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| I just posted a video of the muskie trip my son and I took on the spur of the moment last weekend. You will need to read the story behind it to understand the whole deal. ENJOY!
Saturday and Sunday October 9-10, 2010. From Nestor Falls, we went across Kakabikitchewan lake up the river to Pine Lake, then up the river to Wigwam Lake, which involves two portages around waterfalls. We fished Wigwam on Saturday and caught six muskies in there. This is the third time we have fished WIgwam. Good numbers of muskies but nothing big. I think the largest we have caught out of there is 36 inches. We caught two 35's that day. On the way back down that evening, we left the boat above the first waterfall and used the Ranger to get back to camp. The next morning we took the Ranger back up river as far as the first waterfall again. We then went across the portage again into Wigwam and then upstream about 2 1/2 miles more, which included portaging around two rapids, and pulling the boat over a huge beaver dam. It took the better part of three hours before we arrived at Lake Kishkutena, plus a lot of sweat and backbreaking work carrying boat, motor, etc. I had heard of people going in there before but I would not recommend it for a day trip! Plus it is pretty trecherous, and if you broke a leg or something, I am not sure how loing it would be before someone found you... or what's left of you. Kishkutena is a fly-in lake but we got in there without paying a pilot! On the way back down, we put the motor up and shot the rapids with the canoe paddles. One time we got turned sideways and the rushing current got a little dicey I thought we might swamp and lose all our stuff, but we made it through. By shooting the rapids we only had two portages (the waterfalls) instead of four. We only caught the 41-incher in Kishkutena, but it was worth it for Dawson to catch his best muskie so far. We did see a LOT of fish, probably about a dozen that day. They were following but not biting. We got back to Wigwam in time to try a couple trolling passes and caught a 28-incher and lost a 32 right at boatside. We were back out to the camp at dark and had a long drive home that night. Quite an adventure on a spur of the moment trip. We decided to do it on Thursday night and left on Friday morning. Dawson's Website: www.hotmuskielures.com
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Location: Medford, WI | Bernie, I didn't check out the video yet; but just from reading this post, it made me jealous. Sure you didn't catch a ton of fish or anything THAT big; but an adventure like that is more than worth it...you (and more importantly) your son will never forget it - especially shooting through the Rapids.
Thanks for sharing the story...it was a good read in the morning.
-Jake Bucki
P.S. Congrats to Dawson on his personal best! |
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| Sounds like my kind of trip. Looking at his website too, he sounds like one heck of a kid.
"I used to drop him off at the landing in the morning and come back and pick him up after work." - That's awesome. He must be a darn good stick too. |
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| If you look at the pcis on his website you can see he's done a fair amount of fishing for a kid his age! |
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Location: New Hope MN | That is soo cool. I wish I had friends that were up for things like that! |
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| Thanks for the comments guys. If you want more info about these lakes PM me. I would be happy to give you some direction. These are perfect places to take kids who have an interest in muskie fishing because they have a great chance of getting a couple on any given day. And getting there just adds to the adventure for them. |
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