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| I thought this would be a cool post, what is the biggest muskie you have caught from a small acre lake, let's say a few hundred acres or less, if possible pics would be cool and maybe a story too. I have seen some real giant fish in some puddles so to speak. |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | My biggest is a 46 incher and it came from a 300 acre lake... I know there's bigger ones though |
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Location: Aurora IL | 43" |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | 44" |
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| 230 Acre lake in WI.
Didn't have a tape with me so don't know exactly how big. Low to mid 40's???
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Good fish from under 600 acres.
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Location: Passaic, NJ - Upper French River, ON | 49.5" Leech Lake Strain from 300 acre lake. |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | Geez... great lookin' fish, you guys! |
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Location: Passaic, NJ - Upper French River, ON | Trying again .....
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| Nice thread topic. Biggest one for me is 43" from a small lake in Ontario. Fish came from a lake that's 65 acres. It's connected to another lake that's 80 acres. Small lakes but a great numbers lake. It was caught on an M&G spinnerbait blk/org.
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| awesome guys keep em comin! It's always been a goal of mine to catch a huge muskie in a small lake, I've come close a few times lol |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Ok, not mine, but our state record for Northern Strain Muskie was from a 409 acre lake. A touch over 49 lbs. I believe it was 52"? Don't quote me on that.
Oh, but mine is a 46"er from a 320 acre lake. Unless you count a 48.5"er from Webster. But that's a little bigger.
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Location: Eagan, MN | 43" from a metro lake, ~300 acres, there's way bigger ones in there tho. |
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| 49 1/4 out of a lake less than 500 acres.... walleye colored mag dawg
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| Ok i will say first, i did not catch this in a lake but a very small river. Less than 50 foot wide, maybe 6 foot deep. It was very cold out, camera started to freeze. 12 degree out succesful release got on video. 51.5 inch
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| Scottie Thomas - 5/1/2010 9:37 PM
49 1/4 out of a lake less than 500 acres.... walleye colored mag dawg
VERY NICE SCOTTY!!!
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| 46" from the local 70 acre pond on a Weagle.
i'm moving to the "big city" this Friday, so i'll miss fishing this little lake.
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alot of the twin cities metro muskies fishery is built on small water,,nothing strange about big fish coming from small water especially if it has bullheads,,,metro tourney won twice with 50 inch fish from a lake less then 300 acres and the state record tiger is from a lake less then 200 acres with the former record from a lake less then 500 acres
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Location: WI | 48 in T.C. metro lake. Seen and lost them bigger. |
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| happy hooker - 5/2/2010 7:03 AM
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alot of the twin cities metro muskies fishery is built on small water,,nothing strange about big fish coming from small water especially if it has bullheads,,,metro tourney won twice with 50 inch fish from a lake less then 300 acres and the state record tiger is from a lake less then 200 acres with the former record from a lake less then 500 acres
It does seem like fish grow pretty big quickly when there is lots of bullheads don't it. Also it seems like on alot of small lakes the denstiy of fish is higher too than alot of muskie lakes that have a 1 fish average per acre or two. Keep up on them and you'll catch one of them eventually, at least that's what I'm hoping for lol |
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Location: Michigan | 52.5 on a 416 acre lake |
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Location: Eagle River WI | 49" on a 86 acre lake but know of a 53" taken and seen one in the 55+ range on same lake |
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Location: Medford, WI | Haha, I love the difference in what people consider a small lake...obviously differs on what region you are in and the fisherman/woman in general. For myself, I caught a two 46" and a 45" musky out of a 70 acre lake. As far as a little bigger lake, I got a 49.5" on about a 200 acre lake.
Cool thread.
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| 46.75" and 47.25" on a 50 acre lake on bucktails in late October. There are bigger ones in there. |
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| Looks like an Elk Lake fish  |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | First one of my wife with her 43" out of a small Onieda Co. lake of 200 acres. Then her girlfriend, with her 44" out of the same lake a half-hour after Christie caught hers. We've had bigger fish on and up out there, but these two are the biggest out of the smallest water.
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Dinked around a small 350 acre MN lake by myself a few years ago, bad picture but you get the point....
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Location: minocqua, wi. | nice mid-40's from a 100 acre-ish wisconsin mud-puddle
i think the girth was like 27" or something ... ;0)
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | Same puddle as Mr. Worrall's
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| great fish guys, this is pretty cool! |
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| 49" out of a 130 acre lake in illinois |
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Location: Money, PA | 38 lber - 49 3/4" PA Lake
Before the age of digital cameras... 
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Location: Eagan, MN | 40" from a 300 acre metro lake, there are 50s in there but they're pretty skinny. |
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | 46" wingra |
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| 48.5 from a 60 acre puddle, lots of smaller, this was the biggest we saw. |
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| JR - 5/4/2010 5:51 PM
48.5 from a 60 acre puddle, lots of smaller, this was the biggest we saw.
Maybe she was the biggest one in there! pretty cool to think you might of actually caught the biggest fish in a lake! lol |
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Location: Rhinelander | All WI musky.
46" in an 80 acre lake. and have seen legit 50" fish in here.
45" +/- (didn't get a good measurment) in a 200 acre lake but had on what I believe the biggest musky of my life.....after the hook set, really could not move or budge it and this fish destroyed the sucker in it's mouth.... too tight of a drag on my part, bent one hook 90 degrees. Never felt that type of power before or since.
Now a little larger lake of 350 acres plus, a 48 incher.
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| All northern WI
48" from a 120ish acre lake
46" & 47" from a 220ish acre lake |
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Location: Contrarian Island | both Vilas, 47" from a 190 acre lake, know of legit 50s in it.
46.5 from another ~180 or so lake ..have seen them to 48 and "heard" of 50s but none spotted...
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Location: Burlington, WI | 47" on a 55 acre lake. Lost another one the same size the same night. |
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