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Location: Hugo, MN | Got out on Saturday and with the late ice out weed growth was minimal. My question is where are you looking for the fish with a lack of weeds? |
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Location: searchin for 50 | Generally you gotta look where they might have been spawning. If that doesn't work
look for where the panfish are gonna be spawning. Current areas are also a good spot to check. Hope this helps |
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Location: Hugo, MN | Raider150 - 5/27/2008 8:22 PM
Generally you gotta look where they might have been spawning. If that doesn't work
look for where the panfish are gonna be spawning. Current areas are also a good spot to check. Hope this helps
We fished < 12' and were casting mostly in to 4-7' looking for Rock Piles and other warm water. I guess it didn't help water temps went from 62-54 in 36 hours either. |
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Location: searchin for 50 | That generally doesn't help. I only seen 1 musky this last weekend. It was in shallow water about 6' deep and just basically swimming not following my lure. |
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| A couple weeks ago I was out on a lake in IL and the fish were recuperating from the spawn. The lake was just starting to show signs of weed growth, but it was minimal at best. We SAW a lot of fish in "spawning bays" (out of wind, shallow flats), but the more aggressive fish were on the primary break along shorelines and just outside the bays. Since our lakes are, in many respects, vastly different from MN and WI's I would look to the primary break just outside the bays to find fish that have finished spawning and are transitioning into "summertime feed mode." It would be worth a look shallow though to see if anything will chase down a bait, or to see if you can sight fish any with a jig, but my focus would be just outside the spawning bays.
Good luck! |
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| I think the snow cover we have had this year has really killed off a lot of the good shallow weed growth that we have been used to in early spring. The fact that the sunlight was not able to penetrate for such a long period really affects how the weeds come up in the spring. That is one factor effecting weed growth from year to year. Every lake is different based on water clarity, but look for the weed growth to be better in a litter deepr water, maybe 6'-9' of water. This will be much farther from shore than usual. These weeds will be holding the bait fish and will attract the active muskies. You may see them "cruising" in the shallower waer, but they will be feeding where the bait fish exist. |
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| The opener for musky was on Saturday for me here in Northern Wi and I put 3 in the boat by the end of the weekend....Every single fish came out of less than 3 fow on inside edges of newly emerging cabbage....Saw a few other fish that came out of timber and rock, also extremely shallow.... |
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| I'd agree with esox1750. We moved three fish yesterday and every one of them was right at the break between clean sand and the dark bottom where weeds are starting up. Water temp in the am was 53 but warmed to 60+ by noon. |
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Location: New Brighton, MN | Last night I contacted several fish and caught 2... all under 10 feet of water in weedy shallow bays. That's where they're at ! |
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