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Northern Dave, how far north in MN are you? I moved to Montevideo in July and would love to get into some quality ice-fishing for the wolf, other than running back across the border to SD to known honey holes. Where you at?
Selmer "Daddy, can you sometime maybe please go shoot a water buffalo so we can have that for supper? Please? And can I come along? Does it taste like deer?" - my 3-year old daughter
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A stones throw from lake of the woods pike infested waters.
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Yikes, you're up there a ways!
Selmer "Daddy, can you sometime maybe please go shoot a water buffalo so we can have that for supper? Please? And can I come along? Does it taste like deer?" - my 3-year old daughter
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dark shack, big hole, white/red pike decoy and a good spear are required. nice little wood stove and a 6 pack of PBR are the essential options. Makes me homesick just thinking about it.
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I was with you right up till "6 pack" X4
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I didnt know they packaged beer in small quantities..... I'm just sayin....
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it was a long snowmobile ride through a lot of state forest to get home at the end of the day. Used to pour a couple cans of corn in the hole, they'd line the bottom and make it easier to see fish cruising by. Always had a jig pole and some wax worms for perch.
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what do you guys use for bait?
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In my parts we use cisco, smelt (both dead frozen baits) or live sucker minnows anywhere up to 10" long.
it's damn near time too.
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We will be needing pics dude....
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Early ice pike can be outstanding. too bad I'm still deer hunting...
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When you do go pike fishing and catch some, post pics of it frying up...in the form of Canadian shore lunch, its the only fish I like to eat.....
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Dead smelt, definitely dead smelt.
Selmer "Daddy, can you sometime maybe please go shoot a water buffalo so we can have that for supper? Please? And can I come along? Does it taste like deer?" - my 3-year old daughter
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we use to use wooden decoys on a jerk string for spearing. use to hang them about 18" below the ice. some times we'd use live suckers as well.
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wow 10" long bait ha what about chicken liver or gold fish?
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gold fish would be illegal but I damn sure bet it would work. Chicken liver? Well... that might work but you'd be more likely to catch a mess of fat eelpout on that kind of rig and we get enough of them on our other dead baits the way it is.
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Aww the pout. The fresh water torsk.
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gold fish would be illegal but I damn sure bet it would work. Chicken liver? Well... that might work but you'd be more likely to catch a mess of fat eelpout on that kind of rig and we get enough of them on our other dead baits the way it is. That eelpout could feed Olie, Lena and Sven's whole families!! ddj
Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau
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that fish is huge we do not realy have a live bait shop where i live would frozen work as good
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