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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I went out a couple times, more to just get the boat wet and remind myself that the Fox Chain belongs to the powerboaters in the summer...no muskies.
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Hope everyone had better luck than the poor guy traveling on I39 through Wausau yesterday. His trailer broke loose and the boat ended up on top of his vehicle. Sure backed up the home bound holiday travelers. |
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| Three lakes chain...our group of 3 boats got a 41, 35, and a sub 30. All on topwater. Weeds were a little hard to find, but topwater bite was great with fish waking or blowing up baits. Add handful of follows and some beer, brats, burgers and poker and it was a pretty good weekend! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I fished about an hour for muskies, saw two, no takers. Took my son and grandson out for pannies and Pike, spanked the pannies and caught a couple pike, and Brian caught a really nice smallmouth. Worked on boats and stuff all day yesterday, didn't get the boat wet. |
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| yah, i was coming thru wausau at that time.. WOW... 50 minutes in traffic and when i got up to that boat, they were just getting it on the truck.
no muskies, but caught a 27" northern on a bulldawg. |
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Location: Bloomington,MN | fished my first wisonsin opener. Saw 9 saturday morning and 2 were pushin 50". Sunday sucked. Yesterday i lost a 45 in the 8 and my girlfriend had a solid 4 footer eat her mini dussa right at her feet but was caught sleeping. All in all a great weekend and felt good to be throwin baits again. |
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| Our boat of 3 saw only 3 muskies in 2 days on the Manitowish Chain. Fished about 4 hours on Saturday and 5 hours on Sunday.
Too much fun at The Pea Patch limited our time on the water!
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| Fished sun up to sundown the past three days....... We saw 15 or 16 total. I lost two and the biggest to go around on a 8 was about 43. Most of the fish were small and we didn't see any over 45". By far the toughest opener I've fished. Next weekend looks warmer, so I'm due once I give my hands and arms a rest this week!
I fish the Hayward/Spooner area fyi and it was cold and rainy. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Had my best opener ever. In just under 8 hours on Saturday, we boated 11 and saw 14 others. The biggest ones were 45, 42.5, 42.5, 42, 40.5, 39.5, and 38. I caught the 3 42s all within a half hour to end the day. Went out for 3 hours on Sunday morning and we caught 3 in the low to mid 30s and had action from 6 others. |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Only got a few hours Friday night to fish, saw 1 small muskie got 2 silver pike, 1 snot rocket and a 38" pike... |
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| We got 3 in the net. Everything we seen or caught were on small spinnerbaits or twitchbaits. Overall a pretty slow weekend. |
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Location: Southern WI | What lake(s) muskymatt? |
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| landed a 40, a 41, and a 34 incher this weekend, not really any patterns, the two 40's were on the chip, topwater and blades, the next was on my lake x on a glider. fished over 24 hours over these 5 days |
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| Slamr - 5/29/2012 8:30 AM
I went out a couple times, more to just get the boat wet and remind myself that the Fox Chain belongs to the powerboaters in the summer...no muskies.
How did you do?
Never do the Fox Chain Memorial Day to Labor Day it just ain't worth it.
Thankfully nobody got killed this weekend. I did hear that 2 boats collided and
a girl was hurt bad.
Leaving in 2 days for N. Wisconsin, me happy...
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Great Opener! Boated 6 by my self on Saturday. 26, 38.5, 41, 46.25, 48.75, 49. Awesome way to begin a season! 49.00 was my personal best at 49 x 24.5. Good luck this season! |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Sounds like a pretty good day on the water WI Duck Guide! |
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| No kidding...let's see some pics of the big ones! A 49"x24.5" in May is a pretty girthy fish! What was the hot pattern? |
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Location: Contrarian Island | congrats on some tankers WI Duck dude...he put pics on lake-link in vilas thread. that 49 is a beast...35 lber...good day and congrats!Congrats on an exceptional day MuskyMatt as well... those are the days we live for!
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Location: IGH Minnesota | Sounds like a few guys had some good action. We fished Minocqua for a bit on Saturday, handful of pike and raised a couple nice fish... 3 lakes on Sunday for a few hours, 4 up & hooked up with 2... Stuck 1 at the N/S Twin tourney monday & only fish we saw.
Congrats on the great opening day and nice job at the N/S Twin torney as well WI Duck Guide! Nice work! |
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Location: Wausau | Nice work Jeff...personal best for now 
Sled and I hit a few different lakes Saturday and Sunday, but had similar results...look, look, and look again. We ended up boating two shorts and one nicer one. |
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| 3 to xx"'s sounded so much better! :0) |
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| Fished the three lakes area couldn't raise a fish? Weeds growth is a few weeks ahead of other years because of low water levels and warm early spring.
Scott M. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Sounds like some of you guys had a great weekend. I made up for you.  Saturday we dodged light thunderstorms most of the day and never raised a fish. Raised a hot 40 on Sunday that must have hit the bait, knocked slack in the line, and messed hooked the leader on the front hook of my Big Game Twitchbait. It followed the messed bait in hot but didn't hit in the 8. Raised something in the same spot later on that was low and slow and was probably the same fish, and that was it for the weekend.
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Location: SE, WI. | Pewaukee seemed to pick up a bit as my boat , boated 5 muskie this holiday weekend. Lost one other mid thirty. Most were on Bucktails.. Fish were between 32 - 39"...Typical pewaukee size muskie. |
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| Hi everyone. New to the board but a long time reader.
Did well this weekend. 44 and a 42 for my wife near CR. |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Thanks all! I tried loading pics the first time I posted but they were over 300 kb so this forum wouldnt allow it. You can see them on my website if you look at my url under my profile. It is under Northern WI Musky tab under 2012 Musky pics. Sorry to any forum admins, dont want to get in trouble by posting the link to my site in this reply. If you want a direct link to my website you can message me as well. You can also see the pics on Lake Link under the Vilas County Fishing Reports. My user name is the same. Not usually one to post too much but after a day like that... I just had to! Good luck this season! |
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | We had our shots at a few but none in the net.Had all our action on faster moving baits.Two largest fish we saw was a upper 30's on a topraider and a big mid 40's on a pacemaker wich really supprised my ten year old son and he never set the hooks.Finally got back out yesterday and didn't even raise a fish.See what tommorrow brings.Good luck to you all. Russ |
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