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05/11/2008 10:35PM |
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05/12/2008 10:09PM |
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05/12/2008 10:15PM |
CB
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05/12/2008 10:50PM |
Hey, give me a break on the ice out. I actually predicted April 19th.
A slight 34 inch dusting of snow stalled it, so I missed by a mere 23 days! :)
Fishing should be very good for the next few weeks, if the weather doesn't turn cold (like our 3 inches of snow last Saturday night)
Biggest fish registered in the shop was a 31 1/2 inch, 11 lb walleye caught in White Iron Lake.
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05/13/2008 12:17AM |
Nice fish Nathan.
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05/12/2008 11:27PM |
went out for an hour today and got 6 walleyes, including a 25 and 23 incher.
outlook is good for our trip. hopefully no stupid mayflies decide to come out.
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05/14/2008 04:56PM |
ice should be out like tg said. I asked him the same question earlier in the day.
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05/13/2008 09:13AM |
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05/14/2008 10:19PM |
Were planning on using the Ciscos on Ramshead!!!!
Why didn't you????
Fess up with the other story!! :)
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05/15/2008 01:58PM |
BH
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05/15/2008 03:30PM |
tg
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05/15/2008 03:26AM |
i copied this from a thread in another subforum-not the fishing forum therefore it was hidden from you;)
Sunday woke up with a plan to head down to Ramshead for some pike fishing. Portaged back to the Oyster River and ran into a group we had followed up the Moose River. Nice group-hope they enjoyed their stay on Oyster! Paddled down the Oyster River all the way back to Moose River (south of Agnes). Paddled right over a couple beaver dams. Ran the section of rapids rather than taking the 20 rod portage without any difficulty. Once back on the Moose River south of Agnes we trolled and picked up some nortons on raps. Got one decent pike ~34". Paddled up Ramshead Creek to the 160 rod portage. This was pretty soupy in a couple places. After hopping back in the canoe we were surprised to find a nice beaver dam gateway to Ramshead Lake. Portage on the left.
Now for the fun part. This all happened about 2-3pm on Sunday. I would be curious to know if anyone had similar experience or trouble with a group of paddlers in this area. We trolled down Ramshead and quickly realized we were not alone. There was one group on the lake but they were making their presence known. There appeared to be two canoes. One green-presumably royalex boat (based on color) but it was parked at the NW campsite just north of the midlake islands so it was too far away to get more identifiers. The other boat was white or shiney aluminum and this was paddled by a couple teens to the larger eastern island. The teens were yelling at the top of their lungs back to the group at camp-and vice-versa. I thought it was pretty obnoxious but not criminal. When they realized they weren't alone the teens yelled (honestly you could hear them ACROSS the lake) "we've got company" or something to that effect. I felt like their yelling might be an attempt to drive us away and keep the lake to themselves. We kept paddling and didn't say anything, gesture anything or in any way invite a confrontation. We kept trolling heading for a campsite further down the western shore which I had hoped would be sheltered from their noise. We were now on the south side of the islands probably 100-150 yards SW from the teens on the island. At that point we were scared crapless by a gunshot. Looking back based on the gunsmoke it was clearly fired out over the water (in retrospect this may have been a firecracker). It appeared to have been fired within a 90 degree cone-generally in our direction. I doubt that they were firing on us but I understood it to be an intimidation tactic/harassment. Rather than invite trouble we decided to hightail it out of there. At that point the boys were chopping wood on the island. We assumed they were getting firewood for camp but by the time we reached the south end of the lake it was clear that the kids were now starting a fire on the island (no campsite, no firegrate, not a brain between 'em). when we reached the portage to Lamb the smoke was 20-30 ft high and billowing. The portage to Lamb was actually really nice-airy and flat. The portage from Lamb to Nina Moose was as advertised-brutal. The initial climb from Lamb was tough. In fact the climbing never seemed to end. There were some wet sections and the portage was just plain long ~2/3 mile. There was one large downed tree in the trail which we were able to skirt around. Probably should have chopped and dragged it off the trail but we were exhausted and split up so we didn't-sorry! We were bummed that we didn't get to do our fly fishing (or cisco) for pike on Ramshead but we had a beautiful night and sunset on the southern campsite between the Moose and Portage Rivers. Great site for 1 tent.
so there you have it TGO-will have to get back to Ramshead some other time and hope for more pleasant company:(
tg (apologies for the hat hair)
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05/15/2008 02:59PM |
It may be a good idea to let the Forest Service know what happened and give a canoe description.
They could see who had a permit for the area, and give a little education on etiquette with a letter to the permit holder.
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05/15/2008 03:37PM |
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05/14/2008 03:17AM |
did okay on Lakers on Saturday-of course Oyster was still mostly covered in ice at the beginning of the day. I got 3 between 20 and 25" on hard-bodied minnow imitating wobbling lures that go by a name that rhymes with yank dates (sorry TGO-picked up a couple dozen ciscos but it was too cold to sit around and soak deadbait so we were on the move-besides we were planning to use them on Ramshead for pike-but that's another story). also picked up some pike sunday on the moose river trolling south of agnes. largest was a nice 34" (almost embarressed to say its the largest pike i've ever caught).
tg
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05/14/2008 03:45PM |
tg
done with classes? when are you working at Cabelas?
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05/14/2008 03:43PM |
how thick was the Ice, do you think it will be gone by next monday?
how was agnes, LLc, Iron if you went to them?
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05/15/2008 11:33PM |
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05/21/2008 04:21PM |
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05/11/2008 10:25AM |
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05/11/2008 11:44AM |
People catching very nice (19-27 inch) walleyes.
They are still spawning in many of the rivers.
Quite a few Pike also being taken.
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05/11/2008 04:08PM |
Actualy why am I asking for predictions, didnt you predict ice off april 25th? just kidding