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Location: Brighton CO. | Do you live on a lake?, summer cottage?, Live in the woods and lake jump?, Go upstate or to Canada? , Fish in the city? Go to another state? Or combinations of these? |
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Location: NW WI | Live in the country outside of a small city.
Typically take the Kayak and Pound a nearby river or nearby lake that doesn't have an improved landing on days I'm not working O.T.
Weekends, If solo I either go to a low density flowage out of pure vindication or I like to pic 1 new lake and try to spend the year learning it. If I'm going out with my dad, he's really into never going to same spot twice sooooo, yeah we do alot of frustrating lake hoping throughout a season. |
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Location: PA Angler | Gotta a small camp up north same state. Fish the rivers, creeks, and lakes. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | In the early 90's there were some good Tiger Muskies lakes here in Colorado, but they are lacking now!
As a teenager spent my summers in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and have been fishing there and surrounding waters for 50 years and my mom is from Northern Minnesota and spent some time there too. We also fished in Canada for five years.
With some luck I'm going to get a trip this year either Minnesota or Wisconsin. And I need to get a new Passport too. (Canada been good to me) |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I live in Oneida County WI and am literally surrounded by lakes and rives. Hundreds of choices.
My son owns a cabin in Delta WI, so we fish there some. Good hunting there, too, this is from a couple weeks ago bow hunting.
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Location: oswego, il | All the above. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Steve those are nice Deer, I have mounts of Buck & Doe my dad and grandpa shot back in the 1940's. The Buck has 4 points on each side. I have all the cool stuff in my part of the house. |
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Location: E. Tenn | ToddM - 12/3/2022 5:09 PM
All the above.
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Location: Hayward WI | Just moved to Hayward a couple weeks ago, lots of lake to explore next season! |
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| I live in the city, and have 6 muskie lakes within 15 minutes of my house. I used to fish a lot more than I do now. Used to fish a couple times a week locally, and explore outstate a couple times a month. Now I mostly just fish the neighborhood lakes when I need to feel a tug on the line, and take 4 or 5 trips of 2 or 3 days, to low density, trophy waters. |
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Location: On the River | Live on Wisconsin River
Also fish
LOTW
Oneida & Vilas county lakes |
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| Spend one week in spring and fall on Manitowish chain. Various lakes during the summer in the greater Twin City area and frequent trips to Vermilion late summer and Fall. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | I had a friend over to watch our rival football game on Sunday Ticket and made wings and brownies an went to bed too early, I woke up in the middle of the night instead of counting sheep I started counting all the lakes I've fished muskies.
1. Wisconsin at least 40 maybe over 50.
2. Ontario Canada 7.
3. Minnesota 5
4. Nebraska 2
5. Colorado at least 10.
A note not all the lakes I've fished in Colorado still have Muskies and the one that do no longer have the signage showing that the minimum of 36". |
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| Live in South Dakota. Fish SD lakes primarily. Occasionally take a trip to a MN lake each summer. And have an annual trip to LOTW for 4-7 days depending on how busy things are around SD. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I live in Chisholm Minnesota. 45 minutes from Vermilion and others. I have fished Lake of the woods a handful of times as well. I usually don’t stay overnight wherever I go. I’d rather get home and sleep in my bed. I take about 3 trips a week. |
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Location: MN | I live on west side of twin cities metro, pretty close to Tonka. A lot of my fishing is local or nearby, with some exceptions. We usually do a week or two trip to Canada in the summer, staying at a family cabin. We also camp around MN and neighboring states on a lot of weekends and sometimes I drag the boat with. I usually do a long weekend pure fishing trip to western MN in the fall. |
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Location: Duluth | Live on the Duluth Harbor and keep the boat in the water behind my house, take it to work sometimes when feel like it. Have a cabin in the UP, usually do a LOTW trip and another trip with buddies that rotates location.
Still didn't fish nearly enough.
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| I fish in my dreams when the wife isn't elbowing me for snoring. Sold boat memorial day weekend. 3 kids 4 and under with 2 in diapers. My boat was unused and rotting more than my wife's off limits and stretched out...... |
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| I live 3 miles South of Rainy Lake and 2 hours North of Vermilion. I fished Vermilion once in my life but would like to hit it more in the future. I'm a Pike guy more than a Muskie guy but when trolling I don't care what bites. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Got a house and 15 mostly wooded and hilly acres out of town a little ways; closest muskies are more than an hours' drive, my main lakes are 2, 2.5, and 3 hrs each way. "Athens County isn't the end of the earth, but you can see it from here." m |
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Location: Walker, MN | I fished muskies all over central & northern MN including eastern LOTW from 1994-2004. I've been a Leech Lake resident 2004-present, and fish Leech almost exclusively. I've been guiding clients here for the past 10+ years. I've been poking around in TN the past four springs, and bought a cheap property there a year ago for future winter/spring exploring. |
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Location: Twin Cities Metro | Live in the Twin Cities. Fish almost exclusively within 40 minutes of my house. That means metro lakes 3-4 times per week with occasional jumps to western Wisconsin. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Never lived on a lake but spent a good portion of my life on them. A few years ago on a boring winter day I compiled a list of all the lakes I could remember fishing. Came up with a total of 243 lakes and almost 3 dozen rivers. These included the following states; Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, along with Canada. Guess you could consider me a lake hopper  but I hope to continue the exploration. |
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| ghoti - 12/9/2022 3:21 PM
Never lived on a lake but spent a good portion of my life on them. A few years ago on a boring winter day I compiled a list of all the lakes I could remember fishing. Came up with a total of 243 lakes and almost 3 dozen rivers. These included the following states; Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, along with Canada. Guess you could consider me a lake hopper but I hope to continue the exploration.
Wow, that is a lot of different lakes and rivers! |
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Location: Brighton CO. | ghoti - 12/9/2022 3:21 PM
Never lived on a lake but spent a good portion of my life on them. A few years ago on a boring winter day I compiled a list of all the lakes I could remember fishing. Came up with a total of 243 lakes and almost 3 dozen rivers. These included the following states; Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, along with Canada. Guess you could consider me a lake hopper but I hope to continue the exploration.
Now that's a life well lived! I very briefly thought of all the non Muskie lakes I've fished growing up in California going to Mexico, Arizona ECT then my mind shifted to my late father who fished most of the places I fished (sure I've fished quite a few without him with my friends) but I think back to him fishing all over southern Wisconsin as a kid form Racine plus all the places he fished the four years in the Air Force plus before all us kids were around He was a field Engineer for seven years working on air bases all over the country as a civilian. But 243 lakes and 3 dozen rivers My Hero! |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Yes, I've had a blessed life. Raised by a mother and father who gave me the opportunity to explore my passions, married an understanding wife, and have a son who has turned out to be my best fishing partner. Living in Wi. obviously helps with lake opportunities. |
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Location: oswego, il | ghoti - 12/9/2022 3:21 PM
Never lived on a lake but spent a good portion of my life on them. A few years ago on a boring winter day I compiled a list of all the lakes I could remember fishing. Came up with a total of 243 lakes and almost 3 dozen rivers. These included the following states; Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, along with Canada. Guess you could consider me a lake hopper but I hope to continue the exploration.
That's an impressive list mine would not be that big but it would be pretty big.. |
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Location: NE WI | I live in NE Wisconsin on 200 Acres which is about 1/2 good deer habitat. I have a musky lake within a mile of my house which I don't fish. It's very small with a panfish/golden shiner forage base. I used to fish Northeastern Wisconsin waters and take 1 to 3 trips to the French River each year. I now do all my musky fishing on Green Bay (when weather allows) I've caught more good fish the past few years than all the previous years I've fished muskies. (60 total) |
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Location: Michigan | Lot of lucky guys on here! I live in SW Michigan and it's usually an hour drive to the closest muskie lake for me. If I want to fish bigger waters in Northern MI or LSC it's 2.5-3 hours and then 4-8hr to UP lakes. |
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| Live in the west suburbs of the Twin Cities. Almost all of my muskie fishing, and all of my fishing in general, is within about 30 minutes of my house. About 3 times a year I will go a little further, maybe 1-2 hours away. I am not a fan of hauling a boat long distance. |
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | I live a few minutes from downtown Minneapolis so I spend weeknights and weekends I can’t get away fishing the electric only lakes in the city, or the various other musky lakes in the burbs. Thankfully my family has a place on lake vermilion that I spend 2 or more weekends a month at, as well as a friend in Alexandria. Never fish the motor lakes in the metro on the weekend unless it’s mid October or later, too much rec boat traffic. On harriet/Calhoun there’s sailboats everywhere but I’ll take those any day over wake boats
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| Sioux Falls, South Dakota. There are 3 lakes with stocked musky within an hour of me within South Dakota. 2 hours out I add 2 more South Dakota lakes and 1 minnesota. When I travel, I typically head into western Minnesota along Douglas County, Otter Tail, Becker on up to Bemidji. |
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Location: SW Ohio | In SW OH, I have a stocked lake about 35 NE of me. 2 hours north is Alum Creek, 3 hours south is Cave.. Webster Chain is 4 hours NW in IN. And there are multiple lakes NE of us but about 4-5 hours so weekend trips only. If we get adventurous, Green River is 4 hours south...we've done down and backs as well as overnighters there. |
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Location: Northern IL | ghoti,
Very impressive indeed!
I too am a lake hopper. I enjoy the challenge of figuring out new body's of water but get bored quickly fishing the same lakes. I could never live on a lake and fish it exclusively.
Last fall 2 buddy's and I caught 51 muskies in 8 days from 3 different lakes. Even though the majority of the fish came from one of these lakes I had to get out of there and fish a different lake.
I've been fishing for 27 years, during that time there was a 10-year stretch where I fished about a hundred days and 30 different lakes. Best was 236 muskies landed. I've fished 160 +/- bodies of water, so far.  |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya!!
My fishing has been significantly reduced in the past few years. A little bit of a career switch within the district has me on a 12-month position. I live in the NE portion of the twin cities, have one lake 20 minutes away and the St. Croix river about the same. Didn't fish either of them this year, nor any metro lake since COVID hit.
My fishing usually takes place up in the Longville Lakes area, and usually have had a trip to Lake of the woods. Making a change for my canadian water destination this coming year as well. Come muskie season, I do want to get out more... we will see....
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