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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I went up to Plum Lake and camped with Keith and his friend Scott Saturday T zoning. Keith get a doe, add one to the freezer. Sunday I worked on winterizing the Hideout, setting Sue's place in the new stand up for her, and getting the garage ready for many deer. For a day forecast for 5" of snow, it turned out absolutely beautiful. Should have been on the lake, but there are just so many hours in the day! How did you do? |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | No fishing this past weekend but my pike catching uncle and I are heading back north this Tues to try it again. Gotta love it! I'll let you know how it goes.....but don't hold your breath.  |
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| My buddy and I fished from 8:00am till 2:00pm .... we caught 5 muskies.
42.5 - 42.5 - 40 - 35 ... and a little 27" fish that wanted to get into the game.
All 5 fish were caught on the same VooDooTail spinnerbait. Luckily I have a partner that likes to share. After he caught a 42.5 & 40 he passed the bait to me.
Edited by Thad 11/4/2003 8:22 AM
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| Sluggo and I got the big goose egg on Sunday. Didn't even see a fish. One other boat on the lake and they blanked as well.
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Location: Elgin, IL | Fished Silver with Vman on Saturday. Fished it hard from 6 till 3:30 and got blanked. Fished it shallow, fished it deep, inside and outside weed edges... nothing. Said hey to Slamr (we were in Chris's Nitro) and sounded like it was slow for them too. Got the same report from everyone else we talked to that day as well. Had two low 30's fish follow right at the end and thought we were going to see some action... but still netted a goose egg. Tough day.
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | Just got over the worst weekend of my Muskie Fishing life. Over the weekend my boat lost 8 fish on sucker rigs. The fish were moving like crazy, but the only thing they would eat were suckers----AND I COULD NOT HOOK THEM!!!! If anyone can get a fish to pin up on a sucker let me know how you are doing it because I am snakebit like you would not believe.
As a side note be careful with those flouro rigs--I had a monster cut the line on a hookset Sunday night.
Steve--do you wanna guess where that fish was? It had a head as big as a shovel in about six foot of water in big stones--any guesses? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | That would be the Big girl I spoke of, damnable bad luck, Norm. |
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| Norm,
Sorry to hear you lost a big fish. Musta been a bummer.
Where did the line break/cut? Near the knot? What kind of knot are you tieing? Are you lubing it good before you cinch it down? What lb test is the flouro? What brand? |
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Location: Suspended | Took a friend out and got him this thirtysomething:
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | The rig that was bit on me was a pretied Smitty 100# flouro leader. The line was sliced clean above the hook, I'm sure from dragging it across a razor sharp tooth or two. I am so frustrated with sucker rigs right now you would not believe it. The only thing I do know is that I will never use any type of mono line on them again.
If the darn fish wouldn't eat suckers so often I wouldn't even consider using them because I hate them!!!! |
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Location: Germantown & Land O Lakes WI | Hit a northern Vilas Co lake system.......I knew the Packers were gonna win when I landed this Saturday night!
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Location: Holly, MI | Took a virgin out with all my gear on Saturday and gave him what I thought would be the best lure for the day, a 7 inch straight perch Terminator. Darn if he doesn't pop a beauty of a 48 incher in the first 20 minutes trolling. She swam away strong after a great fight so he can find her next year. His poor wallet, marrige, kids, etc. I think we have a new convert addict. |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Hit the Barbee chain sunday. Everyone I talked to did not see any fish... Me? Missed one that slammed a crank and another was chasing baits but not hitting.
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Location: oswego, il | We boated 6 and lost 3. One was 34" the rest small but two of the three my dad lost were decent. |
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Location: Appleton,WI | Fished onieda county on friday lost 2 count down depth raiders and a frabil lure retriver on one crib!so if you snag a crib look to see if my baits are there!was moving fish friday till I lost my crankbait on the crib,Friday night bought a new one at guides choice and would you know it I caught a 34"er saturday fishing vilas county lake and my dad caught a 38 1/2 and a 30 and had muskys grab and drop 3 suckers We also set the hooks on a big fish over deep water and it was solid like a rock but we missed it ( mid to upper 40's),sunday (3-5 " of snow advisory for eagle river,They need new weather people that are accurate)Raised a nice fish the first 1/2 hour then after that one pick up on a sucker.So I guess a 3 fish day wasent so bad.
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Location: Racine, Wi | I pounded the likes of Big Crawling Stone for the big one on Thursday Friday and Saturday to no avail. Once again humbled by the big clear abyss. I had one fish chasing a sucker on Thursday, missed a 40"er on a sucker on Friday, didn't see a fish on Saturday. I did mark a huuuugggeee school of whitefish, and checked them out with the underwater camera, but after soaking suckers in them, around them and over them, I came away empty. I did manage 2 bass and a northern on a triple D that I just picked up. That bait is gonna get a soaking in Okauchee the rest of this year. I didn't realize what I was missing. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | After work on Saturday I grabbed the boat and hit Pewaukee lake. Looked for fish in deep water first, found some bait with a few big marks. Set up with suckers and drifted through the bait fish. One hit and a miss then a fat 38 incher ate one of my suckers. Both hits were between 3pm and 4pm.
Sunday I got out at the crack of noon, worked the same area with my partner Dan. First rip I gave to him, 1/2 way up she came off. Before he could get his rod set up again the fish ate one of the other suckers. I was happy to grab the next rod and score a nice 41 incher. When we picked up for the night I noticed one of the suckers was full of teeth marks, a muskie must have grabbed the sucker and chewed on it and spit it. |
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Location: Minnetonka , MN. | Went out Sunday on Tonka. Got 3 pike and 1 36" Muskie . Lost one at the boat. |
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