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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | I live a few minutes from downtown Minneapolis so I spend weeknights and weekends I can’t get away fishing the electric only lakes in the city, or the various other musky lakes in the burbs. Thankfully my family has a place on lake vermilion that I spend 2 or more weekends a month at, as well as a friend in Alexandria. Never fish the motor lakes in the metro on the weekend unless it’s mid October or later, too much rec boat traffic. On harriet/Calhoun there’s sailboats everywhere but I’ll take those any day over wake boats
Edited by Ogandrews 12/19/2022 6:38 PM
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| Sioux Falls, South Dakota. There are 3 lakes with stocked musky within an hour of me within South Dakota. 2 hours out I add 2 more South Dakota lakes and 1 minnesota. When I travel, I typically head into western Minnesota along Douglas County, Otter Tail, Becker on up to Bemidji. |
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Location: SW Ohio | In SW OH, I have a stocked lake about 35 NE of me. 2 hours north is Alum Creek, 3 hours south is Cave.. Webster Chain is 4 hours NW in IN. And there are multiple lakes NE of us but about 4-5 hours so weekend trips only. If we get adventurous, Green River is 4 hours south...we've done down and backs as well as overnighters there. |
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Location: Northern IL | ghoti,
Very impressive indeed!
I too am a lake hopper. I enjoy the challenge of figuring out new body's of water but get bored quickly fishing the same lakes. I could never live on a lake and fish it exclusively.
Last fall 2 buddy's and I caught 51 muskies in 8 days from 3 different lakes. Even though the majority of the fish came from one of these lakes I had to get out of there and fish a different lake.
I've been fishing for 27 years, during that time there was a 10-year stretch where I fished about a hundred days and 30 different lakes. Best was 236 muskies landed. I've fished 160 +/- bodies of water, so far.  |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya!!
My fishing has been significantly reduced in the past few years. A little bit of a career switch within the district has me on a 12-month position. I live in the NE portion of the twin cities, have one lake 20 minutes away and the St. Croix river about the same. Didn't fish either of them this year, nor any metro lake since COVID hit.
My fishing usually takes place up in the Longville Lakes area, and usually have had a trip to Lake of the woods. Making a change for my canadian water destination this coming year as well. Come muskie season, I do want to get out more... we will see....
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