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Location: IL | Dave here, going to be in that area next week. Wondering about the huge island clusters west of Windfall and Windigo. Looking for huge points and saddles/reefs. I want to get into the Big Narrows area also, that may be too far. Sounds like (THE TUG CHANNEL) may be a place to spend some time on. Have been going to the Kenora area working Ptarmigan Bay, Haitis Islands. Trying something different this year. Still topwater around 7-9 pm. Want to try some larger crankbaits, not sure how to go about it. Thanks |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Tug Channel itself is nothing spectacular but at the southern end of it you can draw a radius of 5 miles and be in great fishing waters.... |
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| just got back from the angle and fished from bishop bay south, 19 boated in 4.5 days. don't bother with the tug channel. stay right off the main nav channels around windfall and you will do great. pm me if you want more specifics. |
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| I Just got back on Sunday morning after a week at Crow Rock Lodge. We had 6 guys with 4 fishing for muskies 95% of the time; we couldn’t pass up the occasional smallmouth! Week started slow with putting skis in the boat but we did move a ton of fish, just couldn’t get them to commit. By Wednesday things started to heat up and we were able to boat 16 muskies with the biggest being 46.5”. We did see a handful of 50++ fish but as is the case more often then not, they did not take the bait. Bucktails and Top Raiders were the bait of choice and oddly so were small spinner baits. Our group caught 6 of the 16 muskies on small bass style spinner baits, go figure! I wish I was there this week because I just had the feeling that the muskies were getting ready to go crazy. On Thursday and Friday it seemed that we raised a fish or two at every spot that we stopped to fish. Water temps were in the low to mid 70’s and the water got clearer from the bloom every day. We did see a ton of Mayflies both alive and dead all over the place. I hope this information helps and I can’t wait to read the reports next week! Good luck to all and be safe out there. |
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Location: IL | Not much action for us down that way at all. Only saw a couple smaller followers and boated a 38. Never made it to the tug. Fished hard in Monument Bay, and Windigo, Windfall. Sunday- Tuesday. Wednesday we headed for Big Narrows and boated a 44, 47, and my personal largest ever hooked 50. Life was good in the narrows. It did slow down towards the end of the week. We saw 3 fish up there that were way bigger than the 50. Only had them up once, tried same areas later, nothing home. They were magnets to rock points with even a small cabbage bed to hide in, as long as deep water was close. Muskies were laying in 3 feet of water or less, even in the middle of the day. After what I had seen this past week, I will be fishing the narrows from now on. It is a huge area to look at on a map. But not too bad once ya get in there. Double Cowgirl's, TOP-RAIDER !!!!!!!! |
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| Spent last week on LOTW fishing out of Oak Island. Water was really warm-saw 79.8 one afternoon. Fishing was really good on a couple of days, slow for me on a couple of days. We had 5 in the boat the first day and last day. I blanked on 3 days-not because I didn't have chances-just wasn't meant to be I guess. We boated 18 in basically 6 days. Motor troubles sidelined us for most of a day. We both got our personal best-mine at 49 7/8, his at 47.5. I caught all of my fish on double blades, he caught all of his fish on small bucktails and a topraider. We had lots of action on the topraider-we probably missed or lost at least 8. Fished early morning-5:30-8-a couple of days and had good action. Evening action was spotty. A couple of evenings we had multiple fish up, while a couple of evenings it was totally dead. We found fish on bare rock, rock points in between weeds, and thick weeds. If you find current, fish it, and fish it hard. |
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Location: SE, WI. | My wife and I Fished the woods for 11 days. 7/19 to 7/29. Boated 26 musky. Raised Approx. 160 . Few pike, due to warm water temps but one was 41" . No musky we caught were over 47.75". But many were in the 40- 43 inch class. 1- 40 inch tiger!!!
Fish were very skitish as fishing pressure was again very heavy. Pull up to a good Island and come around the corner to meet another boat fishing it was common place!
Headbangers and bucktails with a variety of sizes all worked. I fish spots that are mostly rock.
JIM
Edited by jdsplasher 8/3/2010 9:38 PM
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| When Mesikomer first started to crack the nut on the northwest Angle fishing was great. You could of thrown a black suick with poop on it and caught fish. but that was 20 years ago. Since then guides and resort owners have been advertising th pee out of it. 3 years ago was the last time i was up to the angle. 3 boats, 6people throwing lures for for 5 days. July period full moon. We caught 1 fish 45". But had and this was calculated in our cabin log, 75 follows. This tells me yes there are muski in the angle but it is way to overpressured even with all that water, the fish and Im convinced on this are more lure conscious then any muski in any lake in WI, or MN.
Bottom line is the resorts and guides up there have caught and educated those fish to the point that there almost impossible to catch until late oct. Stay in WI or MN save your money and canadian BS at the border. Take it from someone who already spent way to much money on Nw angle and sabaskong bay BS................ |
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Location: Land of 10,000 Lakes | Jeez Moe sounds like you had a rough trip the angle!
I have been fishing the Angle for a week every July for 5 years with the family and have had great fishing with two 50" fish and numbers of fish in the mid forties over the years. More than 80% of our fish have been caught on the "8" ...sometimes you can turn those uninterested follows into some nice fish in the net with a little creativity.
My wife and I will be fishing out of the NW Angle this week Sept 13th-19th and I'll update this thread with our results! |
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| Moe Musky - 9/12/2010 10:22 AM
When Mesikomer first started to crack the nut on the northwest Angle fishing was great. You could of thrown a black suick with poop on it and caught fish. but that was 20 years ago. Since then guides and resort owners have been advertising th pee out of it. 3 years ago was the last time i was up to the angle. 3 boats, 6people throwing lures for for 5 days. July period full moon. We caught 1 fish 45". But had and this was calculated in our cabin log, 75 follows. This tells me yes there are muski in the angle but it is way to overpressured even with all that water, the fish and Im convinced on this are more lure conscious then any muski in any lake in WI, or MN.
Bottom line is the resorts and guides up there have caught and educated those fish to the point that there almost impossible to catch until late oct. Stay in WI or MN save your money and canadian BS at the border. Take it from someone who already spent way to much money on Nw angle and sabaskong bay BS................
Sound's to me like you need to learn how to convert fish boat side. Ive been going to the angle the last 10 years I have never fished two days in a row without putting a fish in the net. Some years 90% eat boat side. A HORRIBLE week in July is 7-10 fish in my boat. 15 fish a week is average - hit it right and 7-10 fish days still happen. If you cant catch fish in the NW angle becuase of "pressure" sell your stuff!!! Im not sayin..Im just sayin.
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| I agree with cwestly and Justin wholeheartedly here...if you are at least semi-competent with boatside maneuvers you'll put plenty of fish in the boat in the NW Angle....if you are really good at boatside, 7-10 fish days are not unheard of at all.
With that said, I do agree with Moe that the pressure in the NW Angle has hugely increased over the past ~10 years or so. Although there aren't tons and tons of resorts, this area gets a ton of exposure through resort advertising, and with the Musky Hunter school, not to mention some of the most famous muskie guides (Doug J, Dick P, Bill Sandy, etc.) calling this area home. Maybe the pressure is making fish more difficult to catch mid-retrieve...maybe not...who knows. Looking back 10-12 years ago, we used to catch a higher % of our fish mid-retrieve. Now, the majority of fish we catch are boatside on the 8...and our numbers of fish per week is way up. But I don't attribute catching fish at boatside as necessarily due to fishing pressure....I attribute it to the fact that my figure 8 skills are much better today than they were a decade ago.
Bottom line is that the NW Angle is doing just fine. |
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