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| Leaving Friday for Baystore can not wait no matter what happens fishing wise, made soo many great friends even before all this internet stuff  this is my 25th year on the Woods and most of them 2 or 3 weeks a year and all well worth it :).
Darren
P.S. My first and only "Legal" in 01
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Location: SE, WI. | ^^^^^^ Darren, that you? Or Darlene? Nice Hair;) ^^^^^^
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| Jim,It’s Darlene.Has to be,only pics of Darren and that fish were ‘plumbers crack’ ones mixed in with 4 or 5 F bombs.
Wonder if he remembers what he was doing in that bay? |
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Location: Contrarian Island | awesome fish. sweet hair!
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| Ha Ha Mr P. sure did love that bay learning about birds and the bees LOL And remember that was not that other jumbo you pointed out to me that would of made for a unbelievable day 
OH and that video is classic right !!! LOL |
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| Darren,
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One of the great videos of muskies ever. Beyond classic. ?? |
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Location: oswego, il | Darren, we will be neighbors for the week it appears! |
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| Oops,meant smileys, not ? marks. |
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| Andrew is correct sometimes it's the weather or maybe the 3rd person that comes on your trip that can't find a partner. 2 is perfect a 3rd changes everything ! |
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| Good luck Darren, we will miss seeing you guys this year! have a safe trip |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Up here currently...
Tough conditions at this point... high skies, temps in the 80s. Not seeing a bunch of fish and my experience is following similar to bnelson. So far after 3 day, 5 in the net, one lost on a net mistake, 4 other hits with no hooks... seen a couple big ones so far...
Not pushing it very hard like other groups do... action very slow during daytime high temps, so relaxing in the shade and will hit it tonight and probably hard all day tomorrow.
Also of note... best day was also after the cold front Sunday. Figured it would be a tough day, but managed 3 with two short hits... encountered 9 altogether. So far it’s been all rock for me... double 10s have 2, twitched grandma has 1, and 10” suick has 2.
One suick lost to rocks.. weighted...
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| We did well on Shallow Invaders when the water temperatures were around 77-79.999... and when conditions were calm. |
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Location: MN | We just got back. We fished 3.5 days. My buddy and I put 13 in the boat and had 2 come unpinned. We had a 7 fish day on Sunday. Our friends got 6 in their boat and had 5 come unpinned. Two 48's were the big ones of the trip. Fished about noonish to dark because the whiskey and beer was flowing pretty good in the evenings. Lots of 37-40 inch fish seen and caught so there must be a pretty good year class coming up. Overall pretty satisfied with our success. Can't wait to get back up there! |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | .....still up here with a few days left. I’m definitely not seeing any doom and gloom scenarios. I wouldn’t say the fishing is on fire, but in average and stable conditions it’s pretty decent. We put 7 in yesterday alone and left a few on base. Been able to make a few adjustments that seem to be paying off. Speed, timing, and spot selection has been very key. Extended underwater flats have been best and did stumble upon a very hot weed bite as well. Couple hot bucktail colors too. One observation this week as I have covered anywhere from Miles Bay way up through Allie is that different sections might be hot versus others that ain’t
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Musky Brian - 8/12/2018 2:11 PM
.....still up here with a few days left. I’m definitely not seeing any doom and gloom scenarios. I wouldn’t say the fishing is on fire, but in average and stable conditions it’s pretty decent. We put 7 in yesterday alone and left a few on base. Been able to make a few adjustments that seem to be paying off. The very first light bite has been outstanding at times, and speed has been key. I could see leaving the dock at 8/830 and heading out there only to think it’s dead as 9 AM on has been a near death sentence until evening. Lay off the cocktails at night, get up early, and come in and rest mid day. Extended underwater flats have been best and did stumble upon a very hot weed bite as well
that doesn't fit the narrative Brian ... we'll need an edited report of compliance out of you. |
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| Just got back from my 2nd week. I was with my soon to be wife and 2 step children. So the hours on the water were much less than my normal trip with my buddy.
36 hours of fishing with 2 people = 72 man hours. 20 follows ... 1 fell off at boatside ... and 4 in the boat. 45, 45, 45, 47 ... Rookie figure 8'ers don't help the conversion ratio either, that's for sure.
This same week with them last year was the absolute dead sea. Very few follows and nothing in the boat. So this year's trip felt like a banner week for everyone.
My soon to be 14 year old step son got his first 2 muskies ever, 45 and 45. So I am so pumped as I have had him musky fishing with me here and there for 3 years.
Talked to a few guides and they were having the same experience I was for the week, so that always makes me feel good.
On my normal musky trip with my buddy ... we typically don't go fishing until about 10:30 am and then fish all day. But this week the 14 year old convinced me to get my butt out of bed a couple of mornings and guess what ... both my fish were caught about 10 am on on Friday and one on Saturday. First couple spots we fished in the mornings we moved fish. Then it felt like a switch was turned so we always went in about noon and back out on the water at 5:00 PM. Moon set was in the evening all week so that played perfectly into the fishing plans.
All this talk about numbers is tough to compare because Sabaskong vs. Angle vs. Kenora vs. any other part of the lake will surely yield different results.
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Location: Contrarian Island | good job Brian. Keep on em! Heard the bite was very good from a few others this week too... muskies like warm water |
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| Brian,
Curious as to the size of the 7 fish in the boat on the 11th for you? How many over 40? When guys are catching that many fish in a day I am wondering what the sizes are?
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| Our experience was similar to most other years: a few slow days where you want to sell the gear, and a few good days with fish on every spot you cast. Bucktails weren't really moving fish so crankbaits got them to eat, and we definitely had a lot of short strikes with many more lost fish than usual. Pressure thing? Maybe. Water was more clear than usual too.
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| Our experience this year was similar to most other years: a few slow days where you want to sell the gear, and a few good days with fish on every spot you cast. Size distribution was typical for both follows, lost, and caught fish. Bucktails weren't really moving them so crankbaits got the call. We definitely had a lot of short strikes with many more lost fish than usual. Pressure thing? Maybe. Water was more clear than usual too. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | MuskyMidget - 8/13/2018 1:37 PM
Brian,
Curious as to the size of the 7 fish in the boat on the 11th for you? How many over 40? When guys are catching that many fish in a day I am wondering what the sizes are?
Thanks - Midge!
All over 40 minus 1, but biggest 46. Found a really hot bite in the AM and did some heavy running in the PM well out of the Angle. Yesterday was hot too. Today kinda sucked |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Well I’m done. Picked a few off this morning on the ride across the pond to Morson (holy cow was I sloppy and out of practice solo netting). Ended up with 20, biggest was 49.5. Little mishap cost me a morning and 1/2 night too...and a night camped out on the lake. 18/20 were on blades, 2 on topwater. Topwater seemed to be going well actually but I couldn’t get a Dadson off the line. Would have loved to bag a few more 48s or a 50 but we always want more. Pretty aggressive cold front just came through, don’t see that helping matters much for those up now. Beyond some adjustments in approach, the LOTW Lakemaster chip for Hummingbird was really clutch in being able to run underwater reefs with more precision. Caught a lot of fish on the edges of structure and on spots that I think get overlooked.
Side note....can somebody tell me what the heck this is? (See attachment) Had a similar mark on the other side and caught another big one in a particular basin that looked like it had maybe the early start of these sores.
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Location: SE, WI. | A Beaver thinking it was a tiger tree stump;)?
Or a musky fisher back in the 50's with a Colt 45;)? Dick P. You??? Hopefully Not Darren back in that bay with Plumbers....well? You know???
Darren, please say it isn't so with the lower unit ;(???
Hopefully Not some Kind of VHS;(?
JD 
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | The consensus seems to be lamprey wounds that are infected
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| Most muskies I caught over my 2 week period had sores on their tails. |
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Location: The desert | Doing well on the cold front for numbers, but not much on size. 5 so far today but biggest only 41. Did get a 38 inch pike followed by a 38 inch musky on consecutive casts. I haven't seen a musky that aggressive in a while, we joked it was mad the pike got to the bucktail first.
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| Looks like bnelson resorted to dynamite in the picture I saw, Brian.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | could it be one of the 171 sightings that was temporarily snagged but unfortunately lost? |
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| Jim,
Wasn't me,I've gone to a Glock 10MM. |
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| One week... Brian and I prolly should have just jumped in after them.
I actually did jump in that week... butt-naked. Weird. |
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