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Eh, I wasn't meaning to offend, just cheersing a beer. My spelling gets just as bad.

I'm having a blue, what about you? lol, I get your point though.

Great point! To me, that picture says I've done it all, and enjoyed it!

Damn, thats harsh. Very sorry to hear for you and the little one

A few videos

View from the deck of the shack The rapids last night Early morning shore line, to the east Before the rapids Todays rapids

Some pics from last night and early this morning. The east landing The start of the rapids Dirty white water/debris By the shack, trees under water The shack, and the smoker fridge

lol, I wish. I'm done fishing here for abit as well, no way I want 20ft sections of 20" thick ice smashing into my boat, nevermind the thousands of trees cruising around, hehe. It's the highest I've ever seen it. I tried to look it up, but found two different values. On the US side of Manitou rapids, its measured in real time. It says it's currently averaging 15.8ft deep (mean average since 1912 is 6ft roughly), and it's pushing 45,900cubic ft3 per second (average since 1912 is about 16,000). It's states the highest ever recorded was 34,000 cubic ft per second. On one other site, not sure about reliability, it said the highest ever was 2001 (which I don't remember???) was 51,000 cubic ft per second. Looks damn cool though, even though it's halted my dailly fishing excursions http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mn/nwis/uv?05133500

Well, after having a really lucky early spring, my first set back to the fishing season. The water has been steadily rising for about 10 days, but in the last two days, Little Fork/Big Fork rivers let go, and well.... The river is flooded, literally double it's depth and volume, and there is ice and debri everywhere. Our shack is literally 1 ft from the water. Anyhow, I realize most of the board is from southern ontario, but if you had plans to visit rainy river before April 16th, I'd cancel. I'll get some pics up from yesterday and today as soon as my kids are of to school. Good morning all

Very impressive!!!!

Some really good points there, especially on the larger jig use. I use 3/8-1/2oz. more often than smaller jigs on the rainy river. Basically it allows you to fish where you want to fish, and with smaller jigs, it's very difficult to even judge where your lure actually is. Also, I agree about the vertical presentation, but, I much prefer to cast and retrieve to find the right structure and to find active fish. IMO this method will land many more fish in a river setting, then vertical jigging. But, there are times for both techniques, judging when why and where is the question the angler has to figure out, lol.

I'm a Leafs fan, unfortunately. But I'm rooting for Van this year, they are playing some of the best hockey I've seen for quite awhile

Well, I've been out the past 2-3 days, and the bite wasn't hot, but patience won and we managed some decent walleye and some family fun. The weather was very nice for a week straight, sunny, warm and almost zero wind, not very ideal for fishing. So yesterday morning I was exited to wake up and see some clouds, some wind, and even some snow flurries. I managed to land my biggest walleye thus far on soft water (from shore, too crappy out for the boat). But that will not last long, as the momma walleyes are heading in to spawn from LOTW and Rainy Lake! Anyhow, a few pics Bagged up and ready to go, two small walleyes Yesterdays gear Pretty gnarly conditions, snow/sleet, to the west To the east A buddys 22" two days ago My daughter stuck in a tree, lol An upgrade for the OFC tourny

No, not ungrateful at all, lol, I'm just giving you a friendly reminder of an invite! haha If you can make it, great, if not, no big deal. It's not like Dryden isn't near some amazing fishing (Lac Seul) I think it's about 1.5 hours if I remember correctly. Head down highway 11 until the turn off to Souix Narrows/ Nestor Falls, and we are right at the end of that highway.

Wow, those are gorgeous pics!!! Nice fish too

I'm glad to see them in this area. Hopefully they can pinch some of those that choose to keep sturgeon.

Awesome pics and report, and usual Limey! Always glad to see the kids getting out and having fun! So, when are you gonna head down to Emo??? We have to get out man, walleye run has begun, it's all soft water on Rainy River, and the mommas should be here in a week or so. Right now it's all 17-22" eyes, but those 30" mommas are comin' very soon!

I love this show

Yep, I don't fish illegally. But, in years past, I have had some attitude issues with other officers in different zones. So I'm very appreciative of how I was treated.

I went out fishing today(from shore) for a few hours. Bite was slow, but I managed a few decent fish, biggest was a 22" walleye. There was one boat near me with 4 people fishing as well, when the MNR pulled up in the boat. I don't mean to listen in, but I could here them off loading beer bottles from the boat, and they spent a good 30-40 minutes talking with them. I'm assuming they got fined for at least something. Anyhow, the boat left when the MNR was done with them. Then the 2 officers pulled up near shore to chat with me. I'm very happy about that, it's been over two years since I was last checked fishing that spot on the Rainy river. He asked how the bite was, I replied slow. He asked how many I had landed and their size, I told him I landed 4 fish, all but one in the 17-18" range, but I released all but one 22". He said "nice! What did you catch them on?" YUM 6" salted worms wacky rigged on a jig head I replied. He laughed, said thats different. He helped me take a few pictures of my fish then said good luck and was on his way. I'm just glad to see them out checking, but also appreciate how kind they were. It's really an awesome thing when the power doesn't get into their heads. Keep up the good work officers!

I'm going out for the evening bite shortly, maybe I can get some more good pics???

lol, I know, I've been meaning to post some forever, but just finally opened a photobucket account for the tourny. It is amazing here, I love it. Head out in the boat twice a week, then fish the shore with the kids for the rest of the week. It's so nice to be able to just walk 10 minutes to go do some awesome fishing. Plus all the nature etc, the kids love it. It's almost like living up the lake

Buckets of walleyes! Me and 4 others fished the sand bar for two hours, all these fish were pulled out of 2-3 ft of water, no structure at all Waiting on baitfish. There were millions of walleye fry here, they were soooo thick. Guess pelicans love walleyes too For 5 years old, this son of mine can fish! Dummy hooked lamprey, so gross

Crawfish bait hunt with the kids Decent river smallmouth, they fight a ton in the current, so fun Our kids are so lucky, I wish I had it like this as a kid, lol Heading out on lake of the woods, awesome lake The dogs come to!