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EC Matt
Posted 7/16/2017 9:58 PM (#870386)
Subject: LOTW Reports?





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Anyone on LOTW last week with anything to report? I go next week and am curious about water temp and what happened after last week's cold front.
jdsplasher
Posted 7/16/2017 10:53 PM (#870390 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: RE: LOTW Reports?





Posts: 2219


Location: SE, WI.
The last week cold front effected water temps. Last Sunday, temps were 72-74. After the cold fronts, and 4 inches of rain, water temps dropped to 66-68.
But, the bite has rebounded, but water temps are still short of what they were. About 69-70 depending where you are.
My wife and I raised over 60 fish the last 3 days. My suggestion would be to try and get away from the highly pressured areas.

JD
curleytail
Posted 7/17/2017 8:10 AM (#870411 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




Posts: 2687


Location: Hayward, WI
60 fish raised in 3 days! Wow that's a lot of action. Sounds fun. Not sure if it's my style or what it is but in my 3 trips to LOTW I never seem to have the number of follows that many others do. Getting off the beaten path may be a good tip in that regard.

Sorry - I've got nothing to add right now but getting excited for my August trip in a few weeks.
EC Matt
Posted 7/17/2017 8:49 PM (#870508 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?





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Thanks for the info JD. I appreciate it.
Cfollow
Posted 7/17/2017 9:13 PM (#870514 - in reply to #870508)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?


Just got back Saturday from a week in the NW Angle. I ended up putting nine fish in the boat up to 49.75". We had to grind for every fish we got with the best day being 19 Muskie contacts with 3 of those ending up in the net. The last day we put four in the net and lost another three but nearly all that action came in a 30 minute flurry with the rest of the day being really slow. I wish I could tell you there is a magic bullet right now but in reality locations would produce one day and be terrible the next. The majority of our fish came on spinnerbaits with bucktails coming in second and Suicks third. The fish in the Angle are out on the mid lake reefs. We saw most fish on reefs that topped out in the 0-2 foot range. I made the observation that if the exposed rock on the reef had a tree it was useless and though it sounds silly it was true. I only caught two fish that hit away from the boat and the rest came on the figure eight.
Propster
Posted 7/18/2017 7:35 AM (#870549 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




Posts: 1901


Location: MN
Steve Heiting just posted that two and a half days into their Musky Hunter school on the Angle they have caught 50 fish up to 53"
Cfollow
Posted 7/18/2017 9:50 AM (#870577 - in reply to #870549)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?


Impressive and not the least bit surprising stable and badly needed warming weather tends to help immensely. The fish were going better last Thursday and Friday after the cold front went through and with several more warm days I would have predicted exactly what is happening at the school.
Musky Brian
Posted 7/18/2017 10:05 AM (#870580 - in reply to #870577)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?





Posts: 1767


Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin
50 fish sounds pretty amazing, but keep in mind they usually have 20-25 guys plus instructors. So that could very well be about an average of 1 fish per day per angler.
BNelson
Posted 7/18/2017 10:54 AM (#870587 - in reply to #870580)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?





Location: Contrarian Island
yah it would be impressive if it was about 4 or 5 boats.. not 15...
Facebook can make it seem like they are lighting them up... in reality it sounds pretty slow overall... water temps up there are below avg from what I hear

Edited by BNelson 7/18/2017 11:01 AM
Cfollow
Posted 7/18/2017 10:55 AM (#870588 - in reply to #870580)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?


Musky Brian hit it right on the nose. Sounds simply awesome but when you do the math its well, sort of average for the NW Angle.
MOJOcandy101
Posted 7/19/2017 11:36 AM (#870731 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?





Posts: 705


Location: Alex or Alek?
Leaving for Sab bay in 11.5 hours for my first time. I may be more excited then the first time I had a follow!
musky99
Posted 7/24/2017 9:51 AM (#871292 - in reply to #870731)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?





Posts: 197


Location: N Illinois
Just got back from the angle. We fished from July 12-22. We put 32 in the boat with half as many lost. Fish were nipping at baits until last 2 days. All fish came on smaller tails and crane baits. No real pattern. Found fish in weeds, cabbage, points , rock...kept hitting all areas of every spot we fished. Fish were wolf packing. we were catching 2, 3 and even 4 in small windows from small structures. Seen maybe 10 to 15 fish daily. Water temps started out at 68 on arrival. Up to 72 when we left. Different wind direction daily.
Propster
Posted 7/25/2017 9:15 PM (#871549 - in reply to #870390)
Subject: RE: LOTW Reports?




Posts: 1901


Location: MN
jdsplasher - 7/16/2017 10:53 PM

The last week cold front effected water temps. Last Sunday, temps were 72-74. After the cold fronts, and 4 inches of rain, water temps dropped to 66-68.
But, the bite has rebounded, but water temps are still short of what they were. About 69-70 depending where you are.
My wife and I raised over 60 fish the last 3 days. My suggestion would be to try and get away from the highly pressured areas.

JD


JD, we just got back from camping at Spruce Island Camp. We met up with Dick Pearson on Friday and he showed us a picture of the 52 your wife caught. Holy moly what a big beautiful fish. Congratulations
wisriverrat
Posted 7/25/2017 9:53 PM (#871554 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




Posts: 368


Location: On the River
Just got back Saturday caught 11 including a fat 53 a personal best 7 of 11 fish I caught were on figure eights 8 of 11 were on bucktails
jdsplasher
Posted 7/26/2017 6:08 AM (#871571 - in reply to #871549)
Subject: RE: LOTW Reports?





Posts: 2219


Location: SE, WI.
Propster - 7/25/2017 9:15 PM

jdsplasher - 7/16/2017 10:53 PM

The last week cold front effected water temps. Last Sunday, temps were 72-74. After the cold fronts, and 4 inches of rain, water temps dropped to 66-68.
But, the bite has rebounded, but water temps are still short of what they were. About 69-70 depending where you are.
My wife and I raised over 60 fish the last 3 days. My suggestion would be to try and get away from the highly pressured areas.

JD


JD, we just got back from camping at Spruce Island Camp. We met up with Dick Pearson on Friday and he showed us a picture of the 52 your wife caught. Holy moly what a big beautiful fish. Congratulations


Thanks , Propster, 52 1/4", yes a beautiful weed fish.

Weather was mostly down, but water temps did rebound the second half of our 12 days. Mrs and I boated 30 Ski's.... Fish were on all structures. We had water temps drop from 72-74 to 67-68 after 2 days of rain, and NE winds.But they did rebound back to about 69-71 by the end of our trip. I also had my on board charger fail on us....probably cost us a day of fishing. Can't complain too much, it lasted me 19 years;)

Like others said, seemed like they were packed up. Would move 2-6 fish on one piece of structure. Had one reef show us 2 fish that I felt were 53-55" After returning 4/5 times, never raised them again:(
Threw very little topwater, after the drop in temps, but still did get a couple on them.

We caught fish on almost ever style of baits....cranks, jerks, bucktail, rubber. The Hellkat , large model cork was money also!!!
JD

Edited by jdsplasher 7/26/2017 6:15 AM
Propster
Posted 7/26/2017 7:46 AM (#871579 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




Posts: 1901


Location: MN
First couple days the water struggled to hit 70 degrees. North end of Tug and Skeet/Kennedy area colder yet. And lots of boats there and west, probably from the Musky Hunter school. We spent most our time south after that. We got 15 to 49.5. Lost a big one Monday night, over 50. Dick thought that the water being up over a foot from ten days earlier had the fish "off".
MOJOcandy101
Posted 7/26/2017 7:54 AM (#871583 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?





Posts: 705


Location: Alex or Alek?
I was up there for 3.5 days and between 6 guys we boated 13 with the largest being 47. Most were caught on sand/weeds and also most were on smaller bucktails and spinners. Neighbor showed us a picture of a 53 he caught during the same time we were up. We fished the sab bay area.
MuskyMidget
Posted 7/31/2017 10:42 PM (#872395 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




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We got there Saturday 22nd and left Saturday 29th. First cast of the trip my buddy had a good follow. We saw 3 fish on the first 2 spots. He caught a little on Saturday night. Sunday was what I would call average with each of us catching 41's and several follows. But the fish were doing weird things in the 8 like mentioned above.

Monday all the way until Friday morning was the dead sea. We had some follows here and there but it was tough. Really tough.

My buddy didn't have a follow until after 9 pm on Tuesday. And we rotate between the front and the back of the boat. We thought that was impossible on LOTW, but I can tell you it's surely possible.

Friday morning out of the blue I popped a 50 and he caught 4 muskies on Friday with the largest being 43. Mind you I had about 50 hours on fishing between my 41 on Sunday and the 50 on Friday morning!!!

Saturday morning before we left we moved 2 giants a couple times, but no bites.

A very weird week on LOTW, that is for sure. Even though we caught our fish on a bucktails, it was slow slow slow, I wouldn't call it a buck tail bite. I consider a buck tail bite when every fish you see comes charging in hard in the front of the boat. As silly as that sounds the back of the boat with slow moving top waters and cranks, moved more fish that bucktails in the front, but no eaters.
jvlast15
Posted 8/2/2017 2:20 PM (#872710 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




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Anyone else have some reports for Sab Bay? Arriving Saturday (5th) and staying through Thursday(10th). Rocks? Depth?
benvcarlson
Posted 8/3/2017 6:16 AM (#872788 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




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I will be up there on the 5th too. White and Green Ranger 692. Can't wait!
adubs
Posted 8/3/2017 8:34 AM (#872814 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




Posts: 151


Location: Chippewa Falls, WI
I'll be up in a burgundy and tan ranger reata, staying a mylies. Forecast is for low 70's for highs and getting down to low 50's at night. no need to worry about too warm of water temps or the algae getting bad during our week...
LTC1
Posted 8/3/2017 10:23 PM (#872957 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




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Fishing has been slow. I have been at mylies for two weeks and seen water temps climb ten degrees in three days and now drop 5. People are catching fish here and there but nobody is hammering them that I have talked to. The algae started to bloom when water temps were around 80 but has seemed to slow. I haven't been able to stay on much of a pattern but have been getting some fish. You really have to grind it out and try everything. Which has been tough on me fishing solo 90% of the time.
Musky Brian
Posted 8/4/2017 8:25 AM (#872980 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?





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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin
I've had multiple people tell me yesterday was on fire up there...it can't be that slow.
MuskyMidget
Posted 8/4/2017 9:00 AM (#872985 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




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The buddy that I was with last week is still there this week. He said it had picked up but definitely not on fire.
IAJustin
Posted 8/4/2017 9:20 AM (#872989 - in reply to #872985)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




Posts: 1964


3-4 fish days casting are always doable on LOTW June, July and August....To me when it on fire you are consistenly getting 7+ fish a day between two guys.. If you don't like your results switch it up, LOTW muskies rarely have lockjaw.
Musky Brian
Posted 8/4/2017 9:29 AM (#872993 - in reply to #872989)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?





Posts: 1767


Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin
Well...I won't speak for Brad, and let him write his own report, but they are having a pretty darn good week on big fish from the sounds of it

Edited by Musky Brian 8/4/2017 9:31 AM
BNelson
Posted 8/6/2017 2:53 PM (#873252 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?





Location: Contrarian Island
Good week. Lots of big ones and 4 over 50. Fish fast. Fish smart. Got fish on every type of spot in the lake. Justin. Have you even been there this year???

Edited by BNelson 8/6/2017 4:38 PM
IAJustin
Posted 8/6/2017 7:00 PM (#873267 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




Posts: 1964


Nope, been catching 50's north of there
BNelson
Posted 8/6/2017 7:03 PM (#873268 - in reply to #870386)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?





Location: Contrarian Island
So you havent been there this year but are telling people 7 + fish days can be consistently done. Huh. Interesting. Every year and week is different. Maybe you should go and crank out 35 or more in 7 days and tell us about it. ??

Edited by BNelson 8/6/2017 7:05 PM
IAJustin
Posted 8/6/2017 7:13 PM (#873269 - in reply to #873267)
Subject: Re: LOTW Reports?




Posts: 1964


Read Mr Nelson.. when its on fire we get 7 a day and its doable -since 2 of the last 4 trips we did that, 35+ in a week (one was in August during a high water year everyone complaining how tough it was), worst trip of my last seven was 21 with a rookie first timer...every year is different... Didn't realize that?? .. LOL .... I'll give $1000 if I cant go catch 3 a day by myself next week... You pay for all my food, lodging and gas if I do

Edited by IAJustin 8/6/2017 7:14 PM
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