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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | I'll be headed out this afternoon to look for some fish in advnace of having my dock help out for a couple days before he heads back to school after the weekend.
This is my second favourite time of the year to be out fishing..it's just too bad I'm not able to get away from the dock much after letting help go for the season. The lake is often wide open and you can find fish in/on different structures at different times. I'll be checking rocks to start and then mmix in some weeds if things are a bit slower to make sure the bases get covered.
The bloom hasn't been terrible yet, but is noticable and making it a bit harder to see following fish. I'll look for some cleaner water as well while I'm out there, particularly if fishing weed spots. I never seem to have much success in bloom stained weedy areas.
Good luck on the water this month.
Let us know how you did.
Edited by MyliesPlace(Justin) 9/2/2011 11:50 AM
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Got out over the weekend and saw some fish, but didn't have much luck getting them to open their mouths.
Friday - Fished 4 til 8-30...winds calm, temps pretty warm...surfac temps about 73-74 most places...got out solo attempting to scout a little for the weekend when I would have my dock guy out before he went back to college. Fished severl spots for the first time and some others that I hadn't fish much or at all this year. Managed to see 6 fish, 3 in the mid 40 class, but only had one nip at boatside. All on topwater (Big Mama Psycho Sist'r in Baby Loon.) Mostly rocks (flat shelf rock off shoreline, points, reefs close to points, shoreines.) One fish came out of the slop hot, but didn't eat.
Saturday - Fished 8am to 4ish...SW winds....storm cell moved through during the night...air temps dropped a lot...we went in the monrning right towards another cell of rain/thunder that was moving through..we were behind it and never got rained on as it made it's way northeastward. surface temps down to 70ish with clouds all day. saw 7 total, with a couple of nice ones in the mix. Several follows and blow up on the Big Mama topwater again, but only one got hooks. It was 40" inches. A couple fish came up on figure 8's and grabbed twister tails on the back of a spinner bait and turned like they were getting away with he loot, but didn't have a hook in their lips. After the second instant we downsized the twister tail from 8 inches, to 4 inches. All but one fish were on rock structure.
Sunday - More cold front type conditions with winds switching to N and dropping air temps and water temps further. surface temps started day at 66-68 in most places. Sun came out briefly at times, but didnt warm temps up much past 69 at best. Managed to see 6 more muskies, but only caught a peanut. Two more fish committed, but didnt get hooks. A couple more in the weeds, the other on rocks. Raised rish on twitch/crank in the weeds, depthraider and Big Mama topwater on the rocks. One fish hit the twitcher..the other hit Big Mama the second time around at boatside. Peanut was caught on the spinner bait with downsized teaser tail.
Monday - fished 7-30 to noonish...SW winds ...3rd direction change in 3 days...cool morning, but sun was out. Water temps 70ish..action from 2 fish......had 1 hit (rock/weed) the spinner bait (pearson grinder with downsized tail), and was on for awhile but lost before it got to the boat. Another fish blew up on topwater (top raider) on the same spot and same location (rock point) as 40 incher was caught on Saturday.
Overall, more than enough fish around to make it a great weekend, but we couldnt enough of them to commit to attempt to close the deal. Big Mama's big topwater was a great fish finder. Would like to get it out there in front of agressive fish that want to eat and see how it does. Speaking with some guests and friends that fished over the weekend as well made it sound like it was more of the same for them...not many fish hitting...though a buddy did get a gorgeous 48.5" on a reef hawg on Friday afternoon around 2pm. I'm sure there were some anglers clobbering the fish somewhere nearby, but it sure wasn't anyone I talked to this weekend.
That will end my summer of fishing. May get out the odd weekend for a couple hours here and there. I will try to patiently wait for trolling time....watching and praying the water temps drop just right and then stay where we want them as long as possible. Time to start sharpening jakes, kraves, grandmas and a couple believers.
I will post updates on conditions and activity when I can get some info from guests/friends. |
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| If you haven't already tried it-using spinnerbaits hit the rocks you are casting at and begin your retrieve. Many times the fish a literally laying next to the rocks. |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Thanks. Will keep that in mind for future reference.
A friend of mine has got me tuned into cranking depth raiders on, at and over top of rocks as well. That's produced several good strikes for my boat over the summer season. |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Some big fish moving around this week. Multiple 47s, 48s and a 50 reported the last few days. Earlier in the mornings and last light have been the best times to be on the water during this heat wave.
Bucktails, cranks the most common report of lure choices.
Super cold front conditions should be in place Monday/Tuesay of next week. It will be interesting to see how the incoming crews work through that and find some face.
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Area has been in cold front conditions since Monday, but active fish were being found during some of the high wind and cold temps. After a frost last night (and another likely tonight), we've lost 10 degrees in surface temp in about 5 days. Was 72-74 on Saturday/Sunday and was 63ish at the dock two mornings ago before the first frost.
Bucktails (double 10s) have been effective getting fish to come and say hello. Scructure has varied depending on each anglers preferences. One found fish in bays while hiding from the heavy winds...but today fish were seen on several points by other anglers.
One group arrived early afternoon Thursday and waited out the snow/hail/rain/wind squall before having me put the boat in and then promptly banged a 46 on their first stop of the trip. They had planned to start with crank baits, but I didnt get to confirm the bait style that caught that fish. Another group started having some better action once the last weather cell moved through and it stabilized a bit.
Weather looks to be warming a bit for the next few days. All in all, been a reasonable decent week for fish activity under sometime brutal wind/cold front conditions.
The best of fall is certainly yet to come. |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | First time out since Labour Day. Fished 11am or so until 8pm. Managed to get 5 muskies to show themselves, with 3 good strikes (likely the same fish hitting twice in one case..if not it was another fish saying hello), but no solid hook ups. Another fish made a hell of an attempt to eat a Shallow Invader boatside after 4 or 5 times around, but missed completely and it came almost completely out of the water. I thought it was coming in the boat for a smooch. That was the biggest fish seen at 45-48 inches. Others were smaller, but not peanuts. Other lures with action were topwater (Big Mama Psycho Sister) DCG JR in a couple of colour patterns and a perch depth raider. The Shallow Invader and Double Cowgirl JR were the lures that got strikes. May have had a 6th fish come out to play and 4th strike, but cannot confirm 100%. All I know is there has NEVER been a rock or other kind of impediment that far from the shoreline when my Shallow Invader stopped short not far from the boat on another spot near the end of the night.
Fish came from mostly rock reef structres close to shore. A couple were on small rock points with sand nearby in one case and deeper coon-tail in the other case.
All in all...was reasonably pleased with the action after a week of real tough cold front conditions (10 degree drop in water temps, heavy wind in changing directions, etc.) as well as not being out there for a couple of weeks.
Water temps as high as 63..as low was 60.5 degrees.
We're full of crappie and walleye anglers the next couple of weeks. May not get too much in the way of reports on action, but can keep the conditions updated during that time. |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Fished 9am to 12:30pm Saturday (9/24.) Found water temps 60ish in deeper water basins and 58ish in a shallower water basin. Several hot follows including a mid 40 that opened it's mouth 3 times during multiple figure 8s and did not get a piece of the Gerry's Girl Double 10 any of those times. Had one fish on for a short period, but it was hooked with a single hook on the bottom treble (Grerry's Double 10) in the front bottom lip. Multiple head shakes in the water with my 9-6 burried pretty deep and the fish was still able to get to the surface and finally shake off as I was leading it aroung the bow of the boat to the other side.
We landed a peanut on a Bobbie and raised a few more on the bobbie and bucktail.
Definitely 7 different fish up, maybe 8...shorelines with multiple structural elements were key. Mostly rock, but some came from weeds/sand (not thick) that were in a stretch of a shoreline. All but 1 (the maybe 8 fish) came within an hour or so around 11am. A second pass through the areas about 30 mins later did not yield another follow. |
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| Anything new? Leaving Friday. Water temps? strats? Morning temps? Wind? |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Water temps 61-63 last night. That was after 5 days of sunshine and above normal air temps. Wind has been done to almost nothing since Thursday, but will be coming up today according to the weather man. Supposed to start SW 15 and end up NW 15 overnight, then up to NW 20 thursday morning.
Overnight temps will be in the high 30s a couple days in the current forecast. Water temps should start to drop a bit more.
Bloom was pretty severe in a lot of areas with the wind being non-existant. Some areas were worse than others, as always. Wind should aid in providing some cleaner water.
Raised a couple on topwater last night when I snuck out for a couple hire prior to dark. The most acitvity over the weekend was late morning to early afternoon. |
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