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Location: Madison | Is fox lake open? anybody having luck? |
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Location: oswego, il | Fox lake is probably still frozen and like the rest of the southern Wisconsin musky lakes, closed to musky fishing untill the first weekend in may. |
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| Fox river is open but the lakes still have ice. Should be soon. |
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Location: Madison | Sorry, meant fox lake Illnois |
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| Thats what we are talking about. Both of us are close to the Fox chain. |
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Location: Madison | So how is fox lake closed until may (for muskie), its an Illinois lake, doesn't Illinois have open season all year round? |
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Location: oswego, il | Fox lake Wisconsin. He meant fox chain Illinois. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Stopped by Channel lake this afternoon. Bout 30-40 yds. open water from the
shoreline. Rest of Lake is one big floating chunk of honeycombed icebergs.
All the channels are open though. Still too early, won't be long though. Lots
of dead gizzard shad floated in to the shore, sea gulls eating good. water temp
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Location: Madison | Thank You! and sorry for the confusion lol |
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| I live on the Fox River in IL Its open and IL has no closed muskie season so once the Fox Chain opens up its game on. |
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Location: oswego, il | Will be tough with the dead and dying shad. Been my experience in this situation muskies wont need to chase food untill post spawn. |
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Location: Madison | im just looking for a good reason to travel for a weekend and supply this addiction |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Just a heads up.....make sure you have a chain sticker & Il. license.
DNR is out there early in the year. My son & I launched our boat,
motored to first spot, looked up & here comes the little john boat w/
men in green. We weren't even out there five minute on our first trip
of the year!! Now that's service to write home about. Good luck fishing. |
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Location: Madison | Where would one pick up a chain sticker??? local gas station around there? |
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| Theres a currency exhange on 173 and grass lake you can get one or the fox waterway on fox lake |
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Location: Madison | Thank You All! |
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| Fishen-ski's - 3/24/2015 8:53 AM
Just a heads up.....make sure you have a chain sticker & Il. license.
DNR is out there early in the year. My son & I launched our boat,
motored to first spot, looked up & here comes the little john boat w/
men in green. We weren't even out there five minute on our first trip
of the year!! Now that's service to write home about. Good luck fishing.
So are the lakes open yet? |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Drove by the chain today....Looks like it's open for business.
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| Sweet need to get my sticker and Ill be out within a week! |
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Location: SE WISCONSIN | toothycritter88 - 3/24/2015 11:34 AM
Theres a currency exhange on 173 and grass lake you can get one or the fox waterway on fox lake
the currency exchange is on the corner of 83 & 173.
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