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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | It's happening all across the muskie range. Give the mskies a break until temps cool down a bit. |
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| Good time go kayaking. Going to hit a couple of small lakes tomorrow with some other old people. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | I have a book "100 Wisconsin Fishing Trips" published in 1984 by Wisconsin Sportsman magazine and it tells of many of the bigger Lakes not to fish Muskie before the 4th of July due to cool water temps. The first of my summers in Eagle River area 1976 as a teenager was a drought year, I didn't get up North to late July (I stayed home to take drivers ED in Summer school)
The water was warm and nobody was catching any Muskies. I had never caught a Muskie in my young life and I would go 5 weeks without one. I went home skunked that first year. I would row my little wooden rowboat across the lake to shoot a couple games of pool and buy and eat a Tombstone and a pop or two at one of the resorts. As I was rowing across I would see dead Cisco's in the lake. By 1979 I could do this same trip as 18 year old and drink Beer back then. In 2006 the last time I fished in Wisconsin in the summer months and first time we had a big modern boat with temp gauge the water was in the upper sixty's I was surprised. |
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Location: PA Angler | I never did any good in this hot heat. Most I caught was a sunburn. |
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