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hopefully better than the couple guys we chatted with at a landing last night who were up from Missouri. after almost 2 weeks of muskie fishing on Mille Lacs and northern MN they were headed home fishless. she can be a cruel master some days...
the thing is, they were happy and upbeat, the one guy had a follow yesterday from the biggest fish he'd ever seen in his life. sometimes it isn't just about the catching, is it?
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Sue and I hit a small local lake for a couple hours Saturday night, and didn't see a fish. Sunday, we had planned to hit another small lake for panfish and bass in the afternoon, then cast for muskies the last hour of light, but lightning took care of that. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Indeed, Lambeau, she can be a cruel master... but she does remain the master, and we the slaves.
... but sometimes we are rewarded for "breakin' rocks all day" (Layne Staley). This weekend was again a success for 'Skie Patrol up on the range. Many heartbreaks, but a few victories have made the memory books, including a nice 52 by John to cap off another great day on the water. We will be headed back again this weekend to see if they're still attacking the blades. Wherever your destination may be, good luck on the water this week/weekend!
Catch 'em,
Andy
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Finally got out for a few days. Fished the flowages on the Peshtigo River above Crivitz Fri. through Sun. It was absolutely horrid. Caught more 22" to 26" pike than I had ever seen before on that water, had big bass whacking my Suicks and spinner baits, and caught a 24" walleye trolling a 10" Slammer in 20 feet of water but we had only one 26" musky for the three days. No follows, no fish hooked, or even hits that we thought might be a musky. No clouds, no wind, high temps, mosquitoes, and more other boats than you could count on High Falls. What more could a musky fisherman ask for? Oh wait, how about a fish. We fished the inside edges of the weeds, the outside edges, thought the middle of the weeds, rock points, rock humps, rock drop offs, submerged standing timber in deep water, current areas, slop, and river channel breaks. Fished early, late and in between until we were chased off by boats/jet skies/party barges. If you ever hear someone say a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work, don't believe it!
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Location: Contrarian Island | Here is a fish story....but a true one....after making a cast w/ my bucktail, I did a figure 8, no fish behind it...my fishing partner CPainter asked me something and we stopped to chat...so I'm standing there, with the bucktail hanging in the lake...not moving it at all..not looking at it...just had the rod in my left hand while we were chatting away...about 15 seconds go by, the water erupts below us, scares the crap out of us and my rod about jumps out of my hand...look down and a big fish ate my bucktail sitting in the lake...we laugh the entire fight, get her in the net...47" inches of one suicidal musky...
had a good 4 days in the land of giants..boated 8 up to Corys 51", lost some heartbreakers, and had a bunch more that must have been half blind not to find hooks...here is the suicidal ski and Corys 51"
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Location: Twin Cities | Fished the metro Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Caught a 39 yesterday, not much activity on Friday or Saturday. Overcast yesterday really seemed to have them going, TONS of people out casting and trolling for ski's, not much catching that I observed. The pressure is really high this year, on saturday night I counted 25 boats in one small area either casting or trolling for muskies. <gah> |
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| Saturday I fished a couple hours in the morning and had 1 small follow on a mag Bull Dawg.
Sunday I had one small follow and caught my PB, a 46 inch Tiger casting a Super D in about 20 ft of water. The fish jumped completely out of the water after the hookset, and then stayed deep the rest of the fight. After I got her in the net I got the tripod out and took a couple quick pics and put her back.
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | Started on Friday night, high hopes for the new moon, and as usual it was sub-par. One dandy on a Pounder and 2 follows on DC's. Sunday Mark landed 4 fish, and lost 7. Moon phases haven't been that great this summer, with weather fronts coming a few days off of the moon it has been better to key on the weather changes. Heres a quick video clip from Friday evening.
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| Muskyhunter247 very nice fish,congratulation! |
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| Finally the muskie gods threw me a bone, just enough to stave off starvation. Caught a chunky Tonka 43 on a red cowgirl, outside edge, and a skiny 40 on a bobbie bait, inside edge. Had one more good follow inside on the sand. Two this weekend is a nice turnaround for me, charges the muskie batteries. "we're coming, we're coming" |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, Musky Central, USA | Awesome video, I'm going to give Jeff some crap! |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | Muskyhunter247
What a beautiful tiger!!! Nice job! |
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Location: MPLS, MN | I scored 40"s of Muskie this weekend..Too Bad it was between two fish, a 25"er and a 15"er. My two smallest ever. LOL |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | While nowhere near as impressive as the tiger above, the boys and I teamed up to put this one in the boat today. It looks pretty big with Dane holding it. Caught by a four year-old and netted by a seven year-old. The old guy drives the boat. 
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Location: minocqua, wi. | wow, great pics, stories and videos ... i'll echo what mark lijewski said (not the bleeps) but it's just now finally feeling like you'd be missing something not being out. this last week has been the first time you could really feel anything like hot weather that was consistend enough to make a push on the fish. i've been out almost zero this year for a multitude of reasons but did get out on friday night with john from the muskyshop. last week you all heard about the rhinelander musky league finally getting a roll on (well, geno anyway) ... we fished clear water from like 7:30pm - 11pm. and had a rat in the net on i think the third cast and it was on our way to the spot i wanted to be on for the moon-phase so we thought it was going to be a great night. the time around the moonphase was lackluster for us though ...
tonight is really muggy and the remnants of yesterdays storms are about us ... fishy feeling. i'll be drowning leeches tonight with some visiting friends' kids on fence lake hoping to score some smallie action.
steve ... thanks again for your help on saturday with the boat things!!!
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| That first Tiger was Humungo... Metro Lakes I'm use to 33-38" tigers. Had luck Sat. morning on metro lake with a 41". Was up to Mille Lacs Sunday for Walleye before the storm fit, two guys came off the water had been fishin for 16 hours. 7 at night till 11 in the morning and only had one follow...and these guys were pros. Driver didnt seen very happy!!
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, Musky Central, USA | Just got back in from a lake close to home...saw a TANK on one of those "BK" marked wood deep diver/grandma lookin things with the plexi lip...she just laid about 6ft down next to the boat on the 8 and waved buhbye to me...hit the hump next to the landing on the way in, last cast..and had the fattest 25"er I've ever seen hit my bait boatside and I swear to you it went airborne 4 feet 2x....lil guy caught all 3 of the hooks but we made a fast release. Wish the last ski I caught hadn't screwed up my camera..it was a reaalllllllllly pretty fish. Leader snapped at the swivel earlier in the day on a minor backlash and lost my mojo walleye double X...that's #9 this year sank I believe...bah..incredible luck I've got. |
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Location: janesville | Fished Leech, Cass and another area lake around there over the weekend.Weonly saw 2 nice fish on Leech the whole weekend.We also got blew off leach on saturday with 6 and 8 footers with water coming over the bow. On Cass we saw a bunch of fish and i had a hot 45 that wouldn't eat and a 50. On the other lake we raised a bunch of fish no huge ones but i got a 36 first of the year and lost a low 40 incher and had another miss my bait. All fish seen on walleye mag dawgs or dubbers.
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Location: Minn. | My Brother caught a 48'er on a Tacklebooty Super Cisco. This particular 48"er was full of vim and viger. She made 5 long runs and two full body leaps. If you can visualize two Norwegians looking over the side of the boat, one with a rod bent , the other net in hand looking down but the fish is leaping on the other side of the boat. Darrell jabs rod to handle to get line from under the motors, and leads fish to the net. She was the longest battle of any Muskie we have ever caught. Darrell decide we had enough pictures so I cut the hooks and picked them clean and net released her while in the water . I dropped the net and she slowly swam away.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion |
Sorno, That is priceless man.....I miss my kids.
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Location: NYC (and many weeks in MN during summer) | muskyfvr, very noble to forgo pics of that nice fish because of the circumstances of the fight. We hardly ever see an angler (myself included) put the fishes welfare before our own insatiable egos.
Those release pics, along with the story, should be considered for the okuma contest!!
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Location: WI | Trolled for 2 hours on friday, nothing. Cast for 4.5 hours saturday and only had one strike. Weeds are finally coming up good on the smaller lake I was fishing. Slow morning, but I learned a couple new spots. Algae bloom is starting too. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Excellent shot, sorenson! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Sorno, that is a cool image. Some good stories and nice fish pictures this week! |
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| Awsome stuff this weekend everyone!I myself had a decent weekend on the water,ill post a report here tomorrow witha few pics.MSKY HNR a week ago on of the guys in my boat had a mid 30 inch fish jump up and fully get a bucktail hanging from his rod tip 2 feet above the water,freaky!
Muskyhunter247 many congrats on a beautiful tiger,keep up the solid stickin kid,good for you!You remind me of myself about 20 years ago awsome stuff bud!
Muskyfvr very noble,we could all learn a thing or to from you and your bro!
J.sloan and the bad fish boys nice video,keep up the great work.
Lastly good luck to everyone on and off the water!
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Sloan good video. Cant wait till madness 4 comes out. I can relate to marks situation with the mosquito in the eyes with a follow! Stupid mosquito's! |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Muskyhunter247-One heck of a tiger muskie for your son. You tell him I am sending him a free SuperD! That is one great fish for both of you!
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| Up on Eagle last week and this one was worth a picture (49.5). Had a few others (smaller) and lost two real nice fish. Everything was next to the boat on an 8.
I'm thinking this "may" have been a big male??? Big head, big lower hooked jaw, and while it was a far cry from a "thin" fish, it didn't have the girth like others this size caught within yards??
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| 8 of us from the Fargo-Moorhead Muskies Inc. Chapter and two of our friends from neighboring Chapters of MI spent 4 days on LOTW. We caught 88 Muskies with 8 of them at 50 inches or better. Sorry, but that is as detailed as I'm probably allowed to get. 
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| I had a good weekend on the kawarthas,landed 5 lost 3.Two fish on in line bucks,two fish on bulldawgs and one fish on an m&g spinner bait.One of the fish i lost was a real good one lost at boat side on the m&g.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Derrys, What the heck....... I thought you were a muskie Inc. kind of a guy???
I know for a fact that " Papa Gill Hamm" would share this awsome bit of info with the rest of the muskie Brotherhood.!!!
You don't even live near LOTW. How would giving us some "Good Knowlege" on your Blessed trip effect you in any way ,shape or form....???
Show us some Muskie Love or Just go home..........
Seriously, 88 Muskies is awsome..... Don't be a tight Asss ,, How did it go down.
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Location: LOTW every chance I get | I'll second that. You CAN'T mention 88 Muskies and then just leave us hanging. Spill it! .... Please. Dave |
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| Guys, there is no need to pressure someone for information. I know you mean good, but if someone is going to give out detailed info., then they will. Demanding information from someone is kind've rude in my opinion. |
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| Baby Mallard - 8/6/2008 10:59 PM
Guys, there is no need to pressure someone for information. I know you mean good, but if someone is going to give out detailed info., then they will. Demanding information from someone is kind've rude in my opinion.
Well, what do you consider of posters that come on here, claim a huge success, ie want it known, but then claim it's a biiiiiig secret?
Derry's askin for it imo, lol! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | He sure can keep it secret, and I bet he will!
FSF, it's not the success that's the secret most times, it's the where of it. He told us where clear as a bell ringing... LOTW! |
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| You definitely make a good point. I still don't agree with the demanding of specific info. Would you rather hear a group caught 88 muskies in 4 days on a certain body of water in a certain timeframe with no specific details other than that, or no report at all? I would rather hear some kind of report rather than no report. It sends a message to the rest of the members on this site that if you are going to give out a good report, it better be specific. I'm sure there are members on here that don't give reports for that reason. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Easy there, I think most of the comments here are good natured ribbing, that's about all.
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