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We did a little fishing today. Temps on the high 20’s and it felt damn nice.
Baby girl caught her first few fish through the ice today. It was a fun time.
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Feed of walleye Saturday & bunch of Jumbo perch Sunday.
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now that's just mean to rub it in like that.
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Calm seas don't make sailors.
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We finally had some weather nice enough to take Amelia outside to play. She like nothing better than to hang around her big brother. And he likes nothing better than being a big brother....so we went fishing. Usually I get some holes popped and he takes off across the lake and picks his own spots. This time, he wanted to stay with us and hang out with Sissy on her first ice fishing experience. It was actually really nice. In the high 20's and low 30's. Nice enough that I wouldn't have even brought the shack normally. But we wanted this to last as long as possible. Figuring mom would have to come get Amelia after about an hour. Well, she made it 3 hours! We were very impressed with that. We packed a bag full of snacks like granola bars, apples, banana, and water for her to snack on. Yep, I left it on the counter when we left so we could get some real ice fishing snack. (not really, I forgot to grab it) Brother Jack ran into the gas station and got her some hot chocolate and some cookies. She wasn't sure how the ice fishing thing worked and was wondering why we weren't bringing the boat with us. She wasn't sure about driving on the ice either but that lasted about 3 seconds after she got distracted by something else. She really like ice auger and scooping the snow out of the holes. She asked Jack if he would be her helper. Here is sissy helping out Jack get the holes ready for the "warm tent." Before I got the shack set up I dropped her line down to give her something to do while I got the "warm tent" ready to flip over and snacks ready. It took a good 20 seconds before we heard "aaahhh Daddy...some-sing is pulling my hook" Well it sure was. LOL!! After 2 cookies and some hot chocolate we had a flag. Decent pike. And with MN's new goofy pike slot limit, we actually got to keep this one. A hair under 27." We are in the North Central Pike Zone. In this zone MN allows us to keep pike under 22". There is a slot from 22"-26" and we can keep 2 over 26".
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Love it Tom !!
Particularly, the pink suit, rod, reel & braid !!
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Love it Tom !!
Particularly, the pink suit, rod, reel & braid !! Well she is my princess!
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way to go tzone. that brought a smile to my face ! keep up the good [dad] proud dad work
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We finally had some weather nice enough to take Amelia outside to play. She like nothing better than to hang around her big brother. And he likes nothing better than being a big brother....so we went fishing. Usually I get some holes popped and he takes off across the lake and picks his own spots. This time, he wanted to stay with us and hang out with Sissy on her first ice fishing experience. It was actually really nice. In the high 20's and low 30's. Nice enough that I wouldn't have even brought the shack normally. But we wanted this to last as long as possible. Figuring mom would have to come get Amelia after about an hour. Well, she made it 3 hours! We were very impressed with that. We packed a bag full of snacks like granola bars, apples, banana, and water for her to snack on. Yep, I left it on the counter when we left so we could get some real ice fishing snack. (not really, I forgot to grab it) Brother Jack ran into the gas station and got her some hot chocolate and some cookies. She wasn't sure how the ice fishing thing worked and was wondering why we weren't bringing the boat with us. She wasn't sure about driving on the ice either but that lasted about 3 seconds after she got distracted by something else. She really like ice auger and scooping the snow out of the holes. She asked Jack if he would be her helper. Here is sissy helping out Jack get the holes ready for the "warm tent." Before I got the shack set up I dropped her line down to give her something to do while I got the "warm tent" ready to flip over and snacks ready. It took a good 20 seconds before we heard "aaahhh Daddy...some-sing is pulling my hook" Well it sure was. LOL!! After 2 cookies and some hot chocolate we had a flag. Decent pike. And with MN's new goofy pike slot limit, we actually got to keep this one. A hair under 27." We are in the North Central Pike Zone. In this zone MN allows us to keep pike under 22". There is a slot from 22"-26" and we can keep 2 over 26". Decent Scissorbill. Tip up? Keeping up with the MN regs every year is a treat to say the least. Always nice to get the kids out.
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Yep it was on a tip-up. We we’re on a local lake known for pike and bluegills.
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Nice. Having a flag go up makes it all worth it.
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It’s fun. But I’ll take soft water anyway. We’re pretty pumped for it to get here actually.
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Something clever here.
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river was open when I drove over the bridge, been hearing reports that fish are biting. went to get a bike for Punkin and ended up coming home with 8 baby chicks instead. Mama was super impressed when she got home. I'm anticipating eggs around late June.
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river was open when I drove over the bridge, been hearing reports that fish are biting. went to get a bike for Punkin and ended up coming home with 8 baby chicks instead. Mama was super impressed when she got home. I'm anticipating eggs around late June. Mama went to the grocery story yesterday and came home with a damn bike.
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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You need a bigger wiener. No more ice fishing here. Lots of open water in the current areas and it's pretty thin most places.
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