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| Anyone have any suggestions on where to book like a 2 to 5 day trip during mid-December??? ....numbers or trophy waters doesn't really matter to me ...just looking for semi-warm weather and a shot at a muskie casting (no trolling waters like Dale Hollow) .......any help greatly appreciated. |
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Location: Illinois | Collins River
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| If there happen to be smallies around too that is not a bad thing .....any recommendations on guides for the Collins River??? |
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Location: Illinois | Dwayne Hickey
Sorry I don't have any other contact info for him but:
http://muskylink.ning.com/profile/DwayneHickey |
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Location: 15 miles east of Lake Kinkaid | The Collins is definetly not a bad choice. Melton Hill starts going by then as well. But this past fall/winter AfChris and I found Lake Kinkaid to have a decent casting bite as late as December 23rd last year. Not huge numbers, but we have a shot at 5 one day in about 8 hours, and probably average 3 fish every 2 trips. |
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| 5 muskies in one 8 hour day is NOT a huge day?
I want to fish where you're fishing.
Edited by Hunter4 8/22/2010 9:17 PM
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| Hunter4 - 8/22/2010 9:16 PM
5 muskies in one 8 hour day is NOT a huge day?
I want to fish where you're fishing.
In the middle of Dec. most people would think the chance of landing 5 muskies would be a good or huge day. Perhaps other times of the year it might be different, but we are talking Dec. One thing I would mention is you could run into ice in Dec. on Kinkaid depending on the year...BR |
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Location: Palm Coast, FL | Northern Indiana as long as we have open water...the closer to ice up the better! Less boats on the water and some unreal days. Best was 18 caught with 9 more lost...all casting. |
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Location: 15 miles east of Lake Kinkaid | I was not attempting to sounds arrogant; I guess 5 is a good number of fish in December (we only landed 2 however). But as I stated we were getting a fish or 2 per trip, and we were (what I believe to be at least) keyed in a pattern not many others were utilizing. Also, any fish over 45" or 46" is a BIG FISH on Kinkaid, which differs greatly from other northern fisheries. I guess I compare numbers to the central Indiana lakes, which, as Vince stated, can put up some ridiculous numbers. |
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| Thanks all for the recommendations |
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December Muskie Trip