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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Already 0-2 on trips (God was not willing, the creek DID rise) but MIGHT get a shot to get out for muskies this weekend.
How about everyone else? Long wait til May/June or some other plans in mind? |
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| South Dakotan here. No musky "season" so to speak, so I will likely be on the water as soon as ice is out. Forecast indicates warm weather for the foreseeable, so hell, maybe before the end of March. |
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| Living in Florida makes musky season tough…I’m not able to get up north until September this year. However, bass fishing is in full swing as usual. |
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Posts: 617
Location: Michigan | Catch and immediate release is open year round in Michigan. Hoping to get out later this month when things thaw. |
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Location: WI | Northern WI season starts the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. The general season starts the 1st Sat of May so walleye & smallmouth will keep me busy for a few weeks. And it gives me time to get any boat issues corrected and to start getting into "casting shape". |
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| Like Emptynet, Memorial Day weekend for musky. When water hits 55, will go out and fish with a bobber for shallow crappie and blue gills. Something about bobber fishing reminds of being twelve and allowed to take the row boat out for bluegills by myself. That was a long time ago, but when that bobber takes off, feeling is the same. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Next week if all goes well. m |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Theres a little city pond in my town where I like to go cast to keep myself in fishing shape, try out new Bucktails I've made or try new lures. I can catch Blue Gills small Bass and some years try stock it with Trout in the spring. A week and a half ago it had Ice but with a string of 60 degree days it's ice days were numbered. A week ago I was doing some yard work and it was warm and the wind was blowing hard I bet my little loses it's ice today. (I didn't get over there.) That night I watched the news and to my horror they had a ambulance by a lake in metro Denver and they pulled a 65 year old man out of the water who was clinging to a ice chest. He tried to go ice fishing and went thru. You could see the ice was dark, dark and rotten. He died.
The next day I cheeked my pond no ice, so I've ran some new bucktails and tried out some new lures. Where I live March is our snowiest month but last night we had rain and big wind and it's blowing today. I have some ultra light rods rigged and ready to go tomorrow. |
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| No closed season in PA, still waiting for the spring floods to kick things off. Water was so low most of this winter it wasn't worth it. |
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Location: PA Angler | Hopefully soon haha. As soon as it warms up to go to the camp I’ll be hitting them. April starts opening for trout so that might be first as it usually is for me. |
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Posts: 191
| 3rd Saturday in June. No prespawn fishing here. |
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Location: SW Ohio | Next week once I do my outboard service and get my truck in for some service as well. Looking forward to it. Been too long. |
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Location: Walker, MN | Three fish in the boat last week in TN. Up and down water temps, still had our opportunities though. Now I'll have to wait until June. |
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Posts: 373
Location: Browerville, Minnesota | Won't be until June 6th for me. Luckily there is turkey hunting to help kill some of that time, and when that is over there might be some soft water to dunk the boat and chase some crappies with the wife. |
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Location: Rochester, New York | June 15th |
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Posts: 253
| Heading this weekend !!! We are fortunate to be able to fish year round here in Illinois. Hope to get bit. Also need to field test all the investments I made this off season.
Steve |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | When my Weagle gets wet!  |
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Location: Ames, Iowa | Usually it's not until July 4th on Leech. However last year the guys were telling me the muskies go nuts at Brushy Creek in April and May, 47 miles from Ames. So I'm gonna go crappie fishing tomorrow with favorite youngest son, then get the boat outta storage, and head to both Big Creek and Brushy in the next week. |
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| I can't remember ever targeting muskies before late May-early June. I have put quite a few walleyes in the freezer already this year so I may start hunting for skies within a week. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | In my part of the country the weather can be all over the place so last Friday I checked the fish stocking report to see if they were going to stock the little town pond with Trout, nope according to the report so Sunday was nice and warm see I went over to my pond with a couple ultra lights and a handful of small lures to catch a few Bass. When I got there people were catching Trout, so I put on a Mepps # 2 with Squirrel tail caught a Trout on the first cast a Bass then another Trout then went home people all over the place, been going back most mornings with a Mepps #1 with the treble cut down to single hook and the barb pinched down and catching and letting some Trout just me a few people walking some dogs and the Red Wing Blackbirds, Huron and Robin or two and even heard a Meadow Lark. Yesterday a Bald Eagle come screaming in and grabbed a Trout off the top of the water. About 10 miles from where I was at there's a state park where there are nesting Bald Eagles. Every blue moon one will fly over my house. Tomorrow I may take my first trip of the year to the mountains and catch some Trout there. |
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| The Opener in northern WI is not what it was 30, 40 years ago. Not just personal observation, have heard that from merchants and folks in the hospitality business. Still a time for more visitors, boats, just not quite the event it once was. Back in the late 70s I was going to Three Lakes with a friend to his cabin on opening day and it snowed almost all the way from Stevens Point to Three Lakes. Vehicles pulling boats were in the ditch about every 2 miles. It was the time of CB radios and a couple truckers were telling folks with boats to either slow down or get the heck off the road. When we finally got fishing after lunch, it was still snowing but lots of boats on Planting Ground.
After the horrible snowmobile season, sure a lot of bar/grill and motel owners are hoping people come on up north. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | I never lived in Wisconsin but my dad was a native, I made my first trip in 1962 as a two year old and 1972 after that and have fished regularly there since 1976. As a kid my dad and grandparents talked all winter about the opener and over the years they the (DNR) changed the opener from a general opener to a different opener for muskies, catch and release Bass and so forth. Once apon a time I could have told you when they had a general opener when they changed it to a different Muskie opener when they changed the size limits ECT. If you look thru some old post you may find some info I once had or it could have been on a old Musky Hunter post too. I thing it was a bigger deal when everything opened at the same time. |
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