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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Anybody have an up dated report for my Southern Home ???
I'm working in Ohio and plan on fishing this weekend on the Cave and was woundering about the water temps. and conditions.... Fri-Mon.
Cabin Fever has set in........
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Location: Columbus, Georgia | Water temps were in the high 40's a few days ago.
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Location: KY | Jerome
It's been almost a month since I was on the water. The lake was in turnover then. Water was in the mid to low 50s. Nothing was happening for everyone casting. There was a boat that had two trolling the outside weed edges. They are drawing the lake down slowly this year. Its Warm today but the weather is supposed to be overcast with highs in the mid 30's this weekend. I am hoping to go again on the 11th.
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| As of Sunday (11-30) the water was from 44-46 all over the lake. No warm weather in sight and had some cold rain and snow so I'd guess by this weekend it'll be in the low forties. I got a fat little 38" on turkey day and saw one more that evening. Saw 5 saturday, all in the mid 30" range and only saw 1 on sunday. Good luck. |
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| IF the current weather holds that we have had for the past 2 weeks I'd expect ice in the bays/hollows soon. The creeks/streams near the cave have been in a pattern of froze/slush/froze for at least 2 weeks. I was over there 2 weeks ago and the temps were 44-45 then. very suprised some ice has not formed yet. We did pick up a small 31 incher that day. Been very very cold for this time of year . Sucks not to be able to fish the creeks in Nov.in the south Global Warming ? LOL MD |
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Location: Medford, WI | Jerome,
You are one lucky (and smart) man! I'm very jealous man! Hope you got/get out and catch a few of them. Let us know!
Cabin fever is kicking in for me already as well, and school doesn't help it!
-Jake |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Fished Sun.-Tues and saw only one muskie!
Not good... but it was nice to get out.
Yesterday the water temps were 44* by the dam, and 40-41* in Warrix and Buck Creek.
Water levels are 5 ft.low, I basicily fished main lake shoreline, off of the weed edges and around wood, in 10-20 ft. of water....Hit the Hallows with no luck, and even spent a few hrs. casting mag.Dawgs and the pounder in the river chanels around some bait fish.
Saw only 4 boats in three days. I'll be back next week for my last trip of 2008.
Later, Jerome |
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Location: Columbus, Georgia | Once the weather gets a little more stable, even though it will be cold (high 30's low 40's during the day except for a couple of weeks in January) ... the experts down here say that glide baits are the ticket, fished EXTRA SLOW, and you're fishing for one good opportunity per day.
I guess it beats watching a Musky video ... if you have the proper clothing, though I know that's a heatwave to you guys up in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Location: Medford, WI | Jerome, thanks for the report. Hope you have better luck next time out. Sounds like your Perkas should be a bood bait down there.
P.S. Want to email me some of the pics of your musky from when I was up there with you that were taken on your camera? I only have the one from my camera. Not sure if you know how to or not, but if so email them [email protected] please and also include your mailing address in there.
Thanks and good luck next time out.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | I threw the "Big Perka", hellhounds, phantoms, and the #1 bait for me on Cave, reefhawg, and only had a mid 30" fish follow the Perka....... soon enough I will nail a nice fish with that bait...... very nice 2.5-3 ft glide, ... pull,pause,pause,Wham.!!
Can't wait.......
Jerome
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| Jerome --Dude you are die-hard ! my kind of guy ---sent you a PM , take a look. |
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| I was there on 12/09/2008 the water temp. was 43 to 44F Moved a big fish on the river and a pup up Buck creek. |
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Location: Palm Coast, FL | Was able to get to the Cave this past weekend. Friday water temps were 41. We boated 4 on jerk baits but no size to speak of. Saturday water temps were 40 and we got 3 more but again...no size to speak of. We did raise a couple nice fish (one low 40s and one upper 40's), but couldn't get them to open their mouths. |
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| sweet sounds better then looking down a hole |
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| Looking to head down for the first time this spring. Any suggestions as to best time or other things to consider? Is it worth the extra night stay to drive home to Chicago area? Which is better (relatively speaking) Gregg & Tony's place or Crash's? |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | It looks COLD down there right now! You boys busting through the launches? |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | I'm going to Ohio, Monday and since my boat is stored at the Cave, I figure I may as well get it wet........ so are things getting iced up or what?
I looked at the forcast and I can handle 30-40* temps.
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Location: Wallingford, KY | It was -1 last night, and is a balmy 9 degrees for a high today, with another 0 degree night tonight. Haven't been near the lake for a few days but I would guess everything is froze up. |
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| Lots of ice especially in the places you need to be fishing. We're not supposed to have a day above freezing until like Thursday. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Whats up ? Frozen, or not?
I can be fishing on the Cave by Wens. if it's not Iced up.
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Location: Grayson, Ky | the main lake is fine no ice at all, some of the bays do have a thin sheet of ice on them but nothing major, the forecast looks to turn for the better starting on thursday, but you should have no problem finding a place at the cave to fish, even if you want to fish some of the coves just bust the ice in them and if the wind is blowing out of the cove then it will carry the broken ice out into the main lake, good luck let me know how you do. |
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Location: Medford, WI | Good luck Jerome...I wanna see a musky caught by you in the next week. Went icefishing and caught a 15" crappie yesterday...it was a whopping 5 degrees; and that's the warmest day I've been ice-fishing this year. I'm a little jealous!
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Location: KY | Its cold again tonight ~15. Hasn't been above freezing for about a week. Good luck if/when you get out. Thursday & Friday look like your best window of opportunity.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Bruce,
I'm headed there tomarrow, hopefuly there will be some open water. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Well,
I drove about 5 hrs out of my way to fish for a couple of days but the Alfrie ramp was totaly froze and looking across Zilppo Flats it was also pretty much froze up.
Scotts creek ramp was open (last night) and about half way up to the dam, but still a lot of ice, so I diched any efforts to hunt any muskies for at least a few more weeks....... So it's back to work in N. Mn.
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Location: Cave Run Lake KY. | Had my boat on the lake today, only boat ramp open is scot's creek, The main lake is iced up pretty good. Need some sunny days and a good wind and the lake will be ice free, say two weeks from now. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Is the Ice gone ? |
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| Still several inches of ice in some places. There are just a few small open spots. What isn't frozen is muddy. Gonna be a little while before it's worth messing with. |
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Location: Cave Run KY. | Time for some new updates. |
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| weather was fantastic the past 2 days --any info ? MD |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | I'm headed to the Cave this week and was looking for some info..... Anybody ??
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Location: KY | Jerome
You will have open water for sure, but it will be cold. We have had lows in the teens for the last couple days. Good Luck.
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| I'm 60 miles from there- calling for lows from 5-10 tonight. Global Warming ? MD |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Ill be down there friday if not saturday also and i will give a report when i get off the water. Supposed to be 70 fri and sat!!!! |
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| All fired up now . . . just got off the phone with my fishing buddy, we are off to "the Cave" this weekend. Forecast for this weekend is warm warm. Gonna "trap" a few of the ladies. Just having a little fun . . . you Wisconsin guys keep shoveling the snow, I'm gonna catch fish!!!!!! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Hey Nut Buster, look for a red and white Skeeter going about 70 mph. across the main lake and look for us in the fishey areas of the lake...... good luck and say Hi If you see us.
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| Will do Top H2O. You live close and going home or staying overnight around the lake? I live 2 hours away. We're staying Saturday night and fishing Sunday also. Good luck, leave us a fish or two . . . maybe three!!! |
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| ManitouDan - 2/27/2009 2:16 PM
weather was fantastic the past 2 days --any info ? MD
Yep, it's still Cave Run and water depths are running all the way from the bottom to the surface again, like usual this time of year, and the water has a temperature. Oh wait, this is my forecast for next week. Let's see, oops yeah, here it is, same for this week. Lucky thing Dan!
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Hey Jerome, seen your boat and trailer( i guessing it was you since it had mn tags and was a skeeter trailer) at the scotts creek ramp today. did you do any good? we didnt see a thing all day. water needs to warm up some more. |
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| Fished Saturday and today. Fished the main lake Saturday and got a dink first thing Saturday morning and popped a 30 incher early afternoon. Fished up in the river today and didn't see a thing. Need more water in the hollers to get the trap bite going. Both fish hit a trap.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Jake and I went out last weekend (3/6 thru 3/9)
Water temps started 41-42* and ended up to 52* in some places. The water was a bit murky in some places, but wasn't bad.
I lost a couple of fish the first day and caught just 2 dinks but it was great to get out on open water.
Jake and I fished a lot of spring time spots, but the bigger fish just wern't there yet,....Shad were moving big time into the shallows, so I imagin the muskies will be following real soon.
We also hit some of the deeper points leading into the shallows without any luck..... Oh Well......... it was fun to be there with a good friend who pounded the water profusley(sp?) Big baits, small baits, didn't trick these Cave Run fish,this time but I'll be back in 2 weeks... So look out !
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Location: Medford, WI | As Jerome mentioned, we pounded the water pretty hard for 4 days and just couldn't get much going. I always love catching muskies, but just getting out on the water and enjoying the warm, 70 degree weather was enough for me! Thanks a lot Jerome...we might not have gotten them down south this spring, but we'll get them on Vermilion this summer/fall; and maybe up in northern WI if you're able to make it!
Good luck in the tournament, those fish will be shallow as soon as the temps stabilize a little more in the low-mid 50's.
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| Hi,
I was down there on Monday. It was beautiful. We managed to boat three smaller fish. One really small upper 20's and two in the mid 30's. Everything was shallow. Very shallow. As Jake and Jerome mentioned the shad were moving in by the middle of the day. The three we did get were caught after 11:30 and before 5:00pm. One fish was on a rattle trap and the other two were on baby depth raiders trolling on a short line. I wish I had more than one day but I was tied up in Cinn. Ohio on some buisness. I also feel the same as Jerome and Jake that its starting to heat up but its not quite there yet. |
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Location: Irvine, KY | Just got back from the cave today. I saw a few good sized fish, and another guy boated a dink. The weather was beautiful, water was stained, and there were shad, shad, shad.... everywhere. All I could catch was a mean sunburn lol.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Well,......Anybody been doing any good ???? What's up on the Cave???
Jerome |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | heard its been tough. the corps have been pullin the lake hard. every day next week we will have temps in the 60's so that should fire it off!! |
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| Anyone been out on the cave lately? Fishing should be picking up! |
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Location: Cave Run KY. | friend and myself was out on the 27 march I had one low 30's roll up on hawg teaser, I think it was just tring to scare it off, fried had upper 20's follow thats all we seen. another friend was saying he had 3 roll up on manta's. they are raiseing the lake at a very high rate right now. at the rate they are raiseing it, it should be at summer pool by the week-end |
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| Trinity Trail guys had a one day tourney on sat the 29th. 24-25 boats . One team doubled with 2 30 inchers, 1 38, and a couple around 30-32. That was it for sat, but on sunday (weather was far colder) rivermusky boated a 40 and 32 as reported on a seperate thread. seems like sat would have been good, it was far warmer than sunday. I got the sat report 2nd hand so if it's off forgive me. MD |
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Location: Cave Run KY. | 10 March 9:30 am 1st storm passed through. On the water and fishing the gravel at Clay Lick to the end(nothing). Around 11:30 am moved to Buck creeck hit the gravel at the front working our way to the back. Raised a small pup at the back(no taker) on a bucktail. Fished on through and around 3:30 PM made a pass back by the one I raised. Boated small 25"( better than nothing) not the worst day we've had on the lake. Around 20 mins. later headed back to the boat ramp, loaded the boat and away we go. Listening to the radieo on the way home. Tornado warning 2 countys away, tornado watches all around us and where we were, went through a hell storm on the way home about 5 miles from the ramp and we didn't even know all this was going on. It rained on us but nothing bad. Caught a fish, small but a fish and didn't even get wet. You talking about luck, the fishing God was holding us in his hand for sure. Went as far to put a fish in the boat so I would call it quits and head home, other wise I would be there till dark came and we would have got hit by the big storm. |
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Location: Cave Run KY. | partner hooked and lost 1 around 35" i raised 1 around 30" then partner raised 1 40"+ all in 8' and less just starting to move up. come on people start getting back to making your reports. |
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