Minnesota Radio Announcer Calls Fans 'morons'

[HawkeyeHypnosis]

I frickin' love ice fishing. I'm not a people person so it's perfect for me. I can sit in my shack in silence and catch fish all day with no one coming over to talk about the weather or ask me how it's going. Although every year I get older the more I hate cold. At some point I imagine I'll start hating the cold more than people.

I can’t disagree but it’s not fishing. It’s waiting.

 

[Fryowa]

I can’t disagree but it’s not fishing. It’s waiting.

Not the way I do it. If I'm not catching anything or seeing fish on my Vexilar I'm moving. 90% of my ice fishing is done in a portable flip over shack. When I get to a spot I drill about 8-10 holes and hop from one to the next with electronics to see if I'm marking anything, maybe 5 minutes per hole max. If I find fish in that group I set up shop and go to town. If I don't I move 50-60 feet and repeat. I've fished IGL and NW Iowa long enough that it doesn't take me long to find fish usually.

Now all that said I'm a pan fisherman on the ice. Bluegill, crappie, and yellow bass are what I'm after. There isn't a better eating fish on the planet than a 9" bluegill pulled out of a lake a couple hours prior. Perch are a pain in the ass to clean for the amount of meat around here because we don't get the big size like they have in the Dakotas, and they fight about as hard as UMass does at football. Boring. Yellows are nice because they fight hard and there's no limit in Iowa. Yellows are invasive, eat other fish's eggs, and the DNR wants as many out of the lakes as possible. I'm happy to oblige and there's times between my kid and I we'll pull 150 out in a day. Have burned up a couple electric fillet knives in the past cleaning 200+ fish in one session.

I will agree with you if you're talking walleye, northern, etc. I can't do that because I'm not going to sit on one hole all day for 3 fish. Doesn't excite me and bluegill/crappie are so much better to eat.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Not the way I do it. If I'm not catching anything or seeing fish on my Vexilar I'm moving. 90% of my ice fishing is done in a portable flip over shack. When I get to a spot I drill about 8-10 holes and hop from one to the next with electronics to see if I'm marking anything, maybe 5 minutes per hole max. If I find fish in that group I set up shop and go to town. If I don't I move 50-60 feet and repeat. I've fished IGL and NW Iowa long enough that it doesn't take me long to find fish usually.

Now all that said I'm a pan fisherman on the ice. Bluegill, crappie, and yellow bass are what I'm after. There isn't a better eating fish on the planet than a 9" bluegill pulled out of a lake a couple hours prior. Perch are a pain in the ass to clean for the amount of meat around here because we don't get the big size like they have in the Dakotas, and they fight about as hard as UMass does at football. Boring. Yellows are nice because they fight hard and there's no limit in Iowa. Yellows are invasive, eat other fish's eggs, and the DNR wants as many out of the lakes as possible. I'm happy to oblige and there's times between my kid and I we'll pull 150 out in a day. Have burned up a couple electric fillet knives in the past cleaning 200+ fish in one session.

I will agree with you if you're talking walleye, northern, etc. I can't do that because I'm not going to sit on one hole all day for 3 fish. Doesn't excite me and bluegill/crappie are so much better to eat.

Also, I think yellows eat right under a crappie or pretty damn equivalent, IMO.

 

[Fryowa]

Also, I think yellows eat right under a crappie or pretty damn equivalent, IMO.

For sure. Snobs say they can tell a difference I've blind taste tested people before and no one I've ever come across can tell them apart.

Yellows are how I fill my freezer for the year. I don't do much summer or spring fishing outside of a couple weeks of spawn, but in the winter it's go time on yellows. I might have 300-400 yellow bass filets vac sealed in my freezer come end of February (totally legal, btw). I can do some huge fish frys and still have leftovers to eat for myself and the gf. The more yellows dead on a dinner plate instead of eating bluegill/crappie/perch/walleye eggs in the spring and pushing out native fish the better.

 

[NorthKCHawk]

I have no problem with this. Humor and fan bases taking shots at each other is fun and it’s football.

Also like mentioned, this is from Blazing Saddles and anyone who can quote that movie from memory is ok with me.

100%. This was absolutely hilarious. Good on him. Seems that most are taking it the way it was intended. And hey, there is a bit of truth to the line being applied to Iowa fans. Probably what inspired Wilder to come up with it!

 

[NorthKCHawk]

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You taking about Alex

Two of our best alums in what is one of the most iconic comedies of all time.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

For sure. Snobs say they can tell a difference I've blind taste tested people before and no one I've ever come across can tell them apart.

Yellows are how I fill my freezer for the year. I don't do much summer or spring fishing outside of a couple weeks of spawn, but in the winter it's go time on yellows. I might have 300-400 yellow bass filets vac sealed in my freezer come end of February (totally legal, btw). I can do some huge fish frys and still have leftovers to eat for myself and the gf. The more yellows dead on a dinner plate instead of eating bluegill/crappie/perch/walleye eggs in the spring and pushing out native fish the better.

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Used to hit them at Clear Lake hard. The morning & afternoon bite would be ridiculous. For 1.5hr sometimes would drop down a jig and bam, every drop. Big old 11-13 inchers. Fight like hell. To bad they are invasive & so destructive. Agree with harvesting as many as one can. They are prolific and never a threat to extinction. With how hard and aggressive they hit your jigs when feeding, just think what they do to other fish fry. Scary actually when thinking about it.

Also, I so much agree with the bold above. Most would never tell the difference, especially if fresh. They aren't fishy at all and don't really have a demonstrative blood line. Maybe the larger one's have to clean up a bit but they fry up very well.

 

[Fryowa]

Used to hit them at Clear Lake hard. The morning & afternoon bite would be ridiculous. For 1.5hr sometimes would drop down a jig and bam, every drop. Big old 11-13 inchers. Fight like hell. To bad they are invasive & so destructive. Agree with harvesting as many as one can. They are prolific and never a threat to extinction. With how hard and aggressive they hit your jigs when feeding, just think what they do to other fish fry. Scary actually when thinking about it.

Also, I so much agree with the bold above. Most would never tell the difference, especially if fresh. They aren't fishy at all and don't really have a demonstrative blood line. Maybe the larger one's have to clean up a bit but they fry up very well.

Went to a winter yellow tournament on Lost Island Lake way back in the day where part of the rules you weren't allowed to throw any back. It was total weight was how you placed. They had the big 33 gallon plastic garbage cans that they gave out to each team and there were guys who filled more than one. It's insane how fast they reproduce and take over. Clear Lake and Lost Island are terrible.

They had three or four guys on a flat bed trailer cleaning fish as part of the entry fee and I forget how many they'd do per person but it was a ton. There was a local farmer (maybe more than one, it was a long time ago) who took all the small ones no one wanted and dumped them in a bed of his straight truck. He was taking them back to grind up and spread on his ground for fertilizer.