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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Getting up at 2:20 in the AM paid off pretty well! Me, the old man and a friend got into some nice cohos with one king mixed in, going 11 for around 15 (some people are faster than others on the rods). Dinner was YUMMY!
Almost torn between going north for muskies or staying south and hoping the coho bite holds....and thinking the kings might lie in wait in that deeper water.
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Location: Medford, WI | Only got out for a few hours on Friday and a few hours tonight up in Oneida. Friday, we had several nice follows...one pushing the 50" mark, and my buddy lost one at the boat as I was filming so he was trying to get the net and the fish got off. Tonight, we had 3 follows with one being a good mid 40" fish, but then it got quiet so we headed to a new lake to try for a couple of hours. First spot, my friend takes his first cast and about 5 seconds later, hooks into a musky. It was just sub-legal, probably 30-32". That was it. We'll be back out there early tomorow and hopefully I'll have a better report including some catches. I think they're really going to turn on this week up here.
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Location: Almond, WI | On Saturday fished in Vilas Co., pretty slow. My uncle and I caught a shorty apiece. Saw 7 others, all small. Once the temperature started to drop in the early evening, the action died. Had to deal with whitecaps until mid-afternoon. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | I spent most of the weekend smoking salmon I got the previous weekend. The big day w/ fly rods on Wednesday was followed only by a bit less than 4 hours of muskie casting this morning. I stuck and was able to land 2 muskies measuring 36 and 34 inches. True to form, a couple others air balled the baits and I lost one that was only momentarily hooked. A couple of other pretty non-committal follows rounded out the action. All in all it was a pretty entertaining 4 hours.
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Slamr - 5/31/2009 10:12 PM
Almost torn between going north for muskies or staying south and hoping the coho bite holds....and thinking the kings might lie in wait in that deeper water.
I'd head out to 110'.
Kevin
I'm looking for shoes that will make me faster, but not leave any tracks. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Keith and I looked over a small Oneida County lake we ice fished for big panfish..they were still out suspended Saturday morning at 6 AM. We caught a couple Pike and pannies and had one muskie, about 43 or so, chase a spinnerbait. Saturday afternoon was dedicated to working around the house, and all day today Sue and I shared one chore or another until it was time to grill out for our Anniversary; steak and shrimp on the Barby, and...I now have all my rigs ready to go for Muskie Time!
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Location: Madison WI | I had one fish hit my weagle 3 times in the same cast on Saturday morning out on wingra and then it proceeded to follow it all the way to shore, went out in the boat on Saturday night for a couple hours and had one hit on a jerkbait but the hooks never found home. I fished this morning and didn't raise a thing nor was anything hitting right before the storm rolled in at sunset. I will be out bright and early tomorrow. |
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Location: Ontario, California | Went our for a little nighttime swimbait chuckin looking for some stripers. Found a couple that wanted to play. Got one rat of about 6 pounds and one that went 19.55# after spending 5 hours in the box. Yummie.
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Location: WI | I fished for 5 hours on friday and had one fish hit a Pacemaker twice on the same retrieve and still not get hooked. Moved down a ways and had another fish come cartwheeling out of the water behind the bait! That one was 40-42". I moved off the spot and cast back with a Weagle and when it got next to the boat a different musky came flying out of the water behind it! Moved around some more, had another strike, and later on had a 38" or so fish follow a bucktail lazily back to the boat.
A super fun evening, too bad none of them connected. Unfortunatly, saturday was too windy to fish.
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Location: N.FIB | I fished fri (s.wi)and didn`t get on the lake til close to noon and fished til after midnight,mid day I fed one fish with a sucker and then caught one about 430(35in)then after dark ened up getting 3 more with the biggest being a 40 on a shallow raider,the last 2 came about ten minutes apart.I wish I could of stayed out longer til moon set (1am)but I was tired and knew the drive home would be tough.The last 2 fish I caught were all beat up like they spawned in the last week,also saw some fish sunning in the shallows midday,including about a 15-20 lb cat.
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Location: ROckford IL | I hit Lake Michigan on saturday chasing some salmon, we got 4 in the boat and lost one, 2 of them were cohos, one was a laker, and the other was a steely, fun day regardless, then on sunday I planned to go out with a good friend Steve to Twin Valley, well he called me at 4am saying he did not feel good, so that trip never happened, I just stayed home and mowed the lawn. Plan on hitting the lake sometime this week
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| Hi Bigman,
You didn't miss much by not going to Twin Valley on Sunday. My son and I went out. We had a grand total of one follow and one nice bass. Not that it really mattered anyhow. Anytime I can get with my son in the boat is pure gold. Catching is just icing on the cake as it were. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Managed to get out Saturday for a few hours.....River water was pretty dirty due to all the recent rain runoff---the ticket seemed to be lee-side shorelines slow-rolling downsized spinner baits grinding through emerging weeds---managed 4 pike with two over 30"---lost a nicer musky----and boated a 38" ski. |
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Location: Hopefully on the water | Fished for about 3 hours Friday evening arounf Winter WI and saw 3 on dbl cowgirls and dbl showgirls. 1 was a low 40" class fish. The other 2 were in the low to mid 30". Saturday we lake hoped and first lake was gin clear (lblue bird skys and clear lake) we lasted for 1 1/2 hours and moved to the same lake as the night before and saw another low 30" fish on a dbl little girl. Saturday late afternoon headed out to the mighty Chip and saw nothing. Nice to get out and fish though. |
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| Only went out for about 4 hours on saturday. The first ten minutes of casting a 9 inch suick I got a 36 ski, no follows our hits after that. |
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Location: KY | Fished Saturday evening as thunderstorms rolled in. I managed to get two on lures I have been building this spring. The first came on the first cast with a top-water. The fish was mid thirties and cleared the water on the strike!
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Location: Southern W.Va. | Fished the Cave with Mikie. Was able to hook up to a 35"er Sunday about 11:00 in the morning, only had action from 3 fish all weekend. Still better than a sharp stick in the eye.
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| On friday evening I got buddy his first ever muskie a fat 33.5in on a spinnerbait and he lost two more. On sunday evening I went out with my dad and had 4 follows on gliders and bulldawgs. The biggest was maybe 38in |
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Location: Hayward, WI | I had a rehearsal dinner and wedding to go to this weekend, so I pulled the boat down to Chippewa County. Got out for about 5 hours mid-day Friday. Caught a 31 inch northern and had a small ( low 30s) follow. Northern was in weeds on a Mag Dawg, the small follow came while twitching an 8" Slammer on a wooded shoreline.
On Sunday, we got out from about 1:30-4:30. I MESSED UP TWICE. Had a 40+ on a Hardhead in the weeds. Fought it up to the boat, looked like it had the bait/hooks pretty good. Everything was going well, until I let it head away from me a little too much, and the hooks just popped out like nothing. About 20 minutes later on the same spot, working the Hardhead I heard/saw a swirl just before my line went slack. Got a mediocre hookset, and about the time I got the line tight enough to say "it's gotta be a musky," the fish came off.
I don't usually lose many fish at all, so I was a little frusterated to lose two in 20 minutes. It never dawned on me until about an hour later. Checked the hooks on my NEW Hardhead and realized I had forgotten to sharpen them! I had thrown it for a few test casts on an earlier fishing trip, and then set it on my deck. Never sharpened the hooks.
You can never know for sure, but I feel like that first fish would have made it in the net if I had sharpened the hooks. Second one might have too. I know it couldn't have hurt. Lesson learned - NEVER put a bait in the water without sharpening the hooks, or you might just keep forgetting to sharpen them.
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