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| Im trying to get my father on his first musky. Thoughts on these lakes please. |
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Location: oswego, il | Yes to all. Tiger cat known for smaller fish. Spider chain is clear with lots of fish. Lost land and teal more stained and very good musky lakes. I have fished teal.and like it alot. Nothing secret about these lakes. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | I've fished the Spider Chain a few times and usually catch something (not every time though - they are still muskies dang it). Nothing over about 36 yet but the few times I fished it, it's been a pretty fair shot at putting somebody on a fish or two. Only fished Tiger Cat once for a few hours and didn't raise anything but that's supposed to have plenty.
I've fished Lost Land/Teal just a couple times for short days as well. Surprisingly never even raised a fish on them, but I know good potential is there. Everything I hear about them makes it sound like they have the best mix of numbers while still having potential for bigger fish of the lakes you mentioned. |
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Location: Smith Creek | What time of year? If it's the fall then go to Teal or LL and drag some suckers around, you'll catch a bunch.
In the summer drive a little past them to Day or Chippewa or Mineral. You'll get a pile there. |
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| I will be in the area Friday through Monday. |
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Location: Smith Creek | You could try Moose too. Lots of fish in there.
He'll see muskies in most of the lakes you mentioned, but they can be tough sometimes. Water is a bit clearer.
The Clam Lake to Mellen area lakes are pretty dark and the fish tend to be bit smaller but more apt to visit your net. |
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| Lost Land and Teal are decent lakes. Definitely action-oriented, but with reasonable chances at fish into the mid-40" range.
I'll second Flambeauski's recommendation. If you are just looking to get bit, go to Day Lake. You're unlikely to get anything >36" but there are very high numbers of fish in the 30-34" range. As an added bonus, Day is probably one of the prettiest lakes in the area. |
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| Teal. Beautiful, Easy to figure out and it has some quality sized fish mixed in. |
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Location: Ashland WI | Matt DeVos - 6/29/2016 1:26 PM
Lost Land and Teal are decent lakes. Definitely action-oriented, but with reasonable chances at fish into the mid-40" range.
I'll second Flambeauski's recommendation. If you are just looking to get bit, go to Day Lake. You're unlikely to get anything >36" but there are very high numbers of fish in the 30-34" range. As an added bonus, Day is probably one of the prettiest lakes in the area.
When is the last time you have been to Day?
It hasn't been the same for me since they drained it a few years back. I have had times when the action has been very good, but also a few times of nothing. In the "old day", it was very rare to get skunked on Day. |
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| I was going to ask the same after I did a little research. sounds like the lake froze out once or twice. Then the lake was drained to fix a #*^@? a few recent reports from 2015 but they didn't sound the best. |
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| Day Lake
It was drained last fall 2015 to kill off the weeds. DNR's great plan and dropped water level around 6 to 8 feet was told to me. It was dry land past the wheels of the dock in late Oct.
Fished it about 3 weeks ago and saw 1 little guy. Water was high just like all the other lakes. So i don't know if it froze out or not. At a 6 foot drop not much water left for the fish. 800 acres down to a 30-40 acre hole at 12-14 feet deep. Just don't know?????? |
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| 14ledo81 - 6/30/2016 1:44 PM
Matt DeVos - 6/29/2016 1:26 PM
Lost Land and Teal are decent lakes. Definitely action-oriented, but with reasonable chances at fish into the mid-40" range.
I'll second Flambeauski's recommendation. If you are just looking to get bit, go to Day Lake. You're unlikely to get anything >36" but there are very high numbers of fish in the 30-34" range. As an added bonus, Day is probably one of the prettiest lakes in the area.
When is the last time you have been to Day?
It hasn't been the same for me since they drained it a few years back. I have had times when the action has been very good, but also a few times of nothing. In the "old day", it was very rare to get skunked on Day.
I haven't been there in a few years, but my family has a cabin in the area so I maintain correspondence with the local DNR biologist...just to keep tabs on the area lakes. Judging by the survey results, there are still an inordinately high # of muskies in Day lake. Here is a portion of the report:
"For the recap effort in 2015, 4 fyke nets were set in key locations...and tended for 4 days. The netting once again produced a HIGH catch of musky, with some of the highest CPE’s that have been measured in Wisconsin. The 4 days of netting yielded a total of 208 musky (13.0 /net-night – see LF graph below), with 13 of those being repeat 2015 recaps...The musky ranged in length from 20.7” to 42.5”. The total of 195 ‘new’ musky collected included 68 RV-clipped fish from 2014 – and yielded an adult population estimate of 864 musky (1.4 /acre – a very high density population). This estimate also compares closely to the 2014 single-year mark-recapture data that gave a rough population estimate of 1,005 musky, or 1.6 /acre." |
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