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| What are you guy's doing when your main lake has a terrible algae bloom and stay's like this for weeks on end? I'm talking water clarity under a foot! It seems the fishing has completely shut off.... |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | The water temperature may be too high to fish for muskies, but if you choose to, go super shallow. I have actually seen it recently. |
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| Water temp is 74 degrees... |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Play some fall golf until the bloom clears. Of course a lot of courses punch their greens this time of the year, and that's a real pain.
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Location: Michigan | It doesn't bother the fish like it does the fishermen so just keep casting. There is one lake around me which is really clear (15-20' at times) and I love when the algae bloom hits it as fish start hitting instead of following. You probably won't see many fish during an algae bloom, but the fish you contact will be eaters. Throw brighter baits that move a lot of water so the fish can zero in on the water displacement. |
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| I really don't mind algae blooms. My cabin is on a lake that is REALLY green (as in so green it's difficult to distinguish lily pads on a calm day). While there's no muskies in the lake, the other fish never stop biting. In fact their location really isn't affected at all by it. You don't need a lot of thump either, I catch tons of bass on things that hardly move any water at all. The fish don't starve to death in that green: if they can track down a camouflaged fish that's evolved to move as stealthily through the water as possible in that green mess, they have no trouble finding our relatively clumsy and poorly camouflaged lures.. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Like a friend reminded me of yesterday.. Nevermind an algea bloom, the fish don't stop eating because of it, you just have to figure out a way to contact them. |
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Location: oswego, il | I don't care for it at all. Some lakes are much more affected by it than others. Best thing to do if an algae bloom shuts down your lake is to fish someplace else. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | I fish a couple lakes that are pea soup green at times. I don't fish them any different during blooms, however, in September as the water temps drop to around 70, we typically get a strong algae bloom that lasts until turnover or so. During this time I have done well fishing inside edges, sand flats with scattered weed clumps, docks and slop. This is not unique to stained lakes, however. I've been contacting fish on a clear lake doing the same things recently. Judging by that, I'd say that muskies are relatively oblivious to blooms. This time of year the fish are more predictable, IMO, due to dropping water temps overnight. It seems to make for a better late morning and mid-day bite, which only gets better into late fall. Just keep casting. |
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| try a colorado blade bucktail. The lake I fish had a real bad alge bloom and i didnt think it was possible to catch fish in it but we ended up getting a bunch on mepps marabou's. Just a thought |
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Location: Janesville | I like it when the lakes turn green. Most fishermen not fish a lake that is green. I like to go shallow 8 foot and under and throw topwater baits. this can be good all day long. The muskys have to still eat. this get better as the water temp also drop. The muskys go shallow because the light will be block by the green algea. find the thicker weed just under the surface. this is when the topwater bite realy heats up. |
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| I was on LOTW first full week of September and we had a fairly thick green algae bloom; Think not being able to see your Jack Pot while walking it or your bucktail while figuing 8'ing. It did not stop the fishing at all. We used the same baits/appraiches as we were pre bloom and things were status quo. |
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