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Location: Maple Grove, MN | Now that the Muskie season is closed, football is drawing to a close, and the lakes are iced over, what do you all do for activities?
I help coach my oldest daughter's basketball team and am trying to catch up on the honey-do list.
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| I work a lot to save money for muskie season. I spend a lot of time here talking about muskie fishing. And then around the end of March I start to panic because all my gear is still in a giant pile in the basement in various states of disrepair. That ususally takes a month or so to sort out, and by then it's time to start fishing! |
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Location: Minneapolis | I like to cross country ski. The snow this winter has been fantastic! |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | I build custom fishing rods and shoot competitive indoor archery.
Ice fish a bit here and there....
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| A whole bunch of thumb thittling. Sharpening hooks, cleaning reels, reading books and musky mags, looking at lake mapswatching fishing shows and taking a mexican vacation. |
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Location: Hopefully on the water | Help coach the kids for wrestling, which ends up sitting in a gym each weekend until about the end of February. It is fun though and I enjoy it. A little ice fishing here and there. And possibly a trip up to the cabin to check things out, look for sheds, and see where the deer have been or haven't been. Plus with work the winter goes by pretty quick. Still waiting for open water (usually mid March) for th walleye runs on the fox just to get the itch out and take the boys to catch some fish. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | work, ice-fishing and wrestling dad here ... winter is a busy time around our place. |
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| Work, Ice fish, work some more, do the kids hockey stuff, he got his first hat trick last night! |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Work, play volleyball, re-hab from volleyball injuries, workout to avoid volleyball injuries, rehab more injuries, moderate the board, work, work, work and explain to people that I do not and never will icefish. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | I spend my winter time asking annoying questions, Like......Hey Andrew, Why don't you Ice Fish ? See..... I can't help it !
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| multiplexes greatest winter invention,,sneak around and see 3 movies for one $5 ticket |
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Location: MN | I drink Molson till i passout then dream of muskies! Wait do you dream when you passout? |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | Brew beer (and enjoy the fruits of my labors). That and make a Muskie Treat every now and then. |
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| This year I am looking for a new job, as I was laid off a couple weeks ago. 2 interviews so far, and 2 more on Monday. Go to the Y, and try to drop some pounds, I need to get in the boat, and work on fixing the floor. Dream about warm weather. |
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| Definately spend more Saturdays at the workplace than during the summer. Spend some evenings down in the man-cave with my guitars, writing/recording. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Ice fish, even when the Packers and Bears are playing.
Shoot lots of video.
Go to shows nearly every weekend.
Shoot lots of video.
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Location: In a shack in the woods | Spear, fish, and snowmobile. |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Ya Steve, I did the same thing. Had the TV in the shanty while icefishing. The best of both worlds watching the Packers beating the Bears and yelling "Tip-up"!
Netman
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| Healing up from a shoulder plant in the sand while playing in a volleyball tourney , Workin on my 47 dodge pu rat rod . Cleaned all the reels already sharpened and changed hooks were needed , Put all top producing lures from last season in one go to box . Oh and there is that shoveling snow every other day. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Shed hunting and ice fishing. |
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| How has the shed hunting been Sam. I have yet to get out this year to look but maybe this weekend. |
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Location: Geneva, IL | All Blackhawks home games, ice fishing, go to the gym, go enjoy live music with my wife and friends a couple times a week. Browse fishing forums... |
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| Guitar, grouse hunting, rabbit hunting, trapping. My favorite thing in the world was January quail hunting, but the bobwhite is more or less extinct due to America's love affair with overpopulation and development. |
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| Been video taping Coyotes getting lead poisoning when Im not working at musky shows.
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com |
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| im with hanson on the coyots smokin been a great year so far we put down number 47 tonight got a new favorite coyote gun in the 25-06 wow what a hole it puts in them |
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Location: South-Central PA | I love to trout fish this time of year. Usually the streams around here aren't frozen for long periods of time and I can get out once and awhile- not this year. Too cold! I bide my time building custom rods and lures and dreaming of long summer float trips on the river...
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Location: where the fish are... | i sit and watch tv waiting for open water..... i hate this time of year, oh and i ice fish once or twice a winter to remind myself i hate doing it. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | chasintails - 1/27/2011 9:54 AM How has the shed hunting been Sam. I have yet to get out this year to look but maybe this weekend.
Weak! Most bucks are still holding around here, although I have some trail footage of a half-rack and one missing both sides. Just yesterday at lunch I drove past an area I can always see deer from the road and saw one big bodied buck with soda can bloody bases - still fresh, bleeding and dripping. Wish I didn't work in an office sometimes so I wouldn't worry about hopping out of the car and walking in with my dress shoes on, lol. |
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| thescottith - 1/26/2011 2:29 PM
Work, Ice fish, work some more, do the kids hockey stuff, he got his first hat trick last night!
Nice, way to go Isaiah
I like to hibernate, play music in my studio, watch muskie shows and murder commies in Call of Duty Black Ops. |
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| I used to shed hunt, almost everyday.
Now I live in Florida, in the winter. I golf twice a week, and bass fish once or twice a week.
I go up to Vermilion, on May 15, and stay till October 1st.
I'm originally from the Chicago area, but retired from law enforcement, almost two years ago.
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | I enjoy recreational drinking of fine whiskey like makers mark and jack daniels. Keeps ya warm when things outside aren't so great. |
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| Here in Buffalo, NY we make use of the snow by making snowmen carrying giant muskies:
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Location: WI | Lots of cross country skiing this winter, and some snowshoeing. Read 6 books since Christmas. |
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| You guys are a pitiful bunch. Some of us are suffering, trying to heal raker cuts.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | that's a chunky one |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I hope they sting. A Little, at least... |
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| living in canada we get to have a relationship with our snow shovels. i train my dogs and build baits. c,mon spring |
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| woodieb8 - 1/29/2011 7:41 PM
living in canada we get to have a relationship with our snow shovels.
Perhaps a divorce would be in order?  |
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Location: VA | In Virginia we chase fat chicks all winter. Paint lures and run over rocks in jet boats. I've found way too many rocks this winter. 
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| fsf,
What do you fish out of? I was there yesterday afternoon as well. We had 7-8 fish up with no takers, and watched a bass fisherman catch a 49"er and a striper guy catch a 46"er on a skipjack. The 49" was dragged up on the bank and laid in the grass so the guy could get out his camera for a photo. It was out of the water for at least 5-6 minutes. The guy was then surprised when the fish didn't swim right off.
Fishing muskies in the winter is great, but I'd trade it for fishing MN or WS all summer in a heartbeat. Of course, it was 56* today and went hiking with the wife and dogs, and that's pretty nice too.
Ryan
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| Sounds like a lot of activity on Friday. I like that fish Mullheads got. I never tell those northern guys I'd rather fish up there all summer, though true, it goes to their heads, and ...have you seen the size heads they have already??
P.S. I'm waiting for some northern wussy to start a thread about how to deal with "snowshovelshoulder". |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Bucknuts now that's what I'm talking about! Snowbird all the way, I'm getting close a couple more years of working, but that is the dream of my retirement.
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Spend most of the winter working to improve muskie fishing...
- Attending MI-DNR regulations meetings
- putting WI and MI together for spring 2011 great lakes muskellunge gamete collection
- organizing a genetic research project for MI muskellunge
- writing grant proposals
- Speaking at the Nat. Coolwater Fish Culture Workshop
- organizing our chapter banquet to raise money for muskie projects here in MI
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| Shovel snow
drink beer
sharpenhooks and drink beer |
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