Minnesota Waterfowl Hunting

I’m sure my gf is sleeping with real men while I’m out fly fishing, but as long as they don’t troll with down riggers im usually ok with it


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I've never trolled with downriggers....what's the easiest most cost effective way to give it a whirl Nershi?



This is kind of a cool pic my buddy took.....from a cliff.....if you look closely you can see me and my brother fishing I'm guessing 200'+ below.....

Fish Felon wrote:I've never trolled with downriggers....what's the easiest most cost effective way to give it a whirl Nershi?



This is kind of a cool pic my buddy took.....from a cliff.....if you look closely you can see me and my brother fishing I'm guessing 200'+ below.....

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Im starting to love that system more and more.


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I don’t have downriggers on my boat. By the time you need em it’s musky season and I’m done with trout and salmon. Fish are up top when I’m fishing them. My old man has em. Leadcore out fishes downriggers 5:1 so I’d suggest buying those first. You can use leadcore for walleye too.

Just joking on the fly fishing thing. I fly fish. I give fly fisherman chit because a lot of the fly guys are elitist. Kind of like some of the musky guys.

Oh, I've been using leadcore for years homey. I figured I've got all the stuff to hit Superior, minus downriggers. If they're really down when I go I guess I'll just throw a 3-5oz snap weight on the leadcore and that should do it.

Fly fishing is super elitist. It’s funny cause a fly fisherman will go so far out of their way to help another fly fisherman but if you use anything that even closely resembles a treble hook it’s nothing but dirty looks looool


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Can drop a bunch of money on downriggers, I went the inexpensive route. Have a Big John and a Walker manual. Like the Walker better than Big John. For a release I prefer the Walker over the clamp styles.
Have lead core but have not used it much, also bought some wire line to use with a dipsy, but then I stopped going to Lake MI before I spooled it up. Trolling inland lakes I have done well with the riggers.

Back to drought...

We've been a La Nina weather pattern, that is to weaken by summers end to a neutral influence. So do we get "average" precip starting Summer thru Fall? Who knows....

The drought has been increasing in the west for yrs now. Reached the Dakotas 2 yrs ago and Mn last Yr.

Lets put it this way, if it continues in the prairies - can you moderate duck season for 2022?
Because currently the vast majority of the "duck factory" is in a at least a moderate drought when the ducks returned.

I have no idea if this is drought related or not, but I have never seen so many diver ducks this late in the local sloughs as this year, unbelievable numbers, sure could be drought related I guess ......

h2ofwlr wrote:Back to drought...

We've been a La Nina weather pattern, that is to weaken by summers end to a neutral influence. So do we get "average" precip starting Summer thru Fall? Who knows....

The drought has been increasing in the west for yrs now. Reached the Dakotas 2 yrs ago and Mn last Yr.

Lets put it this way, if it continues in the prairies - can you moderate duck season for 2022?
Because currently the vast majority of the "duck factory" is in a at least a moderate drought when the ducks returned.

Most of Prairie Canada has been bone dry for what....three years now?

It does make you wonder about whether or not the USFWS is pressured into setting liberal season frameworks. Thirty years of them in a row seems kind of crazy, but then again.....looking at this it kind of makes sense....

9manfan wrote:I have no idea if this is drought related or not, but I have never seen so many diver ducks this late in the local sloughs as this year, unbelievable numbers, sure could be drought related I guess ......

Same here.....just saw a ton of ringbills on Onamia and a few other rice lakes a few hours ago.