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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I still suck on local waters...
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Location: Jane Lew, WV | Rivers are blown and the lakes are warm here in WV. Chased brook trout instead. |
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Location: Almond, WI | Fished a club outing here. WI River is high and fast for this time of year, but not too murky. Very slow action, couple pike for me. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | New water for me on Sunday. On and off weather the week prior and high water had me concerned. More rain forecast for the afternoon. Tried in the weeds first, down sized baits in pockets and inside/outside edges. Not a peep all morning.
Moved to second option in the plan at 1:30. As I'm setting up in deep water, casting rubber off the weed edge it starts sprinkling. Then, two twin 40"ers with shoulders come unglued and find the net within five casts of each other. Then the heavens open up and I'm chased off.
So, success tempered by frustration. I can't help but dwell on the "what if" I didn't chose the loser option first or at least why didn't I move off option one sooner....... |
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Location: oswego, il | Ended up with 5 in the mercer area, 4 small and one mid 30"er. I took a pic of it anyway, expect the musky police at my door any minute. Some pike and bass too. Water high and dark, even the normally clear lakes had tanic stain. Could not see follows. Weed growth very slow. Had not been up that way in about 5 years, missed it.
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | ToddM - 6/26/2017 12:49 PM
Ended up with 5 in the mercer area, 4 small and one mid 30"er. I took a pic of it anyway, expect the musky police at my door any minute. Some pike and bass too. Water high and dark, even the normally clear lakes had tanic stain. Could not see follows. Weed growth very slow. Had not been up that way in about 5 years, missed it.
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Location: Contrarian Island | got a 39 and 40 and 1 which looked to be a bit bigger pushed a topwater last evening in 3 hrs. barely a boat on the lake, gotta love that..... shoulda just pulled my bait away, who wants to catch 40s!
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Location: north central wisconsin | The Consolidated Musky Club Inc. Had our annual June outing held in the minoqua area over the weekend. We had about 25 people fishing the area in the continued interesting conditions. There were only 6(WI legal sized) muskies caught(all released). My partner Greg and I had 1st and 3rd place with 48" and 40" fish, with Chuck and Joy Schauer taking second with a 41. Our bites came out adjacent steep breaks, clear deep water. We did see some smaller fish on dark water in weeds. The hatch over the weekend made for interesting open water activity where there had been none in the days prior. Made for a messy boat in the morning too.
Thanks to Heart II bar and grill for hosting our outing/awards. The service and food was great.
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| Landed a 42 and lost an upper 30's. Muskie action was slow but the pike went off with the cold weather. Not really what I was wanting to get into but probably cracked 100+ on the weekend with the biggest at 37". In other words I lost a lot of fishing time unhooking snot rockets haha. |
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Location: MN | New lake featuring a couple pike. a 30% chance of rain at 9 am turned into all-day rain from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Seems like guessing the weather is like muskie fishing that way.. |
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| got a 48" dad lost another that "appeared" to be over 50" (#2) his pb is stuck at 47" |
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Location: Minnesota. | I mowed my lawn - it looks loverly...... |
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| Got out yesterday for about 3 hours, and they were on! My buddy and i caught a 38, 42, and 45 and hooked and lost 3 other fish. Not bad for Illinois. |
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| What was everyones tactics (that worked) |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Battled cold,wind and constant rain showers in the Land O Lakes area for 3 days. Had numerous opportunities with a lot of short hits and swing and miss blind fish. My son managed 1 in the net on Sunday and I had a mid 40" take a swipe at a top water at boatside, missed the lure but stuck the rear treble in the center of its skull. 10 seconds of pandemonium and it went air born and shook the hook. Left me with an elevated heart rate and a trophy scale on the hook point. Overall a fun weekend.
On the plus side; no sunburn to deal with and I found a new way to clean the cork handles on my rods. Drying out everything today I noticed that the handles look like new after sitting on the deck for 3 days of constant off and on rain. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Fished Friday eve, and Sunday Morning. Boated 5, Biggest this 46"er JD
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| Nice fish Jim!! |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Splashy your a baller my friend. |
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| Nice fish! |
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| LSC trolling sucks!!!! If you go there, bring your casting stuff and enjoy.
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | 4amuskie - 7/4/2017 8:40 AM
LSC trolling sucks!!!! If you go there, bring your casting stuff and enjoy.
couldn't disagree any more. |
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| Musky Brian - 7/4/2017 9:36 AM
4amuskie - 7/4/2017 8:40 AM
LSC trolling sucks!!!! If you go there, bring your casting stuff and enjoy.
couldn't disagree any more.
That's what I love about muskie fisherman. Thanks |
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Location: Southwest PA | A whole lot of shoulder pain with nothing to show not even a follow... worth every minute I spent chasing these toothy critters! |
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Location: oswego, il | Worked on and reajusted my boat trailer on my small boat, installed a new terrova on my new boat. Birthday party for my son, went to see Collective Soul and Shinedown at Ribfest, worked Monday, bled one of my fishing partners trailer brakes. My son played patriotic songs under the bathroom door this morning while i took a shower, i had to point out It Ain't Me is a protest song. Now off with him to do something extremely patriotic, sushi!
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Location: Aurora | Musky Brian - 7/4/2017 9:36 AM
4amuskie - 7/4/2017 8:40 AM
LSC trolling sucks!!!! If you go there, bring your casting stuff and enjoy.
couldn't disagree any more.
I thot Spencer's article in MH last year proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that casting is more efficient and covers more productive water than trolling. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | We boated a 49", 46", 45", a nice 38" pike, and had a monster go round in the 8 like 3 times. Oh man was it big. Also lost one boatside 40+, and lost one a little farther out on the cast.
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| I moved 4 fish, and one of them I got to follow 8 times and go a few laps on the fig8 with 8 different lures... Okay it probally was not the same fish but they were on a spot smaller than 100 yards and 42.3" long and I made three laps through there.
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| 4amuskie - 7/4/2017 8:40 AM
LSC trolling sucks!!!! If you go there, bring your casting stuff and enjoy.
The trollers catch more fish here but me and my pals enjoy casting much more. Been tough so far for me though, missed a couple but put none in the net Monday evening. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Put the biggest fish we have ever caught in the net last night, a fat 54".. and a 40" fish in the 8. Good weekend so far.. |
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| Put a 38 in the net last night and had 2 bigger fish up on topwater |
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| Landed my personal best today, a strong 47 incher. The glide raider has been good to me this past week |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Fished Thursday and Friday after work and all say Saturday and raised 3 fish. After the fish being active in June, July hasn't started very well. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | MOJOcandy101 - 7/9/2017 3:51 PM
Fished Thursday and Friday after work and all say Saturday and raised 3 fish. After the fish being active in June, July hasn't started very well.
Man July has been stellar for us so far. With a 54", 49", several mid and low 40's.. we havnt netted one under 40 in weeks. The big fish are turned up, up here. |
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Location: Ashland WI | JakeStCroixSkis - 7/9/2017 5:10 PM
MOJOcandy101 - 7/9/2017 3:51 PM
Fished Thursday and Friday after work and all say Saturday and raised 3 fish. After the fish being active in June, July hasn't started very well.
Man July has been stellar for us so far. With a 54", 49", several mid and low 40's.. we havnt netted one under 40 in weeks. The big fish are turned up, up here.
Got room next week? |
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Location: oswego, il | Hit heidecke, needed to launch the little boat to check out the trailer which still sucks. Got under the bridge, caught a smallie on my first cast. Caught some more and a few other species including the biggest walleye i have caught there. Was a surprise giving the depth i was in, the clarity and 82 degree water temps.
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Location: Southwest PA | Some boils behind topwaters and a few new waypoints is all I have to report... one was a nice fish that followed all the way in just to dive under the boat  Hoping to convert her now that I know she's around! |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | 14ledo81 - 7/9/2017 6:59 PM
JakeStCroixSkis - 7/9/2017 5:10 PM
MOJOcandy101 - 7/9/2017 3:51 PM
Fished Thursday and Friday after work and all say Saturday and raised 3 fish. After the fish being active in June, July hasn't started very well.
Man July has been stellar for us so far. With a 54", 49", several mid and low 40's.. we havnt netted one under 40 in weeks. The big fish are turned up, up here.
Got room next week?
Sure. Come on up. |
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| Made 3 muskies dizzy spinning circles boatside until they fell away on Sunday. Metro fish suck. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | 2-2 on fox chain. Fished until 11am then all the skiers and power boats drove us off the water. |
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Location: Vilas | Got my PB sun eve... a fat 46"...a 36 and 37 saturday in some small vilas lakes |
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Location: Lino Lakes, MN | Saw a few decent fish and lost 3, all of which crushed baits and ran straight for the boat. I thought last night was going to be amazing between the moonrise, full moon, and approaching storms, but it wasn't meant to be. I probably would have stuck it out a bit longer, but I had my son with me and the storms/lightning looked pretty nasty. |
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| Sidejack - 7/4/2017 11:53 AM
Musky Brian - 7/4/2017 9:36 AM
4amuskie - 7/4/2017 8:40 AM
LSC trolling sucks!!!! If you go there, bring your casting stuff and enjoy.
couldn't disagree any more.
I thot Spencer's article in MH last year proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that casting is more efficient and covers more productive water than trolling.
i don't know the guy but almost all the wr class fish have been caught by troller |
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| Most action of the season for myself came on Sunday. Managed to boated two low 40's and I lost a nice fish boat side due to a botched net job.. but overall another awesome weekend of fishing! |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Another solid weekend. 52.5", 44", 30" in my boat. My buddy smacked a 48" in his boat as well. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Only made it out Sunday evening for a few hours and didn't see a thing. It was TOO nice. Headed to LOTW for the first time in 3 days! |
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Location: Twin Cities | Got on tonka Saturday and tried several different presentations and depths, didn't see a thing. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | had a fun 3 hours on the water solo saturday night before the storms... had action from 4, all 4 hit, got 3, 37", 44", 48.25". Missed a 40-41 at the boat...bucktails and topwater in the weeds. wish the storm had held off another hour or 2... 
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