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For those of you who live in the Twin Cities metro area you experienced quite a heavy storm last evening. What is you opinions as to how this will affect the fishing today, the next day and so on? What kind of a factor do you think this plays on the fish and where would you start to look for them shallow or deep?
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I don't live there but a couple of years ago Sworrall myself and Muskyone fished a lake in the western part of the state after torrential rains up until a few hours before we started. There was something like 4 inches of rain that fell and the water was somewhat murky but the fish were extremely hot. I boated a 42" fish lost two others that were much bigger and Steve boated a couple of fish as well as others that we lost. So I don't know if there is really a good answer for your question. I'm sure it's very different from lake to lake. All the fish were weed related in less than 6 feet of water, this was in early August so the water temps were high and then plummeted with all the rain, so maybe the quick cool down is a good feeding trigger. The bite was a topwater bite. |
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| It sucked, or maybe it was just the lake tonite, hit a little pond, didn't see a fish, had averaged about a fish an hour last year. The one thing that had me worried is that I saw 50+ dead crappie floating on the surface, was wondering what had caused this, I talked to guy on the lake and they had not started spraying yet.
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | After chasing these beasts for over 30 years what I have seen is that after a heavy rain the fish can and will go on a feeding spree if the weather previously has been hot and flat, I think what happens is the the rain adds oxygen to the water and washes in food for the bait fish which in turn the muskies feed on. But as always the best time to go Muskie fishing is any time you can 
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Heavy Rain and Fishing