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| I have never fish a spring with water temps like they are. How will you attack opening day? |
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| With artillery prep then send in the tankers!!!lol sorry
I like to throw glide baits and small bucktails. Try to find the shallow bays, and any new weeds. last year i had luck on the first break line in front of shallow bays
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Location: minocqua, wi. | with an auger |
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| Twitch baits and small gliders. Maybe a small bucktail...gonna be interesting |
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| Probably going to run the boat around and find the warmest water this week. Get the boat all checked out and do a little scouting. Wouldn't doubt that our muskies are pre-spawn and still out a little deeper. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI |
I'll be approaching it from my deck with a large tumbler of bourbon watching the NHL playoffs until the ice melts. I figure a minimum of two more weeks before it goes out. |
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| Glide baits and a creeper. The creeper was money on the weekend of the early opener last year. Glide baits got some attention as well. |
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| Took part in a fyke net survey for muskies on a flowage with the WI DNR over the weekend. Water temps actually dropped significantly over the last week from mid 40s to 36 degrees as of yesterday morning. Pike are actively spawning, but no 'skis in the nets after being set for a week. All of the lakes in extreme NE WI and the U.P. still have ice cover. Will be interesting to see what conditions look like by the opener, but as mentioned above, warmer water, emerging weeds and primary breaks will be a good place to start. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | I'll be approaching it from my keyboard with a beer in my hand, watching the reports come in from guys freezing their butts off and I save my time and money until things normalize a bit....  |
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Location: Tomahawk, WI | My goto bait in years with cold springs has been a small bucktail with brass or copper blades with a brown or orange tail. Pretty sure that's what ill be throwing this year. I'll keep a small glide bate on the other rod. Ill be fishing in three feet or less on a lake with stained water. |
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| Musky Brian - 4/28/2014 12:35 PM
I'll be approaching it from my keyboard with a beer in my hand, watching the reports come in from guys freezing their butts off and I save my time and money until things normalize a bit.... :-)
I'd much rather go out casting baits and not catch anything than sit inside anymore after this winter. Temps looking to be low to mid 50's anyway, shouldn't be that bad. Can't wait to get out Saturday morning... |
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Location: Metro, MN | With these temps I'm thinking might be able to pick off a good number of fish hovering the spawing grounds still on opener even if they are just males |
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| Can't wait to scratch the itch Saturday. Got some new rods and baits to try out. Small glide bait. Small bucktail. |
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Location: The desert | dfkiii - 4/28/2014 10:16 AM
I'll be approaching it from my deck with a large tumbler of bourbon watching the NHL playoffs until the ice melts. I figure a minimum of two more weeks before it goes out.
Can't beat ice melting in a glass watching hockey. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Drop belly gliders, 6" Slammer Crankbaits are my ticket!
The muskies have to eat in these water temperatures in the fall, they have to eat in the spring too! |
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| I'll be getting my boat all set up for the Northern WI trolling season. My Big Jon down riggers and Mast system have arrived. |
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Location: Wakefield, MI | Trolling behind an ice breaker. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Trolling behind an ice breaker in 2015 (if you're lucky)
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| We're already having this discussion again? Man, it feels like the season just ended yesterday!
NOT!!!! |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | By salmon fishing...opener is usually crazy crowded
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Location: oswego, il | Opening day in Fib land is the cubs and sox openers. Already caught several muskies, plenty of salmon and a host of cooling lake fish all from my fib equipped boat.;-) |
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Location: Northwest Wisconsin | guessing I will be sitting in my garage |
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Location: Waukesha, WI | Hopefully shooting a gobbler on Friday. Then fishing the Petenwell for skis and eyes. But if i didn't have a turkey tag id be on Pewaukee. Will be fishing slammers and gliders on the pete as well. |
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Location: Money, PA | 2015? Been fishing here in PA  |
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| I will be thinking about muskies while coaching my middle son's baseball team at a tournament. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | All caught trolling, no doubt.
ToddM - 4/29/2014 1:11 PM
Opening day in Fib land is the cubs and sox openers. Already caught several muskies, plenty of salmon and a host of cooling lake fish all from my fib equipped boat.;-) |
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Location: oswego, il | dfkiii - 4/29/2014 7:11 PM
All caught trolling, no doubt.
ToddM - 4/29/2014 1:11 PM
Opening day in Fib land is the cubs and sox openers. Already caught several muskies, plenty of salmon and a host of cooling lake fish all from my fib equipped boat.;-)
50% of the skis, 100% of the salmon and trout and around 15% of the cooling lake fish were caught using the devils method. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI |
Are you getting your salmon/trout out of Waukegan ? That Lake Michigan is one great fishery.
ToddM - 4/29/2014 7:26 PM
50% of the skis, 100% of the salmon and trout and around 15% of the cooling lake fish were caught using the devils method. |
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Location: oswego, il | Waukegan is on fire right now. Got my salmon from burns ditch Indiana and cal harbor. Did a brown trout trip to Milwaukee harbor too. I bought some slide divers, going to try some summer trolling as well.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Can't really fish yet, will be allowed to just as Muskie opens up here. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | I have a feeling I'll be using the new boat this year.
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | Both my kids have an AAU basketball tournament that weekend. So, I'll be driving to and fro and watching many basketball games. Don't know when I'll get out Muskie fishing. Hopefully some time the week after.
I'm actually looking forward more to my next saltwater trip for Tarpon. Muskie fishing is OK, but I find Tarpon so much more fun and challenging. They fight and jump like there is no tomorrow. Most of the larger Muskies that I've hooked over the past five years have just sat there shaking their head and had to be coaxed to run. And even when they did take off its like three 30 yard runs and they are done. Big Tarpon can take off on a 250 yard run and won't quit until they are exhausted. And I can get as many Tarpon on in a day as I can Muskies all year.
Now if I could just talk my wife and kids into moving to Florida. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Been out on the Fox Chain a couple of times already w/nothing to show for it.
Will probably fish for bass & walleyes for a couple weeks & let the water warm
up a little. Still keep the ski pole in the boat....just won't throw for them
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| Living the dream. I am working. |
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