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Location: SE, WI. | Ed; Lynne and I are staying at Youngs...13-25th.
I know you and Phil fish hard and deserve every fish you guys move. This weather is RELENTLESS!!! Here, back home around the pewaukee area we had another 4+ inches of rain again this past week...and a few more fronts coming in for Fri and Sat Mourn...CRAZY!
Are you still fishing that globe thing...or are you using your favorite Mepps now?
Sounds like you will need your Life vests this weekend! Good Luck Guys!!! Be Safe!
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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin | Jim,
Just shows how crazy these fish have been, globe raised 16 fish one day and not a sinle fish the next. I would have to say the the buck tail bite is improving but all my larger fish were caught on suicks. My boat partner has been throwing the double 10's and seeing more fish on those than the smaller marabou's. My front deck has baits scattered all over the place! No one real pattern to pin your hopes on. Fish the last couple days have been showing up on rock/weed islands. The broad leaf cabbage is there even thou you cannot see it. Late afternoon bite, when you return to spots fished in the morning that showed no fish, they show up late in the day. Feeling it's a case of the fish not being able to see the baits as they sit at the base of the cabbage. No evening top water bite to speak of and like I said you have very short feeding windows each day. Phil is helping Rick with the guids choice school this week and it's been hard for them this week. 12 fish for me so far since July 2nd. I keep telling myself that they have to bust loose one of these days but with winds gusting to 40mph tonight and maybe 50mph Sat it might just have to wait a couple days. Weather looks better for next week! This is not the LOTW I know?
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Location: East Troy, WI | i'll be staying at Canadian Haven the 19th - 26.... can't wait for my first trip to LOTW |
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Location: LOTW every chance I get | More of the same up in the north end of the lake (Ptarmigan/Ash Rapids). The water clarity is not an issue here, but the fishing is slow. I've had the most luck moving fish with slow rolled spinnerbaits, but they don't want to commit. Yesterday I brought one to the boat with a Manta, but she just slow rolled on it with her mouth open and I couldn't hook up. Very frustrating and doesn't look to get better soon. Massive cold front moving through with VERY high winds and cold temps. Water temp still only 67-68 and dropping. Glad I have another two weeks of holidays in August!
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Location: Roseau | Ed, any new reports?
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| Heading up Friday for a week, Any reports around Kenora?
What temps?
What levels?
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Location: LOTW every chance I get | Water levels are way up and rising, check www.lwcb.ca for exact levels and trends. Temps around Ptarmigan Narrows, fairly close to Kenora, were about 65 deg as of yesterday but vary greatly by area. The fish I have been seeing are shallow and in/near weeds. Spinnerbaits seem to be working best for me. Good luck!
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| just got back from lotw, fished tues thru sat around Big Narrows area and south. Our group boated 19 and saw 15-20 a day. All deep in the weeds only 1 or 2 came from a rock, mostly right on top of the weed beds in shallow water tight to shore or reeds. They would move out to the edge of the weeds and follow but not hit, the ones on top of the weeds hit. The more weeds and slop the better. The water temps started at 68 tues up to 71-72 by saturday. 14 of the 19 were on 8" top waters the rest on small spinners or bucktails. The fishing got better each day and was crazy on sat, 50.5" 45.5", 42", 33" in an hour. |
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Location: SE, WI. | LOTW's Gang and Musky Time ED. Needless to say the woods is heating up. Ed, My wife and I stuck 31 ski's from the 14th thru the 24th. 19 fish were 39 1/2 to 49 1/4. Lynne got the 2 largest being 49" on a M-9, and a 49 1/4 on a Gerry girl!!! But NO fifties.
Headbangers, Smallbucktails were hot early in the trip...Then crank's , Headbangers, and Gerrygirls got the nod late in the trip.
The big narrows was a Zoo last 2 weeks. Tried to fish it a couple of times with boats on every spot. Even had people cut us off on some spots...SAD!!! Got the heck out of that area. That was the key! Get away from the preasure and fish fresh spots!!! Awesome Trip!!! 
JIM
Edited by jdsplasher 7/26/2008 12:24 PM
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Location: East Troy, WI | this is from sab. bay...moved lots of fish on topwater last week in the afternoon-dusk.... all fish caught were on bucktails/spinners...
no pressure really down in Sab bay... lots of room to fish, water was in the 69-72 range all week...
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