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Good sleeper trip in February?

mmeyer

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I'm trying to find a good place to take my 10 year old for a weekend sleeper trip in February. Does anyone have suggestions for lakes, resorts etc.? I'm open for lakes and may consider LOW, as long as there's enough action to keep us interested and have a good time.

Thanks for any help you could offer.

Mike

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personally I dont think there is a bad time to go to LOTW, but the night bite is pretty non-existant. You may get an eye or 2, but more likely eelpout. However you should have action with eyes, sauger and the occasional jumbo perch all day smile Hope that helps you a bit!

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LOW or Red would be my choice. When my son was about the same age I took him up to LOW for a sleeper trip. He loves to fish both ice and open water. Although I didn't mind the peace and quiet he didn't care for it and wanted to go home on the morning of day two. After dark there was zip to do out on the ice. I figured a sleeper just doesn't appeal to kids that young. The following year I booked a trip at Sportsman's Lodge on LOW. We checked in had dinner and we headed to their pool. The following morning we rode the bombardier out to the shack, fished all day then returned to the lodge for the night. We had a steak dinner then one of the guys at the resort offered to take him on a snowmobile ride. He was up early and ready to go for day two of fishing. He really enjoyed this trip. I must say I liked it as well. We did this trip 3 more times until he got busy with his high school basketball and XC ski teams. I thought I throw this out as food for thought.

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Hey Guys, thanks for the thoughts. Down Deep, that's something I've been thinking about and I'm glad that you shared that. That's something I may have to do. I'd hate for him to be bored and hate the trip.

Thanks again!

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For a sleeper trip id go with arnesons on lotw. Or if you want a day house either zippel or sportsmans, cant remember, will give you a day house out deeper and a evening house in shallow to stay on the fish. then you could stay in the resort as well.

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