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| Back a week now from our trip Obabikon lodge.
Everyone was talking about Esox being off this year so concentrated on walleye, smallies, and crappies at the elbow.
Last day fished muskie about 2 hrs in Miles bay throwing bucktails.
Caught a 50 (personal best) and a 44.
Whish we would have thrown more for them.
Also why is it I have caught Muskies 37" to 50" but have never caught one in the 20"s
or smaller? Caught hundreds and hundreds of pike in the 20s...... |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Lure size, fishing spots, and year classes. During the 80's it seemed all we caught were dinks and now I can't hardly remember the last shorty I've caught. |
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| pickolish1 - 9/21/2024 2:38 PM
Back a week now from our trip Obabikon lodge.
Everyone was talking about Esox being off this year so concentrated on walleye, smallies, and crappies at the elbow.
Last day fished muskie about 2 hrs in Miles bay throwing bucktails.
Caught a 50 (personal best) and a 44.
Whish we would have thrown more for them.
Also why is it I have caught Muskies 37" to 50" but have never caught one in the 20"s
or smaller? Caught hundreds and hundreds of pike in the 20s......[/QUOTE
Good lesson there, forget asking how fishing was?…especially for Lotw, or any Canadian muskie lake for that matter…I laugh when guys hear a report about how poor the fishing was last week and they get disappointed before they ever get there….
Edited by IAJustin 9/22/2024 8:21 AM
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Location: Contrarian Island | usually I don't mind if I hear the fishing was bad the week prior. Usually means the weather wasn't that favorable and odds are they will be biting ... I will agree LOTW was a bit off this year, lots of rain/current had fish scattered but it's still one of the best places on earth to fish for muskies... |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Wherever you go you will hear two things.
You should have been here last week.
And in the weed bed in front of the Johnson place lives the biggest muskie you ever seen. |
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| So you were there the week of the 8th? How was the walleye bite? Were they still on deep reefs or moving shallow? I was in Miles bay a month earlier and it was tough. |
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| They were moving to deep reefs when we left.
It was the slowest walleye Ive experienced there, even crappie at the elbow were slow.
Contacted my guide the other day he said walleye are still slow. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | How's the weather is fall on the way? or hot like an extended summer? Or up and down? September can be dynamite for all species if a slow cool down is in order, if it stay's hot it can be really bad or up and down temp. fishing can be iffy. Or a giant cool down in one day will be bad after that first day. You never know what your going to get. |
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| I retrospect it wasn't really a "the fishing was bad last week" thing... we had 6, 100% dedicated Muskie fisherman at the lodge while we were there...they are 6 hardened dedicated muskie veterans skipping breakfast and dinner to throw at dawn and then at dusk.. throwing everyday for 1 or 2 fish a day for the whole group as I was told.... these folks, they could probably muskie fish circles around me and probably forgot more about muskies than I ever knew...
The lesson I think, is that things can change in a day and they can turn on......don't give up, the last cast on the last day could be the PB.
Wow I should have been a motivational speaker . ...ha ha. 
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Posts: 2015
| Heck It often changes in an hour, or better yet change what you are doing if you don’t like your results …throwing a bucktail is a good tactic much of the time but some weeks it’s going to be the wrong presentation, fish can be caught every day on Lotw… why? There are a lot of muskie in the lake that can be caught on just about every presentation known to muskie fisherman… today should you run your baits 8 inches or 8 feet below the surface? Weeds, rock, sand , mid lake humps .. 2 cast lengths off mid lake humps. Any day on Lotw is a good day to catch a muskie |
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Location: Brighton CO. | And a good figure eight on pressured fish can save the day. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I know lots of good fishermen who went to eagle or lotw this year and barring like the 1st 15 days or so of July it seems Eagle and LoTW were really off this year. Everyone I know including my boat saw/moved less than any other year prior. I have 13 trips to go off and it was a tougher year than the norm. Now our weather was as bad as it gets we still did well for conditions with fish up to 52.25. It will be better next year. lots of rain/current had fish scattered imo....
Edited by BNelson 10/7/2024 2:46 PM
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| We were 50 minutes south of Kenora (by boat) on LOTW 9/14-9/21. 7 guys, 3 boats, put 6 musky in the boat - 50.75, 49, 46, 44.5, 44.5, 36. Everything was caught in 3FOW or less, focused mainly on sand/reed shorelines. Everything caught on bucktails. We caught a lot of smallies throughout the week, the 50.75 actually had the bucktail AND a smallie in it's mouth when we got it in the net. 3 more fish mis-netted that got away, and a handful of follows.
Walleye were scattered all over. Minnows worked good, and when they died off, we went to a flat of crawlers and they seemed to be hotter. Got a great amount of 11"+ perch along the way as well.
42" big pike of the week as well caught on jig/minnow.
Great week, 70's all week, water temps 68-70.
Edited by wooglin 10/9/2024 3:21 PM
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| Wow,
What an in depth response, layered with experience and expertise.
I would love to fish with you sir....
-Mike |
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