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Location: Chicagoland | Does anyone fish in this area for muskie? I'm up here a lot and would love to here what you guys think is the best lake in the area. I heard Wabikon/Riley is pretty good... Any ideas? |
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Location: Burlington, WI | I am curious too. I've never fished any of the lakes in that area, but I'm up in the area deer hunting every year, and I always wondered about the two lakes you mentioned. I was wondering how Silver lake up by Laona is as well. Are there good numbers, size, is it worth fishing at all?
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| I have fished all 3. Wabikon first is VERY shallow, mostly 1 to 3 feet throughout the WHOLE lake, there is a small ten ft hole but that's about it. To get into Riley you pretty much have to pull/wade your boat through 6 inches of water up the small navigable stream to Riley. Riley is very beautiful but there is ALWAYS people camping there and quite a few boats for something so remote and that part of it really turned me off but we've seen some smaller type fish caught some northerns but have yet to boat a musky on either of these bodies of water after many try's. I also forgot to mention that the boat landing on Wabikon is very shallow and rutted up, it's a 4wd landing for small to med sized boats. No concrete pad on this one just being honest.
Silver Lake I thought could be the answer but this lake gets a ton of pressure and they like to start watersking very early in the mornings and I just go turned off by getting run over so I dont have a very good report on this lake. I head north further.
Mr Musky |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | My son Keith fishes W/R and does pretty well. Muskies in the 40" class seem to be his targets, from what he takes pictures of while there. |
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Location: Pound, WI | We fished Riley last year, but had a heck of a time getting in there. Even with the motor trimmed as high as possible, the mud of Wabikon had the water pump almost totally plugged. Then we had to wade through the creek pulling the boat over rock and sand bars to Riley. But when we got in there we moved 6 muskies in about 3 hours of fishing. We didn't try to fish Wabikon.
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Location: Chicagoland | Anyone know about Archibald or the smaller lakes in Forest County like Quartz or Lilly lake? |
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| I have information on any of the forest county lakes with musky. and also n. oconto./n. marinette lakes
shoot me an email anytime.
dannyboy
dannyboys guide service
musky crazy
laona,wi
715-674-2061
www.dannyboysguideservice.com
[email protected]
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Northern Oconto/Forest