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| I am planning to fish Minnesota this year and if anyone has suggestions on some lakes to fish in the Minneapolis/ St. Paul area that would be helpful.
Edited by 619musky 5/11/2009 4:28 PM
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| Depend on where u want to fish theers few lake in ne metro, sw, nw, west of metro. Wbl, forest lake, bald eagle, tonka, waconia, indy, owasso, and few of tigers lake. |
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| What time of the season are you thinking? |
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| Mostly July and August. Some June, some september |
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| July and Aug can be tough if you are limited to weekends because there's lots of boat traffic and the lakes get pounded. Be prepared to get up real early. I can usually find fish moving at/before sun up. Sunset can be good too, but finding a parking spot for the trailer can be near impossible in the afternoon/evening at that time of year. Weekdays are better, but early evening can still be real tough at the boat ramps.
Also if we get a real heat wave water surface temps get high enough that fish mortality can be an issue. Some of us stop fishing muskies if the surface temps get into the 80's.
I live for mid-sept until ice-up.
I like the NE metro (WB, BE, Forest) because if I'm not moving fish on one lake it's a short hop to another. Chaning up lakes has helped put fish in the net.
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| ya im definately not limited to weekends so thats good. and i would fish in the fall but i go to school in the weekdays so my weekends are filled with hunting. On WBL what are some key things to look for when fishing the weed beds and breaks? |
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| for me, I like WB because of the clear water - but that also makes it a tough nut to crack. If you are new to musky fishing BE or Forest might give you a better shot at contacting fish, but WB does have some tankers.
For me I seem to find fish on WB either really shallow - 1ft on the rocks when they are really active - or off the deep edges (maybe 17-20'). The weedline is real deep (18'+) and fish are often out off the edge a bit. My best bait has been a 9' deep-diving Grandma's (perch) for fishing the edges, although a bulldawg (walleye) is a favorite of many. When the fish are shallow, purple or pink bucktails have put some nice fish in the boat as a well as a black topraider. When nothing else works a Jackpot over the weedflats will sometimes move a fish. And, topwaters over open water is another popular pattern.
All the obvious spots will hold a fish from time to time but I think a better strategy is simply getting on a weedline and follow it all around the lake until you contact a fish. The "best" spots get pounded and fish will move to relatively obscure locations along a weedline. Same goes for BE and F too.
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Location: Minneapolis | MNSteveH - 5/18/2009 9:26 PM
All the obvious spots will hold a fish from time to time but I think a better strategy is simply getting on a weedline and follow it all around the lake until you contact a fish. The "best" spots get pounded and fish will move to relatively obscure locations along a weedline. Same goes for BE and F too.
That's some darn good advice for almost any metro lake. It takes a long time to work around miles of weed edges, but often odd-ball spots are better than obvious ones. |
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