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Location: Metro , Mille Lacs, and G. Rapids | Just curious to where you guys are headed for the mn muskie opener and what's your plan of attack |
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Location: Blaine, MN | Western WI... Got a tip on a hot bit going on White Ash!!!!!!!! |
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Location: MN | The one and only....Lake X.
We'll see what this week does to water temps but the plan of attack as of now is shallow and slow then move deeper and increase size and speed if it isn't working. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Minne-friggin-tonka. Stay off my lake. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | to work... yay |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Headed out to an AREA lake!
Good luck to everyone getting out this weekend!
Keep Calm and Throw On |
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| Minne-coli-tonka. Staying as far away from Hammskie as possible. |
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Location: Lino Lakes, MN | I will get some time in on Vermilion. Work Weekend on the place. |
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Location: Metro, MN | Counting the seconds...Ill be in the Alexandria area |
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Location: MN | Forest. The DNR sprayed the pondweed last week and the water clarity has gotten worse, and the shoreline looks terrible. |
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| The metro is gonna be a zoo I can already see it |
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Location: Waconia,MN | I don't think it will be to bad, bass opener wasn't so I'm hoping Saturday won't be bad,plus the weather isn't supposed to be great either. |
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| the big T bowl |
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King Salmon fishing in Ketchikan Alaska on Saturday....
Musky opener in MN not till July 8th on Vermilion....
Good luck everyone! |
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| Small local lake.... can't wait to see water temps... same lake as last opener due to being small easier to locate fish I hope.... with water temps darker water would be easier but I don't have that option.... plan to try shallow and slow... they recommend smaller lures but last year big and slow worked for follows but they were lazy.... as make our own lures we revamped them to trigger more of a strike see how it goes.... we found a couple big monsters in unusual places... hoping to find them again and get a strike this year! |
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| Born - 6/4/2014 8:26 PM
Forest. The DNR sprayed the pondweed last week and the water clarity has gotten worse, and the shoreline looks terrible.
Good luck... actually with water clarity down you may be surprised. I am interested to know if you get better results. I have done some reading on water clarity. Good luck! |
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Location: Grand Forks ND | I'll just be drinking at Zorba's all day. |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Born - 6/4/2014 8:26 PM
Forest. The DNR sprayed the pondweed last week and the water clarity has gotten worse, and the shoreline looks terrible.
At least it will be the weekend, so the giant weed eating machine will not be chasing you around...... |
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Location: Minnetonka | bigdogg2278 - 6/4/2014 9:11 PM
The metro is gonna be a zoo I can already see it
I know... holy christ. For one, there aren't enough muskie lakes/rivers to fish in the metro. And then you take waters like Minnetonka, White Bear and the St. Croix river that all fish SUPER small and you just have an enormous clown show. Like 4 boats fishing the same spot, all casting lures at each other. I'm being sarcastic. Come on now. The zoo is our home. If someone's fishing your spot, try a new one instead of cutting them off or thinking it's the end of the world because you can't go back on the 46-incher you raised an hour ago. If some dick is strapping his boat down on the slab, tell him to move it up to the sign that says "boat tie down area" in big block letters. The metro IS a zoo, and the sooner its inhabitants learn how to deal with it, the sooner I can stop wasting keystrokes to let out my rage against them. I drove to work today with 5,000 other people, half of who will undoubtedly be muskie fishing on Lake Minnetonka this weekend. I hope I can find a spot to fish.
Good luck wrangling up a metro zoo animal this weekend.
PS Ron Swanson says one rage every 3 months is permitted. It's been a long off season. |
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Location: MN | Born - 6/4/2014 8:26 PM
Forest. The DNR sprayed the pondweed last week and the water clarity has gotten worse, and the shoreline looks terrible.
I'd be more concerned with the chemicals they sprayed than the water clarity. Muskies do not like that stuff. It is known to kill the bite. |
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Location: The desert | Nershi - 6/5/2014 12:04 PM
Born - 6/4/2014 8:26 PM
Forest. The DNR sprayed the pondweed last week and the water clarity has gotten worse, and the shoreline looks terrible.
I'd be more concerned with the chemicals they sprayed than the water clarity. Muskies do not like that stuff. It is known to kill the bite.
Generally, the DNR does not do the spraying. They only issue the permits. |
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| Wow, no wake on Tonka for the next three days. The zoo might be pretty quiet.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/25703527/no-wake-declared-on-e...
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I don't know if I'll get out or not this weekend. Both of my kids are involved in a basketball tournament this weekend . If I do get out, it would be a few hours late in the day Saturday or Sunday on Minnetonka. There are so many good spots to fish on that lake. If all the major spots are busy, just pick a shoreline with the wind blowing in and go down the deep edge of the weeds. One can usually see something that way. Sometimes one can stumble onto some really big fish on those secondary spots.
Between both of my kids playing travelling basketball and my youngest also playing travelling soccer this spring, I have managed to get the boat out once for just over an hour this year. On the bright side, the national basketball championships are in Orlando, FL this year. I've been elected for tourney duty so I should be able to get a little July Tarpon fishing in anyway. It can be kind of a rush having a 6ft, 150 lb fish hit and then jump high in the air. One doesn't need a lot of lures to fish Tarpon, but having extra clean underwear along does seem to be helpful. |
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Location: Scandia MN | 5 days on Big V which means I'll have a total of 48 minutes when they bite - If anyone has figured out when the switch goes on there please let an old man know - - - - |
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| The same place I always am for the MN opener...in Pennsylvania catching nothing...lol. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Hey Hammskie did you get wind of that new HOT bite on Tonka going on? Rigging options are a mess, but I hear the turd lure is the deal especially around Mound area! |
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Location: MN | Poninter you may be right, maybe a association paid for the weed spraying. There are ziplock bags with balloons and notes in them that says not to eat the fish from the sprayed area. I will have to look again to see if it says who paid for it.
Nershi I have noticed that it affects the muskie bite, I was planning on skipping the areas they have sprayed. The weed killer they use really does a number on the pondweed and I am not sure if it is the chemicals or the diminished weed line that affects the muskie.
Thanks Nell, I will be throwing my first cast by 4:30am |
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Location: Metro, MN | Lake associations that do these kind of things pee me off so much. They do not understand anything |
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Location: MN | The pondweed they are trying to kill dies and floats to shore by mid July. By the end of July its all gone.
This stuff usually starts growing under the ice and by the muskie opener is nearly reaching the surface. This year the pondweed was way behind normal. I like fishing near it when it hasn't been sprayed, it really seemed to attract all kinds of fish. Fishing for walleyes near it some years is good fishing. |
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Location: The desert | Born - 6/5/2014 6:14 PM
The pondweed they are trying to kill dies and floats to shore by mid July. By the end of July its all gone.
This stuff usually starts growing under the ice and by the muskie opener is nearly reaching the surface. This year the pondweed was way behind normal. I like fishing near it when it hasn't been sprayed, it really seemed to attract all kinds of fish. Fishing for walleyes near it some years is good fishing.
The dead/decomposing CLP causes algal blooms, including the blue algae which is harmful to human and animal health. Which is why many lake associations want to spray to remove it.
I'm not pro or anti spraying for CLP, I can see both viewpoints (angler vs property owner). |
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Location: MN | It is non native, spread to lakes by waterfowl.
Sorry for drifting off topic.
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| I'll be on tonka poking around now due to no wake....Sure it can be busy along with rest of metro. Still we got great fishing in our backyards here, plenty of spots to fish. If someone is in your spot learn a new one. Good luck. |
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where are you headed for mn opener?