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June 2016 Blog Posts (4)

Minnesota GIANTS

Bluegill fishing in Minnesota has been off to a great start! We started off in May during the pre spawn period searching for northern giants on the edges of hard stem bulrushes. Anything that featured green cabbage adjacent to the rushes and contained a steep break-line with deep water access seemed to be the ticket. The key has been patterns not spots as fish location has been changing on a weekly basis, but the patterns have remained consistent. Last week, the first full moon in June, just…

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Added by Garett_Svir on June 28, 2016 at 9:50am — No Comments

Anyone Using A Float Tube?

I have had back problems for awhile now and had back surgery earlier this year. This has limited what I can lift to 25 lbs ...that is unless I want to screw it up more and have to have the disk fused. Not what i want to do. Anyway I can't really get my kayaks to the water right now, vehicle issues, but even if I could lifting them is out of the question. Working on a trailer build that will help some. 

Ok back to the reason for this post...I was wondering if anyone is…

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Added by Eddie Mathis on June 22, 2016 at 12:28pm — 7 Comments

Slip Float Lessons, Relearned

I have been doing some slip-floating lately. One morning I just decided to stop by BJ's bait supply and get me some of his extra fine red worms. In my kit were various slip floats, hooks and small split shot. I was in business, and the fly rod stayed in the car.

I re-learned that long floats and teeny rigs are definitely out, for me. The best floats for my use are stout 2" models, with a single 3/0 shot to balance them. These cast like bullets, and they don't have long, dangly stems…

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Added by David, aka, "McScruff" on June 6, 2016 at 6:30pm — 8 Comments

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Wow a nother first act a 2nd caught a bluegill in Maine, I wonder how it migrated up here , I caught him on my Badger classic tenkara rod, the first cast I was using a pink bead SRW

Added by Mark Sleeper on June 5, 2016 at 10:39am — No Comments

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