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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | How did the muskies and other endevours treat you this glorious weekend? |
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Did not fish this weekend but did take my grandson for his very first visit to the Zoo he had a blast so did gramps 
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Location: New Prague, MN | Hit Mille Lacs on friday-had 1 follow. |
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| Might have been the worst 7 days of musky fishing I have had in years on Leech. Good thing I had a chance to fish bass with Dan Craven. That was the most fun I have had fishing since I fished October smallmouth. I am starting to see a pattern.
Hope you guys had better luck.
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| fished vilas county, caught 6, all on plastics????? bulldawgs, storm kickin minnow, j-mac jigs, all worked, even bucktails over deep water worked, used my usual jerks and cranks on a lake well known to plow my starting line-up and no takers! switched to plastics and raised a good 30-40 fish over 4 days of fishing. weird thing is we didn't see any tankers. Biggest fish seen was maybe 42. They were definitely liking the open water thing though.
The thing I don't get is the bulldawg, I never have caught fish on them up until this past weekend, I finally figured out what works for me to just plain out see fish, but, they would come in hot, and then just turn off and head back to the deep, or just sit there, look at it, and saunter off.
Is there anything different you can do with a dawg to make them smack it boatside?
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| deeeeeeeeeeeeep and fast figure 8's...get that rod down in the water almost to the reel and move the dawg very fast....sometimes that can be the key
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Location: Madtown, WI | like Brad said....Speed...and depth in the water changes are key...
I got out for 2.5 hours on Sunday in Madison. Got a pair of 39 inchers...on bulldawgs :-))
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| Fished the big pond, raised 4 fish sat. biggest around 40 even, raised 3 on sun. with two being very very close to 50. The one followed a double topraider and the other charged up to my magdawg at the boat, bumped it with his beak and swam off. Hooked and lost something and caught three pike. Slow fishing but still fun. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Got three on the Goon, nothing huge, got two big pike which makes me just as happy, Merv lost a giant on the Krook and missed two others. We saw them up close and personal, and one was the quality we are up here to catch; 50# class. That bait moves BIG fish.
New Tuffy 1890 GDC is running really well, LOTS of room and a good ride. Pictures tonight. It's 91 degrees here already.
Jim Kalkofen, Outdoor Writer and exec Director of the In Fisherman Professional Walleye Trail got a 37ish Muskie today...I got a 40.75 Pike.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q4TCBGDbHM
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| went out saturday had 5 up boating 1 fat 47 -- seen something strange on a gravel point ton's of bluegills spawning on it -- isn't it late for that?
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Location: The desert | Caught a handfull of Brookies and Cutthroats. Nothing gigantic, but fun anyways. Did see about 100,000 fish throught the course of last week though. Only netted about 8000 of them though. Had a few 25+ inch browns in the mix though. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Extended my weekend a bit and took the boys out for tigers this morning. We were only able to fish for about 3 hours; it got too hot for the kids (they are wearing life vests - not too breathable). Nik scored a 29 on a Super Shad Rap (thx for the re-paint Nightmare); which he promptly claimed as his lure. Ice cream for all on the way home. It's going over 100 F again today I'm afraid.
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Location: st clair shores, MI | Lake St Clair was on fire this weekend we trolled mid lake near the weather bouy and went 10 for 12.Our smallest fish was 46"22lbs and our biggest was 50" 31lbs.All the fish we caught we very clean and healthy and sucessfully released.I also heard of some other monsters caught over the weekend in the same area 54 1/8, 54 a 52 1/2 and a giant 51 3/4 38 lber. |
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Location: Janesville | Fish up around Minocqua and we boated 11 this weekend and we only fished 6 hours friday and caught 2 saturday fished 4 hours and caght 3 and sunday fished 2.5 hours and caught 6 . Biggest was 44 incher . Seen alot of fish and also lost 10 fish that were hooked. Great weekend Going back thursday night. |
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| took my bro out for his first time sunday. We boated 5 fish and lost one. 37,38,38,39,40 . All pretty fat and out deep. He's talking about selling his motorcycle and buying muskie equipment. hehe A big sorry to his pregnant wife.
here's some picks. The 38 was seriously fat. |
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| took my bro out for his first time sunday. We boated 5 fish and lost one. 37,38,38,39,40 . All pretty fat and out deep. He's talking about selling his motorcycle and buying muskie equipment. hehe A big sorry to his pregnant wife.
here's some picks. The 38 was seriously fat. how do you get a pick under 300kb without using windows paint/attributes, mines on the fritz..
Bret
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| Fished Mille Lacs and metro in the last week and half. Boat total-7 fish!!! 36,37,38,42,43,43.5, &45". Indy & Weaver are starting to heat up. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I fished Lake Holcombe from Monday to Friday this past week, did not boat a single fish there tough as usual in July. I saw a few nice fish though and had one take a lazy swipe at a spinnerbait. Fished Potato too and boated a dink burning a small bucktail. |
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Location: Waukesha, WI | trolled up 10 dinks between Saturday and Sunday. The bigger fish, for me at least, must have been on vacation with jdsplasher and the Extreme One on different waters. |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Pete and "Finchaser" (from The Sportsman) came back from LOTW. Pete scored 8 (47 the biggest, one 4 fish day) And Kevin scored his first casting fish on the "8". glad your back, safe and sound, but more glad your back to work! |
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Location: ohio | went out at night saturday, nuttin but a serious headache the next morning ...
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Location: Lino Lakes, MN | I had a whirlwind weekend out on the water. A big thanks to Tuffdaddy and Jonesi for getting me out on the water while I was back in the midwest for a few days. I flew in from CO to St. Paul and drove up to meet some friends about an hour north of Duluth. Fished a small lake for bass and pike on Tues and Wednesday and had a blast. Left the Duluth area around 1:30am on Thursday morning, drove straight through to Vilas and fished with Joel from 6am till 1pm. Boated 2 smaller fish and headed in to the Pea Patch to get a few hours of sleep. Hit the water again that night from 8pm till midnight with no fish to show for it. Ended the N. WI part of the trip fishing from 5:30am till around 11, raised a bunch of fish but couldn't put the hooks into anything. Had wedding festivities to attend to in Wausau on Fri evening and all day Saturday. Drove from Wausau back to St. Paul and hooked up with SJ for a few hours...I was asleep at the wheel and missed a few opportunities but had a blast just being out on the water shooting the bull. Flew back to CO this morning and desperately need to catch up on the sleep. Well worth all the driving and the sleepless nights to spend some time with good buddies. Can't wait for LOTW in late August. |
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Location: Sheboygan Falls, WI | .
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Thanks Chuck for a great day on the water! Laughed alot, learned a ton, and it's some good eatin. If anyone is interested in getting some sore arms from fighting fish and/or wants to learn what this salmon thing is all about, get in touch with Chuck Nelson!
Also got to do some fishing on Sunday.....6 bluegills, 3 perch, a 7lb channel cat (ew) and about a 4 or 5lb largemouth. I am the nightcrawler KING! |
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| Got out on the sewer with my son on saturday and trolled for a while , we were on the baitfish but no takers . Had fun " jumping " waves all day though !! Hit a few small local ponds on sunday and caught a few bass , well my son caught a few anyway !! It's not so bad handing the rod off to your son everytime there's a fish on , I think it's more fun watching him all day than fishing !! Had a blast !!! |
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| since sunday 10 boated, 35,37,38,38,38,39,39,40,41,44 and lost 6 with my bro going out for his first 3 times and putting 4 in the boat and losing a near 50 for sure 10 ft. from the boat on a crane.
wont post the picks of the 40's until i get the ok from the man who ended up being a lucky s.o.b. and getting all three.
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | Made a trip up north with Mark Lijewski and Musky Innovation's Dennis Lappen to try and follow up our good luck from the previous summer's film shoot. Found fish on mid-lake rocks and got them to go on Cowgirls, walk-the-dog topwaters, and the hot bait was Lijewski's home-made bucktail which took the big fish of 51.5 for Spence. Here's some pics of a great 3 day film shoot. Was able to capture Dennis's 48" on film as it ate a Cowgirl at boatside probable 4 feet from the camera. I've a lot of editing to do, fishing with Mark and Dennis is like a non-stop comedy routine. 12 on film, 47, 47, 48, 51.5, rest between 40 and 45. Ton's of fun.
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | nice fish Jason. congrats on a great trip/shoot.
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Location: Watertown, MN | Badfish is on the fish, good to see dennis can still catch some fish, good to see spence caught a dandy with you, got to meet him early at the twin cities muskie inc meeting. He must be having a blast running around with Dennis.
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