How is your weather? (Part 2)

about 1.5ft.

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About 2ā€™ compacted on ground here. Hoping Keewenaw Bay freezes over soon. The boys and I would like to get out and catch some lake whitefish.

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we have them here too but overfishing and competition from other species has wiped them out from most of the lakes around here, there are only a handful left that support good populations. pound for pound they are the hardest fighting fish Iā€™ve ever caught and damned fine eating as well. smoked whitefish was a common delicacy here up till about 20 yrs ago. my p.b was caught in the mid 80ā€™s while fishing on a remote lake with my grandfather. just over 7lbs. caught it jigging with a 3/4oz silver/ blue swedish pimple tipped with a strip of smeltā€¦ i thought i had a 20lb. laker on. we jigged with 30lb black nylon line back then and handlined them in once hooked. got some line burn from that bugger.

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Nice! I am pretty sure all northeners have swedish pimples in their arsenals. Whitefish seem to be holding their own pretty well in Superior. l to think they are about the best fish for eating. Tie with burbot in my book. Had a local Ojibwa fishmonger give me a big burbot a few weeks ago when I bought some lake trout and salmon. Donā€™t think he can find buyers for 'em. Gross looking fish; absolutely superb eating. Used to hoop-net them from our local river around Christmas/New Year with smelt for bait. We have been using yellow perch more for cut bait lately.

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Would have been a nice day to hike down the Grand Canyon to the Colorado Riverā€¦ At the trailhead it was 60F with temps in the 70Fs down by the river.

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Got up to 65Ā°f today, very nice. Itā€™s supposed to get mostly below freezing consistently after tomorrow, too bad we couldnā€™t have a few more days like today to get rid of some of this mud.

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2 weeks in the 70s is going to wake up most of my fruit trees, regardless of what the rest of winter has in store for us down here.

Nothing i can do if I end up losing fruit chances.

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burbot are called cusk here and lakers are called togue. both are native names. cusk are darn good eating and called the poor mans lobstah here. we just had a derby and the winning cusk was 12lbs. lots of meat on that one. for the folks not familiar, they look like a cross between a eel and a catfish with a mottled brown color. the ones we caught ice fishing in A.K were green and brown. the fish fillet sandwich at mcds is supposedly whitefish but i think is the saltwater version. they are excellent eating.

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Local name for burbot here is ā€œlawyersā€.

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Burbot in MN=eel pout
In WI we also called them lawyers. Delicious when boiled and eaten with drawn butter. Disgusting when fried

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High today is going to be 76. Trees are getting ready to pop. Think Iā€™ll do some pruning today. Two weeks ago, the high was 19Ā°. I hope the groundhog is wrong And no more hard freezes. I know two years ago, We had a late February early March freeze and I lost all of my blossoms.

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Must have got close to 10" from a couple rounds of snow over the weekend. Sounds like more may be on the way.

Good time to head to SW FL for a few weeks I think

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got about 3-4in. more today. should be enough to get the trails somewhat groomed. my brothers a mechanic at a skidoo dealer. sled sales are down 80% and he has very little work right now.

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Funny how many different names they have. In western Canada Iā€™ve heard burbot or freshwater ling.

Weā€™re finally getting some cold weather here in central BC this week. Lows around 0F, pretty typical winter cold spell. Itā€™s been crazy warm up until now though, barely got below freezing through mid January.

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Nothing here. Just some sprinkles today. My brother was up in Eau Claire this morning and said they were plowing the roads up there.

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Theyā€™re talking ice storm for overnite. Forecasts for here seem to predict a minor event. Hope so.

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Read all your discussions about Burbot. I googled it on internet, it sounds like a delicious fish. They should throw some into the river that has Asia carp problems. Let fish take care other fish, not taxpayers money.

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ive never heard of them in moving water. they are usually a deep-water lake fish only going into the shallows in Feb. to spawn. sad you folks have that carp problem. hopefully they dont make it into the great lakes.

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Carps are in the great lakes. Itā€™s time to come up recipes and enjoy the natural resources. They are healthy food, high proteins and tasted delicious

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i would have thought someone would net these fish and send the fillets to Asia where they love carp. couldnā€™t be hard to net a ton of them. or sell to a organic fertilizer company for fish meal.