you found the site, I think you'll really enjoy it!!  We love any fishing tales you can offer.

[Creek J.]

Howdy,

I'm Creek Jenkins, 51, professional tourist.

Mostly like the shooting sports but will fish if I have to.? If we could only combine shooting and fishing.........

Some people axe me if I have lived here on the Range all my life, to which I reply "No, not yet".

cheers

Creek

[Fishahollik]

You've obviously never shot carp.....welcome aboard.

[WoodChuck]

 :) welcome home creek j ! question they shoot fish in wisconsin dont they, at least thats what i heard. ?

[Buster]

I,m new to the site this month, but have been following it since summer.

I,m 41 married with 2 kids-1 of each M=15 F=11. Live in SE Metro. My son loves hunting & fishing, & my daughters quote is "Dad, guns aren't just for boys" Got back into fishing a few years ago so own a boat. My college roommate turned me onto pheasant hunting about 7-8 years ago and am now hooked. Have 2 Goldens-10yrs & 6 months, so am working on training for the first time.

[The Fishing Tree]

My name is Rob Gross, of Spring Grove , Minnesota.  I am the Houston County Veteran Service Officer in Houston County MN. 

In my freetime, I teach a local youth fishing program in SE Minnesota called The Fishing Tree, www.thefishingtree.com .  I try not only to educate children (young & not so young) on fishing, species, habitat, lure selection and techniques, but also try to equip them with proper gear to start them off right.  I dedicate much of my free time towards this venture.  I'm a heavy advocate of the 'Take a Kid Fishing' approach in hopes of building a new generation of angler and ensuring a strong love for fishing in the Midwest . 

I also run The Fishing Tree Bass Guide Service on the Mississippi River Pools 8 & 9 and The Fishing Tree Trout Guide Service on numerous streams in SE Minnesota and NE Iowa with all profits above expenses going to support local youth fishing.  And for fun I design bass lures and am currently working toward the production of a new line of frog lures.

[WoodChuck]

  sounds like a busy life and a worthy one at that! MORE POWER to your MENTOR SHIP,  and working with all those future fisher boys and girls  fish on and on and """ 8)

[moby1]

Brent her. Just found the site today from an email. 33 years old. I work for BASF as a lab tech in shakopee where we develop industrial coatings, sealants, waterproofers....anything that goes on or in concrete. Live in Maple Grove MN. Got hooked into muskie fishing 3 years ago so that takes up 95% of my time on the water. I fish about 3 times a week out of my 92 17.5 sportfish. Ice fishing I generally turn to crappies or flaggin for big fish but can occasionally make time for a walleye  outing. I fish mainly west mertro lakes including sarah, eagle, medicine, tonka  and fish lake. I try and make one trip to URL a year and occasionally millelacs. I also get into deer rifle season with little success so giving bow hunting a shot next year. The only problem is that it will be hard to pick between bow hunting and the late fall muskie/pig walleye fishing.
Great site as far as I have seen so far.

[jigglestick]

thanks moby1

welcome to MNO!
do you do any tip uping for muskies?
I am going to have a few guys up from duluth to work over the lake across the road. it is a good muskie/walleye lake.
some hogs in there to.
you are sure welcome to join us if you like.

make sure to add us to your favorites and stop back often!

[Outdoors Junkie]

Welcome aboard moby1!

[schwinger]

Hello ,  Just joined today looks like a great site.  My name is Joe , married with first kid on the way. I have a 3 year old Vizsla that keeps me out after the birds and also enjoy deer hunting. Looking forward to some more cold and snow so I can get to my fishhouse on mille lacs. Nice to meet you all and I'll see you around.

[JohnWester]

welcome schwinger,  where do you go outta mille lacs?

[schwinger]

My house is at Hunters Point, on the east side of the lake in case your not familiar.

[JohnWester]

ah... ok. ya i know where it is.  we'll be outta myrmar

[schwinger]

Thanks for the welcome, I actually get up that side of the lake more often. My wifes family has a place on Farm Island Lake just north of there. 

I hear they will be pulling houses at the resorts pretty soon. I guess I better send my bill in...

[JD]

Welcome to MNO schwinger.  I think you will enjoy this site just as much as the rest of us.  We are always pleased to see new members that jump into the forums right away!  Thanks again!
Leech Angler (aka Jeff)

[michigander1953]

Hi I am Lennie. I wan't to thank all of you guys for welcoming me to your website. About me, I am originaly from Michigan I lived there all my life. I moved to MN in 1991 just for a change of life.  All though there is a lot of good deer hunting and fishing in Michigan I still had to check out MN. I was here in MN for 13 years I do have to admit you have some big crappies here all though we do have big steel head and salmon. I lived in Michigan/ indiana border line. 8 miles north of southbend Indiana. I really haven't seen to many big bucks here, maybe because the only land I have to hunt on is state land (carlos avery) I live in Rogers MN and I did kill a 11 point buck behind the house I am living at with permision from the land owner. I have pictures on the website if you want to take a look. I'm very much a outdoor person, hunting fishing of all sorts. I would like to get to know one of the members here to hook up has a hunting buddy, fishing buddy, etc. Just to share each other stories. I'm always eager to learn new tatics on hunting and fishing. I am 53 and been hunting and fishing since I was 4 years old. So I've pretty much seen it all. and if I would die to day I could say I have been well blessed by God to hunt and fish on his land. Thank you guys for you time. I hope to hear from someone of you guys to share stories and maybe plan a hunting or fishing trip. If you get tired of fishing or hunting by yourself all you have to do is shake a worm in front of my face let me smell gun powder or put a arrow in front of my face and I'm gone. lol Thanks guys hope to hear from someone. 

                                               michigander1953

[tomcat]

My name is Tom Iam 65 years old fished & hunted all my life I enjoy this site alot , Enjoy what you guys have to say & like your sense of hummer.   tomcat ;

[Mayfly]

My name is Tom Iam 65 years old fished & hunted all my life I enjoy this site alot , Enjoy what you guys have to say & like your sense of hummer.   tomcat ;

I'm glad you like it Tomcat. We try to keep things simple here and have fun. You are now free to roam about the site and hopefully run into some good info and some fun!

Thanks for stoppin by!

 

[Faceman]

I love the site. I am 35, been married 15 yrs with 2 boys ages 11 and 8. We love hunting and camping. I grew up in Bemidji and moved to Mpls when I met my wife. After kids graduate we will be moving back to Bemidji. Kind of hard to step out into the back yard and shoot trap in Mpls. Anyway love the site and love to hear from locals.

[jigglestick]

welcome faceman!
we have a few folks from the brainerd area.
pop into the chat room some evening and chat with the gang.
woodchuck, a brainerd area fellow is a chat room junky
glad to have you.
if you like the site, tell a friend or two
thanks, Jigglestick

[WoodChuck]

A BIG MNO WELCOME TO FACEMAN!! and by the way dont belive anything jiggles has to say about woodchuck! jiggles starts all the chat on this site for he is the NEW YEARS ANTAGENIST, according to his heading 

[michigander1953]

HI wood chuck Michigander 1953 here whats up

[Faceman]

Thanks for the welcome guys. I have already told a couple of people about it.

[Outdoors Junkie]

Hey michigander 1953,

I was looking thru all the nice pictures you posted in the gallery of that nice buck.  I wish I would have had a buck like that walk by when I was bow hunting.  Welcome to MNO!

OJ