I’ve been finding them more in mid depths on reefs the last couple days. Ultra shallow hasn’t done much for me, and I haven’t tried deep really at all yet.

I have a Livescope, and buy conservation licenses. I’m in it to have fun, catch and release 99% of the time, and learn new tactics/spots and all that.

If the issue is people decimating fish populations, that’s a human behavior and human choice issue. Not the technology.

I’d completely be on board with low bag limits.

There’s a few around Frazer Bay. I’ve taken yesterday and today off. I plan on being out tomorrow again.

I’ve done well with all of them honestly. Moxies and Puls’r is usually what I drift to.

I’ve hardly had color matter.

It’s happening to me as well. I figured I’d just lube it as well.

Sounds like a great time!

My group got 2 up to 19″ over the weekend. Most still 10-15″ though. Still fun. Probably going to pivot to Smallmouth soon.

Yeah I’d imagine Pike is good right now. In fact, my dock has actually been the best spot for size (still Frazer). So shallow seems to be the ticket.

Finding small ones around Frazer Bay. Any depth from 12-30 has worked. Jigs if they’re schooled, trolling a spinner if scattered.

Rainbows have worked well as bait.

I don’t care if someone fishes my dock. If I’m out there, I just wave and ask how it’s going. I like talking with other anglers so I kind of enjoy seeing some come by.

Lou W wrote:

Out front of my cabin, about 1/2 mile below stony point.

Is that the old Stony Point Resort? Used to stay there all the time as a kid.

I don’t recommend using the ram mount to scotty. I tried when my buddy visited me last year with his livescope. Did not work great at all.

Bought my own unit this year and am putting tracks on the boat. Much sturdier.

Frazer Bay West of Shamrocks was good early in May. Assuming it still is.

Guess I should’ve gone shallower! I played with the small guys a lot. Still had a nice time. I stuck in Frazer Bay the entire time.

This will be my 1st opener at my cabin on Vermilion. Naturally we’re worried about ice.

Looks like it hits the 70s next week, so we may just make it in the nick of time.

My wife and I bought a place on Vermilion this past August. It was a family friend so we avoided any kind of bidding war and he gave us a better deal than he could’ve gotten on the open market.

But like your story, he liked that we would buy it and use it and not just rent it out or flip it or anything like that. We stretched our budget to meet him but I can’t imagine regretting it at this point.

I’m 31 and I’ll have this place for my entire life essentially so I’m pretty pumped about it.

Cousins is at 45 mill against the cap whether we keep him or cut him. It’s 100% dead cap.

Only way you trade that is if you retain some, or a lot, of the cap hit. Get draft picks as compensation. If you can find the right fit, I think it would be smart. We’re either going to not contend with a 45 mil Cousins, or not contend with a combo of a warm body QB + Cousins retained salary and have draft capital to build off.

I’ve gotten plenty of little Walleyes up here this winter. Still looking for something bigger. Haven’t roamed far from my cabin though. Anything perch colored seems to do well.

Yeah that’s where I got it from, but by clicking the link you just get the one specific lake’s data and not every lake within LakeFinder. Unless there’s some master page that I haven’t found.

The nice thing is you see all years of that lake’s data rather than just the 1 by 1 selection you get on the webpage normally.

I potentially could connect to that exact webpage and have it capture whenever a new survey gets added. I’d just need to verify that the URL doesn’t change as the content does. Also costs money to run things on a schedule on the cloud, and I don’t want to run up the bill on my employer TOO much. Storage is cheap though.

Lots of fun things I could do from here, just haven’t settled on what I’d want to do and what gets a good payoff compared to time etc. But with all my cleansing scripts saved, the heavy lifting is done for anything else I’d want to add to the warehouse.

Cleansing and managing data pipelines is my professional jam, and to pair it with my love of fishing seemed like a fun challenge.

Yeah def not mobile friendly. Was able to make this a quarterly goal for my job to work on while I’m slow, so I might be able to sneak in a mobile view at some point.

I manually downloaded the full JSON files on the survey webpage, and CSVs for water level and ice in/out. So I put all of it into our own cloud warehouse and parsed/cleaned data there.

Would be awesome if I could just connect to the DNR’s entire database, but I doubt I could get access to that.

Was up there last weekend. I did well on Walleye on top of reefs with slip bobbers evening/into dark. Was mainly after muskies though, and did not do well there.

Angler II wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>djshannon wrote:</div>
I hope you unvaccinated people survive. You are playing with your life and the lives of your loved ones.

We are loosing about 1500 of you a day. Statistics don’t lie.

I like Delta Airlines view, get vaccinated or pay $200 a month for additional cost of health care plus testing.

With that logic, people who smoke, do drugs, eat unhealthy etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. should all have to pay more…

Covid is miniscule to everything else.

I hope you don’t have any bad habits…

Pretty common to get a discount on insurance for not being a smoker, having healthy cholesterol levels etc. A lot of companies do annual screenings where some health workers would come in to the office for a day to run it.

For sure. I’ll be around plenty of the rock reefs in big bay too, so that’s not far from you.

Just got a place in Frazer Bay and will be there from Friday night through all next week. I’ll try to remember to PM you with anything I find. I primarily target muskies, but stop on walleyes/crappies/whatever when I mark them to catch something when it’s slow.

You’re gopherwes on GPL right?

fishthumper wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Tommy wrote:</div>
Yeah if you try to pick a day further than 3 days from now, it’ll auto roll the date back to the max date you can pick.

So if you wanted to go through all the steps, you can do what supercat mentioned and just pick one in the window and proceed. Just can’t submit it.

Nothing they’re asking for will be a shock though, so I’m just waiting for the 72 hour period. I already have all docs, minus the negative test, ready to go.

So it sounds like if it won’t let you submit the info. until you are able to pick the correct date ( Within 72 Hrs of entry ) then you might as well wait to process the app.
If you process it early and just pick one of the dates available – Do you then need to go back in and update your dates once you are within the 3 day window?

Yep exactly. Which is why I’m not bothering. It’s pretty easy to go step by step through an app in a couple minutes.

I’m crossing on the 28th. Have my test scheduled for late in the day on the 25th to ensure I get results in time and still within the 72 hr period as I plan on being there about noon. So once the negative result comes in I’ll fill it all out and submit.

Yeah if you try to pick a day further than 3 days from now, it’ll auto roll the date back to the max date you can pick.

So if you wanted to go through all the steps, you can do what supercat mentioned and just pick one in the window and proceed. Just can’t submit it.

Nothing they’re asking for will be a shock though, so I’m just waiting for the 72 hour period. I already have all docs, minus the negative test, ready to go.

Oh I suppose that would work too. Figured it doesn’t take long so long as I have all the docs so I didn’t bother to try.

Haven’t done it yet, but the answers are:
1. Can download anytime. Can’t do anything until 72 hrs prior.
2. 72 hrs prior
3. No, but they are doing random rapid tests, so you could get selected to be tested. So it’s a possibility just like getting your boat checked.

Decent in the metro. Boated a couple in the 30s. Didn’t see anything with size though, but not bad for day 1.

I think that’s a fair assessment. I might be biased based off past performance, but I just think swapping 90 for 11 gives us a better lineup right now.

Johansson and Bjugstad are likely not back next year, but that was the plan anyway like mentioned above. Not concerned long term with them, just want to do what we can to give us the best chance to win right now while we’re still alive.