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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Since I have no idea how to catch a walleye and hunting smallies around me (N.IL) is not something I've figured out yet....when the water is too hot, I hit the big pond (Lake Michigan) for salmon and big trout.
What are the rest of you chasing while we're giving a heat driven break to the muskies?
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Just getting some sun! |
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Location: Alexandria, MN | Late night walleye troll. |
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| Big bull sized bluegills on ultra-light gear is a blast. Kdawg |
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| Lake Michigan early spring lakers.
Door County for spring walleyes.
Door County for summertime smallies.
Early fall Lake Michigan kings.
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| In the spring I target big Northern Pike. When the water gets hot I switch to Largemouth bass. If for some reason I can't get anything to bite (VERY rare) I break out the ultralight and go for some 'gills. If there is ever a day I can't even catch a bluegill I think I'll give up fishing for good! |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Mostly smallmouth. Some eyes. |
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| I target hog northerns. In fact, most of my muskie catches happen when I am trying to catch northerns. My PB northern is a 40 incher I caught on a fly rod and that made me just as happy as any muskie I have caught. |
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Location: Royalton, MN | I really enjoy smallmouth bass. Not as interested in largemouth as I once was. I love chasing walleye early and late in the season when they're shallower and willing to chase artificials, plastics, or a jig/minnow. If you have to slowly drag live bait for walleyes, count me out. Too boring. |
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Location: Duluth | Running stickbaits for eyes and chasing brookies and browns. Nothing beats an aggressive topwater trout bite. |
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Location: oswego, il | it depends on what is available. getting 10 miles out on the big pond is fun and you can get nice steelhead doing it. Heidecke for whatever bites a crankbait. I am out in Colorado right now I found a lake that has hybrid striper fishing as fast as spring coho. Can't keep lines in the water. |
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| Nice Todd..big fan of Wipers myself..5 to 10 pound wipers pounding a streamer on an 8wt..isn't a bad break from muskie fishing... I fish for lots of stuff from Gills to flatheads 
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| I get my big walleye fix in April over on Green Bay, but this is the time of year I will stock my freezer. I fish local lakes for put and take eater walleyes and chase schools of crappie around the basins. I am heading over to visit a buddy in the U.P. tomorrow, for a few days of fishing stream trout. Also do a little bit of small mouth fishing in his ponds. There are a number of them in the 5 to 6 pound range. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Crappies, bluegills, bass and walleyes. In that order. I have found consistently catching the biggest crappies in the lake is more difficult than most other fish. |
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Location: Southern W.Va. | Smallmouths on the New River and .channel cats on a warm summer night with a bucket of big Creek chubs. Love the smallmouths wading the New River during the day. In fact I just got back from bass fishing the New River about 9:30, caught 11 up to.about 14'' or so. Lots of fun on 6# test and topwaters. Love tiny torpedoes and poppers. |
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Location: Western U.P. | Musky and Walleye on Lake Superior... weather and waves permitting. |
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| Smallmouth
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| With two young boys I've rediscovered how much fun it is to fish for fish that will bite. Crappies and bass are the go tos. |
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Location: Perryville, MO | Being on the Southern end of the range I fish largemouth, bluegills, crappie, hybrids and stripers every once and a while (especially when I miss the long rods during the summer), and catfish (setting lines on the Mississippi or tossing jugs on a couple of different reservoirs is always great fun, especially with the chance of a monster, but I've started to care more about pole and line fishing for big flatheads on the river).
My year isn't organized in my mind according to months as it is seasons for targeted fish. It's bass and catfish season right now. |
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Location: mercer wi | Busch lights in my cooler |
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| Being from Central Illinois I always LOVED catfishing, especially for big flatheads. Biggest I've ever personally seen was 48 pounds that my buddy caught when we were out one night, what a brute. |
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| sworrall - 7/14/2020 6:25 PM
Crappies, bluegills, bass and walleyes. In that order. I have found consistently catching the biggest crappies in the lake is more difficult than most other fish.
Steve, where in the lake have you been finding the bigger ones? Suspended over deep water? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Depends on the water. Clear water right now they are off the edges, dark water are in very specific types of cover. |
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| I fish for stripers in Tennessee when I'm not musky fishing. They fight longer and harder than a musky.
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Location: oswego, il | ColdLabatts - 7/16/2020 6:14 AM
Being from Central Illinois I always LOVED catfishing, especially for big flatheads. Biggest I've ever personally seen was 48 pounds that my buddy caught when we were out one night, what a brute.
Can you be from central Illinois and call yourself ColdLabatts? I netted a 47.5" 50.4lbs by the weight formula last year for my partner who caught it on 10lb braid and a shad rap. |
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Location: SW Ohio | I like to fish for large mouth or white bass when they're running. Right now, it's too hot for me to be enjoyable. 90+ is not my cup of tea even though it's generally cooler early. Humidity sucks the energy right out of you. All spring I couldn't wait for it to warm up. Then we went from 40's/50's to 90's in a matter of weeks. I miss the cooler whether...LOL. |
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Location: Duluth | Absolute beauty stripe. Miss taking weekend trips to the Cumberland River near Burkesville KY |
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| Why is my post earlier post not editable? If I can get a picture to work this is a Zander I caught.
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| Walleyes, big bluegill and smallmouth. |
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| Great zander fishysam. I chase pike, pickerel, browns and big brookies. |
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