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| I live in Indiana and my closest viable option for Muskies is Lake Kinkaid in Illinois which is 125 miles one way. Last year I got in a total of 23 days on the water. When I go fishing, my biggest expense is tow vehicle gas, about 1 tank in my GMC Yukon for a trip to and from the lake.
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Posts: 252
| I see quite a few muskie hunters from Indiana down here in Ky. |
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Posts: 2024
| 1,090 miles according to google. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Early season usually less than 5 minutes occasionally 20 minutes late season 1 hour and 15 minutes to Gananoque. |
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Posts: 537
Location: Gilberts IL/Rhinelander WI | I drive 303 miles door to door from house to cabin. Northern suburbs of chicago to Rhinelander. We go about every other weekend. I'm lucky enough to have a job that affords us this luxury. As well as a wife and kids who love it up there. Make the money in chi-town and spend it in the north woods. I'd love to live up there but there's no market for what I do. I've been on the fox chain once and don't plan to go back, and fish in Madison a few times before the northern opener. Couple local lakes in spring as well. |
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Posts: 192
| Yup, I'm in Kentucky some. It is 170 miles for me to go to Green River Lake and about 240 over to Cave Run. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | One mile. Sometimes up to an hour, but rarely. |
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Posts: 192
| It is always a little funny when I read a Muskie fishing article or watch a video and they talk about picking out a clear lake or a stained lake for the day or switching mid-day if the bite is poor. Those of us that don't live in the Northland just don't have all of those options. For me if they aren't biting on Lake Kinkaid, I fish Lake Kinkaid. |
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Posts: 1660
Location: central Wisconsin | Two miles from my house the Wisconsin River and/or Petenwell Flowage. Otherwise 120 miles to the Minocqua area. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI |
180 miles from city door to cabin door. Alternatively I could walk 10 minutes and fish from shore but I prefer to get out of the city. |
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Posts: 164
| One mile up to 100 miles. Usually with in 10 miles of home. Sometimes it is nice to live in the middle of nowhere. |
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Posts: 668
Location: Wisconsin | 2 blocks for Smalies, but 330 to Sawyer county where I can use a friends cabin! |
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Posts: 568
Location: Lake St Clair | 13 miles, one road to LSC. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | 20 miles to Big Creek. 75 miles to Brushy Creek. 100 Miles to Pleasant Creek. Definitely had better luck @ Pleasant Creek, but I see myself learning Big Creek much better this year. |
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Posts: 109
Location: Wisconsin River | Live on the wi river and its open, boat ramp not so much. with a little luck will be fishing walleye and bass in a few weeks. Musky fishing keeps getting better every year. Quit driving to Vilas co. a few years back. |
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Posts: 2691
Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | 1.5 miles to Smokeys Muskie Shop launch. Love it!!! |
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Posts: 1901
Location: MN | 185 - 250 miles every weekend, first weekend in June thru third weekend in October. Unless we shut down for a couple weeks when the water is too warm. Tell me about vehicle gas  |
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Posts: 456
Location: Kansas City BBQ Capitol of the world | 180 miles one way, 360 miles a trip around 20 times a year + or -. I wish the Missouri DNR would look at stocking some lakes we have that would be closer but for now this is my best option.
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Posts: 624
Location: S.W. WI | 170 miles up every friday,
50 - 100 while i'm up....lake hopping.
170 miles back every sunday.
May thru Nov.
I try really hard NOT to do the math on $$$ spent on this fricking sickness........
-Jon |
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Posts: 371
Location: Dixon, IL | 20 to 50 miles in Illinois and I would willing to drive farther to fish for trophy musky water. 6 to 8 hours drive to Class A musky lakes in Wisconsin. |
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Posts: 1916
Location: Greenfield, WI | The landing on Pewaukee Lake is 24 miles from my driveway.
I am very fortunate.
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Location: St.John, Indiana | Early season is split between Kinkaid 312 mi. and N.E. Ind. 125 mi. Almost every weekend until June. Then time split between Wi, Mn and LSC which is any where from 275-600 mi during the summer ,Try for every other weekend with a trip to LOTW thrown in. Spend allot of time driving but love to fish !! |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I could drive a mile or two for the closest destination, but I typically go to other lakes that are 25-35 miles away. I consider myself lucky, even though they aren't the best lakes in the world. Vermilion is only 1.5 hours, so I do that quite a bit too. |
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Posts: 44
Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I have a 5 mile drive to Pewaukee lake, and 280 miles to visit/fish with relatives and friends in Vilas county.
Probably sounds crazy, but I prefer the long trips to Vilas over Pewaukee/Okauchee. |
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Posts: 31
| 80 miles about 15 times mid & southern Ill. 975 miles twice a year LOTW & LSC |
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Posts: 187
Location: West Metro, MN | Almost exactly 5 miles to Tonka for me. Works out very well for quick trips. |
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Posts: 668
Location: Wisconsin | I hope you guys know how fortunate you are to have that kind of water nearby! I love having Geneva so close, and i enjoy fishing it, but it is not Musky water, well at least not just yet!
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | One yr. in March, I pulled my boat from Mpls. to Kansas City ,put it in storage (for 3-weeks) and than drove out to Calf. for a Plant Shut Down,.....3weeks later I drove from Calf. to K.C. picked up the boat and drove to Cave Run KY. for a tournament than back to mpls.........That was interesting.
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Posts: 572
| 135 miles one way, around 2 1/2 hours depending on traffic, etc. non stop. Usually fish 3 or 4 days each trip with about 12 trips per year. One trip to Ontario one way about 925 miles staying 2 weeks. |
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Posts: 3480
Location: Elk River, Minnesota | For my excursions:
10 miles to reach where I put in on the St. Croix River
45 miles for Minnetonka
200 miles to Longville/Hackensack
200 miles to Delta/Mellen/Seeley
350 miles to Lake of the woods
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| I live 18 miles from Lake St. Clair and Detroit River. Pretty much only place I fish. |
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| i think this post meant to ask how far do you drive on a typical muskie fishing trip rather than your once a year vacation. we all drive a long way on our once a year things. i used to get off of work and drive 200+ miles to fish all night and go back to work in the morning. some lakes are over 400 miles away for that one day or two day trip. gotta love the chicagoland area. |
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Posts: 489
| 1010 miles is the farthest I have done and about as far as I could go... Ohio to angle inlet mn |
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| 4 miles to Pewaukee
135 to Green Bay twice a year
520 to lake X, MN twice a year
545 to Lake Y, MN twice a year
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Location: Price County WI | 100 yards.....
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Posts: 574
Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | I do 350 miles from home to the cabin in Phillips about every other weekend!
P.S. John at Ross's, thanks for holding the ammo!! |
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Posts: 91
| I live about 45 min to an hour of at least 7 -8 , up and coming muskie lakes. Eastern Pa. and NJ are beginning to produce some nice options for either an "after work" or a" weekend muskie hunt". We're certainly not in the class YET of you guys in the midwest...but we're getting there! |
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Posts: 833
| 25 miles to Tonka
5 miles to Eagle Lake (Metro, MN)
35 Miles to Sugar Lake
10 Miles to Weaver Lake (Tigers)
80 Miles to Mille Lacs
I would say about 85-90% is spent on Tonka, but it is nice to live in the Twin Cities if you are a musky fisherman. |
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Location: oswego, il | For me, my typicle drive is around 180 miles to indiana or central/southern illinois. I have a lakes that are much closer but peefer not to fish them. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | My home lake is about 7 miles from my house, but I have another one that is less than 2 miles form my house. Otherwise the most I ever really have to drive is about 20 or so minutes |
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Posts: 94
| Many of you really have it made!
The two lakes I fish the most:
Pomme de Terre - 80 miles
Lake of the Woods - 900 miles
Last year I spent more days on LOTW than on Pomme
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| 50' out my back door, but a half dozen trips to Vilas Cty. at 240mi. each.
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| 389 Miles to Vilas
850 to Eagle
Tried to figure it out once, but I think about 40,000 of the 45,000 miles on my truck have all been driving back and forth to fish. |
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Location: Maplewood, MN | Within 5 miles I have 2 quality musky lakes to choose from. Within 2 miles I have a nice bass and tiger lake. Within 15 miles I have the St. Croix. I love Minnesota. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | MuskieFever - 2/11/2013 12:27 PM
Within 5 miles I have 2 quality musky lakes to choose from. Within 2 miles I have a nice bass and tiger lake. Within 15 miles I have the St. Croix. I love Minnesota.
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Location: Hudson, WI | MuskieFever - 2/11/2013 12:27 PM
Within 5 miles I have 2 quality musky lakes to choose from. Within 2 miles I have a nice bass and tiger lake. Within 15 miles I have the St. Croix. I love Minnesota.
Yep. I'm one mile from the Croix and within an hour of Minnetonka, White Bear, Bald Eagle, Waconia, Independance, Forest, Eagle, Owasso, all of the tiger lakes, Bone, Deer, Apple, Blake, Big Round, Cedar, Wapogassett and 2 hours to Hayward. Definitely a blessing. |
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Location: Plymouth IA | 21 miles to Clear Lake IA every week and almost every month French Lake MN 91 miles. 3 times a year to the near north Alexandria MN area where i used to live, 270 Miles. Up north & back home to Cass Lake MN not enough 340 miles. My heart is up north and my butt is in Iowa because you have to have a job. Thank the good lord that their are Muskies in Clear Lake, IA. |
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Posts: 427
| If I lived as closed to musky water as most of you I am sure that I would not be as happily married as I currently am unless the Mrs. wanted to pick up the rod a little more (pun intended). |
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Posts: 121
Location: Plymouth IA | I must be lucky, my wife will tell me to get out of the house and go fishing. We all go on the near north trips. |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | 2 miles to landing on WI River (class A stretch). 25 miles to other musky lakes |
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Location: The desert | 2-3000 |
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| 30 to Minnetonka, 20 to Waconia, within an hour to Harriet and Independence. 75% is on Minnetoka |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Some times 12 miles, sometimes 20-40 miles, sometimes 200 miles, sometimes 900 miles, sometimes more. For me fishing is all about the chase, not how far I have to travel to get to the water. Although, I treat the travel as part of the adventure. This year should be easy, the motor's blown on Esox Maniac, so I won't be going to far.
Have fun!
Al
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Posts: 150
Location: Central Minnesota | 30 miles from West Battle Lake
40 miles from Pelican Lake
50 miles from Big Detroit
Handfull of other lakes within 60 miles. I consider myself pretty lucky. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | most of my driving is wandering around wondering which lake i should go to ... we've got it good here, just that little problem that there are no big fish in wisconsin. |
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Posts: 633
Location: Madison, WI | 2-10 miles Wisconsin river. 25 miles Madison chain. 3-4 hrs north wherever the WMT/Pro-mac takes me. |
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Posts: 125
Location: Barnesville MN | About 10 miles to Pelican Lake or 30 to Big Detroit and a quite a few others less than 60 away. |
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| jonnysled - 2/11/2013 7:10 PM
most of my driving is wandering around wondering which lake i should go to ... we've got it good here, just that little problem that there are no big fish in wisconsin.
Yeah. That.
And the fact that WI fish are so #*^@ ugly... |
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Location: North Central IL USA | 35 miles to the launch at Shabbona Lake State Park .
50 miles to the launch at Chain O'Lakes State Park. |
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| 3 miles to a decent local lake, 50 miles to great local waters and 800 miles to the 10,000 Lakes Music Festival in NW MN. Never been to a Dead show or other where they didn"t let me tow my boat into the scene, no extra charge. Never drove back home without chewing up the last of the blotter and fishing all day and nite ending up sleeping on a picnic table till afternoon. Then I slunk on home. Happens every time. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | hoosierhunter - 2/11/2013 1:23 PM
If I lived as closed to musky water as most of you I am sure that I would not be as happily married as I currently am unless the Mrs. wanted to pick up the rod a little more (pun intended).
It's as much a curse as it is a blessing. All that water and very little time to fish it with the wife and kids tying up your weekends. It is nice to be on the water in 6 minutes though. |
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| 125 mile to cottage on the barbee chain. Once a year trip to vermilion |
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Location: Hayward, WI | I voted 5-10 miles. There might be a musky lake within 5 miles of me but a typical one way drive is about 6-12 miles to get me to about 6 different musky lakes. 20-25 miles would probably take me to 15+ I would guess.
I sure feel sorry for all the people that voted 100+. As much as I love it, it would take some of the fun out for me if I had to travel that much every time I wanted to fish. |
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Posts: 127
| I just have to walk out my door and my boat is waiting for me at the dock |
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Location: Hayward, WI | esoxaddict - 2/11/2013 9:25 PM
jonnysled - 2/11/2013 7:10 PM
most of my driving is wandering around wondering which lake i should go to ... we've got it good here, just that little problem that there are no big fish in wisconsin.
Yeah. That.
And the fact that WI fish are so #*^@ ugly...
Up here they might be ugly but they're also fat. We like them that way in these parts.  |
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Posts: 2097
| I drive 100 miles to fish cave run but I make a weekend out of it and stay with family. There is a lake within 5 miles of me that has been stocking since 2008. I will start fishing there through the week. |
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How far do you drive to fish for Muskies (one way)?