By Bret Baker
Pine Knot News Outdoors
The moon: It pulls us
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Cloquet’s Joseph Baker, 15, hoists a full-moon walleye. The fish was fooled by a Rapala Husky Jerk.
The moon is full, pulling us like the tide.
We really have no business heading over to Mille Lacs today. The Vikings just wrapped up another game and the afternoon is slipping away. It is the last full week of October, and time is tight. I run the math in my head, as I have done all day. Leave at 4:15 p.m., get to the landing by 5:45, trolling by 6 p.m. Due to special regulations, we needed to be off the water by 10 p.m., meaning, in reality, we needed to be back to the boat ramp by 9:45 p.m. The math really doesn’t add up — driving three hours round-trip to get less than four hours of trollin...
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