RhnstnCowboy
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Minnesota Trip
In a couple weeks, I will be giving KJH a lesson on how to fish Rainy Lake. I am planning on bringing 2 spinning set-ups, a casting set up and a fly rod. My question is about the casting set up. I have a couple Abu Garcia Ambassedeurs 5500 and I have a larger round Gander Mountain baitcaster with a baitrunner. We will be fishing for smalljaws, pike, musky and walleye, so I want something versatile that I can throw baits and maybe fish with livebait, too. Which should I bring? What kind and weight of line? What type of steel leaders do I need?
post edited by RhnstnCowboy - 2009/08/04 13:58:23
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 14:18:54
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Just take a trot line set up, 10 lbs of smelt, and 5 lbs of chicken thighs.
That way you don't have to cast at all and can spend more time sippin on corn squeezins.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 14:26:48
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Trot line is a great idea, so are jugs. I will be running a trot line and jugging the bays...
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 14:38:00
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Bring a raincoat, I hear it rains a lot up there. 
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 14:47:15
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I'd consider hiring a guide up there too. Someone with experience in the area.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 14:54:01
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If Al Lindner can take a day off from writing another riveting article about the latest inovation in crainkbaiting rockpiles, maybe he can guide us? A while back I approached Doug Stange at In-fisherman about writing an article on a canoe-fishing trip I had done. he was very nice and I talked to him on the phone for 30 minutes, but he basically said no one had any interest in reading about a canoe fishing trip and that people really wanted to hear about technique...
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 14:57:47
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Maybe, can't hurt to call. His wife might cook for you guys too!
Seiruosly, I've heard it's really easy to get lost around there. The inexperienced adventurers should always have a guide to help them in the Minnesote wilds.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:00:24
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i got a pile of leaders you guys can take from my recent trip. i used 14 pound for the casting set up.
Kev was nice enough to lend me his pike flies, lemmie know if yinz wanna borrow lures, flies, rods etc.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:05:09
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ORIGINAL: D-nymph
Maybe, can't hurt to call. His wife might cook for you guys too!Â
Seiruosly, I've heard it's really easy to get lost around there. The inexperienced adventurers should always have a guide to help them in the Minnesote wilds.
Lucky for everyone else, I won't be navigating. For several summers, KJH and our other buddy Jimmy guided trips on Rainy Lake and all around the area, so they know the lake pretty well. We are supposed to have a guide come out with us for a day or two...
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:05:37
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Thanks for the offer, Razz. I'll let you know...
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:06:17
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For several summers, KJH and our other buddy Jimmy guided trips on Rainy Lake and all around the area, so they know the lake pretty well.
Like I said, hire a guide. 
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:06:58
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pike flies,
Did you catch fish or just break rods?
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:07:29
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Like I said, hire a guide.
That is even funnier because you don't know Jimmy. Lets just say he's a liability...
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:11:56
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ORIGINAL: D-nymph
Like I said, hire a guide.
That is even funnier because you don't know Jimmy. Lets just say he's a liability...
Moreso than kjh? Dude, you better pack a first aid kit then, the cadillac one.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:19:47
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Moreso than kjh?
Dude, you better pack a first aid kit then, the cadillac one.
He makes KJH look like a choir boy. He is equally adept at badgering girls til they cry, getting kicked out of bars, chain-smoking in bars/restaurants that are no smoking, driving heavy equipment that he has no business fooling with, hitting on old guys' wives, stealing the microphone from the singer of the house band and belting out his own rendtion of "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way," etc... He has been barred from entering Canada for the past 7 years.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:22:41
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Sounds like a good ole fun lovin' chap.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:24:34
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He does it all with a smile on his face and almost always manages to get out of it somehow.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:25:26
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I should be on this trip.
F#!* work.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:27:04
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:30:17
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he's kinda the zing to my yang....
he is the one who made me stop my rouge/poaching logging efforts while illegally operating the largest vechile in the Boise-cascade fleet
while...
I was the one who tried to curb his efforts of destroying 640acres of one of Central Ohio's finer educational establishments
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:33:07
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You're invited...
I know, can't go. Huge work project due Sept 1st, our biggest in several years. Can't eff it up. I really, shouldn't even be online now.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:35:18
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Work 18 hour days til August 21 and finish early
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:41:42
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Oh yeah, I almost forgot that he had Homeland Security and the Bomb Squad called to our college and got his face on CNN.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:41:57
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:42:24
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pike flies,
Did you catch fish or just break rods?
both...
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:43:50
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ORIGINAL: RhnstnCowboy
You're invited...
I know, can't go.
Huge work project due Sept 1st, our biggest in several years. Can't eff it up. I really, shouldn't even be online now.
It's the Fn Catalina Wine Mixer
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:44:59
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It's a big sewage treatment plant to help out the Upper Allegheny River, replacing a nasty old one that hasn't worked in 15 years.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:48:36
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It's a big sewage treatment plant to help out the Upper Allegheny River, replacing a nasty old one that hasn't worked in 15 years.
EHHH so whats another month? its Cincinnati's problem anyway
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:54:39
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haha.
One more month, and the client would lose the millions of dollars that Obama's giving them, as lon gas they bid by Sept. 1st. One day late, no "free" money.
Which would then mean, I'm fired, and moving in your basement when the wife kicks me out.
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RE: Minnesota Trip
2009/08/04 15:57:46
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i knew it was O'bama's fault...
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