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| Just a few comments and a question or two.
1st hats off to Crazy D's in Elk Mound for fixing me up with fluro leaders and tying up some special spinners with shad bodies . He made both to my specs while we waited ---awesome store !
We fished the Manitou (family has owned a camp there for 11 years) . 16 fisherman from sat to friday pm, july-7th -13th. Numbers were decent , size was waaay down. Just could not move big fish , were not even seeing them. 43 was the biggest , with several 42-40. group caught 21 total, (bro and I got 11) including the 43. Weather was brutal. Sat/sun nice hot , decent breeze. tues-friday was windy and cold. Temps went from high 80's to mid 50's. Rained 75% of the time for 3 days.
Could not interest the fish in any form of spinner / bucktail/ blade bait. nothing. Seem like they wanted stick baits, twiched minnows , etc . PM topwater bite never was any good.
The Bizarre ---A fish struck our orange bouy, leaving teeth marks and nearly sinking the bouy . Was floating fine mid-day , at 5-6pm it had holes and was barely afloat. Anyone ever seen that ?? Also had a fish strike at a bait while only the back hooks were dragging the water while repositioning the boat. Set rod down with lure hanging over the side , fish boiled at it. The after trolling/casting the area for hours --go figure ! .
Is anyone making/ planning on producing a BullDawg type lure with the tougher material ? tryed to order some curly tails or whatever they are called but was told they are not producing them any more ? I'm swearing off the dawg's --they catch fish but I can't justify dropping 15-20 bucks on a lure that get ripped in 1/2 on the 1st pike, or tears before even a catch is made. Not trying to bash them , but the durability of the product is just bad. After they have been mended/welded they are just too weak.
Anyone else experience difficulty moving the big girls in Canada last week ? MD PS The Osseo Ws. area is beautiful ! MD
Edited by ManitouDan 7/15/2007 9:02 PM
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Location: Marshfield, WI | Is it possible the boil you saw was from the trolling motor as you were positioning the boat? I have seen my share of weird strikes. My friend was throwing a jig and shad tail this year and had it stuck over a tree branch. The bait was 6-12" above the water. He said a small musky jumped and tried to get it. Another time, my same friend was taking a break and the mogambo trailer was just barely touching the water. A fish came and took it and almost took the rod in. Good thing he had the rod laying across his lap.
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Big girls were moving on Eagle, although there were many very slow moments between windows and god that weather was BRUTAL. How ironic that the weather will be near a 100 degrees next week after what we endured. I heard a lot of slow reports on smaller fish on LOTW as well so who knows....If we weren't throwing cowgirls our week mighta really sucked |
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| the week before was one of the worst I'd ever experienced on lotw for big fish. Out of 8 guys I was with no one even saw a 50" fish all week, biggest I saw was 47-48". Lots of high thirties to low forties, but the big girls were scarce that week. Although one of my buddies did get a 49" on topwater the second to last day. This last week I guess there were quite a few big fish caught. thats muskie fishing. |
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Location: Minnesota | The Swamp Donkee is what you want for a bait to be much more durable than the Bull Dawgs.
-release em all
Dan
www.bookemsmuskyshop.com
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| Swamp donkey looks interesting . would like to see it in the water. MD |
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random comments from my canadian trip