what water temps were you guys seeing up there?

What are you guys seeing for water temps at the head of the lake?

I have a baseball family. We used to watch the Twins all the time. Don’t have a service with Bally for 2 seasons now…… We watch a lot of college baseball now…. pretty happy with the switch…. hoping to take the fam to Omaha this spring..

college baseball in the spring on TV and live Northwoods league baseball in the summer for us in mankato. been fun!

I’d be very interested in seeing how the answers differed in < 50 years old individuals vs > 50 years old.

my personal experiences tell me the young value tech more and care less about harvest. Of course the exact opposite with the older group.

This seems super obvious to me. the older gen doesn’t want “their” fish taken by the cheating wipper snappers. the wipper snappers want to catch and could give a rip (or don’t want the work of) about harvesting the older gen’s sustenance.

IMO this survey is completely dependent on age…. and will completely evolve almost yearly.

lose as many games possible and amass as many picks as you can for 2 and 3 years from now and you move sun and the moon to get Arch Manning. If I were a Vikings fan this is what I would want.

This move must help the city of MPLS? right? what does the Counsel give for a reason or how will the city benefit?

A find it best to drink and drive in MPLS anyway. It seems I fit in better with the local driving habits.

hasn’t started

it will be earlier then normal due to water stability but not by more than a week or 2….. Photo period is just as/more important to the spawning process. IMO

Caught a nice number of spawning age fish this past Monday….. females still firm and males were under full control of bodily fluids.

I’d bet on last week of march/first week of april.

I am just wondering….. I haven’t read any of the articles…. Is the DNR blaming the lead contamination from birds swallowing actual lures/weights/etc? or are they suggesting a higher lead content in the water supply that they are claiming is from tackle?

secondarily have they forced fed tungsten or any other metal to birds to validate safety? or is tungsten safe because you know well tungsten is just safe because it is you know just better because you know its just safer…

I have been told that tungsten shows up better on FFS….. should probably ban it as well just to be safe.

Don’t be fooled Glenn…….. most of these drugs’ R and D are paid for in the first quarter of sales let alone the first year… Everything after that is insane profit….

big pharma preys on the sensitivity of your situation…

As Mojo referred to…… your doctor will need to do a Prior Auth…. In the Prior Auth world a new insurance may require a trial of their formulary med which it sounds like you have done. Now that you have failed that med, the Prior Auth should go through.

While I agree with all of the sentiment on insurance companies, especially those that operate for profit (UHC for example). If big pharma wasn’t allowed to charge what ever they want then insurance companies would not have to be “picky” in their formularies or take money from certain ones to cover their products. I’m not for government intervention in much, but the money is so great that big pharma operates with now, that they hold our whole system hostage.

you guys talk about meds that cost you $1200 like that is a lot…… We got an order a couple weeks ago for a new drug that comes as a prefilled syringe for a once every 3 month injection… our hospital’s acquisition cost for 1 syringe was $119,000….. yes you heard me $119,000….. now we need to bill the patient/insurance with a slight mark up…….. now tell me that the insurance company is the bad guy.

Stanley, In order to stand out (by your words), you absolutely have to do more then just school practice…. Year round leagues, far off academy’s , absolutely not. But, to be best varsity player or all conference, only the elite athlete can just show up at school and achieve that.

A lot of great responses…. To the OP, what is your definition of “stand out”?

To answer your question generically…. You don’t have to play 1 sport to stand out.

More specifically it really depends on the child and what the goals are.

I have 2 boys (11th and 8th grades). My oldest has always played baseball and basketball and still does. My youngest does the same but also played football this past fall for the first time. I played all 3 until 9th and then just did baseball and basketball. I played D3 basketball (had 2 D2 offers). My wife played basketball and ran track. She played D1 basketball on a full ride.

My boys started with hockey, learned to skate but quickly wasn’t our thing. We put them in baseball and basketball as early as we could. We taught them the fundamental skills as soon as they could walk. we have zero dreams of either playing D1 or pro sports. We have the dream of them reaching what ever ceiling they want to reach. We know to reach your ceiling in basketball you must have the ball in your hands and dribble every day. to reach your ceiling in baseball and basketball you need to learn proper form and technique and that takes rote rehearsal. We know in football you must strength train when your body is developed enough. can you do all these? hell ya you can. What you don’t have to do is play on organized teams all year long. AAU basketball at the youth level is an absolute racket.
We started our kids doing some everyday and waited until they were old enough to tell us what they wanted. My 11th grader didn’t respond to being pushed and we stopped pushing. he enjoys the game and team experience. Our 8th grader excels and is very apparent he loves the sports and wants to be the best. and so we push him so he can achieve his ceiling.

what Bucky said is the absolute truth…..
1. Genetics (I’m 6’6″ and I mentioned my wife’s ability) my 8th grader is 6’4″ with size 15 shoes and runs like a deer)
2. Desire (last winter my 8th grader shoveled off the outside court on a weekend and we had to bring him to the ER with frost bite on his hands when we got home)

a distant 3.) is a parent’s dedication to teach and push the fundamentals.

…….. my 11th grader plays JV basketball and my 8th grader is the 6th man on varsity and had 19 points in his varsity debut…… both will be on the varsity baseball team this spring. during the basketball season they lift 2 times a week when they throw at the baseball facility in town. (they usually hit too)

……my 8th grader will not play AAU this spring…. he will be in the weight room and be doing skills development with his fellow 8-9 th graders which I lead….. they will dribble everyday (if my 11th grader wants) and probably shoot 3 times a week during summer baseball… 11 plays legion and 8th plays travel ball for Mankato….11th grader umps every night he’s not playing for a summer job.

….. this fall my 11th grader relaxes and fishes with me….. my 8th will either play football again or Club fall baseball…..

we camp and fish every summer and they get out with me when they can.

…Visiting colleges with my 11th grader this fall… one of his questions was “so do you have a fishing club?” One of the prouder Dad moments for me.

both are A honor roll students.

You absolutely don’t have to specialize to stand out. But if your goal is to reach your ceiling then you must work year round. no doubt about it.

I almost forgot….. my wife and I love every minute of every game. And have no problem paying for what it costs. But we are confident enough to not pay for things that others see as important and can train our boys if they want without paying trainers.

Great dude too!! I used to work security at Country Jam in college…. was able to be on/close to stage with some cool artists…. Toby chatted with ya just like you were one of the guys… I appreciated that. He will be missed.

No CO would waste their time when they know there is zero harm in it and it is a well used tactic. Similar to going 4 over the speed limit…

I’m no criminal but the point is moot because ZERO CO’s will ever write this ticket.

You guys don’t actually follow this sh!t, do you? I mean did someone actually get a ticket or did some MN Karen use the TIP line on this BS??

I would also have no issues with the newer explorers. (have driven a 2021 a couple times with the same engine.) Especially if it makes the FW happy.

45 boat task force? what is that exactly?

Marketing what? That’s my question? who would go out of their way? Doesn’t sound like many of us here… Just wondering what is being marketed? Who really goes to these things??

I can understand if you are invited to fish in his/her party…. I just don’t understand why anyone brings their boat and goes where the GOV is… I don’t mean Walz in particular.

As for the invite to fish with Walz…. Sure I could shoot the breeze for a day as I always want to fish. but I’ll pass on this particular GOV.

My college buddy broke my first muskie pole in college…. he replaced it.

I have broken 2 Legend Extremes and 1 Legend Tournament Rod…. All my fault and all replaced by St Croix.

I do have 1 Legend Extreme combo on the bottom of Winnie. Got pulled in when I was netting my Mother-in-laws fish on the opposite side of the boat. So I’m down $600.

I had a coach who coached my 5th-8th grade years. He was tough and loud. A lot of opposing coaches and schools made many complaints. we had a couple kids come and go in those years but there was 7 of us core boys that played all those years at a small Catholic school… He was at all 7 of our weddings..

I don’t know Coach Knight…. So I’ll take the opinions of 99% of his players that would run through a wall for him vs 1% that fed the lib media hype machine.

Do people actually seek out the place the GOV is at? Why? IF you fish don’t you fish the opener to fish? I guess I don’t get why? Its not like the guy or gal is Al Linder…… This particular GOV doesn’t even fish. Let alone teach or show you something about fishing.

To your question….or recomment….. if an immigrant finds a sparsely inhabited island, builds a home and lives off the land or creates a business to survive on his own…… awesome!!!!!

curious GG……… What do you think the process should be to become citizen? How many per year? Where should that person reside until your process is complete? what should the punishment be if the person doesn’t comply with your process?

I put all my gulp panfish plastics in one of those bigger gulp, flatish looking containers (the type that bigger minnows and crawlers come in)… even let non gulp soak in there too…. doesn’t roll around and hold all the panfish plastics that I need in one place.

For me this would only be for walleye fishing…….

likely never use all 10…. thought I’d pose the question because obviously could get 5-8 colors on these reels if the responder said they got all 10..

I was also curious about the lead core in smaller pound diameters…. Suffix has 12 and 15 pound lead…

I mostly have experience in trolling lead for salmon and trout using 27 lb lead and bigger reels/tackle.

I may end up just playing with some set ups until I am happy .

I see this around me in prairie type lakes. end of oct/early nov…. we just throw suspending jerk baits and jig N plastic to the shorelines where we see fishing occasionally busting the surface.

I don’t know why big minnows wouldn’t work…. In the fall down there I usually reverse the spring procedure…. trolling cranks ….. blades/plastics….plastics/minnows…

with that theory (as Andy mentioned) rigging chubs would work… common post spawn method. they certainly would be the size of the shad that run back up river.

We absolutely put the options on the table for our kids and let them choose…. if they choose to not play sport…. their option is then a job…. not the couch (HS ages).

My 11th grader is my fishing child… he knows that fall baseball is done in time for when october fishing starts…. he’ll be with me on pool 4 and our local lakes up to Thanksgiving/basketball season.