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Hope for a good report from them today then! sounds like maybe some snow for the weekend. Are you going to get out again! i think it may be a trip to the igloo the way it sounds!

Yeah I think we'll be out there.

Somebody will be out there, cant let them holes freeze up you know

Just talked to Dusty on the phone, nuthin yet, dead bobbers.

we were thinking the use of dynomite might be kinda fun out there! really get them fishies moving.

Really get that ice moving too! Like a big waterbed!!

wouldn't that shake up the neighbors out there!!

I guess all of you heard the story of the dynamite and the black lab dog on the ice?

Stan in SC

Yep.

Dunno if it's true but it's kind of funny.

Well the boys didn't do so good out on the ice yesterday. Oh they had a great time, plenty of fun but not su much for fish.

Sounded like a couple of keeper walleye, couple northern just under the slot & a couple of eelpout.

(Which was great for Dusty because he loves them)

I think we are heading over to the igloo this weekend Dave. We are doing a weekend over at Cyrus the weekend after so we have to check out that side of the lake now. Is Dusty still fishing today? hopefully they get some better fish. maybe the weather coming will change to a wicked bite out there. There was a time sunday late afternoon when i had 2 lines going down and les did too at the same time. i think we got 3 out of the 4 fish that time. all nice ones. Electronics help alot when you can see the fish down there.

You have a slot for northerns?

yes they are still fishing today, I'll give him a call later this morning.

T-zone, the DNR is trying to increase the size of Northerns in the state while cutting down on the number of the hammerhandles we have.

Some of the lakes have really been showing a quality improvement without the constant little ones taking your gear.

oop, I missed your post there tzone.

Like bigdrift said.

slot is 30 to 40 inches. Anything from 30 to 40 has to go back, you can keep one over 40, no more than 3 all together I believe (LOTW)

Thanks guys. Is that state wide, or lake specific?

30-40 isn't so bad. I throw those back anyway. Well, 30 I'd probably keep. To me 25-30 is perfect. Big enough to clean, and not tough old buggers.

Dave, aren't Eelpout in the Cod Family? Should be decent eating?

yeah, the back meat is really good.

it's what you have to go through to get it that's not so good

Eelpout is the best. Dad said he is actually going to share some with me this time.

Dad called me last night, Lonnie just got done cooking lutefisk. They were having that, potatoes and lefse out in the fish house. Sounded like they were having fun.

You can't get any more Minnesota than that.

I"ve never eaten the ellpout.

Care to elaborate?

Never had lutefisk. May try it in early Feb though. The village of Iola, WI is having their annual Winterfest which includes a lutefisk supper. I'll really go for the swedesh meatballs and deserts. Heard to many horror stories about lutefisk. If you search on the campfire there's a large thread about it.