Podcasts about Lake Vermilion

Join Gregg Thomas as he speaks with Tucker Swanson, Jordan Stokes and Michael Hanson.  The Trio talks about reports from Lake Vermilion, Northwest Wisconsin and Metro Lakes.   www.thornebros.com www.battlethebeast.com www.stealthtackle.net  

Jason Freed LOVES Lake Vermilion, which is why he heads all the way up there to guide every summer. He's got all the details on a very hot bite...for everything! Walleyes, bass, muskies, panfish...it's all ON. Plus a little Brainerd-Bemidji Football talk (of course) and a Fast Five. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jason Freed LOVES Lake Vermilion, which is why he heads all the way up there to guide every summer. He's got all the details on a very hot bite...for everything! Walleyes, bass, muskies, panfish...it's all ON. Plus a little Brainerd-Bemidji Football talk (of course) and a Fast Five. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get to know Henry Schoolcraft including titles he held beginning around 1822. Find out if Schoolcraft himself wanted to rename Lake Superior. Learn what item had become a vital commodity in Europe with North America being the primary supplier during 18th Century. Get to know John Jacob Astor including what he established in the year 1808. Understand what makes Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan so unique. Determine which village in Minnesota got incorporated come 1857 including a timeline of how it evolved during Post Civil War Era. Discover what a Minnesota State Geologist came upon near Lake Vermilion come 1865. Get introduced to Charlemagne Tower & George Stone including what their party came upon natural resource wise in 1874. Get a timeline analysis of what takes place between 1878-1890 along Northeast Minnesota via transportation and population standpoint. Learn about the Merritt Family and the firsts they achieved from a business perspective. Get an in depth analysis behind what took place on March 2, 1901. Understand why Hulett's became important along Great Lakes Waters come turn of 20th Century. Agree if it's safe to say that by 1905 there still remained a presence of Wooden Steamship Vessels sailing Lake Superior's Waters. Discover when exactly the 1905 Shipping Season began turning deadly on Lake Superior. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirk-monroe/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirk-monroe/support

Gus & Max recap their entire week from arriving at Lake Vermilion to the closing ceremony. The fellas were able to put together another good tournament finish thanks to one big bite. We spend a lot of time talking about exploring this big brand new body of water and the ups and downs we encountered during our time there. We can't thank the PMTT enough for putting on another great event and are excited for the championship at the Chippewa Flowage in a few weeks! Also, we cover a few housekeeping items such as merch, and of course... the common man musky segment. Tap IN.

Alex McLean joined the fellas this week to take us to school on some Minnesota Muskies just in time for Gus & Max's trip to Vermilion for the 3rd leg of the PMTT. Alex McLean with McLean Muskies touched on a wide variety of topics including the state of Minnesota fisheries, seasonal movements, differences between Minnesota/Wisconsin and sharp shootin'. Gus and Max preview the upcoming PMTT where they hope to keep their hot streak going. Tap in!

Join GreggThomas as he speaks with Luke Ronnestrand guide at Lake Vermilion out of https://www.vdl.com/ and Jim Stella of the www.promusky.com (PMTT).  They make fun of Gregg, talk tournaments and Luke gives a Lake Vermilion report. 

Lake Vermilion has it all...walleyes, bass, northerns, muskies. And it's been a good year. We get all the details and some football talk too with Brainerd Warrior Head Football Coach AND Leisure Outdoor Adventures Guide Jason Freed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lake Vermilion has it all...walleyes, bass, northerns, muskies. And it's been a good year. We get all the details and some football talk too with Brainerd Warrior Head Football Coach AND Leisure Outdoor Adventures Guide Jason Freed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Gregg Thomas as he speaks with Jim Stella from the PMTT as they discuss the new schedule for 2023 and hear from Luke Ronnestrand MN guide as he reflects on the past season fishing on Minnesota's famed Lake Vermilion.  https://www.llungenlures.com https://www.moreheadtourism.com https://musky-innovations.myshopify.com https://muskyhunter.com

Today on Sauna Talk, we are joined by several different summer guests to my island cabin sauna in Northern Minnesota. This episode features guests from literally all over the world who have all found themselves on my sauna bench which I co built in 1996 and is still humming along strong. The sauna is 3.5 hours North of Minneapolis, MN close to the Boundary Waters Canoe area on Lake Vermilion, one of the largest lakes in Minnesota. Stretching 26 miles East to West, our cabin sits on the largest of 365 islands, Pine Island. There are no roads or cars on 7 mile long Pine Island, but there are some hiking trails, and one of my fondest memories and routines of sauna on Pine Island is to fire up my sauna stove, then take an island hike, in nature, returning to pull the coals forward and maybe toss a sauna log on the stove. For many, this is where the resonating wonderfulness of sauna shines. In nature, detached from the business of day to day. Birds chirping, water lapping along the shore, long twilight evenings that transition slowly. When the thought of tossing another log on the sauna stove isn't a question, but something you just do (after pulling the coals forward). This is where and when we get full appreciation of the fact that Sauna in nature is bigger than all of us. Alex & John. “I've been coming here my whole life… Wood fired and great heat is what I love.” Becca & Garrett Lamppa. “My dad welded all the Kuuma stoves out of Lamppa Manufacturing until about 2017.” “Finnish culture is very close to home.” Bill & Ingrid. “The fist thing we did is start planning for our backyard sauna.” “We are enjoying our sauna and still working on our sauna.” Lee Sarkela. “My memory of sauna goes back to splashing in the bucket on the floor as a young child.” Petri Leivonen & Mike Tuttle. Scott Gallis & Family from Brazil. “Where you are at is where you are able to enjoy it the most. In sauna, friendships are forget. People are able to get on the same vibration and welcome peace.”

MN TBF Champion Tony Hatten joins me to break down recent TBF Division 9 National Semi Finals on Lake Vermilion.    **Want to Donate?** https://paypal.me/HellaBass Venmo - hellabass  ————————————————————————— ▼ SAVE MONEY & SUPPORT HELLABASS ▼ Get 15% off at ARSENAL Fishing w/ code: HELLABASS15 - http://bit.ly/ArsenalShop Get 15% off at OMNIA Fishing w/ code: OMHB22SEP - https://omnia.direct/HBOmnia Get 15% off at Super K Jigs w/ code: HELLABASS15 - http://bit.ly/SuperKs --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hellabass/support

The captain is back in the cabin with Bob in studio, Tommy George give a report from Lake Vermilion, Jeff Anderson explains musky fishing and being in dangerous waters, and Josh Miller talks dog breeds and training.

The captain is back in the cabin with Bob in studio, Tommy George give a report from Lake Vermilion, Jeff Anderson explains musky fishing and being in dangerous waters, and Josh Miller talks dog breeds and training.

Join Gregg Thomas, Tony Grant and special guest Kevin Cochran as they speak with Aaron Techlin (www.outdoorgrips.com) and Luke Ronnestrand of Lake Vermilion, MN.  They talk about products, innovations and how to catch fish.  https://www.llungenlures.com/ https://www.smitybait.com/ https://www.laxreproductions.com/ https://outdoorgrips.com/  

Anything you see. Anything you hear.Mike Mattison, the two-time Grammy award winning singer, songwriter for the Tedeschi Trucks Band and the Derek Trucks Band knows the blues.  As a singer, composer, author and student of blues music Mike guides us along the many routes in which the blues meets the outdoors. The effect of the blues and how it's been impacted by the landscape has been profound. Mike says that the honesty of the blues is what makes us ourselves. And that anyone with an understanding of that, with humility, can come to the blues. Mike talks about growing up in the extreme seasons of Minnesota. He remembers playing hockey where games weren't cancelled until the temps reached 15 below zero. But he appreciates it and how our parents and friends were simply in it, even embraced it, without much complaint.The Lake Was Our Playground. Michael also remembers how our time outdoors, especially on Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota was foundational in his childhood. From exploring the lake in the motor boat as a child to seeing bald eagles and osprety to this day, he continues to share the extraordinary experiences of this landscape today with his family.Finally, Micheal and Eric Suarez have written a book that comes out in mid-November. It's called Poetic Song Verse, Blues Based Popular Music and Poetry. INTRODUCING "ONE NEW THING"This new segment is designed to inspire YOU to get out there and try one new thing in the outdoors. This episode I talk with Larry Clark about health, hiking, biking and his one new thing. Larry is a talented actor, writer and director and his show Bitter Homes and Gardens created by he and his wife Fielding Edlow is available on YouTube.In Greenwood, on Main Street are two wonderful restaurants, Fan and Johnny's and Tasty Sipz where you can eat anything from hot wings to Fried Alligator Comeback. 3 minutes from there is an unnamed park along the Yalobusha River which is part of the greater Yazoo and Mississippi River Delta. 31 miles away is the Tallatchie National Wildlife Refuge, a critical stopping point for migratory birds.  Less than 3 hours away, 116 miles is the Bienville National Forest with large expansive woods and waterways for boating, fishing and camping.DJ Shark is back and we discuss the song Nutbush City Limits by Ike and Tina Turner. This little town in Tennessee is where Tina Turner grew up and this song dovetails perfectly with our wonder guide's reflections on the blues and the history of the south. There's No Planet B. Steven Donziger is a federal prison as we speak. This gross miscarriage of justice must be overturned. Please go to the Free Donziger website to learn about this case and take action.

The final 2021 Qualifier for the Professional Muskie Tournament Trail is in Bemidji late this month. Tim Widlacki, Tournament Director joins Visit Bemidji's Brady Laudon to talk about the event and its importance in the quest for a national title. Meanwhile, Kev checks in with Buck Lescarbeau of Best Bet Guide Service on Lake Vermilion. The bite has been strong, and according to Buck...still is.

Breakdown of Bassmaster Elite Series on Lake Guntersville and just hanging out talking about bass fishing and maybe talk about my Lake Vermilion tournament from past week.     **Want to Donate?** https://paypal.me/HellaBass Venmo - hellabass    ————————————————————————— ▼ SAVE MONEY & SUPPORT HELLABASS ▼ Get 15% off at ARSENAL Fishing w/ code: HELLABASS15 http://bit.ly/ArsenalShop Get 15% off at OMNIA Fishing w/ code: HELLABASSSPRING15 https://bit.ly/2VugPqK Get 15% off at SuperK Jigs w/ code: HELLABASS15 http://bit.ly/SuperKs --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hellabass/support

Marshall Helmberger, Editor and publisher of the Timberjay newspaper, joins Heidi Holtan with news from northeastern Minnesota. This week Marshall does a deeper dive into the analysis on the complex PolyMet decision with both sides claiming victory. The EPA has added Lake Vermilion and Pike River to the state’s list of impaired waters due to sulfate pollution. Marshall tells about the EPA listing and what it means to the area and how sulfate harms the wild rice in the lakes. We hear about the construction on the new Orr Bog Walk with hopes to be open to the public by mid-June. More on these stories and other news at timberjay.com .

Doug Wallace is eighty-four years old going on fifty-five. He’s up by 5:30 am and if his wife, Peggy Hunter, isn’t up by six, he’s going to wake her because it’s time to get in the canoe. They canoe every day (weather permitting) from ice out in May to closing up the cabin in late September on Lake Vermilion.Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota is big. In fact, it’s the 5th biggest lake in the state known as the land of 10,000 lakes. It’s 30 miles from one end to the other and has over 360 islands. There are more than 1200 miles of shoreline on this lake and Doug has paddled 2/3 of that shoreline and intends on completing them all. He’s just about to turn 84 years old. The reason I know and love the woods, lakes, camping, canoeing, boating, loons, bald eagles, the Boundary Waters and everything northern Minnesota can be traced back to my friend and mentor, Doug Wallace. He’s the one who scouted Lake Vermilion for land in 1962. He’s the one who rallied my parents to buy some of that land and build an A-frame in the early 70’s. He’s the one who helped me in countless ways when I built my own cabin and he’s the one who maintains a vigilant watch over this precious lake and greater environment.Doug’s first trip into the Boundary Waters was in 1943 when he was just six years old and every moment of that experience is still crystal clear for him. That experience shaped his life. Even though it was chilly in late September and they couldn’t leave the lake they were camping on because they were wind bound, he had the time of his life.When Doug and his wife, Peggy Hunter, wake up early and get in the canoe they regularly see a miraculous and ever-changing shoreline. They routinely have what Doug calls, spiritual experiences. Whether it’s two American Bald Eagles alighting on a White Pine branch and turning to see the sun just as it rises or slipping along quietly on perfectly still lake with the landscape perfectly reflected in the water, they witness the wonder of the boreal forest and all its wild inhabitants on a daily basis. Unless it’s pouring rain.But Doug doesn’t stop there as a passive observer. He goes to bat every single day for the wild places and animals that he loves and cherishes. Our conversation is a step-by-step lesson in how to organize people for a common cause. He’s the definition of a grass-roots organizer. When logging of old growth timber and proposed logging roads were about to take place nearby, on the doorstep of the BWCAW, Doug and Peggy got busy.Eventually, Doug and Peggy and their allies were able to use modern conveniences such as email but this campaign was grown through one on one conversations. Through relentless determination and vision, Doug, Peggy and their friends protected this critical and sensitive habitat from needless destruction.It would seem Doug would need to take a nap but he’s got loons to protect. He, Peggy and their neighbors have been instrumental in creating important speed limits on Lake Vermilion. Loons nest very close to shore and the huge wakes of the ever increasing boat traffic on the lake have been extremely detrimental to loon eggs.Our wide-ranging conversation covers the birth of a new loon in the area, hiking in the Mission mountains, landscape photography, YMCA leadership programs, climate change and its effects on the boreal forest and much more.At the core of what Doug talks about, cares about and fights for though is a recognition that spiritual experiences are available to all of us in wild places.What is a spiritual experience for Doug?“That you really are in the deepest possible touch with creation and the creator and a piece of that creation. And for a moment or two or longer, there is a connection between you and another species that is very rare. At a deep beyond word, beyond science experience.”

Jason Freed of Leisure Outdoor Adventures checks in from Lake Vermilion. We planned on talking Leech Lake, but since he's vacationing on Vermilion we talk Vermilion angling. We also add in some Leech talk, and we have to talk High School Football. Jason and Bemidji Lumberjack Coach Brian Stoffell have a lot in common. The Bemidji-Brainerd rivalry is classic and they know each other well. On top of that, both are long time assistants who are in their first year of head coaching at a very difficult time. We've heard from Stoff on High Noon. Today we'll find out Jason's thoughts on a football-less autumn and playing in the spring.

Enjoy this Bonus episode and my How in the Hell did I get here moment regarding this podcast a big screw up on April 11, 2019 when I uploaded the wrong episode for this week, which is about Lake Vermilion instead Part 2 of Shanti's Fear Factor Adventure.That episode should be out there now, and some of you may still be able to find the wrong episode on YouTube, so enjoy a sneak peek over there. If you want to listen to Shanti, check any other place you can listen to your podcasts.In the meantime, enjoy this Mea Culpa and a story it reminded me of... which is about a f*ck up involving cookies...30,000 cookies....Today’s show was produced by The Coloring Book and features Kim A. Flodin with editing help from Kari Flodin.- Join us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/howinthehelldidIgethere/- Follow us on Instagram @kimaflodin or @howinthehellpodcast- Share your love for the show with financial support! https://buymeacoffee/thecoloringbookcoach- Subscribe to my other podcasts: How to Fall in Love with Yourself TOOLKIT & Tell Me Your Secret- Thank you YouTube Free Music Audio Library & Silent Partner for our theme song, 7th Floor Tango and ad music, Blue Skies   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht8qITGkBvXKsR1Byln-wA​

Welcome to Lake Vermilion or how in the hell did I end up here on vacation? Minnesota also more than lives up to it’s slogan of the land of 10,000 lakes… in reality there are 11, 842 lakes bigger than 10 acres each… but who’s counting besides the DNR… anyway, it’s a gorgeous state literally peppered with thousands and thousands of lakes and the thing to do there when the weather is nice is to “head up north to one of those lakes, which is what Kari and her friends do… head north to an area filled with lakes and the small towns and people who depend on those lakes and their visitors for their livelihoods. Call us at 323-488-3303 f you have a How in the Hell did I get here story to share. That’s 323-488-3303! Or send a written version to how in the hell did I get here at gmail.com, if you prefer to have your story read on the air.   Written, produced, and hosted by Kim A. Flodin -Join us on Facebook! bit.ly/FacebookHITH-Become a Producer at Patreon bit.ly/HITHPatreon -Buy us a virtual coffee! bit.ly/ko-fiHITH-Thanks to our Storytellers  Kari Flodin-Thanks The Coloring Book Coach Get your free coloring book!  thecoloringbookcoach.com-Thank you YouTube Free Music Audio Library & Silent Partner for our theme song, 7th Floor Tango & ad music, Blue Skies bit.ly/youtubefpodcastmusic  

Join Gregg Thomas and Tony Grant along with special guest Jim Stella who talk to the top 3 finisher of the PMTT Mega Event on Lake Vermilion.  Also stories from the road and Tony sounds like he is in a coal mine.

Join Tony Grant and Gregg Thomas as they talk with guys getting ready to fish the PMTT Mega Event on Lake Vermilion, discuss where they were on September 11 and boat ramp bathrooms!

“If you haven’t experienced the sauna, you have to do it, because it is a wonderful cleansing, spiritual way of life.” -Paster Dave Pearson We hadn’t yet tossed water on the sauna rocks, when I asked him the question: “So, doing the math, as a Lutheran paster for over 40 years, that’s about 2,000 sermons.” “that’s about right.” “Have you ever mentioned sauna in one of your sermons?” “Well, I’m sure I have mentioned sauna in a few of my sermons.  But I will say this: I have composed many of my sermons in the sauna.  There are a lot of “aha” moments that come from the sauna, just from the conversation that is generated here or just personal meditation.” “I think as a minister, that’s where the spirit dimension of it (sauna) comes in.  We have such a significant responsibility, spiritually, to protect and to preserve and to use our bodies to the maximum extent that we possibly can.” This is Sauna Talk I had the great pleasure recently to be sitting on the sauna bench with Paster Dave Pearson and his wife Judy. Dave and Judy enjoy their sauna ritual pretty much every afternoon along the shores of Isle of Pines on Lake Vermilion in Northern Minnesota.  The setting is idyllic, and familiar to many.  Their wood burning sauna is nestled amongst birch and old growth red and white pines. A small window in the hot room faces the lake.  A picture perfect scene out to the glistening water that captures Nature with a capital N.  The late afternoon sun enters through the small window, casting light on the sauna rocks, highlighting the soul and essence of the heat, inviting the sauna bather: “yes, toss water right here!”. Outside the deep red clad sauna building, it’s just a few steps down to a landing, then a right turn out onto the dock, where a ladder is set up on the end, welcoming the sauna bather into the cool clean water. Like an Irish couple sitting in front of their Guinness at their favorite pub, Dave and Judy look right at home on their sauna bench. Paster Pearson is all Scandinavian. Thick white hair, solid blue eyes, and an in shape lanky physique.  Strong boned and muscled, you can just picture him in his favorite flannel work shirt chopping firewood on a late fall afternoon (as the sauna stove heats up for their afternoon sauna).  Sure enough, when asked: “yes, I cut my own firewood, we enjoy the ritual.” In this episode of Sauna Talk, we try to get down to the essence of the health and wellness benefits to the authentic sauna experience.  What’s important is that we get a context of sauna being more than a hot room.  We discuss the wood burning aspect to authentic sauna, the connection with our soul and with nature.  And the affirmation of the physical benefits to sauna, as explained in The Metabolic Approach to Cancer, which Paster Peterson had just read that afternoon, and bookmarked in anticipation of our visit. As Paster Pearson reads the excerpt from the book, I am taken by his strength of voice and being. Navigating his own confrontation with cancer, I am thinking about all the people and families he surely has guided through their own health experiences.  And now Paster Peterson and his wife are dealing with their own journey.  No chemotherapy or chemicals, but a healthy diet and lifestyle with plenty more saunas and cool lake plunges down their path. Please join me in welcoming Dave and Judy Pearson to Sauna Talk.  

Terry is a career handyman and caretaker. His territory is the islands of Lake Vermilion, Tower, Minnesota.  Terry was brought to Pine Island in diapers.  He endured small stretches of time away from Lake Vermilion, with his family living in Hawaii for a few years and a career with the Duluth News Tribune in Duluth. Yet, primarily, Terry has spent his life on the lake.  He has been an invaluable help to many dozens of Lake Vermilion cabin owners.  His skills as a handyman and builder are infinite.  He has hands in 40-50 different cabin projects.  He manages 40-50 cabins, which includes such tricky annual work as docks in and out, water systems shut down and opened up, plus the myriad of things that come up from roof leaks, to bees nests, to, well, you name it. If you’ve had anything weird go wrong at your home, chances are Terry has encountered exactly this, and many times over Terry, just like myself, has built about a dozen saunas himself.  I’ve learned some tricks from him, and i’d like to think he’s learned a few tricks from me too.  We have spent many sauna rounds on the bench discussing building nuances.  It’s a testament to his passion to the trades, as well as his continued interest in learning and expanding his knowledge base. One of Terry’s favorite lines is: “what one man can do, another can do”, from the movie “The Edge”.   The movie is about a wealthy businessman, played by Anthony Hopkins, who with his son in law, played by Alec Baldwin, get into a harrowing chase down by a grizzly bear after their single engine airplane has to make an emergency landing in the wilderness.. But Terry isn’t worried about bears on Pine Island. The expression for him is about not being daunted by problems that come up with projects.  And sometimes these projects are overwhelming for the specialists who had initially been called in.  After the “pros” shake their head no and get boated back to the public landing, most often Terry comes in and fixes the problem.  I’ve seen this first hand. One of my lines is “getting the right tools and materials to the job site is half the job.”  This is hard to dispute for island work, which Terry does most of.  Sure you could argue that cutting the grass is only 30% about having gas in your lawnmower, blade sharpened, and the right shoes on, but when i’m building a deck, for example, I know that having all the right tools and materials on site is half the battle, and the least fun. The third philosophy of tackling projects is something I often see with how Terry operates.  Ryan Holiday, in The Obstacle is the Way, presents us with: “that which blocks our path creates a new path.”  Nowhere is this more exemplified than with completing projects.  I can’t tell you how many times that I’ve hit a stumbling block, only to realize that the obstacle was trying to tell me something: “there is a better way, you stubborn fool.” Can’t find any finish nails?  Damn it.  Well, i’ll glue and screw it.  Turns out it was the right thing to do. Hit my thumb with the hammer?  After a big swear word, turns out, grabbing my crow bar was the right tool after all. Screw breaks off trying to undo the fitting for the dishwasher?  Well, replacing the fitting was the right thing to do because it was going to rust out, anyway. Terry lives this kind of thing.  He practices a growth mindset.  Things are going to fuck up.  No question.  But what appears to be a problem or a set back usually turns out to be a path to a better solution. This episode with Terry is part of the 218 Series of Sauna Talk. We heard it with Daryl Lamppa, who spent countless hours in his garage learning about how wood burns, and tinkering with the design of his sauna stove.  And with Terry we see this same type of devotion to his trade.  A care and commitment to making something remarkable and making it right.  These kind of people impress the heck out of me, and we can all be more like this with our projects and in our lives. Lastly, for those tackling their own sauna build or home project, i’d like to introduce you to WIT.  You can read here about how applying the Will, Information, and Time to your project, whatever it may be, will lessen the amount of money you will need to throw at your project, and will certainly maximize your satisfaction with the project. So, Terry is one of my top mentors.  He’s saved my ass countless times at the lake.  I try not to bug him as he’s always going from one cabin to another, working hard everyday.  But when I see him, i’m always happy.  And we have a great time taking a sauna, too. Need a fall project?  Now is a great time to install a freeze proof faucet for your backyard garden hose shower.  More here.

It was a warm day in Northern Minnesota.  I hopped into my fishing boat and headed about 5 miles across Lake Vermilion into the river inlet to Tower, Minnesota. Daryl Lamppa picked me up at the dock, and we drove in his pick up truck to his corporate headquarters, a few blocks off Main Street, Tower, Minnesota. Daryl was pretty animated this day.  He was excited to Sauna Talk and shoot the breeze about a day in the life of running a business that has had his family name on the front his entire life. We were able to relax and get into our conversation without distractions or feeling rushed.  Regarding the chemical principle’s of burning wood: “without temperature, none of the reactions go forward”.  And old school sauna stoves that fed from the outside were inefficient in many respects, including the heat from the front part of the stove, that was “wasted to the world.”  I had a great time asking Daryl questions for Sauna Talk: One of the more special parts to this episode of Sauna Talk, was when Daryl told us about being reconnected to one of his Grandfather’s sauna stoves, at least 80 years old.  On the front, Daryl’s Grandfather welded in these words: Daryl and I talked about many things, including: What got you interested in how wood burns, and in making sauna stoves? 35 years of tinkering with making a clean burning wood stove. Tower, Minnesota.  February 4, 1996.  -60 f. Daryl thinking “green” before there was the term green. Lamppa Manufacturing:  selling direct to the customer, even before the internet. The Kuuma Stove owners manual.  Hand drawn and hand written by Daryl Lamppa. But back to his grandfather’s sauna stove.  This was a touching moment for me, to see Daryl’s Grandfather’s sauna stove sitting on the dock behind Daryl’s current masterpiece.  “If my Grandfather could see the stoves we are making today….” You don’t have to love sauna to appreciate this episode of Sauna Talk.  This is a story about a man of passion and pride.  A story of a guy who grew up doing what his father and his Father’s Father enjoyed doing:  making sauna stoves for people to enjoy sauna: a centuries old tradition of health and wellness.

  If you missed our interview with Jamie Dietman last week, you can listen to it again now.  Jamie and Bret Amundson talk about searching for morel mushrooms and recap the Governor's Fishing Opener on Lake Vermilion. Listen to Jamie here.  [audio https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64007508/MNSJ%20-%20Radio%20Show%20-%20Seg%201%20week%20140.mp3]

    Last week on MNSJ Radio, we spoke with Casey Sunsdahl while we were at the Governor's Fishing Opener on Lake Vermilion.  Casey would be guiding the Lt Governor, Tina Smith.  Here's what he had to say about preparing for the experience: Listen to Casey here.     [audio https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64007508/MNSJ%20-%20Radio%20Show%20-%20Seg%202%20week%20139.mp3]

If you venture out around 5:00 AM near the end of April on Lake Vermilion you will find some exquisite sunrises. Here is one from April 27, 2012.

If you venture out around 5:00 AM near the end of April on Lake Vermilion you will find some exquisite sunrises. Here is one from April 27, 2012.

March showed up with extremely warm temperatures for the season which quickly removed what little snow we had accumulated over the short winter. In the last couple of days the ice has begun to pull away from the shoreline opening up the opportunity for an early paddle. The first paddle of the spring is always a favorite time even if its only for 10 or so minutes. We had a an amazing sunshine filled day giving the ice a shimmery reflection.

March showed up with extremely warm temperatures for the season which quickly removed what little snow we had accumulated over the short winter. In the last couple of days the ice has begun to pull away from the shoreline opening up the opportunity for an early paddle. The first paddle of the spring is always a favorite time even if its only for 10 or so minutes. We had a an amazing sunshine filled day giving the ice a shimmery reflection.

Collegiate Angler Jonathon VanDam speaks with Aaron about their day fishing Lake Vermilion for the latest episode of our television show. Bob Lusk covers how to recognize different types of strikes. We answer listener questions and give away goodies.