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Location: Lake Elmo, MN | Interested to find out where guys fish most often. List your most frequented state....that is, in what area / state / Province do you fish THE MOST ? Obviously we all fish multiple spots....just list the one you fish most.
Thanks all.
IF you fish Minneapolis Metro....that's "Sounthern MN".
Edited by PSAGuy 1/18/2016 4:44 PM
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| I had to check other because I fish mostly the twin cities metro area,,,which I think quite a few people on this site do. The metro is a fishery unique to itself not part of northern or southern Minnesota.
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Location: Lake Elmo, MN | I'd consider that Southern MN |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Born and raised in the twin cities...just like a lot of guys on here.
The Twin Cities are not even CLOSE to southern MN.
Edited by muskyroller 1/18/2016 5:05 PM
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| I have been fishing the Big V, for seven years, from the opener to the middle of October! 
Not thinking of switching locations, at least not in the near future! |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | muskyroller - 1/18/2016 5:04 PM
Born and raised in the twin cities...just like a lot of guys on here.
The Twin Cities are not even CLOSE to southern MN.
Anything south of Grand Rapids is the cities which also makes it southern minnesota  |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Haha...that's funny!
Southern MN = Rochester and further down. |
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| If divided north & south. Then Twin Cities are in southern Mn. |
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Location: Walker, MN | Funny Kirby, I was going to say south of Brainerd.
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Location: varies | Your in northern Minnesota when the traffic stops and the sound of banjos and wash boards can be heard. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Quite a few visits planned to Lake X next summer. |
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Location: Elk River, MN | Definitely need a TC Metro option |
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| TC metro should be a separate area or central MN, given that most of the population is in the twin cities. I selected other. |
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| Milfoil dominated,pressure,,tigers option,electric motor lakes,,,the metro is a stand alone fishery. |
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| "Funny Kirby, I was going to say south of Brainerd."
+1!! |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | rodbender - 1/18/2016 8:22 PM
Your in northern Minnesota when the traffic stops and the sound of banjos and wash boards can be heard.
Yeah the traffic in GR has officially hit metro standards! LOL! |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Masqui-ninja - 1/18/2016 8:14 PM
Funny Kirby, I was going to say south of Brainerd.
I could compromise and say anything south of Walker to Hill City and then over to Duluth |
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Location: oswego, il | State X for me! |
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| Kirby Budrow - 1/19/2016 8:34 AM
I could compromise and say anything south of Walker to Hill City and then over to Duluth ;)
I've caught exactly one [freshwater] fish south of that line and it was a fricken carp. |
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Location: Walker, MN | rodbender - 1/18/2016 8:22 PM
Your in northern Minnesota when the traffic stops and the sound of banjos and wash boards can be heard.
Yeah but my town has two stoplights that can really mess up my commute. |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | I picked other because the TC Metro is not southern MN, it’s a unique area and including it in a larger overall area skews the numbers. To me southern MN is places like Faribault, Rochester, Marshal, and Mankato, and Albert Lea. |
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| It's okay to be from the south, guys. No one here will hold it against you. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | jaultman - 1/19/2016 8:57 AM
It's okay to be from the south, guys. No one here will hold it against you.
Bunch of 612ers !
I spend about 9-10 months a year on Vermilion, while my wife lives in the cities (Elko)
That is a good thing for both of us.... She hates Northern MN. and I hate being in the Cities. It's a Beautiful thing.
I haven't fished a lake in the cities since 2011. |
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| Can we also argue if Green Bay is S. or N., or Stevens Point, or Wausau? I don't currently fish any of them but it seems arguing is necessary about this poll. |
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Location: Metro | people do fish a lot in central MN as well (The Cities). That's where I fish the most. |
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| I happen to live in the southern MN region and closest musky lake is at least 1 hour away. I fish all over Minnesota, every trip is an adventure and a drive. Nothing like getting up at 3 am, waking my son up and watching him get ready in under five minutes to go musky fish. (If it were only that easy when I wake him up for school). Son is 10, he can read a map and tells me where to go. Watch the sun come up and am usually on the water just before or right after sunrise. Fish all day and enjoy the ride home. Usually takes a pot of coffee and a bag of sunflower seeds to keep me awake. I wish I had a musky lake in my back yard. But I enjoy quality time in the truck and the boat with my son.
I mainly fish metro waters(not southern MN), I hit southern MN lakes early in the year and usually don't revisit them until September or October. I will take random trips throughout the year to northern MN and Mille lacs. I even visited Iowa quite a few times in 2015. Haven't fished Wisconsin yet and it will be on my list in 2017. I have my go to lakes but I love visiting new waters as well and I love hitting up lakes that are a few hours drive or so. Its great to get the kid out and on the road away from the technology these kids use today. I enjoy every minute of it.
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| Musky952 - 1/19/2016 2:55 PM
people do fish a lot in central MN as well (The Cities). That's where I fish the most.
Our state is over 400 miles "tall" (north-to-south). Twin Cities are like 100 miles from the SOUTHERN border. How is that NOT southern MN???
Central MN is Brainerd, Little Falls, Aitkin, Park Rapids, etc. Look at a map.
If you're heading to Mille Lacs and think you're going to Northern Minnesota, you might be a citiot. |
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| lst cl. Canada where the muskies are lol. |
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Location: Elk River, MN | Northern MN
Central MN (North of metro/south of Fargo-Duluth line)
Twin Cities Metro
Southern MN (south of the metro)
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | With Northern WI leading the poll by a good margin, you guys must either like to catch 35 inch muskies or pick up fat chicks in bars after you're done fishing. Or both. |
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| Whats your most productive presentation for landing nort wood bar babes? |
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Location: varies | Hot dogs or dead suckers get em. |
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| wisskie - 1/20/2016 10:44 AM
Whats your most productive presentation for landing nort wood bar babes?
A pulse. |
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| Usually if you can find one that's drinking Leinies Original you know she's a keeper. Just make sure you have a fresh roll of TP at the cabin. |
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Location: varies | Also, fibs Rollin up to the bar in an escalade sporting a cutler jersey. |
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Location: MN | Do they teach geography in the schools in the cities? |
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| Pop quiz: find the Twin Cities metro area on this aerial photo of MN.
HINT: The Twin Cities metro area is nowhere near the center of the state, which is shown with crosshairs. It's not in the northern half either.
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Location: oswego, il | This poll is screwed! The location of the twin cities cannot be defined by words!
If you want a northwoods bar hopping(pub crawl for you city folks) experience try Hurley. Blend in if you can or prepare to defend yourself.
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| I'm not from the ghetto (Minnesota) but I did live there for 6 years, The Twin Cities are definitely considered Southern Minnesota. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | dfkiii
Posted 1/20/2016 10:32 AM (#800487 - in reply to #800243)
Subject: Re: Location
location: Sawyer County, WI
"With Northern WI leading the poll by a good margin, you guys must either like to catch 35 inch muskies or pick up fat chicks in bars after you're done fishing. Or both."
we catch lots of low to mid 40s up there with the occasional 46+... while the size avg up there is no where near the land of giants in MN, there is nothing like "up north".... catching muskies is only part of being up there...
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | BNelson - 1/20/2016 1:34 PM
there is nothing like "up north".... catching muskies is only part of being up there...
I couldn't agree more Brad. |
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Location: oswego, il | I have witnessed Brad up there fishing the northwoods. That area which lets call area X is my favorite area to fish in Wisconsin. |
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| Reading the discussion about whether the twin cities are in southern or northern MN reminds of the differing opinions about where, "up north" starts in WI. If you are from Racine, probably anything north of Hwy 10, Milwaukee, north of Hwy 29, and if you grew up in in central WI, north of 8. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | it starts to feel like 'up north' about the time we cross the WI river by Merrill for us southern Wisconny boys! |
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| Brad, I would agree that it certainly starts to look and feel like "up north" by Merrill, but I lived in the snow belt of the Upper Peninsula for 19 years and when we got to Merrill, coming South, it always felt like we were finally getting close to home in central WI. But, when you live in the Keweenaw Peninsula, just about everything is south. |
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| Actually the times I've spent in northern wisconsin I actually felt like I was in Illinois,,based on all the license plates |
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Location: Contrarian Island | yah we are trying to close the border but so far haven't had much luck... |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | happy hooker - 1/20/2016 3:07 PM
Actually the times I've spent in northern wisconsin I actually felt like I was in Illinois,,based on all the license plates
Based on the license plates over by me it looks more like summer long cityot convention. |
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| It's not "Up North" for me until we pass the last stop light on 51 in Woodruff. Still see our share of IL plates, but thankfully most of the FIBS stay behind in the Minocqua area. And I think Illinois ends just North of the Dells... |
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| Ive noticed the influx of FIP's in the Barnes area and they are for the most part really nice people but definitely cannot call any of them outdoors people but ya gotta give them credit for trying. |
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| I'm from the twin cities and "up north" has always started once you get past Mille Lacs! Never really considered ML truly "up north." Typical Conversation between MN fishermen: "You hitting Pond or heading up North?" I often hear Alex area/Big D/West Battle referred to as "out west."
I'm with BNelson...nothing compares to the Norman Rockwellesque "up north" vibe of Northern WI. We may have bigger skis but it doesn't compare to feeling over there! |
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| Everywhere wasn't an option neither was Iowa, So I choose other. |
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