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Location: north central wisconsin | My partner and I fished up north two days this past week, and were not having much luck, till the accidental cast occured. I was nearly on shore by the landing, and felt like trying a new Reef Hawg I purchases at the show(after hours of fishing "normal" spots). I was rewarded with a nice musky immediately. We ended up with 9 fish(6 over 40) in two days just by following the accidental pattern(fishing water in the 0-2' range). I fish rivers alot, and one of my mottos is there is no such thing as "too shallow"(we get alot of them in very shallow water), but was quite surprised to see it on the dark lakes up north that I've fished many times. Anyone else stumble onto a new pattern on a water they felt they had all the patterns figured out on??? By the way, the pattern petered out, and we got blanked the past couple days(DOGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH)
Edited by Reef Hawg 6/8/2003 6:23 AM
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Location: oswego, il | My dad got his first fish of the year fishing a topwater in less than two feet, just about as far back as we could get in a shallow bay. |
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| One pattern I found accidentally (actually it is more of a spot) is the shallow inside weedline. I was burning a spinnerbait on my way back to the landing and raised a fish...and this spot has shown a musky more times than not in following trips. |
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Location: Wisconsin | I haven't posted, due to just getting into musky fishing (from my brother, Phish Killer)..The times I have been out on the water have been smaller lakes, but it seems that early season on weed choked lakes that the fish like to stay on that inside weedline, close to shore or hugging to barely any cover at all..I guess it has something to do with better covered spots being pressured so much and the shallower area warming up faster...Anyway, I've raised two fish that way, one around 40 inches on a lake that is mostly mid 30's fish...Can't wait to land one.
Edited by Tallywhacker 6/9/2003 5:10 AM
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Location: north central wisconsin | Good point tallywacker. I fish muskies nearly every day and find myself passing over such areas quite often. I like to fish open water when up north(past success being the rule), and am glad that we are keeping our options open more this year. The inside line and even further up is just where they were, all of them. Were being the key word, oh how things can change over a few days............. |
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| Welcome to the site Tallywacker but I don't know if I would go around saying I was PK's brother!lol The three of us should try to hit some northern wisconsin lakes this summer and see if we can get you your first. |
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Location: Wisconsin | Ha! You might be right [=P] ...Northern Wisconsin sounds great. Those waters are probably getting to the right temperature around this time, eh?
Edited by Tallywhacker 6/9/2003 7:59 PM
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | I agree, I'm sure by saying he's related to me that now he's on some FBI watch lists....hehehehe
Fish on, let me know what weekends you're going to fish up there and we'll plan accordingly.
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