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Location: Valentine, NE USA | ON AVERAGE, how far do/did you normally travel to fish for muskies?
We're talking about weekend trips, not Outings, special once-per-year vacations, or Tournaments...just the average, run of the mill fishing trip.
I'm usually able to stay within 150 miles, just curious to see how far everyone else is driving....
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Location: MPLS, MN | I live 10 minutes from Tonka. I do like to head up to Leech a couple times a year also just for weekend trips. Thats about 190 miles. |
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| "usually" 5 blocks for a couple hours
"often" 150 miles for a weekend
"several times a year" 400 miles for a week |
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Location: The desert | Like to stick close to home.
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Location: Des Moines IA | Just mapquested it, 93 miles from Elgin to Pewaukee, one way. That's for a single day. I have been on a few single day trips to Webster. Which is 172 miles one way. With current gas prices, don't see driving to Webster for one day excursions too often anymore though. |
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Posts: 462
Location: Antioch, IL | Approx. 25 feet (boat stays tied to the pier on Lake Marie, Fox Chain, untill mid June. Once idiot season is in full affect I put it back on the trailer. Don't need any repeats of last year. |
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Location: oswego, il | Indianer is about 180 miles for me my weekend trip of choice. Shabbona is about 25 miles and if I never see it again in my lifetime, I won't cry about it. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | I still like fishing Shabbona. Don't know why, but I do. It's definately better during the week. |
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Posts: 2427
Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | I drive 42 miles one way every day, 200+ days a year
Then I head about 800 miles north for 2 months when I travel up to MN. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | About 4 1/2 hours to the cabin which is roughly 280 miles or so which happens almost every other weekend. Next year I'll be paying my own way for everything and I'm not sure how many times I'm gonna be going with the gas prices the way they are! |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | 8 miles one way.
I can live with that. 
I do have substantial distances to cover to fish elsewhere though...
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| Every weekend from Milwaukee to Manitowish.
Week trips to Canada or northern MN.
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| From my house in Indy to the lake cottages on Webster, it's 155 miles one way. We do that on the weekends. So...over 300 miles round trip to fish the muskies. I can fish closer to home for the 'skis...but on the normal weekend basis, we go north to Webster.
I'm talking with my uncle and my cousin right now with what to decided to do about our yearly trip to our cabin up in Michigan. We're thinking due to gas prices, among a few other things, we may skip this year's trip to Michigan and just stick to fishing Indiana lakes instead.
Our cabin in Michigan is land locked, back in a forest. It's more of a hunting cabin. Free place to stay though. So, that'd means we trailer 1/2 hour one way to the lake each day and another 1/2 back each day. Plus the gas for boats, then the gas for the trucks there and back.....with both my cousin and I having our kids now....it's time to rethink a few things and put some priorities in line.
Edited by MACK 5/5/2006 9:51 AM
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Posts: 94
| I take my gear and walk about 400 yards. Why drive several miles when you can just walk a couple blocks and almost fish in your own backyard? |
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Posts: 686
Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | Depends but with 10,000 acres within 5 miles of home it is pretty wise to stay local!! |
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| Within 15 miles of home...wherever home might be on those days. |
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Location: Washington, PA | about 35 miles to the nearest, up to a few hundred for a weekend, usually catch a plane for a week long trip. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Well...To get there it is almost 200 miles. Once there, though, it is a matter of walking out the front door to the boat. Father's cabin is on a lake chain that has muskies, and being a teacher I don't need to be back home until the last week of August. 
Steve
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Location: Chicago, IL | i think u need to add more miles to your poll. drove 1100 miles round trip last weekend. sometimes 100 miles roundtrip. mostly 700 miles round trip. all really depends on where i am at the time.
Edited by muskiemook 5/5/2006 11:22 AM
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Posts: 158
Location: Eagan, MN | Like Obfuscate I'm about 10 miles from Minnetonka. I should go north once in awhile but it's hard to drive 100+ miles when we have so many great lakes close by. I'd drive much farther if I had to. |
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Location: NORTH WEST PA. | 11 miles one way with gas prices this high thats as far as I want to go! |
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Posts: 1060
Location: Palm Coast, FL | Walk outside my back door...hop in boat and fish! |
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| Just moved out of the cities and now Live 20 minutes from Mille lacs. Thats as far as i will have to go. Maybe a trip up north every now and then to the longville area. |
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| Exon is a public company and we share holders love it that you all who sell your lives at work for $300 a week after taxes and sit in little cubes of doom all day love to drive such long ways to fish.
Keep it up baby.
Money, money, money.
Lure O plenty Jim
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| I find it funny that you claim to be a shareholder, yet you can't even spell the name of the company you have stock in correctly. Exxon. Get it right next time you come on this board. |
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Posts: 28
| 2 Miles to the launch on the St.Lawrence ,1 hour drive to fish the Ottawa. |
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| My driveway to the south access on Detroit Lake in Minnesota is 62 miles. I know, because I count down about every mile until I get there. Unlike some of you, I get to Musky fish at most, 4 times per month, with two of those being outings of 3 hours or less. I truly appreciate any time on the water I can get. As far as the gas prices are concerned, as long as I've got a pulse and a credit card, I'm going Muskie fishing whenever possible.
I hope the guys that went out today are finding some success. My first trip of the year isn't until June 10th, but you can bet my hooks will be sharp. |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | In the summer I'm walking distance to the LOTWs, but then put 50-100 miles per day on the water. In the winter I drive 3,000 miles to get to the lake and back, then it's 10 miles each way when I'm there.
Lots of miles over the year! Wish gas was a little (lot) cheaper!
Doug Johnson
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| When you live in the Minneapolis Metro area there are a lot of options within 30 miles. I guess we are a little spoiled. |
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| I travel about 3 hours to the nearest muskie lake to me. The next is 6 to 7 hours.
Doug
How did you like the lake you drove 3000 miles to get to? |
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