I have found changing out 25-40% of the water every few days is much easier than trying to play aqua biologist with filters and bacteria and ph. Lots of bubbles and fresh cold water. Done

I have been waiting for Madison Cohen to testify (first girl hit).

Turns out she already did and chose not to have it recorded (allowed in WI). She is completely scrubbed from the internet and social media.

mojo wrote:

I haven’t watched all the trial, and I have yet to see an explanation of when the guy stabbed the girl. For me that is a critical part of the evidence.
Did he stab her prior to him being knocked down?

I think the case will hinge on this. Everyone up to now has said that Miu hit the blond girl first (Maddie). They cannot however agree if it was a slap or a punch or what hand he used or what side of her face was hit. This was the first physical contact by either party. Also it wasn’t captured on any video, so both sides have been trying hard to prove or disprove it. There are also no pictures or videos of any injuries that “Maddie” suffered during that first contact.

So did he hit her, and people seen that and reacted to it, or did she say he hit her and then everyone else reacted to her emotions? One guy shouts “you don’t hit a girl” and then all hell breaks loose.

Either way, to answer your question, nobody got stabbed until he was hit and knocked down a few times.

The State’s witnesses sure aren’t helping anything:

“was she on the right or left of you?”
“sorry I’m not good with Rights and Lefts”

“about how far away was he at that time”
“sorry I’m not good at Math?”

Imagine being on trial and you have random witnesses saying this about you…. just watch the defense cross examine this guy. “He had a hat on and pants and jumped out of the bushes and was taking pictures of the girls”

What??? Unbelievable

I pretty much thought this would be a no brainer case for the prosecution, but the defense team is doing a good job painting the self defense picture. A lot of the kids (and even adults) testified to having “fuzzy memories” and questionable judgement due to impairment of alcohol and drugs.

Without the video, I say Miu would have had a much better chance of walking, but I still think he will be convicted based on the video alone. I’m just not sure how they will get a 1st degree though. Can the jury find a lesser charge?

After watching the full video now, it’s clear that alcohol and drugs were the major factor here. I haven’t seen a report of Miu’s BAC, but he was definitely not coherent in that video and appeared drunk or high as well. Here’s what he told the police when they caught up to him

“Miu said he had been attacked by the tubers, who “produced two weapons,” but said he didn’t remember anything after that.
“Nic told me that he was ‘so fearful’ for his safety and wasn’t sure what the people on the river were going to do to him,” the complaint says.
He claimed the group took his snorkel away and that one person tried to pull down his swim trunks. As he “grabbed onto” the supposed culprit, Miu said two members of the group pulled knives on him. He claimed he then took one of the knives away and turned it back on the group, contrary to evidence from both his wife and the bystander footage.”

This is all being live streamed on Fox9 YouTube. I watched all of day 1 last night.

It’s fascinating stuff.

Personally, I don’t see how anything other than a guilty judgement will happen and he needs to be punished for what he did. Those kids sure weren’t innocent though and their actions and behavior certainly played a role.

It’s been in the single digits up there for the past few nights. I just watched a video of a Tracker busting what looked to be about 1-2″ of ice trying to get to the Canadian side of the river which had a narrow channel open. They would push up on the ice with the motor and 3 or 4 of them were up on the bow trying to bust through. They eventually made it.

I’ve busted a lot of ice to go fishing, but man that looked pretty sketchy and they had to go a long way to find open water.

That would be awesome if someone came in an bought out my development and only left my house standing.

I don’t get it, what is so wrong with what she is doing? Due to it’s location there will never be affordable housing on Park Point. This will have no effect on any housing shortage.

I’d like to get a place on Vermilion some day. Should I be mad at the Dayton’s for putting a HUGE tract of prime lakeshore into trust so now nobody has a chance to ever own it?

We often catch redhorse and cut them up for bait, but we catch the Redhorse on….crawlers.
Can’t you just buy crawlers at one of the several places that sell them along the river? Most of the resorts will have a supply and I know Royal Dutchman is setting up a new little bait shop this year as well. Are you not able to pull up and buy some because of the border thing? If so how do you plan to fish for them? Spotlock?

Simply let the market decide. The wages and prices should always follow the market. If the pay is too low then people will quit driving and the supply will go down and then the demand will go up which should raise prices/wages and now you’ve made a full circle.

stillakid2 wrote:

Well, let’s hang on a minute here…

We can fish shore to shore with either license, but they’re going to enforce the regs by a division of the water? Can they legally enforce this? Here’s my take:

We have always been bound by our resident state license for the regulation’s enforcement on the St. Croix River. According to that provision, we can fish the whole river but are bound by the regulations of our resident license. If you live in MN, the WI regs DO NOT apply to you on that shared water. By dividing the river, they are denying the exercise of practicing the rules we are provided and bound by. According to the phrasing, a MN angler is allowed to fish WI waters with a MN license, but if the angler is on “WI turf,” those regulations no longer apply, and the angler is bound by the regulations of a license they did not purchase. Well, if they’re going to play it that way, it should also be legal then, for MN anglers to run 3 lines on the “WI side.”

It is not ethical to split the rules and say that one rule applies, but not another, if the resident license regulations can be forsaken somewhere in the waterway. It is a preposterous notion to state that any MN/WI angler on the St. Croix is bound to his/her resident license regulations, eligible and legal to fish shore to shore, but is subject to the other state enforcing rules that a legal angler is not, by class of enforcement, bound by.

Who can we call to expose this contradiction of public interest?

You might want to look into this a bit more. No matter what license you hold, you follow the laws of the territorial waters you are fishing in (other than bag and possession limits). For example, yes if you hold a MN license and a MN resident you can fish 3 lines whenever you are on WI side of the river. That goes for all other laws too. It goes vice versa as well. On the MN side? Then you can only use 2 lines if if you have a WI license and a WI resident.
Here is some more clarity for you: https://www.3riversfishingadventures.com/border-water-rules

fishthumper wrote:

Cheating and getting caught in a house game could end up about as bad as cheating in Vegas in the early years. If you run into cheating in a house game with friends you know, You have some bad friends. I think I’d more worry about running into cheating at a club than I would in a home game.

It’s not the people showing up to the game I would be worried about, rather the people running the game and the people in their circle. Collusion around every corner.

Too many opportunities to cheat at house games. I prefer to play at a card club with paid dealers and where the cheating chances are minimized. I play at TI and Canterbury often. Mostly just killing time and chasing a bad beat jackpot.

What if the ice conditions would have been great?

You just can’t make this up. There will ALWAYS be an excuse. It’s never going to change.

I thought I was being pranked when I opened my escrow account notice.

Out of control is an understatement.

When the Hanson brother skated up, my wife simply looked at me and said, “no he didn’t”

Oh yes he did.

We ran into a nursery of eyes and sauger yesterday. No kidding these 6-10″ fish were crushing 4″ ringworms. I’ve never seen anything like it. Really aggressive (and hungry I guess). We did pick a few 15″ers out that group, but most everything was under 10″ We probably caught close to 50 though.

Also in another particular spot you couldn’t drag a jig through without hooking a 6-10″ shad on every single cast. Strange things going on in the river this year.

CaptainMusky wrote:

Everything is out of hand. Yesterday I went to McDonalds and got a 1/4 cheese meal with a chocolate shake. $15!

yeah my wife had me stop yesterday for a quick dinner.

4 reg cheese burgers-1 med fry – 1 pack of cookies- 2 small shakes. $28.23

In terms of fisheries and it’s effects, you can’t ban one technology and look the other way on others. Dump FFS but give a thumbs up to a 30ft wheelhouse parked on a school of fish using an underwater camera and a 65″ flatscreen to catch them?

Cmon guys really?

Let the market decide on this. If tournaments want to ban them fine, it will all trickle down and work itself out. But if you are going to ban any form of sonar, then you must ban ALL forms of sonar. Good Luck with that

People are REALLY going to lose their lids when the major players in the game decide to release the individual fish tracking software they have (click on a specific fish and your motor and sonar will lock on and follow). It’s ready to go, just a matter of if, when and where.

Just plug it into Google and let her decide. One silly fender bender up ahead of you mid trip and your “best route” just became the worst.

suzuki wrote:

They may force me to buy a lifetime supply.

I have a lifetime supply, but not much good if you can’t even use it legally.

Yeah none of the tip up or ice castle guys never seem to “get the 2 line thing”.

LOL

I told ya it was coming, can’t put that toothpaste back in the tube:

and so we THOUGHT is was done

Turns out the DNR overlooked this in the new regs and you won’t find it, either in the book on on the electronic PDF version.

Not entirely sure what happened, but until then I guess using the MN River Fishing page is your best reference. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fisheries/minnesota-river.html

General
Two lines are allowed during the open water season downstream of the Granite Falls dam on the Minnesota River to Pool 2 on the Mississippi River.

Here’s a video I just did kind of explaining the new record system:

Life’s too short to sweat the small stuff. I can’t tell you how much grief I got with my current record. Haters crawled out of the woodwork, but by far the positives have outweighed the negatives. Enter your record, celebrate your catch, enjoy life.

I assure you 100%, this is going to be the future and you WILL see guys out there fishing with Apple Pro Vision goggles displaying FFS.

Of course it’s klunky right now, but 20 years from now I bet it’s the norm. Check out the story, one guy figured it out already…

https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/augmented-realty-glasses-livescoping/?fbclid=IwAR3zPAq6DT9R0ckmLf8ya2z3LmEhD3Kd1z04oI6fxzHC3QBsHubEqcD6LwU