Come on open water!!! Hurry up!!!

[Fish Head]

I know many of you may prefer ice fishing, but I'm dying here. Ice fishing is okay, but I can't wait for open water again!!!! I can't wait to get out on the boat and fly around searching the rock piles, points and weed beds. Hurry up spring!! I can’t wait anymore!!

Rainy River will be open in a couple months. Red Wing will be opening by than too. I wonder how all the snow will affect the rivers this year...

[scott b]

Hey fish head you might want to check out red wing a few months earlier. It's open year round, and way closer than Rainy. I'll be in my boat this weekend. Sorry that you want to wait a couple more months cause the walleyes in Red Wing will be done by then.

[JohnMickish]

Red wing is always open, and the ramp at Everets is open to. Easy way to get your fix this weekend with the warm weather.

How will the snow affect the rivers? High and fast, that's how.

[gloomiseye]

I hear ya! Im chomping at the bit to get out on some rivers in search of that pre-spawn hog walleye.

[BobT]

Hard to believe considering it was -22 this morning but the forecast shows highs in the upper 30's for the next three days. I think it's time to move this topic to the top again!

[Fish Head]

Unfortunately my boat is locked away in storage until mid March. Ugh! I can't wait to get out on the open water again.

[JohnMickish]

My boat is to, and this weekend is going to be great weekend to be on the river.

[Slabasaurus]

I was going to pick up a boat this off season, but instead must purchase a house. Oh well... got the shore spots all scouted out and i can always borrow my dad's boat when he's not using it

I just double checked the avg ice out dates for a lake I have some property on... about 2 months away! That's not long at all!!!

[tacklejunkie]

I was going to pick up a boat this off season, but instead must purchase a house.

Priorities, my man!! Priorities!!!

I bought my boat before my house . I figure I can Live and fish on the boat if I had to but I can't fish out of my house

[scott b]

Well said TJ!

[JohnMickish]

Should have purchased a houseboat!

[BassNut33]

Boat before a house here too, thank god for a cool wife.

[ShoreGuy1984]

I was going to start saving up for a cheap boat and a new finesse setup for this upcoming season, but my transmission went out in my car. SO MUCH FOR THAT..... Cant we just make the priorities go away some how?

[Raider4ever]

Enough of winter already! I am SO looking forward to calling my boat storage guy and tell him to cut 'er loose.

[Down Deep]

I was going to pick up a boat this off season, but instead must purchase a house. Oh well... got the shore spots all scouted out and i can always borrow my dad's boat when he's not using it T

Should have wrote a deal where the seller pays for a boat and not the closing costs.

[Slabasaurus]

I was going to start saving up for a cheap boat and a new finesse setup for this upcoming season, but my transmission went out in my car. SO MUCH FOR THAT..... Cant we just make the priorities go away some how?

This happened to me. I had found a nice 14' lund for about a grand through a buddy of mine. When I was at a class after work one night, about to get the check to the guy for the boat, a pile of snow fell from the roof onto the hood of my car. That took care of boat purchase attempt number 1.

I like the idea of negotiating a boat into the mortgage deal. "I'll offer you x and cover closing if you find a nice 14-16 foot fishin boat with a 25-35hp motor..."

I found a foreclosure that comes with two working snowmobiles, that's kinda neat.

[Nick Kuhn]

At lunch I just heard the wonderful sound of water running into a storm drain for the first time in a few months.

[tgruenke]

To make things worse my wife got me some walley rigs for fishing this summer. I guess I'll have to wait until May.

[knowsnothing]

I plan to practice smoking cigars in my boat this weekend. Neighbors see me sitting in the garage and think I am a dork. They just dont get it.

[reinhard1]

i did the same thing years ago [except the cigars] for long periods of time. now i do it but not as long of a time. dont worry about it, if you are a fisherman there is no cure for it except actualy getting on the lake. good luck.

[Wayne Ek]

Hate to rain on the parade. We cut holes yesterday and I have about 3-inches more before the extension has to go on the auger. I have not had to use an extension for the past 10-years here in Alex. I think ice-out maybe a little slower this spring.

[MN BassFisher]

I just purchased a kayak for fishing. It should be here in about 2-3 weeks, and then I can get it all rigged up (fish finder, rod holders, anchor) and get out at the start of open water!

[TKOGWEE]

my boat came before the house too!

[popriveter]

Last weekend I opened all the clearance cranks purchased throughout the winter and restocked my tackle box. It looks like so much fun about to be had.

Sadly, this week's weather made spring feel like it is a million miles away again.

I just want to cast- is that so wrong?

[Down Deep]

Sadly, this week's weather made spring feel like it is a million miles away again.

I was supposed to spend the weekend at LOW, but my fishing buddy had a family emergency and the trip fell through at the last minute, so today became a boat day. Vacuumed last season's sand and grit out, changed the lower unit oil, organized all the tackle boxes, re-spooled all the reels put the rods in the boat, aired up the tires, repacked the bearings, shined up the interior and windshield and plugged in the charger. I'm ready to go either north or south as soon as the ice lets loose. 4 to 6 weeks before the lines hit the water.