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Location: Wright County MN | Have any of you got onto a decent dock bite in recent years? Its been years since I have seen one but with FFS out deep I am wondering if docks could be an overlooked spot. Wanting to try it a little more in the metro.
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| Yes: and do that. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Docks, swim rafts, and boat houses Muskies like these places especially on the Eagle River/Three lakes Chain. Also depending where your dock is it could be a good place to cast off and catch a Muskie too. And if your dock or resort dock is by deep water so much the better. |
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| What Chuckski said, especially if you see old timers or kids catching panfish off these docks. If so, the predators won't be too far away. kdawg |
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| I have seen musky around my dock from time to time and have seen a number of musky caught not far from the dock. Twice I was standing on the dock and watched someone fishing with my nephew catch a fish about 20 feet out. Coming back from fishing, I always toss a cast alongside my boat lift. Have raised fish several times but not caught them.
I will say the only time I have seen large fish is in the spring spawn, before the season.
If you do fish docks, please be respectful of property. I have seen musky fishermen on several occasions bounce a lure off the back of my boat sitting 2 feet above the water on a lift. Even have a couple of holes in the canopy where clumsy fishermen hooked the canopy. That is about six feet above the water. My brother in law has a place on the Chippewa Flowage and says they have the same issue. You wouldn't like it if I chucked a rock at your house, right? |
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| Good advice N of 8. I also have one of those. (docks that is) Nice to see content here now avoid of political intent. Also, I have under my pier, the most photographed SMB ever, I LOVE IT and she is as pretty as ever. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | When dad took me on a fly in trip in Canada, he boated a northern and put it in the wire cage at the end of the dock to be cleaned with a couple 'eyes. He sent me back after it and when I got to the cage there was a bigger one looking IN at it. m |
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| fatturtle011 - 3/6/2025 11:20 AM
Good advice N of 8. I also have one of those. (docks that is) Nice to see content here now avoid of political intent. Also, I have under my pier, the most photographed SMB ever, I LOVE IT and she is as pretty as ever.
The thing about the muskies I see around and under my dock in the spring is that they are not very pretty. They get pretty beat up in spawning. 2 years ago, had fat middle forty fish slowly swim out from under the dock, under where I was standing. At that size it had to be a female, but very distinct scars on its back. I love seeing them that close. |
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