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Location: Contrarian Island | some guys I know said last week was slow for them. 9 or so in boat to 49.5. weren't moving a ton of fish per day... but I'm sure someone coulda got 35+ last week. ha.
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| Last week was some of the slowest fishing I have ever seen on LOTW. Few follows and fewer fish in the boat. I doubt anyone could have put 20 in the boat for the week, and 35 would have been the work of a superman. Slow is a huge understatement.
There were some nice fish caught but they were few and far between.Today, grass cutting is looking better than fishing to me. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Nelson and Waldera either caught, lost, or raised 90% of the musky population the week prior...still recovering I bet |
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Location: MN | Group of guys at Tamarack recently had great fishing
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| Group of 3 boats, 8 guys in ten days at Tamarack ending Sat the 12th got 87 fish, including 7 at 50 or better.
The size is far better than what I have been getting, and one fish a day for each guy is about double what I am doing. Seven hours a day for two in the boat and one fish is about it for me. |
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| I was fishing around Wiley Point. |
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| I was fishing around Wiley Point. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | a fish per guy per day.. well... that is not bad, but not lighting them up by any means...? .... 7 over 50 is def above par... in 10 days you're going to have a few killer days and probably a couple days you might as well stayed in the cabin and drank..  from the reports I have seen LOTW was fairly slow this summer... compared to other years...water in the basins never really warmed up to peak temps imo. late spawn and wacky weather.
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| I've been fishing LOTW for 17 years, at least one week and sometimes two weeks per year.
No question without a doubt, that last week 8/6 to 8/12 was my slowest ever. Of course I must note that Wednesday (when the weather changed and the fish probably moved) I spent all day driving from Sioux Narrows to Leech Lake and back since my ETEC blew up and I had to go get a back up boat.
Probably missed the best day of the week 
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| It seems like it's been an inconsistent bite up there most of the summer, makes sense with the up and down weather. When we were up, we had everything from highs in the upper 70s and flat calm to a high of 62 and heavy NE winds for two days. Water temps were all over the place. But for the most part, the fish cooperated. Except for Walleyes. |
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| "it's been a weird (or inconsistent, slow, or any other undesirable adjective) summer" has been the story I've heard every year since I've been paying attention. Just sayin. |
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| jaultman - 8/14/2017 3:05 PM
"it's been a weird (or inconsistent, slow, or any other undesirable adjective) summer" has been the story I've heard every year since I've been paying attention. Just sayin.
Yea I hear ya. There's still fish to be caught, but water going from 68 to 72, then down to 65, and back up to 69 in six days is just that, inconsistent. No way around it, ya just gotta keep fishing. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I've watched reports up there for say 5 yrs or more... my 1st trip was 2011.. we got 22 in 4.5 days. We avg. 3-3.25 fish per day over the other 5 trips. This trip we avg'd 3.62 fish per day in the boat.. our size avg tho for 29 fish was 44.9", way more over 48 than normal.... if you look at groups like the MHunter school and there were at least 2 other 'outings' where the avg per boat per week was about 8 per week... like golf, take 100 golfers and put them on the same course the same week, some will shoot 10 under par, and some will shoot 20 over par... it's the same in musky fishing... a 3 fish per day, per boat on LOTW to me is par. for some that might be 10 below par. It's still one of the best places on earth to fish muskies... realistic shots at 50s each week... not crazy boats like LSC or GB, and more spots than you can fish in 2 lifetimes....go into it with with realistic expectations....
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Location: Not far enough north! | I agree with you 100% Nelson I had been up there the last 10 years. Lots of guys go with unrealistic expectations on how hard you have to work to put good numbers in the boat in any given week. The place we stayed at always had "musky guys"in camp but they were never serious about it like we were and were often disappointed with their results. Over those years we have averaged right around 3.5 fish a day. We usually have one day a week with 0 fish but one with 6+. I'm disappointed if we don't get 3. Worst trip was 9 fish best was 32. These were all 6.5 day trips.
I went to Rowan this year first week of August for 5 days and had a super tough trip. Put 4 in the net and lost one. Never in the week had a single fish even make the first turn boat side. They were super slow and late the whole week...
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Location: Billings, MT | The golf analogy is great. Due to other obligations, Ive had to plan my 2 LOTW trips in June, which is obviously not ideal time. First year, we boated 5 in 4 days of fishing, this year we boated 17 in 6 days. While at camp this year, there were two other groups of musky fisherman, one group boated one fish, the other hadn't caught one by the time we left. I tried to be as helpful as I could, but they still couldn't get on fish.
I live in Montana and only get to fish muskies when I make a trip. I think that helps me to focus a little more. More research, more planning, more preparation, long days on the water, remind myself to be adaptable constantly. Pay attention to the details. IDK. I've had tough trips too (first trip to LOTW for example). Gotta leave it all on the table though...they still never just jump in the boat!
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| Well up here right now this is my 22 nd year with 2- 3 trips a year some trips are great others poor weather trumps all, 3 days so far with blue bird sky's and no wind. Saturday 1/2 day seen about 15 fish got hooks in too one and lost seen 1 around 50", yesterday seen 23 fish 16 of them where between 9 am and 9:30 am and we fish from 6 am to 9 p.m with a 2 hour break around 3 pm. Hooks into 2 of them non boated all fish eat on figure 8 on Grannys had 3 over 50 ish swipe at lure at boat. Today seen 8 fish boated 3 up to 47" on blades all ate way out from the boat !! Talk about confusing there is NO pattern going on now and fished from Basil to Deadbrook channel and staying on Oak !
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Location: Contrarian Island | Abu7000, you said you fished 7 hrs a day.. well, the 8 guys that got 87 in 10 days I'm guessing fished a lot more hours...
if you only fish half the hours some do, well, you are more than likely only going to catch half as many..simple math 
I calculated we fish about 10.5 to 11 hrs per day when we go.. with walleye jerking, napping, eating, and run time taken out
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| No doubt, about it, more hours and more casts will get you more fish. I only posted to say that those numbers as well as the Muskie Hunter sound great. However, if you look at the fish per hour/per person, it looks a lot less impressive. Fished 8 hours today with three of us in the boat, got two nice muskies, and saw five other muskies. It was slow. Seventy miles over the water with few fish following, but we got lucky. If you fish long hours and throw many casts, you will catch more fish. I am old and fish just about every day so my level of motivation is diminished.
Brad's numbers are darn good!!!
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hi Everyone,
Got back Saturday from a 5 day trip with a little fishing the first night and an hour on the day leaving. Arrived on Sunday the 13th and left morning of the 19th.
I fished more than my wife over the 5 days, managed to get 9 in the boat, lost a high 40" and found most fish to be in the mid 40" range. Smallest was 33, largest 52-1/4. I blanked on Friday, but wife hooked up with her second fish of the trip. Total between us we had 11 fish come to the boat and lost 2.
Spinners and top water was our ticket...
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Location: MN | Good job on the big girl Steve! Angle? |
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| Anyone have any water temps from the Little T/angle areas? |
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| 69-71 as of yesterday. They were 72-74 before the cool down. We had a decent bite. Moved a bunch of big fish also. Got 12 in 4.5 days, biggest was 50.5. We had a 52+ to the boat...but I royally screwed up the net job. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | We were not far from the angle... out of Morson north and west a bit.
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Location: WI | Just got back from a week at Tamarack. Water temps dropped 3.5 degrees in a week and 6 of us only put 9 in the net. 1 of our guys had a brief encounter with a 55ish and I had what would've been my PB nip at blades. Caught a few pike up to upper 30's. Can't remember a week with more strong winds and multiple direction changes daily. |
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Location: MN | My daughter and I just got back from a short 3 day trip to Tamarack. Great time as always, Todd and his family are top shelf. Water temps dropped from 70 to 65 overnight Friday night when we got there. Saturday was slow for us with big east winds but the two of us ended up with 9 fish in 3 days up to 50". Ate walleyes every day and took it a little easy on her. Blades and topwater caught most fish. Morning bite nearly non existent but evening major showed some action. After being flat calm and Africa hot yesterday temps climbed back up to 68. Stable weather next few days folks should do well. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | sounds fun Propster. How did you do a few weeks ago at Tamarack? |
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Location: MN | We did 4 trips to Tamarack totaling 15 days and got 60 fish I think. Like 25, 11, 15, and 9. 4 over 50. Two trips in July and two in August. The first trip in early July the water was just warming up well and lot of fish were on the rocks. They were all good trips. |
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Location: Land of 10,000 Lakes | Fished out of Spruce Island Camp Aug 26-Sept 2nd. Landed a baker's dozen including 44, 47 and a giant 50.25 for my wife. Her first 50! Fishing was sporadic but good overall...definitely should have had another half dozen or so including a 50+ that I had eat a Depthraider at boatside and not get hooks in her. Fish caught on blades and gliders primarily and on all different types of structure from shallow back bay weeds to mid-lake reefs.
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Location: Ashland WI | Very nice fish. Congrats!!
I really like that pic from the bottom of the fish. Lets you see just how big its head is. |
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