I have not posted for quite some time but I do watch this board on a regular basis. When I'm sitting in a hotel room It grounds me to home.
I've met a few of you over the years and think the Utah BFTers are the best!
I just upgraded my work position to the captain's chair and am being transfered to Minneapolis. I will still live here and just "commute" to/from work.
From time to time I will have to spend my days off in Minnie; I hope to spend some time on some of those 10,000 Minnesota lakes. They don't post much on their state board, so I am hoping to find some local guru to help me out.
Any suggestions from my local crowd would certainly be appreciated.
Thanks friends.
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I grew up in a small town 45 miles or so North East of the Twin Cities (Packer Land) and we have some pretty decent fishing in the lakes and rivers there for most of the warm water spieces and some fair trout streams as well (mostly Browns and Eastern Brookies). Also the beer is better on that side of the Big River. Hope you have a good time back there.
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Congrats on getting the left seat. My wife is from Mankato and I have fished once in a while in Minnesota. There are literally thousands of choices out there. Some of the best information comes from the small local bait shops and there are hundreds of those.
I fished for walleye and northern pike for the most part when I've been out there. A lake called "Big Winnie" is one of my favorites. It's a large lake in north central Minnesota and it has great walleye and northern pike fishing and there's a few big muskie. It's about two hours north of Minnie/St. Paul but well worth the drive. You drive right by Mill Lacs on the way and that's another famous walleye and smallmouth bass lake.
Check with those guys in the bait shops and they'll give you some good information on local, nearby waters.
Don't give up on the Minnesota BFT board. I think those guys are between ice and soft water right now and probably itching to get out.
P.S. I'll bet that "commute" is murder. You should try flying sometime. [
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Mike
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Thanks for the good ideas!
It's true about them being inbetween "seasons." I love being on approach to MSP from the west and looking down on some of the ice fishing villages, they amaze me every time. Even in the middle of the night they're lit up and snowmobiles are racing around on the frozen lakes.
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Yep. It looks like small towns out on the ice. My BIL drives his F150 out to his shack when the ice is about 10 inches thick. Just like in "Grumpy Old Men".
"Drop that fish" said Burgess Meridith to Walter Matthau as he was trying to stab Jack Lemmon with a frozen walleye. My wife's all time favorite flick. Good flying and fishing to you Captain!
Mike
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