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Cooter Grand Master

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Just wondering what you all got planned for the warmer months....I'm hoping for a trip either to invade Mr. Hudson's Cheq Bay for smallies or the Pike Chain for a mixed bag. Also gonna float the Chipp R here south of Eau Claire in July or Aug for commoraderie and smallies, cats, pike, and ?????

For sure a couple canoe trips down the Eau Claire R. near town for skies and smallies and I need to hit the Red Cedar R. again, used to do er all the time and missed last year. Maybe the Flambeau again, last year my bro and I hit nasty weather at Flater's, the beer was bout cold as the rain! I must be ready for springtime grin.gif

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Ever get any size to the fish up there on the Croix? I've only fished the area several miles up from the Tailor Falls dam. Small smallies and small catfish are all I seem to catch. The occasional 60"+ sturgeon will jump though, that's always exciting. Never tried to catch one but it seems it's only a matter of time before I get one by accident with live bait for cats.

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Dang Kent, 100 days... ever fish for brookies up stream from a canoe? That's more my style, I grew up on the Poplar river. Steelheading has too high of a learning curve for me, I fear. BTW, I'm a spinning reel type of guy, not a fly fisherman, so much.

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DD- Maybe it's just a matter of finding the bigger fish. 18" is my best out of there, which isn't too bad. I seem to get a lot in the 12" range though. Might just be that I haven't spent nearly as much time on smallies as LM and haven't found a good technique to target larger fish. I wish more Polk county lakes had smallies. I think they would do quite well in the likes of Bone or Big Round.

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our third annual invasion of Red cedar Lake will be June 7th-1oth. We are gonna try and fit in a little golf on that sunday morning, is there a moderately (I mean cheap) 9 hole course in the area, even rice lake would be close enough.........And Yes Cooter, I still have the humps in my gps and a couple of saddles that produced really well last year. This year we will find the big walleyes instead of the 100's of 12-14" eyes we have caught the last two years.

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Cooter you thinkin spring already \:\) I'm hoping to get over to Cheq. Bay and do some fishing for some browns and lakers this spring with Jim. Going to take a couple of trips to Kewaunee and maybe go back up to Lk. Nipigon. Hopefully spend a couple days on the big Chip. Open water seems so far away right now.

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DonBo Grand Master

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 Originally Posted By: Deitz Dittrich
Having my cabin in Grantsburg area... I hope to do a few floats down the river for some smallies, maybe a catfish or 2?

Dietz, where is your cabin? I also have one up there, just north of Crex Meadows and do lots of fishing in the area.

There are some big smallies in the river...

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 Originally Posted By: Deitz Dittrich
DonBo- I must have bow hunted quite near you land this fall then. Hey Neighbor.. LOL

I am somewhat near the parking lot at Brandt Pines I think it is.. Off of Larson/Bloom West of Crex...

That is right where I hunt. Look at the truck in my avitar and see if looks familiar.

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Small world... I dont recognize the truck.. I know 2 guys bowhunt right near there and have a white pickup... If you ever see a Silver F150 with HotSpotOutdoors on the side.. stop and say Hi..

I'll shoot you an e-mail one of these days and we can trade secrets.

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Pick, it looks like I'll be hitting Red Cedar a few times this year. The wife's sister is still dating the guy with the cabin. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate from here on out. We should trade e-mails some time.

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