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| Hello. Haven't been on the site in awhile, but I am looking for tips on how to go about fishing an extremely clear lake in Hayward (the one that unfortunately doesn't have the 50" limit, so you can guess the name). There are not too many muskies in this lake, and just about zero weeds. The lake does have several large mid-lake humps, a lot of old cribs that hold panfish, and vast expanses of open water that hold schools of big cisco. I will mostly be fishing the lake in the evening and at night. What types of baits do you recommend? Also, with the size of the humps, would you recommend trolling in and around them until dark? Any help would be greatly appreciated. The site is looking great. And don't forget, catch and release, let the fish grow.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Check the open water for suspendos using whatever will get just under the baitfish and just above any big signals you see on the sonar In the evening and at night try surface baits and cranks. Burning a bucktail sometimes produces for me under those conditions. Long casts are important, too. Fish every crib you can find, from a full casting distance away. LONG casts. |
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Location: Presque Isle Wisconsin | Fish the offshore structure as Steve suggested, but also throw down right on top of the humps with sinking lures ie, soft plastics,sinking glide baits, sinking cranks etc. Do not be afraid to do this in the middle of the day even in bright sunlight.Cover the entire area over and around the humps even if you see no baitfish in the area.If you have no follows ,strikes etc on the first pass on this type of structure repeat the process with a bait that has a slightly different action. |
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| Thank you very much for the help. Do you think the Lindy Tiger Tube would be good for bouncing in and around the humps? Also, there are several very large reed flats in close proximity to some of the deeper parts of the lake. Do you think that any fish would be holding on these flats in the early morning or evening? Thanks.
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Edited by Sponge 4/30/2007 6:57 AM
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Drunken Muskies are a terribly chaotic thing to experience. Howie, are your fish in the clear water up there really deep yet, or are they staying in easier reach this year? |
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Location: Presque Isle Wisconsin | Steve The recent pattern has seen the bigger fish down in 20' to 30' in the daylight hours and higher in the water column in the evening and early mornings.There is no deep thermo cline established yet due to the unstable weather patterns so What I said above may reflect that there is just not a predictable depth to fish as yet at anytime of the day. One of the smaller clear water lakes has a great shallow suspended bight going on all day. Tough patterns to figure so far this year. Just have to make several passes at different depths. Water temps still moving up and down by several degrees as the numerous fronts pass through. |
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Location: Hayward WI | If it's the same lake I'm thinking of, off Hwy27 east of hwy 70, I've had sucess trolling 10" Jakes during the summer. I troll them with approx. 100' of line out, flatlined out the back. Fish I've caught had come off the north end, off of points and over open water 40-50' deep around schools of cisco. Casting wise the fish I've seen have been smaller, along the weed edges where the creek enters. |
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