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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I still suck on local waters with one swipe at a topraider at the boat in 5 hours...
How did everyone else do? |
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Location: Minnesota | Took my mom out pike fishing cought around 14 to 16 fish in 3 hour's she had a blast fish were from 24 to 29 that we kept threw bake a 34 witch was the biggest. Over all a good day |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | 46.5" on a double cowgirl.
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/catch-and-release/Casting-with-Buck... |
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Location: Southwest PA | A bunch of fat bowfin which all fought well for a minute or two. Didn't get to pursue the larger toothy critters for lack of preparation due to emergency situations with localized flooding in our warehouse...
Edited by Tommis 6/19/2017 10:01 AM
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| Absolutely Terrible!.... Worst start to a season I've ever had. Only seen two fish in 26 hours of fishing. Zero strikes. Fishing metro waters. I think the lack of stocking and fishing pressure is starting to show.... People withing my fishing circle are saying the same. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Saturday was unreal, put 4 in the boat and missed a few more. Matched my personal best and beat my biggest Iowa fish by 4 inches. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Nothing for me in 4 hours last night. |
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| I moved 5 fish friday night all on topwater, had one of the fish up twice and missed her in the 8. caught a 34 and a 27 on saturday and moved one other fish |
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Location: Mapleton Mn | 6 hours on saturday and not one fish seen. Pretty rough for the first trip out for the year. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Not a bad weekend. Wife and I Boated 10 ski's since Thursday eve. 47" was biggest. Saturday was a skunk, calm, humid....yuk! Stuck 5 nice pike also, 31,32, 34,36,40" JD Heard of a 51+ Caught in SE , WI. Nope, was NOT fishing a river system!!!
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| The TC metro struggle is real. Fished for 3 hours Saturday morning and saw one fish.
Have boated one fish in ~17 hours on the water - brutal. |
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Location: Delavan, WI | Hey JD nice talkin with you out there Saturday, was tough for sure we casted for about an hour first thing then got a 36" pike trolling stuck with trolling till about 2 then casted again for about an hour and a half, two lazy follows on dive rise jerkbait 2nd stayed really deep I think the storms on fri kinda messed em up a bit called it a day by 3:30 as the rain came pouring down I think it was the right call |
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| I don't think the TC metro is bad right now. Just different tactics are working. Got a 46' mid-day Saturday after losing two fish earlier in the weekend. |
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| Terrible!!!when does Minnesota legalize recreational marijuana!! |
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| Kong - 6/19/2017 1:04 PM
I don't think the TC metro is bad right now. Just different tactics are working. Got a 46' mid-day Saturday after losing two fish earlier in the weekend.
I have tried different tactics. One thing I have not done is fish mid-day. Maybe that warming water is the ticket. I know I am far from alone in thinking the metro has been very tough this year. |
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| Most metro lakes I've been on are mid 70s I don't think warming water is key,,it's pretty primetime right now,,I think it's a lot of nite nite 11-4am is what I'm hearing if your into catching fish like that. I'm not. |
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| I shelled a 4 nut peanut...it was a good day. |
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| I would just give my left nut for a mid 40s fish this spring!! |
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Location: SE, WI. | happy hooker - 6/19/2017 2:29 PM I would just give my left nut for a mid 40s fish this spring!! My buddy who stood up in my wedding party, lost his left testy in the armed forces. Ill tell him ones available  JD |
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Location: MN | Finally put one in the net last weekend (45.5) - also mid day Saturday TC metro. It hasn't been terrible for me this year - seen a decent number of fish and had 3 bites that didn't connect before catching this one. Somewhat of a grind, but not dead. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | good work JD! I should learn how to troll! Put in about 8.5 hrs in Madison and saw some with one 42/43 hit but miss my bait...been a slow start here in Madison..should get rolling sooner than later.
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| Yea I'm seeing fish, they just seem to have no interest at the boat. Last time out (when I saw one) was the slowest outing for my boat. So I agree, it's not DEAD, but nothing what I am typically used to in June around here. I have spent some time open water trolling, so maybe I am just being dramatic. But that can happen when you wait six months to chase them and are greeted with a slow start. It can only get better. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | The wife got this really nice 45 throwing a baby beaver! I have yet to boat a fish 
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| Fished Cass for the first time and man that's quite the lake to explore. Saw 2 low 40s casting. Trolled most of the weekend with nothing. |
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Location: Minneconia | It's not different tactics. Overall, the metro waters I fish have been in steady decline for the last 5 or 6 years in my opinion. Same #'s stocked, much more pressure. Simple. |
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| Mid day Sunday (2:30) was moon down.... Moments before the storm at 6pm I had a 32 ignore my rules and eat out about two turns of the handle. I used the eye measurement and didn't put it in the net either. |
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| Went out again last night for 4 hours in TC. Going on my 4th trip without seeing a fish. Tried all different tactics, working different depths, retrieve speed, lures different spots. Something is defiantly going on with these fish here in the TC. Have not heard very many good reports from my network. If this keeps up in the future I might say the Hell with fishing in June |
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Location: MN | Dirt Esox - 6/19/2017 7:31 PM
It's not different tactics. Overall, the metro waters I fish have been in steady decline for the last 5 or 6 years in my opinion. Same #'s stocked, much more pressure. Simple.
Yep the fishery is on a downhill slide. Good news if you have kids the panfish bite is still strong. That's what I'm doing with my time. |
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| After seeing all the pressure we get in Western MN I can't imagine the pressure in the metro.
but... If i had to guess those lakes are still full of fish too. They are just very educated and don't bite unless you get creative. |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | Either the Metro tigers got a few more brain cells or their numbers are also down. |
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