Posted 4/11/2014 12:55 AM (#706052) Subject: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn.
According to Uncut Angling a 48 1/2 by almost 24 inch girth muskie has been captured in Lake Winnipeg where it's been thought that no muskies exist. Watch the video and form your own opinion.
Posted 4/11/2014 8:33 AM (#706077 - in reply to #706052) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
Posts: 1296
Location: Hayward, Wisconsin
Not an impossibility for muskies to be there. Eastern Manitoba has them. I have seen pictures of 30 pound class muskies from there, and the Winnipeg River connects eventually back to Lake of the Woods and the muskie lakes north of it. Irregular Lake in far western Ontario also has muskies.
Big puddle to search out, but for the adventurous you might start in the inlet waters, especially early in the season. Good luck!
Posted 4/11/2014 9:10 AM (#706090 - in reply to #706077) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
When I first visited this lake 5 years ago, I have often wondered about the possibility of muskies in Lake Winnipeg ever since. If there is a world record muskie out there, this lake can produce it without a doubt. They should stock muskies in there...wishful thinking.
Posted 4/11/2014 9:50 AM (#706101 - in reply to #706052) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn.
I've often wondered why Lake Winnipeg doesn't seem to be a popular fishing destination in general for any species of fish? I've don't recall the lake ever really being promoted in any major fishing news outlet. I don't recall seeing resort/camp advertising for anywhere on the lake either. This has always kind of surprised me. Seems like no one talks about walleyes, trout, pike, bass, or anything with Lake Winnipeg. One hears of other very large lakes, even further north, such as Athabasca, Great Bear, Great Slave, etc as being fishing destinations but never Lake Winnipeg? Why?
Maybe this will jump start the fishing tourist industry on the lake? Anybody on here have any pull with the Manitoba M.N.R. and can push for muskie stocking in the lake, or promote it as a fishing destination for other species?
Posted 4/11/2014 10:16 AM (#706112 - in reply to #706101) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
FP, I don't know of any resorts on the lake. I'm sure you know Winnipeg is a very popular ice fishing destination in February and March for huge walleyes...especially March. There is a casino up there that a lot of ice fishermen use for lodging. I know of a couple local fishing guides up there that target walleyes through the ice. Also one guides for catfish on the Red river. So there is some tourism, but like you said there could be a lot more. When I went up there with a buddy, he towed an ice castle house that we stayed in on the lake. The locals up there had never seen an ice castle ice house before and were surprised when we told them we sleep in it. I came home not wanting to fish walleyes anywhere again but Winnipeg.
Posted 4/11/2014 12:03 PM (#706137 - in reply to #706101) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
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fishpoop - 4/11/2014 9:50 AM I've often wondered why Lake Winnipeg doesn't seem to be a popular fishing destination in general for any species of fish? I've don't recall the lake ever really being promoted in any major fishing news outlet. I don't recall seeing resort/camp advertising for anywhere on the lake either. This has always kind of surprised me. Seems like no one talks about walleyes, trout, pike, bass, or anything with Lake Winnipeg. One hears of other very large lakes, even further north, such as Athabasca, Great Bear, Great Slave, etc as being fishing destinations but never Lake Winnipeg? Why? Maybe this will jump start the fishing tourist industry on the lake? Anybody on here have any pull with the Manitoba M.N.R. and can push for muskie stocking in the lake, or promote it as a fishing destination for other species?
Google or Youtube search "greenback walleye". You will learn there is one popular fishery LW and that is ice fishing the south basin for giant walleyes.
Posted 4/11/2014 12:34 PM (#706145 - in reply to #706052) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
Location: MN
I caught my first muskie out of a lake that does not have them. No inlets or outlets. My guess is someone planted it or it got mixed up with the walleyes the DNR stocks in the lake.
I'm sure Winnipeg has a lot of inlets and outlets that lead to muskie waters eventually. It would be cool to know how far the fish traveled to get in the system.
Fishpoop. Winnipeg is world renowned for big walleyes, especially ice fishing.
I thought Nipigon was known as the 6th Great Lake?
Posted 4/11/2014 3:26 PM (#706183 - in reply to #706117) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
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Location: north central wisconsin
MuskyMo - 4/11/2014 10:38 AM
Wonder how it got there as there is numerous dams between LOTW's and lake winnipeg....dont think musky would make it successfully thru them.
Fish make it down through dams with no issue all the time, sometimes several dams within a season on some river systems. There really aren't all that many dams separating Lake Winnipeg with Musky waters of LOTW and Lac Seul(English River).
Posted 4/11/2014 9:07 PM (#706247 - in reply to #706185) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
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Location: north central wisconsin
IAJustin - 4/11/2014 3:34 PM
With six large dams between Winnipeg river out flow (LOTW) and Lake Winnipeg it would be an interesting trip
Yup, 6 decent sized dams is very few in comparison to other rivers elsewhere that fish travel through even more and larger dams each year. One cool example is about 10 years ago several adult Sturgeon were relocated 10 or more large dams and over 150 river miles above where they originated on a river I fish, and within months, several had made it home, back down through those 10 dams. Dams are the reason we don't have the sturgeon populations in many places anymore. Often, they need long contiguous free flowing stretches, otherwise they simply leave.
Posted 4/12/2014 1:48 AM (#706269 - in reply to #706264) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin
very interesting subject...thanks for sharing
on a similar note, there are also a few straggler Muskies up in Red Lake which is approx. 2.5 hours north of Eagle Lake. Until this, that was the furthest north lake I have heard of containing 'Skis
Posted 4/12/2014 10:41 PM (#706416 - in reply to #706404) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
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Location: The desert
I believe it was named the top most threatened lake in the world. The majority of the water from the Red River Basin (parts of ND, MN, MB) flows north to the main lake. Phosphorus loading is a big concern. Have heard the walleye fishing is tremendous.
Posted 4/13/2014 7:36 AM (#706438 - in reply to #706052) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
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Can't really fish it in the summer, too windy and treacherous. Would be tough to plan a trip and be guaranteed to get on the water even every other day, hence the lack of tourism/fishing resorts. They call it Big Windy for good reason.
Posted 4/13/2014 5:32 PM (#706559 - in reply to #706205) Subject: Re: Lake Winnipeg Muskie??
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Location: one foot over the line
MD75 - 4/11/2014 5:31 PM
African or European?
It's not a question of where he grips it! Its a simple question of weight ratios! A 5oz bird could not carry a 48 1/2 inch musky. Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right? Yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point. But then, the African swallow is not migratory...
Edited by beerforthemuskygods 4/13/2014 5:49 PM
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