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| Heading up to the big pond, this week anybody been up there in the past week or so, anybody know the water temps, weeds growth etc...
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Location: Roseau | We were up on opener, fished sat. morning and evening. With the low water most of our better spots had very little weed growth so we had to explore. We found good weeds in some sand bays and none in others. A storm rolled through friday night, had one follow sat. morning and that was it. Water temps were 72 in the bays and 70 main lake around the angle. Sabaskosing water temps were 74. We tried a little of everything, weedy bays, rocky points out side of bays and reefs near bays. I think the storm just had the fish turned off. Usually we move a ton of fish on opener. Good luck. |
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Location: Pewaukee WI | fished sab on saturday from noon til dark by myself, and fisher covered it. managed a mid 40" on throwback walk the dog had one other small blow up. was surprised to see anything after the storm. headed back this weekend. |
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| Thanks, fellas. Keep this thread going a little, even just to report water temps and water levels. We'll be going up on July 14 fishing 7/15-7/29. CAN'T WAIT!!!!! |
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| Yup, looks like we should have somewhat stable weather thru the weekend. My buddie was up ther last week and said the weeds are almost in full bloom and should be fishing like its summer patterns.
Cant wait, winter is way to dam long.
Thanks for the updates!
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Location: MPLS, MN | Any new reports on the water levels on the Woods, will be there in 2 weeks
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Location: Perham, MN | I'll be there in two weeks also.... Dusty, dont forget to give a report on the action. Are you staying at the outpost on "Treasure Island"?
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| Hey Guys,
Just got back from a long weekend up on the BIG POND - LOTW- Sabaskong bay area
We stayed at Mylies place, Had probally the best trip for weather ever, flat calm for 4 days, little wind.
All the fish are on main lake weeds, find Cabbage on main islands, you will find BIG muskies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I have never seen so many big fish as I did on this trip,
I caught a 49.9999, Just hair shy, also a 48.5, 37, 31, and had on about another 8 that I simply lost because fish shook the hooks out.
My other buddies with WFO outdoors Pro-staff caught 42, 42, , 42, 40, 40, 40 37,
GET THIS, My buddy Mike Laird was in his Ranger 620 fishing a streach of shoreline, he just let off on his trolling moter, a second later, WHAM!!! a big muskie smoked his trolling moter blades, he quick looked down and saw the muskie, and pulled up his moter and saw perfect teeth marks on the housing of the trolling moter, pretty COOL!!!!!!
Top water was HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the DOC, top water, but man did I loose some nice fish.
Buchtails did good, but topwater was best,
Water temps are heating up, started weekend at 68 left at 73 degrees
Good luck heading up the end of July, need to catch a 51-53 or so incher I raised
keep this post going and give some feedback on temps etc,...
Good luck
Dusty Carlson
WFO OUTDOORS
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| Hey Zman,
what is the price at Treasure island, where is that? |
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Location: Perham, MN | Treasure Island is Buenavista's outpost in the Basil channel. The reason I asked if you were staying there is because i remember reading a couple of entries out of the cabin's journal written by someone from WFO Outdoors (I guess I assumed it was you). Im not sure on the price but i'll be up there july 7-16. Cant wait!
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| Hey Zman,
I did not realize that was the name of that place
yes that was me I think, in the journal, we like to stay there but, have trouble charging up our trolling moter batteries to full with a generator.
So we just stay at Mylies or Buenna Vista, which ever has room.
I like reading the enteries in there, like the one about the bear hunters and they lost Chopper the bear dog to a bear. pretty cool.
Yes the price is not bad either, do you go up only once a year.
we usally go up in june, july end aug and october?
Whats your direct e-mail, I got a question for you?
Dusty
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Location: Perham, MN | I try to make it up at least 2 or thrtee times a year, but instead of always staying at the cabin we camp nearby. Yeah ther are some pretty sweet stories in that journal, especially the bear hunter's.
Anyways heres my email: [email protected]
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| Headed up to Yellow Bird Lodge for 7 days to fish muskies non stop. Anyone have any reports? |
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Location: Madison, WI | Leaving for the Angle tomorrow. H20 temps, water clarity, etc…any updates greatly appreciated!
Thanks-
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Location: Perham, MN | Any recent updates????? I'lll be heading up on the sixth.
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Location: Chippewa Falls, WI | Any body up on LOTW over the the 4th of july weekend? |
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| JUst got back from LOTW. Water temps are about 75. No weeds where I was fishing. Fishin were moving in small windows. I stuck 4 muskies. One was a 55.5. I will post it if someone tells me how. |
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| Nice, can't wait to see the picture. |
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Location: Chippewa Falls, WI | Hey Commonsenseguy,
Can you give me some more details, like was top water bite hot or Bucktails? Rock or weed? any help would be helpful, I am heading up there end of month,
What did you guys catch the 55 on?
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Location: Madison, WI | NORTHWEST ANGLE REPORT:
Water temps varied from 70 – 75 depending on the day. The fish were very active! Cabbage/rock combo's best. Top water and buck tails (silver/black) both did their fair amount of damage. Pacemakers (large & small), top raiders and jack pots on top. A few other lures that worked well include reef hawgs, phantoms and Rad Dogs. Lots of pike including a couple in the mid-thirty range paid us a visit. I smoked my lower unit early in the week. Water is low! Navigate with caution…
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| Hey CPR Guy. I'm sure you realease your fish but you shouldn't throw that verticle hold up on this site. I know it's not that big of a deal. I'm not some fanatic about it. But it's hard on those big fish. Next time loose the WI guide hold and support the fish. |
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Location: Chippewa Falls, WI | CPR guy,
Great pics cant wait to get up there next week, GOing wed the 26 through the 30th.
If anyone has been up there the past week, would love a update, looking forward to chase those those big girls,
Any info would be Great!!!! |
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| I agree about NOT showing the vertical hold.....still a great picture.....congrats.
If I ever catch a 55 incher, I won't be able to hold it much away from my body, much less with one hand. The vertical hold won't be an option for me. Getting old sucks sometimes.
Congrats again on your catch and sharing it with others. |
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| YOu guys are going to have a blast. I know the fish will be moving big time. Hopefully you get some clouds and fronts. As far as info, if you can find weeds fish them. We had to drive 35 miles to find weeds. Most of our action came on the rocks. Just gotta be the right rocks. Everything looks good but most of it isn't. Be prepared to take out a 2nd mortgage for gas money.
I am going back for 7 days in August. The big girls will be doing a kamikazi mission on the topwater. |
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| I was up last week I got 12 between 27-44" half on bucktails half on topwaters fish are very active look for the weed/rock combos however fish are active every where. Saw fish on almost all different types of lures fish were really moving water temps between 70-73 and the weeds arent growing to well this year however there are weeds in a lot of the bays good luck up there!! |
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| Great Info CSG and Brandon. I'm leaving for the NW Angle Next Tuesday for 12 days, this will be my 1st time to LOTW. I've been going to Wabigoon the last couple years these same weeks. Anyone heading to the Goon in the next couple weeks I can mark a map if you want as I always go there these same weeks, end of July, Early Aug. PM Me.
As the water tempatures are climbing with this heat the last week or so I get the impression the fish will be relating more to rocks?
I got the Hydrographic map of the area and man there are a ton of good looking areas, a million islands etc.. One of you mentioned "the right kind of rocks" , could you maybe expand on that a bit how I might differentiate?
Any tips, ideas or areas to try that your willing to divulge would be greatly appreciated. PM me if you like !
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| Anyone got any info on the angle from the past week ??? I leave in 18 hours.. I'm so hyped , I can't wait. |
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| as well you should - 4 guys I know were up last week- they did ok .....20 fish 3 = 50"+ and 4 = 45"+ |
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Location: Chippewa Falls, WI | Leaving in less than 6 hrs, I heard the bloom has started, will be looking for clean water, will give you all a update when I return.
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Location: SE, WI. | Ok guys; here is your LOTW update. Fished the last 11 1/2 days on the woods. Fished from the northern part of sabaskong to the big narrows, and up to the skeet Island area. My wife and I boated 25 musky up to 47". 14 fish were over 40". Raised 187 musky for the trip. Fish were hot early in the trip but seemed to get sluggish as the trip wore on. The bloom exploded the last 4 days. Fish the leeward sides of the islands or run north or east to get out of the bloom. Fish boated early in the trip were on bucktails and topwaters then bucktails became less effective and topwaters seemed to prevail with some plastic baits. We had about 6 fish in the 48-50"+ hit short or miss baits. Fish seemed very fickle and gun shy. TOO MUCH PRESURE??? Lots of follows. Seemed like the summer peak for July 06 was the 4th-18th. Thought the bays were slow with lack of weeds. Water temps were 75-80. Frustrating trip for lack of big fish STRIKING... That was our findings...GOOD LUCK!!!
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| I think you are right about the peak. However late August is going to be unbelievable. Isn't it. It better be. |
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Location: Chippewa Falls, WI | Just got back from a long weekend on the big pond- LOTW- Morson with a few of the WFO OUTDOORS PRO-STAFFERS doing a video shoot. Had a great time like always, had very warm temps had water temps in the 75-80, Fish were on Rock reefs & still in the Cabbage also, the cabbage is almost dead in spots and the bloom has started. Caught fish on Bucktails, topwater, & crankbaits,
The middle of the day the fish seemed to be the hottest! Ended up with 13 muskies a bunch of Pike and few nice walleyes tring to think there muskies.
30,33,37,40,40,42,42,43, 43,43,44,44,46
a bunch of nice pike and a 23,23,27" walleyes that we got ripping depth raiders on rock reefs
And YES, we had alot of ther fish on that we could jus tnot get in the net and lost at boatside, but that is why they call is catch and release.
Heading back up Labor day cant wait.
Attached are a few pics & the 49.999 i got this spring
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Location: Chippewa Falls, WI | Heading back up to LOTW, Labor day weekend, was anyone up last weekend, Give some info if you would please.
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| I will be up on Whitefish Bay and some other areas from 19-26th. I will let people know what we found. Any intel would be appreciated |
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| Our group of 4 fished the Sabaskong Bay area last Wed - Sunday. There was a moderate bloom but not as bad as last year at this time. Fishing was tough until Saturday night when the weather changed. We only landed 2 fish from Wed - Sat and worked extremely hard to even see fish. A storm came in on Saturday afternoon and it was like someone flipped a switch. Every spot we fished on Saturday night in the rain and then again on Sunday morning we moved or caught fish. It was an amazing change.
Top water moved the most fish but we never really determined a good pattern. Fish seemed to be relating to rocky points or islands especially if the wind was hitting them. We even pulled a couple out of very shallow cane/frags areas.
If I were going back I would try shallow rock/weed points with topwater and if that didn't work I would start casting crankbaits a little deeper off the same structure. |
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Location: Chippewa Falls, WI | Any current reports from LOTW, im leaving WEDS thru Monday,
water temps, Bloom etc...??? |
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| Whitefish Bay we found 72 water temps. Cool nights so that number will keep dropping. Tons of deep green cabbage. |
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Location: Chippewa Falls, WI | Hey fellow musky nutz...
Just got back from LOTW, we stayed at Mylies Place, see link below....
Wanted to thank Justin that runs the resort, we had a foot peddle on
our
minkota trolling motor peddle that #*#* out on us, and he let us borrow
one to make it through the weekend.
Team WFO OUTDOORS cleaned house on the muskies fishen in the Ranger...
here is the results for the weekend
37,37, 41,41, 41, 41, 44, 45, 45, 47, 50, 51.5
Attached are pics of Scott hansons 47"
My 50"
& Mike Lairds 51.5
I got my 50" on the 1st spot we fished, only been fishen for 15 min,
We
were like this is going to be a great weekend
Got great video of all the muskies,
check out the links below...
Dusty Carlson
WFO Outdoors
http://www.sportsmansresource.com/myliesplace/fish2006_labourday.ht...
Please visit Mylie's Place Resort online at:
http://www.myliesplace.com
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| Six of us were at Monument Bay Lodge from 9/2 to 9/6. It was our family's first trip to LOTW. We had gotten some advice on the popular spots from a forum member. It paid off. We boated several smallmouth, pike and muskie of 32", 34", 48"(my personal best) and 50"(my nephew Jared's PB) which was also our family's first 50. The water was pretty much flat from Sunday to Thursday and the Bloom was in full effect. From pea soup thick to floating Tourquoise Toxic. We were in 16' rental boats with 25hp so we were limited in how far we could go but we did find clearer water and got a milkrun established. It was a good time, fun to fish a wilderness lake.
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