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| Headed to the bemidji area July 14-20
Im new to musky Fishing but i bought the equipment i need
I tried to book with a guide in the area but he was booked for the timeframe I'm going
Anyone willing to help a guy out with some pointers and locations to catch his first musky? I'm from missouri and never fished for em here.
Was thinkin of Fishin cass, Plantagenet, little wolf and lake bemidji.
Thanks
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| You could try contacting Mike Hulbert. He guided there for several years, but is going to fish Lake St. Clair this summer. Offer him a pineapple and some Pop Tarts....that may win him over 
Hey Mike! See you in a few weeks!
ErieBoy75 (Fran Stack) |
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Location: The desert | Hire Kevin Cochran if he's available. |
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| I contacted Kevin. He is booked when I'm heading up there
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| When are you going to be up there |
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Location: Minnesota | Little wolf is a small lake easy to fish. Good numbers was a brood lake for muskies for the DNR Should be able to get your first musky there. Have to use the landing access at little wolf resort good luck.
Edited by muskyhunter47 5/19/2014 11:46 AM
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| Fishing the 15-18 so 4 solid days of musky fishing |
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| Simple thought is to just fish them. Bemidji, Plant & Little Wof fish easier, inside & outside weedlines, bars etc...cabbage moves a bit year to year so maybe troll some to find casting areas. Cass can be tricker but also probably more fish right now. Big Lake is also good. Fish the spots in the MN Musky guide and you will have a good start then branch out for secondary stuff as you go. |
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| Try Matt Seifert |
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| for what is worth (about $0) I will pitch my advice after fishing these lakes for years. The fish tend to follow a lot and show themselves fairly easily, waiting for them to bite is another story. Since you only have 4 days I would find fish and stay on them.... on one (maybe 2) particular lake(s). I have bounced around up there looking for a HOT bite and found out the fish I found went crazy the day I switched lakes. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | if Cochran is booked try Brian Jones |
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Location: Metro, MN | Brian Jones - First Choice Guide Service |
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| Its a great area pick a lake and stick with it. the best thing you can do is keep your lures wet until you find what they want. |
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| Give the booked guides your phone number. Cancellations happen, dates open up on short notice. Maybe something will work out. Start on weeds. Fish in weeds. When the wind blows, find windward reeds and pick the outer pockets. Blades and rubber, blades and rubber, blades and rubber, regular and Mag Muskie Treats, blades and rubber, a few topwaters, blades and rubber, 10" Jakes. Drop icons on your follows. Go back to your icons on majors, minors, moon nice try. If you see two guide boats repeatedly circling a weedbed, that's a good spot also. Those fish follow lots, some will convert if your boatside technique is good. Cass is often cold and occasionally hot. You can watch a movie from your boat on Bemidji some nights if the fishing is slow. Big fishes nice, boat launch security used to be an issue. |
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Location: Almond, WI | Kevin would be your guy, but if he's booked Brian Jones (who is a multi-species guy) fishes the Cass Chain. In my experience Cass is tough to learn except for Allen's Bay which is very weedy and gets more pressure; the big lake has lots of scattered small spots and large bars, whatever the map book has marked is worth a shot for big spots, it will take time to find smaller ones. Low light and wind are very helpful on this lake.
Bemidji, Plant, Big, Little Wolf are all weedy. Little Wolf can be accessed through View Point Resort for $7 (public launch is closed last I checked). Park your boat in 12' of water and cast in and occasionally parallel. Very easy to fish. Plant gets lots of pressure, in part because it is reasonably small and has about 4 really good spots that everyone knows so they get pounded. I like the lake better with a decent wind (10mph+), when that happens they will move into the reeds and clumps of cabbage adjacent. I know Bemidji and Big least. Bemidji has weeds and more weeds, you can fish shallow, medium or deep in them--all will hold fish to some extent. Nice boat launch facilities on the North end. Big is very complex (unlike the crap-tastic DNR map) so you will need a Lakemaster map chip, weeds grow out into 16' of water, lots of isolated bars and points with scattered cabbage. The public launch on Big has a bad reputation for break ins/vandalism so be careful.
Fish early and late, moonrise. Bucktails and topwater. If the water is below 74 degrees expect the fish to be quite shallow. If it's above, back off and throw rubber. If water is really cold (which this year is possible, say 68 degrees and below for the highs) fish in the day more. Stop at Taber's Bait in Bemidji. They have a small selection of baits, but it is all stuff that Kevin helps them order because it works locally.
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| Not sure when the chapter of Muskies Inc in Bemidji meets, but I've hooked up with a few of them. Might not be guides but they deffinetly know their way around the water as most of them live there. Maybe try to reach out to their president and see if he can arrange something. I'm sure he would be willing to help! |
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Location: Bemidji, Lake Vermilion | I'm the Secretary of the Bemidji/Cass Muskies Inc chapter. Send me a message and I'm sure we can try to help you out. |
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Bemidji area first timer