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| We did indeed buy sharpes! Cliff Lake is a great lake for Musky, Lake Trout, Smallies, and Walleye. We are the only camp on the lake so the fishing pressure is low. We have two beautiful camps... the main camp Lost Bay Resort, and an Outpost, both are drive in camps. We would love to have you and let you see for yourself how great the lake is!! |
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Location: Hartford Wi | Fishing for muskies has been good on Cliff!! Our week we caught 24 muskies between to boats and saw about 150 or more! This trip we did not see any big fish. I think they went deep. biggest fish we caught was a 44 this year and a lot in the 35 to 40 range. Last year we had a 47 1/2 as our biggest along with a 42 and lots of goods fish hitting baits and losing them. Fun lake and I will get a big fish...They are there and FATTY's swim the depths I know it!!! |
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Location: Minnesota Metro | Some people I know who fish up there call Cliff the numbers lake and Cedar the trophy lake, which is kind of funny since Cliff is the trout water and Cedar is the meso water. |
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| Stayed at Pickerel Creek Camp the last 6 years and loved it. It is just a few minutes from both the Cliff Lake and Cedar Lake launch. I'm able to split up my trip in half and fish both lakes. @$350/week it's a heck of a bargain. Monsters in both lakes, but both lakes are complete opposites. Cedar = stained,fertile, shallower, and lots of monsters. Cliff = Clear and deep, so it takes longer for the fish to get bigger. My biggest in from Cliff, 47". Just ask for Dave at PCC. |
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| Esox2hart - 7/18/2011 2:06 PM
Fishing for muskies has been good on Cliff!! Our week we caught 24 muskies between to boats and saw about 150 or more! This trip we did not see any big fish. I think they went deep. biggest fish we caught was a 44 this year and a lot in the 35 to 40 range. Last year we had a 47 1/2 as our biggest along with a 42 and lots of goods fish hitting baits and losing them. Fun lake and I will get a big fish...They are there and FATTY's swim the depths I know it!!!
You work at the camp, right? |
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| no I don't work at the camp. I go up with 15 coworkers every year. It's our yearly fishing trip and my boat is only one of two that fish for musky. The rest fish for walleye only. |
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Location: Hartford Wi | Yes, I do now why??? |
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| Sounded like you were up there for one week a year as a guest. Just making sure.
Hope you get some good video with the camera. |
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Location: Hartford Wi | I do the shows and the bookings.... for about a year now. We have some decent footage of all kinds of fish with the camera! Its pretty sweet. |
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Location: Northern IL | We fished Cliff 2 years ago, can't remember the resort we launched the boat from, just down from the public launch, but I do remember Warren, anyone know Warren? He's a guy you probably wouldn't forget. He ran the resort, in fact there were a couple other guys there as well. My buddy and I launched late, caught a few and ended up hanging around till who knows how late. Warren fired up a few birds, we fried up a few fish and had one of those nights where you don't move the motorhome from the lot, great bunch of guys, except for that liberal, ha ha! We probably need to go see them again this Oct.
Brian,
Did you say Flin Flon?
When I was 10yrs old I was allowed to go with Dad and a few of his buddies, all beer truck drivers....... and a dentist who taught at one of the big university's in Chicago to Amisk, T&D Cabins. I see it's still there, the road goes through now..... Back then 40years, holy crap....its been a while. We got our ice from the ice shed (cut from the lake) somehow refilled our motorhome with water from the lake, so I could do the dishes, why do you think I got to go? And launched the boat on a tree log landing.
Curt was the son if I remember right and he came fishing with us, Dean was a big man.... The trapper, (John) was alive then, what great memories? One funny side note, 4 guys, and a kid, 27cases of beer brought in, that's all they could fit, things were a little different back then. Anyway they ran out, so made a trip to "Denare beach"??? to restock, all these guys were Bud company men but the only thing close was Labats, I can still remember Frank saying "that last one was so bad he needed another to wash it down". Frank was 6'-4"and big too. I went again 7years later and drove the motorhome towing the boat most of the 3000 miles there and back.... Stopped in The Pas and bought my girl friend at the time, later to be wife a Hudson bay coat at Kerr Furs, wonder if that place is still there?
Sorry for going on and on but some things you do stick with you for the rest of your life and going fishing with Dad at that age was one of those things. |
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| Cliff Lake is very large to begin with, hence commercially fished often. Read through some other post assertions. Portage through to three other lakes is accurate but beaver dams will impend progress, but the travel is worth it for Walleye and Northern. HINT:There is another overland uphill portage to a smaller body of water off of Cliff about mid body of the lake to locate tiger Muskie. Is also true Cliff is a lake trout body of water, very deep body of water in places. To the point about hunting Muskie on Cliff Lake, they are there in qty. and I disagree, trophy size do exists. Difficult to locate them with out guide or forehand knowledge of the lake. Best spot is again about mid-lake in a smaller cove area where water runs up shallow. Throw the biggest and most water agitating top surface lure you can find, two propellers and in yellow make a good combo with an 8" leader around dusk. You'll get the rush and the strike, be ready to set the hooks. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Dumb question: how far is it from Vermillion Bay, ON to Cliff Lake? |
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Location: The desert | Slamr - 1/20/2016 4:00 PM
Dumb question: how far is it from Vermillion Bay, ON to Cliff Lake?
If only there were a website where you could solve these mapping questions.....  |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Pointerpride102 - 1/20/2016 4:39 PM
Slamr - 1/20/2016 4:00 PM
Dumb question: how far is it from Vermillion Bay, ON to Cliff Lake?
If only there were a website where you could solve these mapping questions..... : )
and/or a website full of people who might have done that drive?
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Id say 30-35 minutes from what I remember....
Why, are you scheming a day trip there while staying on Eagle?
Edited by Musky Brian 1/20/2016 6:41 PM
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Location: The desert | Slamr - 1/20/2016 5:04 PM
Pointerpride102 - 1/20/2016 4:39 PM
Slamr - 1/20/2016 4:00 PM
Dumb question: how far is it from Vermillion Bay, ON to Cliff Lake?
If only there were a website where you could solve these mapping questions..... : )
and/or a website full of people who might have done that drive?
In the time it took you to post twice, you could have looked it up...twice. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Musky Brian's about right. Don't think you could do it in 30 pulling a boat, though.
No fish in Cliff worth chasing though ;o)
32 minutes according to that crazy website, mapping thingy
Edited by muskyroller 1/20/2016 6:56 PM
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Slamr - Yes - ~30 - 35 minutes to Lost Bay Resort. Safer to lauch there, rather than public access. Same for Cedar Lake (Cedar Lake Camp), usually ~$20.00 to launch for the day. They are usually at the shows.
I'll be on Cliff June 19th-26th. Staying at Lost Bay's Resort's Wildeye's Outpost Camp. Third year on Cliff.
https://www.facebook.com/CliffLakeResorts/
Have Fun!
Al
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Location: Bloomington, MN | I've actually booked a trip to Canada! Thank you Mr. Warner. My friend and I will be hitting Cliff the first week of August. I haven't been to Canada since 1978, and really have not done a serious week of fishing/vacation since 1997. The 1997 trip was really just of two recently divorced men spilling and sucking down their sorrows with the locals up at Cass Lake. Fine memories of #*^@ near being rolled at the Big Tap. I hope to catch some fish. I'm not going to Cliff to get a 50", but I will not be surprised if I do. I will be spending close to the same amount of $ for 1 week at Pelican Lake, WI.! I will need to spend about 8 more hours on the road round trip, but I'm sure the results will be much better. Pelican does have bigger smallmouth (not for numbers)
, but I need a real non-Great Lakes Lake Trout to my name! P.M. me Lake Trout recipes! Goal: 1 muskie hopefully over 36", 1 walleye 28"+, 1 lake trout, 1 whitefish (a big minnow that eats lures), peace and solitude! Priceless!
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | The smallies on Cliff will surprise you! There are some bruisers....
Have fun!
Al
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Clark,
Maybe things have changed, but for Canadian standards Cliff was a pretty tough walleye lake. Lot of guys used to trailer over to Cedar for walleyes. I caught some on musky baits up to 24/25" here and there. For a lake not known for Pike, there's some real bruisers in the chain though |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | You'll get the musky over 36", lake trout, and plenty of smallies. The pike you get will be pretty nice and good eatin'. The walleye will be tricky. If you want walleyes and lots of them, go up the road to Lac Seul. Won't have trouble catching the 28" up there. |
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