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| I figured that we should get this started this year.
Fished Lake Waconia on Sunday of opening weekend with very little success. Water temps were at 66-68 depending upon location and there was scattered weed growth throughout the lake. Weeds were actually down a little more than I had anticipated from years past. Had one follow from a very small fish and that was it.
Monday fished lake independence (and from what I heard) Indy got just pummeled with muskie fisherman opening weekend. Very slow out there as well. Water temps around 69 degrees. Managed two follows both relatively lazy, one did manage to follow the figure eight around about 3 times before leaving. Both fish were in the upper 30's to low 40's range. Didn't find much for weed growth in water deeper than 8 ft.
Fished tonka on Wed. morning and managed a 42" on the west end. Had one other lazy follow.
I can't believe how windy it has been lately. Makes fishing a little tougher as it is tough to stay on spots and effectively work different baits, especially ones with slower presentations/pauses etc....
Best of luck to everyone this year! I usually am fishing the west metro lakes. I will be in a Silver and Black Tuffy 1890 with Suzuki on the back end. Stop by and introduce yourself if you would happen to see me.
Hoping to get out tomorrow morning early depending on the weather but I have a wedding this weekend so I probably won't get out until maybe Sunday evening. Good luck in the Hartmann Tourney.
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Location: Twin Cities | Tonka on Sat morning was so so. Seen two decent fish between sun up/moon rise and then after moonset she died off. Lazy follows too.
Fished French mon + tues, and compared to previous years and after talking to 6+ other guys it is safe to say that the lake has been a dissapointment so far. Seen a couple fish each day, but expect alot more from there this time of year. One guy got one trolling. Nothing to write home about here. 70 - 72 degree water temp.
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Location: Albertville, Minnesota | Well, went back to Eagle last night with a buddy. First cast of the night, had mid 40's come to the boat. Followed my oval once around and gone. We had three other follows within 15 minutes after that, all different fish. Once the wind picked up around 6 or so, couldn't get any to go besides two very sluggish guys in very shallow water. It appeared we were on the later end of our window, until another system picked up...whats new. Water temps were around 69.
3 days of fishing out there, over 20 follows and only one feable hit...very tight lipped. I would be fishing this lake again for the Hartman tourney, but I'm outta here for the weekend. Water temps are prime for another favorite lake of mine.
After our first 15 minutes of fishing last night, I thought it was game on. But man they sure turned off in a heartbeat.
Good luck to the guys fising it this weekend.
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| Fished White bear last night.
I saw and actual Bear. Which was neat.
What was not was my partner has a solid 50+ on. I got her partway into the net. She hooked the bait in the net, came loose but she was to big to fall into the net. I lifted her about a foot out of the water as she lay on the hoop of the net like a board. She slow motion slip off and back into the deep.
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| I fished with some of my students on Tuesday night on an east metro lake for bass. Temps were in the low 70s and even though we were fishing for bass, we caught three tigers. All in all a great night.
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | Well I never thought I would succumb to this, but I am unequipped with the proper boat this summer. If anybody needs a partner in the West Metro I'm your man. I can fish weekends and evenings. I'm a young guy (26) and definitely no slouch/newbie. Boy this sounds like a personal add. LOL.
As for the report, I did get out this past weekend and Monday with similar results as already posted. Very small windows of activity. One boated within a minute of moonset Sunday.
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| Fished Forest Sat AM. Had fish going early on phantoms and vipers. Several charged the bait hard but didn't eat. Action died by about 9 am. Pond weed is up full and starting to die off. Fish were suspended with schools of bluegills off the edges in 12-15'.
Fished Owasso Sun PM with no action. Weeds are not nearly as far as along as I would expect. Heard the lake was sprayed on Monday so I won't bother fishing there again for a while. One guy at the ramp told me he had caught several nice ski's trolling Rapalas very shallow before Sat. I reminded him that the season had not yet opened, to which he had little to say, but judging by his gear he was not a regular musky hunter.
Fished Blady Tues night with the North Metro league. Our boat only moved two - one blow-up on a topraider and another very lazy follow on a phantom. Similar story from the other guys fishing, although a couple were caught but no obvious pattern. Water temp was 68. The pond weed has already died off and is completely gone but water clarity still isn't too bad. Almost no vegetation right now (at least not on the south and west sides of the lake where we fished).
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| asteffes - 6/7/2007 6:40 AM
Monday fished lake independence (and from what I heard) Indy got just pummeled with muskie fisherman opening weekend. Very slow out there as well. Water temps around 69 degrees.
Tony Steffes
I fished Independence for a few hours on Saturday morning. Was up camping with the family so I was off the water around 9:30 /10:00. When I left I counted around 50 trucks/trailers in the parking lot. I didn't see any muskies on Saturday. I took the boat back to Rochester on Thursday, but left a musky rod camping to fish off the public pier at the park. Raised a upper 30's-low 40's fish mid day on a top raider. I had race day on Saturday and on the second bike loop I saw one come out of the water boatside on a boat fishing the southwest bay. From my quick observation riding by I'm guess the fish shook off as the net was put down. |
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| tfoot stalker
you should think about attending our Twin cities chapter muskies inc meetings you will meet alot of guys we have the biggest chapter in the country,,and with gas prices the way they are Im sure you wont have to look hard,, Delano not that far away from Bloomington we have a meeting tommorow tues 6-12 7pm,"see club section" of this webboard |
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | I'm gonna try and make it. Depends on how many bullheads and hammer handles I have to pick out of gillnets tomorrow...  |
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| Ill be at the welcome table,,Hawaian shirt ' boyish good looks" etc |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Out on forest on Saturday. It was nice to have clouds for a couple hours, but I could not get anything to move. I had water temps of 78-79, which was a jump for me from the previous weekend of about 71 on the same lake.
Only two follows for my boat this year, and I cannot claim either one. I gotta do something different, as usually I at least see fish.
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I got out a couple of hours on Tonka the evening of the opener and never saw a Muskie. I got out on a northern MN lake for a few hours the next Saturday and caught a 38 and a 41 and lost a pig. I got out last Thursday on a small metro lake and caught a couple of mid 30 inch Muskies.
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| Out on tonka for the first time fri right before the storm,,I got a 50' and partner got a smaller one,,when I first measured it it was 49.5 only to find out latter my buddys ruler has a inch long butt cap on the bottom. I was born here in twin cities and lived here all my life but STILL forgot how bad summer tonka boat traffic is,,despite the lunker I will try to avoid tonka till sept or play the storm window. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Fished Tonka last night for a few hours, the wind was out of this world combined with the boat waves made for the wettest ride of my life cutting across the main lake. Lost a fish boat side right away then had a nice fish role over a bait. Fished pretty shallow. |
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Location: Minnetonka | I hear you on that one, Cave. We fished Sunday... gusting to 40 mph. We made several passes with dual drift socks and the trolling motor... really tests your sea legs. Saw an absolute tank on a soft plastic around 6 pm... right where she should have been... livin' on the edge.
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Location: Otsego, MN | Hammy no net would have put that fish in the boat unless you had a 10-12 foot extension, might hit tonka tomorrow morning, all those sail boats out there makes for a mess. I hit it last year and there were hundreds of them combined with the rest of the boats it made for a worthless night on the lake. Your best odds are finding a small bay and staying there it was bobbing and weaving at 5mph through all those boats last year. |
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| Records show last week in june-first wk of july is usually good for metro Tigers,,anybody tryin,,,had one good day last week,,hot,humid no wind is tiger time |
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| Fish have been moving in the metro area lately. Find the deep weed edges and you will find fish. However, I did see another group put 2 in their boat fishing EXTREMELY shallow!!! Most of the action has come on suicks and crankbaits. Lots of followers on bucktails, but not many takers.
Put 4 in the boat in the last couple days with my buddies 49" being the largest.
Water temps have been in the mid 70's. Look for areas with deep weed growth or shallower areas with sand/rock and mixed in reeds/weeds.
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Location: Shoreview, MN | Fished Forest last Thurs evening. Surface temp was 78. Pond weed is gone (except for perhaps a little in 14-16') and the shallow weeds beginning to develop. Nice cabbage in spots but you've got to spend some time to find it. We only raised one fish and only heard of two small fish caught. Most guys where throwing either Cowgirls or Bulldogs. Bulldawgs in 16-20 semed to be moving some fish. Not much going on shallow.
Fished White bear Sat and Sun am. Water temps 72 Sat, 74 by Sun noon. Lots of muskyhunters out Sat and again, a lot of people throwing Cowgirls or Bulldawgs. I raise four fish Sat - three were small and over shallow rocks with a small Phantom. Came back Sun and caught the 4th - a fat 46" - using a Grandma around an isolated patch of deep cabbage. Never saw another fish all day - not even a pike. Plenty of weeds - lots of millfoil - and some deep cabbage but again I had to spend time finding it.
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Location: Twin Cities | Tonka on Tues, fished many of my mid-late summer spots and got nothing from it. Seems that maybe a week or two more of heat will help. Didnt try much shallow - maybe i should have, but i did manage one 43 on a mid lake structure which really threw all my ideas of what the fish were up to out the door. Seen one other caught on a shallow weedline. The Milf is getting up almost all the way. And there were 2 MILF sightings. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Tuesday seemed like a decent day to catch a muskie... pre frontal conditions... windy and hot. HOT was the definition of the fatty that got the hooks on the figure 8... good times. Several other decent looking follows... from platinum blondes in wakeboarding boats.
Anyone else getting the silent treatment from this cold front? Last night was brutal.
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| Yep,
My buddy and I boated 4 on Monday and then on Tuesday evening, the action was already much slower. Winds changed from the SE to the NW and the fish seemed to turn off.
I hope to maybe get out tomorrow morning so we'll see if anything picks up.
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Location: Onalaska, WI | Dogger,
What is an MILF? |
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Location: WI | MILF......MOM I'D LIKE TO _ _ _ _........................get to know better!! |
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Location: Minnetonka | Muskie I'd Like to Find |
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| Fished a west metro lake last night from 9 until midnight with no luck. I figured with the hot weather and the busy traffic during the day that the night bite might be pretty good, but no luck for me. I was VERY surprised to see 3 other boats fishing the same shoreline as myself last night too, normally I don't see many other guys out there that time of night.
Not sure if anyone had any luck, but I didn't see anyone boat anything.
I might have to try the morning bite and see how that is going because the evenings have been tough lately.
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Location: Maple Grove | I took the future wife and in laws out panfishing on Independence yesterday. I had surface water temps in the eighties on most of the lake. Should come down with cooler weather on the way. Question...I noticed the sign at the entrance to the park says it closes at sunset. Does that mean you have to be out of there by then, or can you fish it at night? |
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Location: Otsego, MN | You can fish it at night with a permit it's $20 I think. If you are out there after dark you will be ticketed by park police. |
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| Sucks!!!lets call it what it is,,,,Out with a guy who knows the muskies on tonka better then just about anybody even does seminars,,,left the dock at 4:50am and hit 'prime' spots durring perfect mourn hr's, till 10,,,,nothing seen, not even a snake northern,,,Its been bad but I cant remember it being THIS bad |
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| As good as it gets right now in the metro. Adapt or die a slow painfully HOT death flogging away. |
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| Im NOT trolling open water???Im in this for fun not the chance to hold a fish for a picture anyway possible
I can honnestly say Id rather catch a 45 pushing water roaring snarling behind my topwater then a 50' slamming my jake out in nowhere land
June and july are supposed to be topwater,,bucktail 15 -20 follow days were not supposed to adjust till mid Aug,,"Dammit" |
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| Your right it's no fun to hear the clicker scream as you fight what could be the biggest fish of your life under the peaceful cover of darkness. LOL Have it your way and don't forget the sunscreen! Don't complain if your hell bent on pounding the weed edge when the water is in the 80s. |
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| sometimes a long cooldown in summer gets the topwater bite going anybody move anything in the last couple days???
walking the dog around nokomis I saw a guy get two tigers last night |
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Location: Minnesota | Happy Hooker, I have been really struggling on Tonka as well. I did boat one last night tho. I think these cooler temps will help. Nothing like last year on Tonka. Atleast for me that is.
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| Had two high 40 inch fish sky on me yesterday and lost them both far from the boat. It still hurts. |
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| Was out on Tonka today from 11 to 1:30 pm and saw four fish ranging from 38 - 50". Had one whack a kickin minnow. Twp boats where pulling out when I was and they both had caught there biggest trolling for pike. |
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| Has anyone caught any decent tigers this year.....mid 40s+? |
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| Anyone catch fish last night with the storms in the area? Fished the north metro and ended up with a 39.5". Only fish I saw. |
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Location: Albertville, Minnesota | After an awesome four fish Monday night (all solid mid 40" fish), we got skunked last night. Was out from 7 to midnight, and one swirl at the bait. Goes to show you how fast they can turn off.
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| Still as good as it gets in the Metro RIGHT NOW! After a tip from a buddy of mine I got out last night and boated a 36.25",38" and a 46.5" all on a straight model floating Depth Raider. All were caught casting not trolling over the abyss as some would have you believe! |
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| Water temperature came down recently on Minnetonka. did have one smash a shallow invader on the deep weed edge, but no hook-up.
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | It's back. In the 76's yesterday on Indy and 80's today. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Out on Tonka this morning I had temps from 77-79 and I left the water at 9:30 AM. I'm sure it up to 80 now. Gonna be another cooker Thursday! Hopefully the rain will hit us to cool it down a bit. |
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| We are getting over 80 hits for every post. I know people are out there fishing. Please add something to the collective wisdom. We fished Wapogasset on Saturday. They have a beautiful new park/launch with alot of parking. The cost is $5 per day. Water was warm and had a heavy bloom. We saw no muskies, but caught a number of bass.
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Location: Twin Cities | Was on White Bear Monday -- water temps @ 80F... Moved one fish off some deep coontail.
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| Minnetonka this morning hour before and after sunrise. Fished 5-18' weeds and didn't see a thing. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | Tony,
How has the golf tourney in LaCrosse with Nik? I've been hitting quite a few Western Wisco lakes and the suspended bite has been pretty hot. We should get together on Tonka and hit em hard, I haven't fished it yet. Let me know.
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Location: Shoreview, MN | Anybody fishing the metro these days? Forest temp was 84-86 on Sunday - probably shouldn't have been out there but I hadn't been out in almost a month and couldn't resist the sunset period of a full moon day. Was a waste of time anyway - never saw a fish, not even a pike.
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| at this point watertemps are beyond stressfull,,, I realize the summer and season are short but If you DO go out how about using the tiger lakes??,,,We stock and manage 20 some tiger lakes and people just dont seem to want to use them,,Tigers dont reproduce and on average live 7yrs so If you do stress one out durring the course of the battle its not has much of a loss has a purestrain until water temps drop |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Was out last night on Tonka fishing walleyes and there were lots of Muskie anglers out. Talked to a few at the landing and all had seen nothing. Water was anywhere from 80-82. Fished the main lake and Wayzata bay, only managed a 11 incher and lots of bass dragging lindy rigs with gulp leeches. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Fished north this weekend... water was 5 degrees cooler than last week. Did metro water temps drop at all with this cold front? Might have put the fish back where they should be... in the Beckmann.
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| Tonka temperature was 80 on Saturday, but dropped down 4-5 degrees on Sunday. One stocked one followed me in on Saturday and a big girl hit a plastic worm, while fishing for bass on a deep weed edge. I was surprised I had her on for as long as I did. She charged the boat and jumped. The image of that massive body out of the water with the head shaking until the worm came flying by my head will last a while.
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | Are you boys catching fish on double 10s in the metro? I've been close enough to two boats each night the past few nights to tell what they were throwing and each guy was throwing them. One boat was using the same color and one had three guys in it.
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| Haven't been out in 3 weeks, THIS SUCKS!
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| I agree but there is also very little natural reproduction in the metro lakes. That's why we depend on the DNR and private sources to continually stock fish. |
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | Water temp was down to 76 by Monday morning. BUT, I fear not to stay. It's about to climb again...
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Location: Minnetonka | tfootstalker - 8/6/2007 9:26 PM
Are you boys catching fish on double 10s in the metro? I've been close enough to two boats each night the past few nights to tell what they were throwing and each guy was throwing them. One boat was using the same color and one had three guys in it.
These turds are only eating rubber for me.
This is the double 10 revolution. I think it's kind of cool that an entire boat will throw double 10s during the day. A guy can feel pretty confident working the same line right behind them with a Bulldawg... assuming the fish that have already seen 5 or 6 "double 10s" that day. At night... different story. They eating dawgs at night for you? |
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Location: Minnesota | Ya, I think I haven't seen a boat yet that wasn't throwing them. I can hear that jingle in my sleep. I have been doing good on some different blades that are somewhat simular.
Hammskie, got one on the Donkee yesterday!
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| The Metro bite has been the toughest I have ever seen this year! Might have to fish a little more out of town for awhile. Forest and WBL havn't been good for me. Any one having luck on Bald Eagle? |
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| Got a skinny 48" on Tonka Sat. a.m. - looked like it had scoliosis - on a buzzbait over the shallow weeds. Huge head, skinny body. |
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Location: Mayer, MN | First for the year for me, a little 32" on a bulldawg. First time ski fishing since the end of June also, the water temps/oxygen levels must still be at "be careful" levels, due to the slow recovery behavior this fish showed, even after an easy hook removal and very quick pic.
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| Not that it's going to last but water temps did come down some. On Friday night I had 83.2 and by Sunday morning it was 75.5. We just need some cooler nights!
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Location: Shoreview, MN | With the continued high water temps I took Hooker's advice and tried my local tiger lake last night. Caught two about 30"er's in heavy weeds in 2-4'. 80 degree water temp. Both swam off no problem. Size-wise they were certainly nothing to get very excited about but I haven't fished for tigers in several years and I forgot how fiesty these "little" tigers are. Both really slammed my spinner bait and one went 3' + out of the water.
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Location: Mayer, MN | Going to give Crystal a try tonight for Tigers. Will report back.
I having nothing to show for my efforts.
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Location: Minnetonka | Since we're talking tigers... my buddy got this monster a few weeks back.
46 inches... his personal best muskie... and a complete chunk-osaurus.
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Beutiful!!!!
Is that a Minn Tiger???
you dont have to name lake but is it a stocked tiger lake or a natural tiger???
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Location: Minnetonka | Yeah... Weaver Lake.
Cave men are also natural to the metro area.
Now I'll ask... how many "natural" tiger lakes are there in the metro?
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Location: Mayer, MN | I caught and released a 39" Tiger on Lake Minnetonka on 10-15-05. The weekend that the PMTT Championship was going on. Anyways, is there Tiger stocking history on Tonka or is this fish a natural reproduced fish? Or just a case of a few tigers ending up in the stocking efforts of some pure strain.
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| My old man got a 43" tiger out of Tonka, that same year on walleye opener. Same bay even (I know just about every dock, etc.)... I've never heard of another since.
BTW, I was a judge for the PMTT championships. Ended up measuring both of the winning fish for Brovoski. My buddy had a disposable camera in his tackle box which he snapped some photos. He finally developed it last weekend so we were just reminising about the tourney. Man, I'd love to fish with that guy some time!
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Location: Minnetonka | Never fished w/ Josh... but I definitely owe him credit for the fish I've caught on fig. 8 this year. He also caught a HUGE 52 in the MMTT Vermilion this year. He got great pics of it... but not sure you'll ever see them. |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | The DNR did stock some tigers in there about 10 years ago now. They were going to dump them in a different lake in the fall and it froze over so instead they put them in tonka. One or two also "escape" in there from time to time, but I wouldn't know anything about that... |
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Location: Mayer, MN | After watching Johan Santana set a Twins strike out record with 17 K's, I went out Sunday (8-19-07) afternoon 3-7 p.m.. Had a nice break in the rain and while fishing around Smithtown Bay I did not see another boat for about 2 hours. Rather neat experience for being on Tonka. It was not productive fish wise on the west end for me, but the quiet, peace and watching the loons swim around my boat was a winner in my book. |
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| East end was pretty dead too, until the rain and thunder drove us off. We are fishing tomorrow and will give an update then.
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| Water temps around the metro have dropped about 10 degrees or so in the last four days. Especially the inner city lakes with storm runoff flowing into them. Was out on Calhoun last night and temps were down to 72 degrees. |
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Location: Mayer, MN | happy hooker - 8/21/2007 7:13 PM
with all the rain,cool nights,and clouds what has the watertemps droped to??
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Location: Minnetonka | I saw some nice Tonka fish from this weekend in another post. Anyone else have any luck elsewhere in the metro? How are those cool water temps treating you?
... had a fat 47 explode a LOWrider last night, then shat up the marine carpeting... a healthy fish and amazing fight.
Bring on the wind and cold... 'cause boat traffic is getting old.
Edited by Hammskie 8/27/2007 8:44 AM
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Location: MPLS, MN | I don't even mess with Tonka till after Labor Day. Except Bass opener. |
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| Fished Tonka on Sunday...too nice...small bass only.
It seems like everytime I go out I get bluebird skies.
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Location: Hudson, WI | My cousin is fishing in a bass tourney on Tonka a week from Saturday and wants me to pre-fish with him this weekend. He's gonna bass fish. I'll be fishing 'skis out of the back of the boat. Any advice for bass other than Gray's or Wayzata and more importantly, how have the muskies been moving and what on? Please don't say double 10's, I'm getting carpultunnel! |
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| topraiders shallow before sunrise |
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| put on a boogerman and you can fish for both!!! a 3lb lbass can take one easy |
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| Bass are easy...toss some spinnerbaits along the shallow, sandy shorelines (heavy or light weeds). The bigger willow blades work wonders. Most people over-think them this time of year & try to finesse fish.
As far as muskies go, it's been real hit or miss. For the past couple months I either have multiple fish days or don't see a one?? Nothing in-between. If you don't like the big b-tails everyone is throwing, try spinnerbaits. I've caught about 3-4 fish to each 1 I've caught on CG's and the like. The only other piece of advice I would give would be to try off the beated path. Tonka has seen a TON of lures the past couple years so you'll only up your odds by fishing less pressured spots...some don't look fishy what-so-ever. In fact I had the same milk run from the mid 90's to about 2005. I now only fish a handful of those spots with regularity because they always have boats on them. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | Thanks for the info, fellas. Hopefully I'll be posting some pics! |
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| water started out cool and warmed. The bass and northerns that hit were very aggressive. The biggest northern was 38" and fat, so they are feeding and moving. Had one male muskie follow me in, but in typical male fashion refused to commit. (It's a old joke that never gets old to me)
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Location: Hudson, WI | I slowed it down this weekend and downsized after I ran a topraider across a muskie's nose and it didn't even move! Caught a fat 44" on a Reef Hawg in Crystal. Only fish of the day, saw 2 more fish that were really lazy. I thought rec traffic would be down, frickin' jet skiers in 63 degree water!
How do you post pics on this? (it was beautiful fish) |
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| Fished a Polk County Lake on Saturday. We caught a 37" and had three follows. Everything was on small baits and shallow. Beautiful day.
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| Fished Tonka the first two hours of sunlight and last two hours on Sunday. 4-8 f.o.w., green weeds, no deep water (over 12') for 100 yds any direction.
Saw nothing in the a.m. Went to the same location that evening and caught two 38, 39 males and pulled the bait from a third because I wasn't' paying attention. All caught on sucker suick between moonrise and sunset. bonus 6lb bass in same location on same lure. |
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| Fished WB Wed with no action so went up to Forest, lost a real nice fish (48-49") at the net. Orange Phantom along a weed edge. Water temps everywhere about 56. Lakes 1 and 2 were starting to turn, lake 3 was still ok.
Sunday went back to Forest and lake 3 was in full turnover - crap floating everywhere. Temp was 54. Didn't bother to check 1 and 2. Went down to WB and netted a 34 (Orange Phantom) and lost one about 40 along a deep weed egde. 2nd fish nipped the back end of a granny but came unpinned quickly, just didn't get enough of the hooks to stick. Water temp also 54. WB is starting to clear up from what it was but has not turned yet.
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| Hey Steve, what do you mean by crap floating everywhere? How do you know when its turnover? By crap floating everywhere, do you mean floating weeds or green clumps of algae or is it just a greenish tint? thanks. |
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| Fished Bone and Deer on Saturday. Temps were about 54 on Bone and 56 on Deer. Not much to share. Could have caught as many fish by taking a walk in the woods.
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| Cedar!!!!! Can't make it out much more this year, so somebody go out there and get 'em. Very active fish everywhere. Boated 7 in two days and missed 2 more. |
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| White Bear is starting to turn. Fished in Thur and Fri nights. Temp was 54-55 Thurs and 52-53 Fri. Water was much murkier Fri with some dead weed floating in the shallows. As soon as I got to the ramp it was obvious but didn't have time to go elsewhere. Main basin was better but the "main event" likely not over yet. Had a few follows, mostly pretty lazy. Lots of guys out fishing that last two nights. Ordways sometimes had 7-8 boats pounding it. The full moon sure bring 'em out, but the fish didn't seem to be cooperating. |
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| Fished Minnetonka on Sunday night. Water was about 53 degrees. A lot of people out enjoying the water. You sure hear the clanging of DCGs in every bay. Lots of available spots in the Grays Bay parking lot.
Tom |
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| How could there not be significant ice this weekend? Do you think we'll be able to get out? I'm concerned. |
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Location: Minnetonka | I think we'll make it through next week... no worries... keep dragging the sausage... catch a monster. Hopefully the metro fish will cease to bore me tonight... we'll see. |
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