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Location: Contrarian Island | Rolly Squire of Madison took his son, Dan, up to Mille Lacs last week for a couple days with Lee Tauchen...his son's first 50!
a 51x22.5....on Lees Whopper Popper w/ 2 feet of line out!
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Location: The Yahara Chain | Great fish! Two feet of line out at night, I hope that young man was wearing some depends. 
Congrats Dan. |
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Location: Iowa | Congrats on a turly giant fish...
Big Perc |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Lee rules!!! |
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| Just spoke with Lee on the phone.The water temps on Mille Lacs after they got north winds today are 72-74'. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | Nice Piggie!!! |
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Location: Belleville, WI | Any more news from Lee? Have some friends up there fishing with him in the next few days. Hope they have some action! |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Just got back from there and water temps ranged from 80 to 73 during the week. Surface temps changed as the wind blew from different directions.
Lots of wind on that pond.
Fish were movin on bucktails burned in for us. We boated a bunch in the low 40's and had plenty of good ones up. One went 50 give or take a inch that was lost boatside.
First weather change we had the fish went nuts. Too stable the whole week. Only 4 hours of light rain on Saturday but they went nuts. I raised 15 muskies that day and lost one mid 40's at boatside, one other hit on the 8 and never got pinned. All of the fish were in the low 40's and up to the high 40's.
Great place to spend some time with a guide or vacation.
Top water bite was good in low light conditions..
Lee was out 3 night by us and Greg Thomas was out every night in the areas we fished.
Its time to get up that way.............Lots of 4 footers and some real supper tankers raised last week by the 4 guys in my cabin.
Edited by Mikes Extreme 7/25/2005 10:14 AM
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| Mike, glad you had action. Cass was slow. Water temps were 80 last Saturday and Sunday, then we started getting cool evenings, and when I left the daytime water temps were 74-76.
Winds ruined the fishing in lots of areas. Usually only half of the lake was fishable each day. The weeds are thick, but don't look healthy. The water was dropping at a quick rate the last 3 days that I was there, and there are leeches swimming on the surface everywhere.
The bite window was short. First thing in the morning and again at nightfall. Had no action once the sun was up.
I missed a good fish on a flat that walleye fishermen were pounding just as the full moon was coming up over the treeline. I went back the next morning throwing a Kick-Ass Castor and had a fish slam it. I set the hook hard but didn't budge the fish. I felt a few hard head shakes and then got my lure back, minus some clearcoat from scratches and a leader bent in 3 or 4 places. I changed leaders and had a 24" pike eat the lure and he got both trebles buried in his mouth. Figures, doesn't it? But that was it. All the fish that I saw were small and timid.
Better times are coming with shorter days and cooler temps. If the wind would just lay down and a blanket of cloudcover lasting for the whole month of September, I'd be happy.
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Location: Contrarian Island | Lee has put about 5 fish in the boat in the last couple days with a 47" last nite his client got...said the cool down forecasted should help things..I'm headed up tonite... |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I would fish the North side of the lake, they are going much better than anywhere else on that pond. |
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