The up north thread

Tidbits and News related to northern Wisconsin. 

Mosquitos were non existent this weekend. Maybe it was the wind that held them at bay, but I wasn’t bit 1 time since Thursday. 

Stone Lake area. The new Stone Lake Pub will be opening Thursday, totally brand new, after the fire burnt the original building down last year. Maries Hideaway across the street is now called Eagles Corner The Farmboyz grocery store has added a LOT of new stuff and have pizza to order and an ice cream shop. Things look to be going better for the future of our town.So if you are in the area stop by.

  North to cabin Monday at 0dark30 - current forecast near cabin shows a hi of 55 all of next week with hit & miss rain . As always the temps will vary from the prediction           ——           No matter what month it is , wherever we are or whatever doing ,  not a day goes by that don’t have a thought or 2 float thru my mind of the months of Aug- Dec & being in the northwoods , whether work to do at cabin / land or just thinking of enjoying the change of season & all that comes with it .         🦌

- will fire up the soapstone upon arrival 

Got good rain here yesterday maybe an inch. SOOOOOOO badly needed. 

Made it up to the camper with the yak…. Quick morning trip…. No Muskie, switched to smaller stuff and nailed a bass right away pretty flowage up here saw a dead black bear on 94 by tomah..

Might head up this weekend , drag the kayak up, sister is coming to visit mom and they would like to request my presence… not sure  I will have time to fish though, will see see, super busy with work, maybe quick visit and head home…

I've noticed the same RC!

I noticed they've been especially frequent by the end of the two lanes, where it merges back to one!

Hwy 51 I havent seen this many State Troopers in 30 years.  big change from 2 years ago when i would see no  cops on 51.  

With the river bottom by me still really wet from the floods the skeeters are the worst they've been in years. Even the recent cold nights haven't slowed em down. Time to get out the big sprayer and put em in their place be for the 80's come next week.

I was up north yesterday and had a great day of fishing, with many Esox caught/released. The wind was clipping along from the ESE (strong enough to develop white caps) and I was the only one on the lake.  The traffic coming north yesterday was crazy.  I'm glad I got my fishing itch out of the way before the holiday weekend.

To echo 44/45's comments....the mosquitos were horrendous yesterday.  I still have live ones in my truck cab today that got access yesterday when I was unloading/loading my boat at the landing.

Ticks are plentiful here  

Skeeeeters, that's ​all I have to say!

HEADING UP TO THREE LAKES FOR A WEEK OF R AND R
HOPEFULLY THE FISH ARE GOING TO COOPERATE

There is a video on FB of a bull moose trotting along the highway near Sugar Camp on 5/16/26.  I was going to post the link but there is an F-bomb in it so decided not to.  If you search it, I'm sure you can find it.  

It's been a busy May for me with many things preventing fishing.  I did free myself up late in the week for a 1/2 day and fished 3 different lakes, catching fish on all 3.  Contacted 20+ pike from the 25/26" class to mid 30's, plus some nice smallmouth bass.  All released.  After 30 some years of exclusively targeting big muskies, chasing pike has been a blast.  I'm hoping this season that I can best my biggest WI pike from last fall at 45", which I released.  I was more excited over that fish than some of the 50"+ muskies I've caught.