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Location: north west wisconsin | as far as arbut i had a nice fish come at topwater (lots of splashing) but didnt get a good look at him a couple of weeks ago found some really good spots with the water being so low but not mucch action I don't fish it very much cause its a sewer hole and lots of recreational traffic |
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | I use to camp there a lot up to 5-6 years ago. I actually caught my first muskie there when I said all right I'm actually going to target muskies. Caught it under the bridge, no surprise there as you mentioned. Believe it or not, back then the bigger fish came from the other side of the dam! You could see them trying to jump the spillway like dang salmon.
There was what I believed to be a discernible river channel out there. I was to naive then to recognize, but they don't have to be "suspended" out there to be in the middle of the lake...
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Location: north west wisconsin | yea ive been thinking about that thanks
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Location: Eastern Ontario | You know you are spoiled when you are wondering where the 50's are because you've only caught thirteen 40+ muskies ( 6 over 44 and fat ) and 2 shorter ones in 5 days. |
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Location: north west wisconsin | yea but look where you live lol i wish
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| I started throwing big (I mean 10" or better) double bladed Bucks this year and have seen my average size go straight up! |
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| only three ski lakes in the county but bn couldn't get it in two guesses. Was able to snake it out of him though weren't you Bradley.... tsk tsk. Krishna, Take that dude to the spot where your bud caught the 47" and he'll score a 40, just don't talk about that lake here.....hehehe. Good luck Floyd. Looks like you are on track mano. |
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| 2 guesses? what...i had one!
and actually P and A aren't even in that county.... |
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Location: north west wisconsin | no there is only three lakes in the county....
im movin
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Location: Marshfield, WI | reefer - 7/31/2007 9:15 PM
only three ski lakes in the county but bn couldn't get it in two guesses. Was able to snake it out of him though weren't you Bradley.... tsk tsk. Krishna, Take that dude to the spot where your bud caught the 47" and he'll score a 40, just don't talk about that lake here.....hehehe. Good luck Floyd. Looks like you are on track mano.
Jason, is that you? If its the spot I'm thinking about, wrong body of water and my buddy got a 48" in one spot and a 46" in another a year apart. I've been to the 48" spot many times and haven't even moved a fish. Caught smaller fish in the area, up to 36". I have rarely seen musky boats there so very little pressure there, which is nice when I do go there.
Krishna
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| Encourage people to release 30s, seriously. Actually any musky is special so be happy to catch what you do, and look for larger fish either on secondary spots near prime spots. Big muskies like to hang with other big muskies in general. Also check the shallow water and slop because big muskies can be found in skinny water |
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Location: Marshfield, WI | This lake does have a 40" min. I talked to one guy last time there and he knows of 9 legals taken out this year. The two biggest were 47" and 48". And this is only a 320 acre lake, not including the river that flows in.
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| If it makes you feel better, I have been fishing for muskies for 4 years (steadily increasing each year) and had 15 fish to my name with none of 39". In JUly alone, I landed a 43.5" fish and last Sunday I landed a 46" fish on my very first cast of the day. I had a 48" fish on about an hour later that came completely out of the water on hok set. I have seen well over 30 fish this year and I have one comment for people that fish lakes with heavy pressure.
1. Fish where everyone else isn't. There are a few points on the lakes I fish that everyone and there rbother hits. You have to practically wait in line to fish it. Try something different (i.e very shallow). Both of my big July fish were in less than 3 feet of water. Also fish where people won't fish. If the weeds are thick, fish there. Too many guys don't want to pull weeds off every cast. Suck it up, because as I found out on Sunday, the fish don't care if their burried in weeds and somethings making noise around them. I have seen at least 6 40" plus fish and 2 around 50" in less than 4 feet of water so far this year. In the time I have made it on the water this year, I have seen more than 1 fish per hour, which ain't too bad.
2. Fish with different lures. If I talk to one more guy at the boat launch who had "follows", but no bites on his Double Cowgirl, Bull dawg, jerkbait, I think I am going to kill myself.
3. Fish when otheres aren't. Set the alarm for 4:30 and get on the water at 5:00 A.M. I fish a heavily pressured lake in the metro area and I usually have the first hour of the day to myself. Its peaceful and the sun coming up is one the most amazing "feeling" time of the day. I usually fish from 5-9:30 on the weekends and over 80% of the fish I see are before 7:00 A.M.
I am far from an expert and am heavily addicted in my short career. I think most musky fisherman have moved up the the ranks from panfish, bass, walleye, etc. to musky to chase the ultimate sport fish. It surprises me to see boat after boat come out late, fish the same spots over and over with the same lures. If I hear one more ring of a double cowgirl, I am going to die. Don't get me wrong they are great lures, but after the 20th DCG goes by a fish, what do you think the odds are he's going to bite yours.
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | i am kind of having that problem i have caught two fish over 40 (a 40 and 41) and the other 9 all under 40. |
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| Tucker,
Good stuff in your post, your babbling makes sense.
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| Two things you gotta keep in mind:
1) Nobody catches numbers of big fish. Well, very few do. You get those "we're going to talk about this for decades" days sometimes, but more often than not, numbers and size are not in the same sentence. Its almost always one or the other, even on waters where there ARE alot of big fish.
2) I finally realized about a year or two ago that, to be successful, you've gotta fish waters that fit your style. Or, you gotta change your approach. I've been beating my head against the wall on a large lake I'm trying to learn, I've tried everything, and I've finally grown to accept that me and this lake just aren't going to get along. Sometimes you've just got to move on.
To catch big fish, fish big fish waters, fish deeper (usually), fish smarter, fish late and learn to trigger fish. Big fish have been caught before and released, which is why they're big now....and is also why they're harder to catch. Getting them to "go" is the name of the game.
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