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| after a whole month of nice weather and no rain, how'd you fare out there in the first cold front in a month landing on the first day of the season? I only saw a couple fish and caught one northern. |
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| Weather was pretty brutal. We picked up a low 40's fish on about the 10th cast and then that was all she wrote. Off the lake by 11 due to lousy, miserable weather.
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Location: In a shack in the woods | Follow on my first cast. Had a total of 3 follows and caught 1 northern. Was off the lake by noon and casted off the dock periodically the rest of the day. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Only saw one...but it was my sons new PB. Just over 47"!! Then the cold front moved in and we saw nothing.
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Jeez LundBob, where were you fishing? That weather looks nothing like what we had in central MN. My hands were frozen, rain gear soaked, and my face was chapped from wind burn. That looks like heaven compared to what we had.
Saw 9 between 35ish to 50ish. Lost a high 40's under the boat. Went home just after dark. Got to play with all the new toys. Word of advice - The Heavy Predator throws mag dawgs like a dream, but it is wayyyy too soft to get a good hook set... Thus the lost fish.
Heading out in a few, I hope everyone has a great season.
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Location: Duluth, MN | Yea that was about 8:30 in the morning. About 11 the clouds moved in and east wind picked up and was raining later in afternoon. |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | Fish East and West Rush 5am to noon, 7 seen with biggest in the mid 40's. Pretty lousy. Conditions overall, cold hands wind burned face, but #*^@ it felt good to be out on the water chasing skis again.
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Fished for a bit on Friday w/ the boys but couldn't connect. Had 4 fish attempt but miss and numerous follows. Dane even had a pretty hot follow, I wish he'd have seen it...  We then got chased from the reservoir by a T-storm.
We skipped fishing Saturday despite it being the best weather day of the entire weekend and went for a hike instead.
I went out this AM in the rain; well, it was just overcast when I got there. Got a scrawny one after about 10 minutes (roughly 6:20) and was pretty optimistic about what might happen the rest of the morning. At about 6:30 it started to rain and that was it for any action from the fish. Quit at 9:30 and headed home to go to church. On the bright side, I had the lake to myself.
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| fished on eagle lake and ended up seeing 1 decent fish and catching a 40.5 on a baby weagle |
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| Saturday I fished for a couple hours and boated a 45.5 inch Musky on a Heli Dawg. I also had 1 mid 30 inch follow. After looking at the picture of the 45.5 and a picture of a 45 incher I caught last year I realized it was the same fish. The markings are exactly the same. I fished today for a couple hours and never saw a thing.
The second pic is the same fish from last year.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | How Cool is catching the same fish twice !
I love hearing stories like this........ CPR Works..... Cool.
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Location: Southwest PA | Anyone else able to lip their big fish this weekend?
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | Definitely cool seeing/hearing about the same fish caught twice. Awesome job! Now the challenge will be to catch her a third time!
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Location: Maplewood, MN | i was on the water by 6:17am and off by 9:40am
follow on my 5th cast
5 follows total, one was high 40's got my heart racing - no bites on the 8's
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Fished Price and Iron counties Thursday through this afternoon, with a quick stop in Vilas County Sat night. Launched the boat Thursday morning on the Flambeau River to a wonderful 37 degree air temperature, yikes. Fishing was so -so until Saturday, just plain awful weather and fishing Expected the same today but the 'Skis were going crazy, only fished from 11-3 and had action from 10 fish, boating 5 and almost nailing a nice approx 48" fish. The smaller Phantom gliders with the rubber tails very tight to structure with pauses were the go to bait, bucktails were ignored. Water temps have dropped 3-5 degrees in the last few days....
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Location: The desert | Visited a buddy in Wyoming this weekend. Did some elk shed hunting and found a few along with a bonus antelope shed. Did some fishing for trout and I landed the three biggest of the weekend, a 19.5 inch rainbow. Also drove around with the .17 loaded and ready to drop prairie dogs. Piled up about 25 or so along with a pocket gopher and a jackrabbit. Saw a bunch of antelope, mule deer, and a few elk. All in all a good weekend. |
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Location: Gurnee, Illinois | Hey Rich, did you "noodle" that one?
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Location: In a shack in the woods | went out last night for 4 hours. So windy and cold it reminded me of fall fishing. Not even a follow |
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Location: WI | Muskyhunter247 - 6/7/2009 8:13 PM
Saturday I fished for a couple hours and boated a 45.5 inch Musky on a Heli Dawg. I also had 1 mid 30 inch follow. After looking at the picture of the 45.5 and a picture of a 45 incher I caught last year I realized it was the same fish. The markings are exactly the same. I fished today for a couple hours and never saw a thing.
The second pic is the same fish from last year.
I think the 'fisherman' grew more than a 1/2 inch in the off-season!! Good work kid!
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Location: New Hope MN | Skunked here. Fished a solid 5 hrs without a follow on Millacs. We swtiched to smallmouth and just killed em. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | PP. antelope shed??? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | On the couch all weekend recovering from a nice case of food borne nasty. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | ghoti - 6/8/2009 7:46 AM
PP. antelope shed???
He probably means an antelope horn sheath.
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Location: The desert | sorenson - 6/8/2009 8:54 AM
ghoti - 6/8/2009 7:46 AM
PP. antelope shed???
He probably means an antelope horn sheath.
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Sure, I dont know jack about wildlife. The horn that used to be attached to an antelope, I found one of those. |
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| All of our follows came on Dawgs and Curly Sues on the outside edge and slightly off the structure. We boated one, 40" on Sunday afternoon to salvage a cold wet weekend. Back at it tonight and every night thereafter.
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Location: Hopefully on the water | Fished out on Green Bay Sunday morning from 6-10:30 and had 2 follows. 1 was low 40" and the other was mid to upper 40" class fish. Had one guy loose 2 fish but never saw what they were so no definate there of a musky. All but 1 fish were moved or temporaily hooked on Bulldawgs. The other fish was on a carp colored flatfish bait. All casting and no trolling out there this weekend for us. Ride out wasn't terrible but the ride back in was a wet one. Up to Vilas for the up comiong weekend. Good luck to everyone. |
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Location: Medford, WI | Fished in the WMT 3 Lakes Chain tourney this weekend. On Saturday, we went to our sports where we planned on fishing most of the time. Saw one get caught about a castlength from our boat, and we didn't see anything at all. Headed to our deeper water spots. Had two up in about 20' of water, but no takers. Ended the day in the rain and coming in to find out that 5 teams had doubled for the day along with 11 other teams catching one fish. Knowing we'd have to double on Sunday to place, we headed to the deeper spots where we knew fish were....changed baits a bit and about 8:00, my partner struck on the 8. Measured in at 35.5". After spending a good time reviving the fish, she was able to hold herself upright and swim away...good feeling to see the fish survive. Looked to be very stressed from the spawn still as it was still really scarred up. Ten minutes after being back out, my partner yelled big fish, only to have the bait pop off about 5 seconds later....low-mid 40"er....ouch! 5 minutes later, he had another follow; so I threw on an almost exact replica of the bait he was throwing and about 5 minutes later, I thought I saw a flash below my bait....around the boat once, nothin....around it a second time and it was right on the bait and just nipped at it....I slammed the hooks home and had the fish neted in about 10 seconds. We knew it'd be close to 34" and measured it right at 34" so we registered it and were able to just get 34" out of it. Then the waiting game began.....ended up getting 10th place and enough money back to register for another tournament. That was a great feeling after blanking on day one!
Just like everyone else mentioned....weather sucked!
Hunter, great fish! Awesome to see it caught twice by the same person. Plan on going back after my first musky last year (48" then) sometime this week, as I saw her in the same spot about a week ago.
Good luck to everyone, hope you're able to enjoy some time outdooors...even in this weather.
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I caught an anchor and a tree, Jonesi got this one on Friday.
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| One 37 tiger in the boat by my causin, his 4th ever so that was cool. Cold, wet, windy is pretty much the best way to describe it. |
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Location: Minneapolis | Partner and I fished 8:30 - 4:00 on Saturday on a tiger lake. Cold, soggy day! We boated two (one 34", the other maybe 32"), had three other strikes, including a nice ~ 43", and saw a few others. That was a lot better than I expected with the weather. I finished the day with a 4.5# bass that grabbed a hot pink nut buster. |
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Location: MN | Fished the metro last night, my buddy caught a ~40" musky withing first half hour fishing a Dbl. 10; I immediately raised a second low 40s on a Dawg... that was it for the rest of the evening. Same buddy landed a 47" x 23" metro musky on Saturday. |
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Location: Wausau | Fished Saturday in Vilas County...Sunday boat stayed on the trailer.
Water temps 61.5 - one degree warmer from last week...please help us.
Moved fish on deeper weededge - no eaters. Second pass a little tighter and caught a 38 that followed two other lures. Action slowed and I moved to the basin and fished closer to the bottom. Soon mag-dawg was hit hard, but ended to be a shorty ski. A little later my first Pounder fish of the year was caught and measured 44". Thought the evening would be perfect with full moon and I also found a mayfly hatch with gills/perch going silly. East winds and sideways rain had other ideas.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | piece-a-crap 6.0L ford diesel came home friday ... WoooHooo!! like a christmas present and awesome to be able to hook up the boat and pull it around ... til saturday came and it puked out all it's oil. loaded it back on the flatbed and off to be fixed yet again. putting lots of towtruck miles on it ... hard to get the owner of the towtruck to schedule dropping me into the water and picking me back up so ... golf weekend instead.
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| cold dark and damp who would have though the fish would respond so positively. 21 follows and one in the boat after the smoke cleared. a healthy 49 inches of fun in the net and one at or over the 50 mark bumped off by my not so extreme net man  but it felt so good to be chasin tail again |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | Worked all weekend, did get out Friday and ice a bunch of nice 'gills, then casted muskies for 2 fruitless hours that evening. Had to get ahead on work so I can fish/film 3 days this week with Tanner in NW WI. Can't wait!!!
Jake, nice work on the WMT double!
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| Was able to put my first of 2009 in the boat last night little 30". We were able to get 2 in the boat seen several others. Good days fishing for the crummy weather.
He fell to a purple dbl 10 during a fig 8!
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| Hey Guys,
We were out this weekend and I just got home. The weather pretty much sucked!!!!! We had some boat problems too
start but figured it out. We ended catching a 40 incher and could of had three in the boat on Saturday. We raised a nice fish slow rolling small spinnerbaits in the mid to tall forties. For the weekend we saw about 16 fish total and cought one.
Hey Lambeau I saw you in your Tuffy this weekend I was wondering what water temps were you getting.
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| Hey Lambeau I saw you in your Tuffy this weekend I was wondering what water temps were you getting.
which day did you see us? you should have said hello!
what kind of boat were you running?
i fished over in MN too, yep it was cold and windy and even rainy on Monday. still really fun get out in spite of the weather.
on Saturday / Lake X, we got a 39" on a mini Glittertail, still had fresh spawning marks. water temps at 58 degrees shallow, deep, and inbetween.
on Sunday / Lake Y we moved a couple of fish, including a real nice one off a wind-blown saddle on a black and white Glittertail, but no biters.
water temps at 58 degrees, one bay had 59 degrees.
on Monday / Lake Z it was a full day of trolling in the rain, nothing doing.
water temps were 55 degrees and everything on the sonar was deeeep.
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| Hey Lambeau,
I think it was Sunday you were on Hodo Point and we were is a red and white alumacraft with a 90 hp mercury. I was
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| Wow Vermillion, now that's a big secret Lambeau! |
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| very good, Brent. if you haven't spent much time exploring the complex around that point, you should. lots of current moving across each of the various deep points through that stretch. i've not paid nearly enough attention to it as it's kind of a drive-by spot, but i plan to do so more this year when i'm back up in August.
Craig...i wasn't anywhere near Vermilion.
no secret lakes, per se, and a lowly 39"er isn't exactly going to start a muskie rush; i just prefer not to broadcast them here.
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Location: Medford, WI | Thanks Jason, Mark/Clay got us by a few inches for 9th; but we were more than happy with what we got as it was only our 2nd tourney together. Fishing has been pretty tough still. We're back in central WI and went out to film some topwater the past two nights....4 follows, but no strikes....figures!
We'll be back in Rhinelander tomorow and plan on getting quite a bit of footage the next week as these fish are about to start going...as long as we actually get the warmer temps predicted!
Good luck with Tanner...have a blast and I hope you guys get some great footage!
-Jake Bucki
P.S. Beautiful fish Lambeau! It reminds me of a Crow Lake musky....only 2 more weeks and I'll be up there.
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