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Location: North Metro | Hey fellas, How is the fishing? Just wanted to see what is happening on Tonka recently. I have a couple days to fish this week and would like to know what temps the water is at and if any certain bays have been moving fish at all. Any recent advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks and good fishing! |
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Location: North Metro | Hummmmmmmmmm.... No fish moving on Tonka apparently... Must not be anyone fishing it either. Strange. |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | Cast-n-blast check out fishing minnesota dot com there is a whole big thread over there on tonka, should be able to find what you are looking for. |
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Location: Eden Prairie & Pine Island | Dude, call me at the office or home; maybe we can hit her together Friday. |
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Location: Eagan, MN | Fished Tonka for about nine hours yesterday and another seven today. NOTHING moving, at least for me. I spent most of my time on the lower lake, from Excelsior all the way up to Wayzata. Also fished Crystal Bay some. I was hitting main lake points and reefs, both on top and around the deep edges. Casting and trolling ten inch Jakes, Believers, Bobbies, and Magnum Dawgs. The last ski I saw was a week ago when I lost a 40" boatside on a bucktail. Surface temps around 52, talked to a guy who said 10 feet down it was 56 degrees. He claimed that meant the lake had turned over. I think that would mean it hadn't. Anyway, he has been putting some hours in this week and not seeing anything either. C-n-B, were you out there today? |
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | If your coolest water is on the surface, that means the lake has in fact turned over. If you think about it in terms of the lakes freezing, the lakes would freeze from the bottom up if it were the other way. |
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| I've been asked to revive the Piganator Challunge. I'm sure we all have a few Pigs again to donate to the cause!
In case you don't know what the piganator challenge is....
It has been a meeting/fishing contest usually held on a Twin Cities Metro Lake. It started off as a largest fish takes all and everyone through a lure in. Unfortunately most of the time the lures were Pigs and most people didn't want them. So...
The Piganator challuge starts with a block of Wood. 2 x 4... Anyone who would like to join is welcome but no MORE than 25 people can participate. We typically meet on a Sat or Sunday until ice up and everyone throws $5.00 into a kitty each week. Winner (Largest Fish) takes all. They then have to take the piece of wood and their name and a lure that they dislike. (Seems to be pigs again most of the time) Next week someone else does the same.
Let's start the 2003 Piganator Challunge on Sunday Oct. 26th from 8 am - 1 pm at Lake Minnetonka Gray's Bay landing. Cocktails, food and shooting the %^%$ afterwards at a local establishment.
Who's in? |
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Location: Eagan, MN | AWH - Sorry to change this thread into a discussion of turnover but from what I know about it here are the steps:
1. Stratification/thermocline develops (summertime).
2. Fall weather cools the surface until it is colder than the water below it.
3. Wind action and the higher density of the surface water cause it to sink (turnover).
4. The water throughout the lake has roughly the same temperature and oxygen content.
I believe the situation I described is step #2. None of the steps are instantaneous. They can last for days or weeks depending on the weather. What are your thoughts? Anyone else care to weigh in on the subject?
As to the lake freezing on the surface, you have to remember that water is most dense at around 38F. It gets less dense as you warm it or cool it. That is why ice floats and why lakes freeze at the surface, not because of turnover.
Anyway, I'm heading back out to Tonka today. Bringing my girlfriend along, so hopefully I have some luck and can show her what muskie fishing is all about.
Good fishing everyone. |
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | My point about the lake freezing at the surface was just that it's going to freeze once it gets down to a certain point. So as the lakes are prior to turnover, the warmest water is at the surface. After turnover it's the other way around, one of the reasons why the lake would freeze at the surface.
But I am far from an expert on turnover or any of that good stuff. So I'll leave that up to you or anyone else that is much more informed than I am. I just go fishing and hope the hard water stays away for awhile!
AWH |
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| The Pignator, I would love another shot at the trophy....haven't won it yet, but have only made two of the events in the last couple years.
I'll attempt to make it out a couple times, this weekend I don't think I can as I have to get the dock out up north. Will keep an eye on the board for future outings. |
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