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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | It sounds like everyone hits up the Angle, Morson area, or Nestor...does anyone regularly fish Whitefish Bay for skis? Is it worth it?? I know it's trout water, and I read Pearson's book already, was just curious if anyone has any experiences..I need to book something fast for August
I don't really want to be forced into an American plan, not really excited about staying on an island, and it kinda sounds like the Angle border crossing stuff can be a pain? Any input would be appreciated |
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| It's beautiful and very low pressure. There are some super fish in that water. Must fish during the right conditions or at night. |
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| Very tough to fish and far few fish than many areas of LOTW - I have 90+ hours on Whitefish with only a single 42" boated (6-7 follows).. Fun place to sight fish smallies you can see down 15 feet!....Unless I lived on LOTW I would not spend much time on whitefish (great place to go if the bloom is bad) Hard to beat the NW Angle! |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | yuck...that's kinda what I was afraid I would hear, nevermind.
Next Question...is it a pain to deal with the multiple border crossings going into the NW angle?? |
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| Border crossings are easy. Just have all your paperwork ready, passports, birth cert, driversl lic, etc...I have never been asked but I always have all my car/boat insurance ready as well. Don't lie to them about anything extra booze, smokes, etc...never had problem in 20 years. |
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| one of the camps on whitefish bay was at my hometown Boat, Sport and Travel show this spring
they had a video of them musky fishing. a 51" on a phantom, 47" on a phantom and 49" on a bucktail, all the same evening... and the 51" was WAY fatter than 99.9% of the N.W Angle and Sabaskong fish. these guy caught 3 in one evening..
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Location: Minneapolis | If conditions are right, the muskie fishing in Whitefish can be fabulous. As stated previously, the pressure is lower, and the fish are bigger than other parts of LOTW. There will be no bloom issues in August, and the pike fishing should still be very good. If the conditions are not right, you can go hours or days between follows.
Whitefish Bay is the most scenic part of the lake, and the lake trout fishing is a good alternative on bright days.
If you're willing to drive the boat farther (10-20 miles, depending on where you're staying), the Red Cliff Island / Shore Island area is accessible from Whitefish, and it's stained water without too much pressure. |
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| Brian,
It is true that Whitefish bay can be tough if conditions are not right, but it's definitely a destination to consider. Under the correct conditions, it can be spectacular and the fish in this region on average are much larger than the other portions of the lake. Under the correct conditions, you can experience excellent action as well as the chance at THE QUEEN.
As mentioned above, if you are in the Whitefish area you are not too far from stained water that will produce fish under the tougher conditions by getting up to Sunset Channel, Chisholm, Red Cliff and Shore Island areas. Yellow Girl has some fish too, and has some stain, but is a lower overall density than say Red Cliff. All these stained areas see far less muskie pressure than the Angle and have some really nice fish and offer good action.
And yes, some people do consider the border crossing stuff to be a pain. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | great info., thank you |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I have fished there quite a bit over the years. Cloudy days, early and late, and mid days pounding smallies...it's a great place to fish, just VERY clear water. I found I had to make very long casts to weedline fish in the mid day, allowing them to hit the lure as it crossed the edge to deep water without spotting the rig. |
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Location: st boni, mn | brian, just got back from whitefishbay on sunday. saw 30 fish for the week, boated three. what i like about it is that theres nobody around. never have to worry about somebody being on a spot you want to fish. i stayed at whitefishbay camp the people are great, full of info. i would recomend trying it once, could be something you like |
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Whitefish Bay Camp is a great place to stay. It's right in the middle of some great fishing spots as well.
Beautiful water/scenery. Have only caught some small muskies there, but have seen some real beauties.
As stated before, early/late, cloudy weather and night-fishing are the way to go.
George Wahl invented the Eagle Tail to catch big muskies in Whitefish Bay.
JS |
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| You guys got me interested to look into Whitefish Bay Camp (the moose hunting and muskie fishing caught my eye). Anyway I went in to look at the pictures from last year and this one was in there. I'm not starting anything by any means but with the water so clear, is this what northerns look like up there or is there a slot limit on muskies or something, or is my computer making these fish look different than they really are?
http://www.whitefishbaycamp.com/2006PICS/new11.jpg
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| not a better eating fish in fresh water than pike out of cold water! |
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| TIGER MUSKIES????? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Pike. Great pike fishing there, especially when one gets towards the portage area. Watch that reef off of Annie Island.... |
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| I agree, I love pike out of cold water (I'm actually making a couple tonight for the family and in-laws that I caught on Rainy Lake in June). Those pike look striped to me. That's why I asked the question. They don't look like any I've caught from stained lakes. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Pike from LOTW and several other lakes uop there often have that coloration.
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| I actually just got back from a week long trip up in white fish bay. Fishing seemed very tough for all species other then smallies and pike. I didnt really know where to start for musky. We fished bell island pretty hard and had 4 follows 2 of them were really nice fish. We couldnt seem to keep the pike off of the hooks. They were mostly hammer handles but the biggest pike landed was about 36". We also fished cross inlet for a day but turned up nothing. Even though we didnt land anything i would go back up there in a heart beat its simply amazing up there. I think the key is fishing the right conditions as the only time we had follow ups was very early in the morning with slight over cast. |
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| I haven't fished Whitefish in over 40 years,but as much as I hate night fishing,I would definitely do it there,especially now that we have GPS units.There are definitely world records swimming around that body of water,but tough fishing like a lot of these clear deep lakes.We use to catch smaller ones Walleye fishing weedbeds,and flats on Maribou jigs quite regularly.To fish Whitefish and do well, it takes knowledge that comes from years of experience.Not a lake I would recommend for a one time trip. |
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