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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Welcome to July!
We now have our first bigger bunch of muskie boats in camp this week so I should be able to get some intel on conditions and activity. There has been some fish in both shallow, weedy bays as well as rock structures. Bucktails have also started to produce from follows and strikes. Several big girls spotted already in the short time since people arrived for the week on Saturday. A nice 47 was landed right off the bat Saturday evening on a bucktail in a saddle with sands, weeds and boulders.
Cold front came through after a Saturday night and Sunday afternoon set of t-storms. Water temps were well over 70 in the shallows, but will cool a bit the next day or two with a air temp high of 63 in the forecast.
Keep your baits in the water!
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Location: Minnesota | Heading up your way Saturday for a week trip. Can't wait. Hope the big girls come to play |
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| Muskyhunter10 - 7/7/2015 10:51 AM
Heading up your way Saturday for a week trip. Can't wait. Hope the big girls come to play
Ditto
Guessing there will be plenty of other musky guys out there but luckily there are a few acres of water around and a spot or 2! |
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Location: Duluth, MN | NickD - 7/7/2015 11:31 AM
Muskyhunter10 - 7/7/2015 10:51 AM
Heading up your way Saturday for a week trip. Can't wait. Hope the big girls come to play
Ditto
Guessing there will be plenty of other musky guys out there but luckily there are a few acres of water around and a spot or 2!
Same here. I will be there sunday for the week. Justin's gonna have his hands full of muskie guys. |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | The more the merrier!
One million acres can handle a hand full of muskie nuts and then some.
I can't be out harassing them so might as well have an army doing it for me.
Good luck to all! |
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| Are you all staying at Mylies? |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Dave T. - 7/7/2015 6:05 PM
Are you all staying at Mylies?
Yes i am. |
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Location: Minnesota | I'm staying at red wing |
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| Buena Vista for us. |
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| Hey, we will be at BVR as well.
Girlfriend and I, so if somebody needs a boat to fish out of some days, i will have a few days open im sure..
GF likes to sleep in. :/
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| Justin,
Any update on the fishing this week? I will be up on Friday.
Thanks!! |
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Location: WI | We'll see ya 1 month from today. Let the countdown begin.... |
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Location: The desert | bigwegs - 7/8/2015 9:00 AM
Justin,
Any update on the fishing this week? I will be up on Friday.
Thanks!!
We've been pounding rocks pretty hard. Did a little shallow weedy stuff but it didn't yield much. Been a few tough days with the cold front followed by blue bird skies with light wind. Found a few active ones tonight on topwater.
Pre-cold front had two on blades right away. Post-cold front they've shut down on blades so far and prefer suicks and cranks during the day. Fish moved on topraider and weagle tonight.
Back out tomorrow. Trolling motor almost went in the drink today, which cut into fishing time a bit.
Walleyes have come fairly easily on jigs off of humps. Plastics work fine. |
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Location: MN | What area are you fishing PP? |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | What PP said!
First hand reports are best! |
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| What are the best eating size walleyes?
Thanks! |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Dave T. - 7/9/2015 7:53 AM
What are the best eating size walleyes?
Thanks!
15-16" are the tastiest size of walleye. |
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| MyliesPlace (Justin ) - 7/9/2015 8:09 AM
Dave T. - 7/9/2015 7:53 AM
What are the best eating size walleyes?
Thanks!
15-16" are the tastiest size of walleye.
Thank you sir! |
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Location: The desert | Propster - 7/9/2015 12:49 AM
What area are you fishing PP?
Staying at Mylies....not too terribly far from camp. |
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| Pointer, are you intentionally not saying how many fish you guys are catching? Come on! |
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Location: The desert | Been a tough week. Hardly seeing fish chase at all. Fish we contact are eating or trying to. We've got more in the boat than we've had follows.
Haven't seen or caught squat today. In for a fish fry then back out. |
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Location: The desert | Today.....sucked.
Managed one dink and saw one other fish. Dink came on a spinner bait right tight to the reeds. Follow came in super low and slow on a suick. Through a crank all day as well to no avail. Fished rocks and weeds.
Even the walleyes quit. I did manage a crayfish on a jig though! |
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| Pointerpride102 - 7/9/2015 10:41 PM
Today.....sucked.
Managed one dink and saw one other fish. Dink came on a spinner bait right tight to the reeds. Follow came in super low and slow on a suick. Through a crank all day as well to no avail. Fished rocks and weeds.
Even the walleyes quit. I did manage a crayfish on a jig though!
Well thats not good to hear!
What do you thinks going on? Still havent bounced back from the cold front? |
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Location: The desert | No idea. They're probably just mad that I'm here. Once I cross the border back to the US they'll fire right up. |
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| Make a big move and try another area of the lake. We frequently have multiple boats on the trips I go on and you'd be surprised at how some days they go in one area of the lake but not another. |
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| Pointerpride102 - 7/10/2015 8:29 AM
No idea. They're probably just mad that I'm here. Once I cross the border back to the US they'll fire right up.
Ah yes, i am familiar with this as well.
You have to throw them a change up like we did last year, came in a few days early, and those were the best days we had. Day we were originally supposed to arrive was terrible! so were the following two days, cold, rain, totally shut down the fishing...
I do agree with taking a long drive somewhere though. I was talking to VMS on this board last year, who was there the same time i was, but was at the northwest angle. He wasnt doing much over that way at all, where i was at least seeing and catching a few..
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| Don't feel bad that is Canada sometimes. Our week during opener I went three days without catching any then solid days when it was warm.. Then the last day I went to a nearby bay and some other amatuer guys went to a bay near camp and they caught 15 in a few hours yet I hardly saw #*#* |
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Location: Minnesota | Heading up tomorrow at 4 am any reports? |
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Location: MN | Make your own! |
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Location: The desert | We packed it in. Found a spot that looked like it was designed by a musky guy to attract a giant. Islands, rocks, sand, saddle, green weeds, wind blown main lake point, current, etc. All that was missing was Mrs Musky.
I had an absolutely amazing time, despite the tough fishing. Justin at Mylies runs a great camp, and I'm extremely grateful he found us a spot to camp. Normally we go to Wabigoon, but the place we used to go made no effort to work with is. I emailed Justin and asked if he had any room, knowing full well he was likely full up. Sure enough, the camp was full. But Justin let us put up a tent, pretty much right in his back yard. I will undoubtedly be back to Mylies, and I encourage those who are considering LOTW to head to Mylies.
Back to work on Monday....but only for a week, then off to Eagle River. Good luck to those headed up this weekend, and you can thank me for leaving as the fish are sure to fire up! |
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| If your not seeing fish shallow troll, troll, troll the break lines like it is the fall your covering a lot more water and better chance on finding the ones that want to eat !!! Or keep doing what your doing and getting what you keep getting !! 
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Finally some good action to report!
One boat went out yesterday after arriving early morning and picked up a low 40s right away. Came back to check-in and settle into the cabin and went back out for the afternoon and evening and picked up 5 more.
A couple in the low 40s, most others in the high 30s.
All bucktails.
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Location: eagle river,wis | just got back up.Got out before the storms this morning and lost one and moved 3 fish.one was a big girl.Fished thru the storm and moved several others.Went back out this afternoon and took the wife,needless to say her 3rd cast she nails a 43 on topwater.I did move the big one again and another nice fish, so today surprised me.
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| Ive only seen a few fish, both were pretty hot. Havent been out much yet actually..
Seems to me the water is pretty hot and murky. Should i be looking for cooler, clearer water? |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Actually had a boat with 3 anglers fish all day this yesterday. Might be the first guys all season that put in a full day. Even through a squall and then another period of sustain moderate (then light) rain, they found fish almost everywhere they stopped.
They hung an 8 on the board and saw a super giant that may have flirted with legal status. A porky 48" at the end of the day was the biggest fish landed.
"throw a bucktail. Reel it really fast."
Bald rock, bays with weeds, bays without weeds, bays with sand, bays without sand, points. They all held fish.
Three fish hit after drawn out figure 8s. They did not look like they were going to eat and disappeared before coming back to crush baits. They kept figure 8 going. Steady speed with no direction change. Just sticking with it produced 3 fish most people would not have caught.
Time on the water. You can't catch them from the cabin! |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Been windy since Saturday morning. The mostly SW blow has made it tough on anglers getting out to areas they had been seeing fish. Just before the winds picked up, multiple 48s and 49s (up to 49.5) were landed. Mostly bucktails on multiple structural elements.
Water temps low 70s in main lake and hitting mid 70s in shallow bays during the warmest parts of the day.
Winds forecasted to drop to manageable levels tomorrow and the next few days should be stable.
Keep your lures wet!
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Heat waver has made fish a big sluggish it seems. Been several really nice fish caught the past week or so, but follows and locations aren't what we would consider normal for this time of year. Lot of reports stating fish in in the weeds/slop. Not much going on with rocks. Water temps are getting uncomfortably high. Time for extra caution with all your catches. Water releases are safest if you can live without pictures and exact measurements.
Getting a slight break in the heat the next few days. |
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