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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | How was the Muskie fishing where you were this holiday weekend? Slamr and I hit the water Saturday and Sunday in absolutley awful weather conditions. Slamr scored a 40", and we moved only a couple others. |
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Location: Alsip, Il | Was wishing instead of fishing and spent my weekend remodeling and painting our laundry room. Looking forward to a couple of stable days of weather, so I can get out. Al |
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| Here in IL moved one fish this past Saturday night, mid 40s with a nice girth (real broad back). Only fished for about 3 1/2 hours so not too bad. Apparently the lake had been closed all day, unbeknownst to us, due to a drowning earlier. Windy, warm, right before a storm front, perfect muskie weather. Fish came off a flat in about 7' of water chasing a black/silver Rad Dog. It's so frustrating. We've seen fish this year but haven't gotten any to hit. I'm at a loss at to what to do. Just venting my frustrations. Only a few more weeks until LOTW. |
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Location: Cudahy, Wisconsin | I hit a little pond this morning and caught over 20 lm bass on buzzbaits and poppers. I know its not muskie fishing but I had a blast. |
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| One 37" on sat. and also a 15lb leatherback turtle! Dam thought I had big one for a minute!
Al |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | despite the weather,We had a blast! My son and my fiance and I fished several Rhine area lakes. My Fiance's first time musky fishing, and she had a follow on Saturday and a hit on Sunday. I caught a 40 with some big shoulders on Sunday. Oh yeah, If you get up to the Rhine area, stop in at Muellers Bait shop on the Moen chain. Real nice guy. Then again, all of us musky hounds are a cut above the rest! |
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| Pretty slow, as the buddies up with me headed up to the shores of Lake Superior just north of me to get their bear hunting stands in and also filmed a nice one. I had a very aggressive 42-44"er chase down a buck tail, then cruised away on the surface waving good bye. WInd and weather blew in and Sunday was a bust. Except back to the hunting part of me (crazed). Went out scouting down on the end of a favorite fire lane and 2 year old cut. Found two nice rubs, a scrape and a good trail all very close to each other. Located a good tree to set up in, marked the GPS and turned around and found a half an 8 point shed with good length and the start of some good mass....another good spot for this fall 
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| pretty good action on saturday by joMusky and myself, only caught a little fella (28" or so), but moved 4 or 5.
Sunday was slow, not a fish seen from 8:00-5:30, then all heck broke loose.
I got a FAT 42 1/2 "er, 3 casts after the release Jo had a mid-40's slam him at the boat, unfortuneatly the fish let go as quick as it hit and escaped the hooks...........then about 10 min later Jo tangles with an upper 30's that managed to wrap teh line around the trolling motor and get off...........then nothing for the next 2 1/2 hrs............pretty small and wild window!!
Jonesi and Kly each got upper 30's as well.........pretty awesome way to start the season.
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Location: Bagley,MN 56621 | , woops, not logged , couldnt attatch pic.
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| this is also posted in the MatchFishing thread...Slamr didn't happen to mention that his partner for our match on Sunday was Mr.Worral himself...of course, that makes this even sweeter...
i was fishing Lake 26 in Burnett Co (between Spooner and Danbury). we got alternately poured on or blown around the lake. nothing doing except one lazy follow saturday. on sunday we had 5 follows, but nothing in the boat until the last spot of the day right at dusk.
44 1/2" on a Wabull (fire crappie)
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | It was a decent weekend, fishing wise not weather. Saturday we boated two and moved 16 other fish, with most everything chasing Mepps. Skipped Sunday due to the weather but got out Monday and boated a 34" tiger off of Pelican, also on a Mepps. Lost one fish on a Jackpot style bait on Monday also. |
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| Partners landed four on Saturday, two yesterday, and we only managed two follows today. Fish boated ranged 34-43". One fish was spilling eggs all over the place. Seems we have a post spawn period with a few fish left that haven't, and steady water temps aren't helping move them into pre-summer. Damp, dreary weather to say the least. Water temps hanging in the mid-fifties here in Vilas. Need a good hot spell to kick it into gear.
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Spent the afternoon today getting 6mph on the GPS while drifting.... You guys think the wind may have been a bit strong?....lol... Never saw a thing but never really gave it a serious shot with the wind... 100 acre lake and 2' whitecaps...... Plus the water level came up almost a foot over night due to rain.. |
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Location: oswego, il | We moved 28 musky over the weekend and caught 3 small ones up in woodruff. Only seen 3 around legal and they were really beat up from spawning. Never seen a lake so color specific, if it was not brown or gold you were wasting your time.
My grandfather is 82 and got his first muksy this morning. He can't stand in the boat and I do his casting for him. It was a little feller but we sure were happy. He had a few follows too and he really wanted to figure eight them bad. Can't wait to get him up to vermillion this summer. |
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| Was south of Ashland on a small 200 acre lake, wife and I managed to catch 5 males all right around 27 inches. Up real shallow (about 1 foot of water max) also had a couple of nice 4 pound bass, and 13 walleye.
Decent weekend save the weather.
Now the big show is next weekend a little further west.
Steve |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Fished in the rain, wind, rain, wind....made for good fishing. Sat. we boated 3, I got a 37, 45, and 28-tiger. Had Mr. Sluggo(Mike Szopinski) and Sluggo Jr. (Logan,his 9yr old son) with me, Mike got a pike and had another follow. Logan had about a 40 slam his bait boatside but it came unpinned..  3 Casts later he has a big fish follow to the boat.
Sunday: Two swings/Miss, one follow, only fished until noon.
Monday: fished for three hours in the morning had one follow.
A fun weekend all in all...
Mark Hintz
www.muskyadventures.com
Eau Claire, WI
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| Mark, nice fish.
Theedz, Sluggo and Sluggo Jr - a pleasure to meet you guys.
Jono
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Location: Chicago | Fished the Madison chain with Husky Jerk, Caught 42.5 off a Jackpot, HJ caught a 32 on a small bucktail, he also lost a nice fish on a
Jackpot, 4 other follows. caught 2 lm bass and a huge Sturgeon. It was over 60 inches and at least 50 lbs, it took at least 10 minutes
to land him with pool stick and wench. It would not fit in the Beckman, we could not lift it out of the water, could not get past
cartillage in it's gill, probably at good think as it was all muscle, and looked like a shark was towing us around.
Thought I had a record at first!
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Location: Racine WI | Monday, got out on Okauchee late -- 11am -- (took my brother-in law) and saw a few other muskie fishermen, who mostly cleared out pretty soon thereafter. I think they had the right idea: never saw a sign of a fish. Took pity on the bro-in-law and quit after 4 hours. (His "rain suit" was a semi-repellant jacket only. Woulda lent him something had I known beforehand!) I'D REALLY LIKE TO HEAR from anyone else who fished Okauchee; my first time on the lake, and want to know if I messed up, or was it just a bad day? |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | MiserMike,
Fishing on Monday was slow until 4:30pm. Then they started to show up and chase baits for about 2 hours then stop.
We raised 2 fish before 4:30pm and 6 after. All in all a slow day.
Saturday afternoon was better. I scored a 37 1/2-inch on a sucker after it followed my Suick to the boat and turned on the sucker. I caught a 38 3/4-incher on a Believer trolling back to the launch.(slow no wake is still in effect) That fish was a bonus.
Fishing is going to pick up this week if the weather/storms will chill out for a couple days.
Some big fish are showing up but just not eating yet. Very soon the fun will begin around here.
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Location: Blaine, MN 55449 | Fished Yellow Lake, WI. Moved 1 nice fish mid 40's, other than that the water was wet!!! |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | God- I was sick to my stomach Sunday night- went over to Castle Rock dam for a couple hours after my daughter' graduation party. watched two muskies get caught by other species fisherman ( ~ 20" & 27" ) both fish were dragged up the sand beach (one about 10 ft) the fisherman didn't even know what it was, he was looking around confused for about a minute (what do I do?) I hollered that it was a muskie and that it was to small. He was fumbling around trying to unhook it, I grabbed my stuff & started to go too assist. But he got it, then looked at the fish flopping in the sand for about thirty seconds, then picked it up & threw it about 15' out into the water.
The other one didn't fare much better, it flopped about 30 seconds then was stepped on by the guy's fat wife while he unhooked it, then she went and got a tape measure and measured it (so they must have known the size limit). At least he didn't throw it, he just put it down at the edge of the water and let it's flopping and the waves take it away- I left a minute later, I don't know if I can go back.
The WI DNR has size limit posters all over the place for walleyes, there's nothing for muskies or pike ( 34" & 32" respectively) I know some of the Muskie Clubs place brochures & sign's at some landings. How does one get permission to post signs, etc. ? This is on WI River Power Company property. But- I think the landing is state owned. Maybe I'll try the local DNR Warden.
Al
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| Great weekend!A big thanks to GregM for the accomodations and the hospitality. Good to see JoMusky again too.Joe , I want your dog!!!!!!!!!Coolest Chessie I've ever been around.Kly and I strarted out Sat. on Greg's pond and within 30 minutes , on our first spot, Kly nails a 38 1/2 on the "Cheeto"(6" reef hawg).A couple snake norts and a smallie but no more muskies.Sunday, we fished the local pond for a few hours and didn't see a thing. Go North! we hook up the Pig and head to Hayward.Pastikas has a lot of stuff by the way, and HR's too.None for Stevie!Get a map of the pond we're going to fish and we're off.On the water by 3:00.First spot and a mid 30's looks and flashes off.10 minutes later, an upper 30's tries to eat the squirrley burt but misses.30 yds down the break, a 37" hammers the aforementioned burt on a boatside pause.Nice fish, too bad the bait doesn't run now.Any ideas why?I have no clue. She ran like a biaaach before and now just pops to the surface,and it's a weighted model.One more follow by a 40ish and a smallie by Kly and we're done.On the way back to Iowa, we hit the small pond off 151 and raise a couple nice fish on small reef hawgs and had some blow ups on topwater.A 27" eats a 700 series black/chart and at dark, a 34 eats the Bride of Creepinstein.Time to go.Home at 12:30 and sleeping by 12:35. Steve |
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Location: Watertown MN | What a great weekend sunny and 80's in Hayward, if we see anymore rain I'm thinking of building an ark, 3" of rain. Saturday took out a 1st timer on LCO lost a few small norhterns, had low 30" fish blow up reef hawg at boat, no other fish. Sunday spent about 5 hours only to have a upper 30" fish smash the same 6" reef hawg right at the boat and off she went. Both fish coming ouf 1-3 feet sand. This weekend definitely showed me what glass boats are about, the 620 handle 4-5 footer like riding on ripple, and the drift rate is a huge difference. With the huge winds never really had to chase my boat or worry about getting turned quickly or even using the drift sock.
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Location: indiana | where at on lotw esox? i will be on sabaskong 7/17-7/24 |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Interesting weekend! Hit 3 lakes on Sat. in N Vilas county without a follow. But, did see over 20 ski,s doing the yearly ritual. At one time we had the boat sitting over 4 fish in 3 feet of water and they acted like we didn't even exist. Even poked one with the rod tip to see if it was alive. All were between 30 and 40 inches and extremely scared up. Trying to get them to hook up is like talking to a teenage boy in a room full of pretty women--only one thing on their mind, and it wasn't eating. On Sunday headed a little south, to the Rhinelander area, looking for some warmer water. My son hooked up with a 37. Cool strike. Watched it come out from under a dock and shadow the bucktail all the way to the boat. Finally hit just before he started into his figure 8. Also picked up a few nice largemouths but that was it. We need some heat... |
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| We're staying at Red Wing Lodge in Morson. Good luck to ya! Nail a pig! |
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