I'd let him keep the motors , Put the money towards a newer one. He should have called you before he started the work.
Anybody catching tullibees on Leech yet? A good bait to use are the May fly larva {wigglers}, but good luck trying to find them. I like to use a substitute, A couple of shrimp I should say scuds hooked cross way and pushed up to the hook eye with a waxworm threaded lengthwise on a longshank hook looks a lot like a wiggler , I think it works even better
You know the Mn DNR, The sky is falling The sky is falling, Run for your lives.. Without them telling us, We wouldn't know we had all these problems. Some how the money always ends up in DNR pockets and they keep getting bigger.
They don't seem to understand. The business of fishing is just as important as the fish.
Sorry, To leave you hanging. What I mean to say Is that over half the licensed bait dealers in Minnesota have quit in the last five years. And most of the rest are thinking about it. Minnesota DNR keeps chocking us down with AIS rules and taking minnow ponds away for raising walleyes and denying us access on state land for no reason. They won't let us import any minnows from another state. Most of us think the DNR is trying to eliminate live bait in the state. They won't say that, But it sure seems as if they are. We have meetings with them, They say they want to help but its all empty promises. If some thing doesn't change soon, There won't be enough bait dealers left in the state to service twenty five percent of the stores. Even with a one hundred percent price increase we will be unable to sustain with the short supply of minnows and leeches. Ive been in the bait business for fifty years but all these new regulations and competition for ponds is going to push us out. As the price of your fishing bait goes up you know who to thank.
Live bait in Minnesota, Not much longer, If the Mn DNR has their way
Any lake north of the Brainerd area
should have enough ice for atvs some for pickups. But some lakes stayed open in the middle so they only have 5 or6 inches out there.When people go tearing across the lake pulling their wheelhouse, and fall in out there we hear about it on the news . If your breaking a new trail check the ice thickness often especially in the middle. Good conditions and little snow otherwise.
There's alot of stream trout lakes in northern mn. Maybe a phn call to local fisheries would point you in the right direction. There should be some that aren't over run with golden shiners yet. good luck
wow, Now I can't get bloody marys off my mind.