Bummer. Good fishing buddy is moving to Minnesota.

[Darth-Baiter]

One of my “inner circle”.  We share secret spots.   We just met this year on our kayaks and we’ve taken a lot of fish together. 
 

Him and his wife are moving. Boo!  I’m so happy for them but dang it.  On the bright side I googled his new home and it is surrounded by juicy waters.  Realistically I may get out there once or twice, but it’s far!  Driving there with my kayak isn’t happening anytime soon. Haha. 
 

I’ll miss him for sure. 

[Deephaven]

Where in MN?

[MN Fisher]

Ya - 'juicy waters' could be anywhere between the Canadian border to the Iowa border...that's several hundred miles.

[Darth-Baiter]

16 minutes ago, Deephaven said:

Where in MN?

Rochester. I think   Pretty sure 

[MN Fisher]

2 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

Rochester. I think   Pretty sure 

There's some decent waters down in that area...and it's only an hour to the Mississippi River in Winona...so lots of good fishing.

[Bluebasser86]

A friend of mine moved to the banks of Minnetonka several years ago. He wasn't a social media guy, so when his number was disconnected one day, I had no other way to contact him. Have never heard from him since. Made it up to fish with him once shortly after he moved but was really looking forward to getting to visit occasionally and do some fishing up there with him and having a place to stay. 

[MN Fisher]

7 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

was really looking forward to getting to visit occasionally and do some fishing up there with him and having a place to stay

 

I'd offer - but an 850SqFt house barely fits the wife and I.

[Bluebasser86]

1 minute ago, MN Fisher said:

 

I'd offer - but an 850SqFt house barely fits the wife and I.

Yeah, this was back when I was single with no kids too. Traveling 9 hours to go fishing wasn't such a big deal back then. 

[MN Fisher]

6 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Traveling 9 hours to go fishing wasn't such a big deal back then. 

Ya - I'm familiar with the distance. We visited friends a couple times in Olathe - and took a yearly camping jaunt to a private gathering just SW of Leavenworth...that was back in the 90s and early 2000s...haven't been down that way since 2002.

[ajschn06]

On 7/26/2021 at 12:33 PM, Darth-Baiter said:

One of my “inner circle”.  We share secret spots.   We just met this year on our kayaks and we’ve taken a lot of fish together. 
 

Him and his wife are moving. Boo!  I’m so happy for them but dang it.  On the bright side I googled his new home and it is surrounded by juicy waters.  Realistically I may get out there once or twice, but it’s far!  Driving there with my kayak isn’t happening anytime soon. Haha. 
 

I’ll miss him for sure. 

 

He's a lucky guy.  Rochester itself doesn't have the greatest bass waters in the state, but as others have said he'll be about 45 min from the Mississippi in Winona which has endless backwaters to explore or 45 min the other way to all the Twin Cities area lakes (There's so many).  If he's feeling really adventurous- head north to the Brainerd area where it's impossible to get skunked...

[TnRiver46]

From an outsider prospective, Minnesota is a way better place to fish than California simply because there’s so much more water 

 

Then again I have never experienced winter in Minnesota

[MN Fisher]

37 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Then again I have never experienced winter in Minnesota

You get use to it...

First winter my wife experienced, she was 'I wanna go home'.

Now she's 'I never want to leave MN'.

 

She grew up in SE Florida (Boca Raton, Ft. Lauderdale, etc)

[roadwarrior]

2 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

You get use to it...

 

[islandbass]

That’s got to be a bummer.  Chris Cornell knew a bit about “Looking California, and feeling Minnesota.” (0:50)

 

 

Reading your post made me recall this Sound Garden song with an appropriate line at 0:50 lol. 

[Fishin Dad]

On 7/26/2021 at 12:50 PM, Darth-Baiter said:

Rochester. I think   Pretty sure 

I live a little west of there.  Bass fishing is solid here.  It takes 20 lbs to win a tourney around here.  It took 22 lbs. on Sunday.  Not a lot pressure either.  Choices abound.  Hope he enjoys it here.  Ice fishing passes the time until mid May.  The only hard times are waiting for the season to open in the spring.  I just head down to Iowa to get my fix until Bass opens or fish for crappies for a couple of weeks.