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| I figured that we should get this started this year.
Fished Lake Waconia on Sunday of opening weekend with very little success. Water temps were at 66-68 depending upon location and there was scattered weed growth throughout the lake. Weeds were actually down a little more than I had anticipated from years past. Had one follow from a very small fish and that was it.
Monday fished lake independence (and from what I heard) Indy got just pummeled with muskie fisherman opening weekend. Very slow out there as well. Water temps around 69 degrees. Managed two follows both relatively lazy, one did manage to follow the figure eight around about 3 times before leaving. Both fish were in the upper 30's to low 40's range. Didn't find much for weed growth in water deeper than 8 ft.
Fished tonka on Wed. morning and managed a 42" on the west end. Had one other lazy follow.
I can't believe how windy it has been lately. Makes fishing a little tougher as it is tough to stay on spots and effectively work different baits, especially ones with slower presentations/pauses etc....
Best of luck to everyone this year! I usually am fishing the west metro lakes. I will be in a Silver and Black Tuffy 1890 with Suzuki on the back end. Stop by and introduce yourself if you would happen to see me.
Hoping to get out tomorrow morning early depending on the weather but I have a wedding this weekend so I probably won't get out until maybe Sunday evening. Good luck in the Hartmann Tourney.
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Location: Twin Cities | Tonka on Sat morning was so so. Seen two decent fish between sun up/moon rise and then after moonset she died off. Lazy follows too.
Fished French mon + tues, and compared to previous years and after talking to 6+ other guys it is safe to say that the lake has been a dissapointment so far. Seen a couple fish each day, but expect alot more from there this time of year. One guy got one trolling. Nothing to write home about here. 70 - 72 degree water temp.
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Location: Albertville, Minnesota | Well, went back to Eagle last night with a buddy. First cast of the night, had mid 40's come to the boat. Followed my oval once around and gone. We had three other follows within 15 minutes after that, all different fish. Once the wind picked up around 6 or so, couldn't get any to go besides two very sluggish guys in very shallow water. It appeared we were on the later end of our window, until another system picked up...whats new. Water temps were around 69.
3 days of fishing out there, over 20 follows and only one feable hit...very tight lipped. I would be fishing this lake again for the Hartman tourney, but I'm outta here for the weekend. Water temps are prime for another favorite lake of mine.
After our first 15 minutes of fishing last night, I thought it was game on. But man they sure turned off in a heartbeat.
Good luck to the guys fising it this weekend.
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| Fished White bear last night.
I saw and actual Bear. Which was neat.
What was not was my partner has a solid 50+ on. I got her partway into the net. She hooked the bait in the net, came loose but she was to big to fall into the net. I lifted her about a foot out of the water as she lay on the hoop of the net like a board. She slow motion slip off and back into the deep.
7 pike
2 ski's up on gliders but no takers
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| I fished with some of my students on Tuesday night on an east metro lake for bass. Temps were in the low 70s and even though we were fishing for bass, we caught three tigers. All in all a great night.
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | Well I never thought I would succumb to this, but I am unequipped with the proper boat this summer. If anybody needs a partner in the West Metro I'm your man. I can fish weekends and evenings. I'm a young guy (26) and definitely no slouch/newbie. Boy this sounds like a personal add. LOL.
As for the report, I did get out this past weekend and Monday with similar results as already posted. Very small windows of activity. One boated within a minute of moonset Sunday.
Thanks,
Mike
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| Fished Forest Sat AM. Had fish going early on phantoms and vipers. Several charged the bait hard but didn't eat. Action died by about 9 am. Pond weed is up full and starting to die off. Fish were suspended with schools of bluegills off the edges in 12-15'.
Fished Owasso Sun PM with no action. Weeds are not nearly as far as along as I would expect. Heard the lake was sprayed on Monday so I won't bother fishing there again for a while. One guy at the ramp told me he had caught several nice ski's trolling Rapalas very shallow before Sat. I reminded him that the season had not yet opened, to which he had little to say, but judging by his gear he was not a regular musky hunter.
Fished Blady Tues night with the North Metro league. Our boat only moved two - one blow-up on a topraider and another very lazy follow on a phantom. Similar story from the other guys fishing, although a couple were caught but no obvious pattern. Water temp was 68. The pond weed has already died off and is completely gone but water clarity still isn't too bad. Almost no vegetation right now (at least not on the south and west sides of the lake where we fished).
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| asteffes - 6/7/2007 6:40 AM
Monday fished lake independence (and from what I heard) Indy got just pummeled with muskie fisherman opening weekend. Very slow out there as well. Water temps around 69 degrees.
Tony Steffes
I fished Independence for a few hours on Saturday morning. Was up camping with the family so I was off the water around 9:30 /10:00. When I left I counted around 50 trucks/trailers in the parking lot. I didn't see any muskies on Saturday. I took the boat back to Rochester on Thursday, but left a musky rod camping to fish off the public pier at the park. Raised a upper 30's-low 40's fish mid day on a top raider. I had race day on Saturday and on the second bike loop I saw one come out of the water boatside on a boat fishing the southwest bay. From my quick observation riding by I'm guess the fish shook off as the net was put down. |
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| tfoot stalker
you should think about attending our Twin cities chapter muskies inc meetings you will meet alot of guys we have the biggest chapter in the country,,and with gas prices the way they are Im sure you wont have to look hard,, Delano not that far away from Bloomington we have a meeting tommorow tues 6-12 7pm,"see club section" of this webboard |
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | I'm gonna try and make it. Depends on how many bullheads and hammer handles I have to pick out of gillnets tomorrow...  |
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| Ill be at the welcome table,,Hawaian shirt ' boyish good looks" etc |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Out on forest on Saturday. It was nice to have clouds for a couple hours, but I could not get anything to move. I had water temps of 78-79, which was a jump for me from the previous weekend of about 71 on the same lake.
Only two follows for my boat this year, and I cannot claim either one. I gotta do something different, as usually I at least see fish.
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I got out a couple of hours on Tonka the evening of the opener and never saw a Muskie. I got out on a northern MN lake for a few hours the next Saturday and caught a 38 and a 41 and lost a pig. I got out last Thursday on a small metro lake and caught a couple of mid 30 inch Muskies.
Not much time on the water so far, but I've managed to catch a few anyway. I've had all my fish on the new skirted tandem CJs worked rather slowly just over the weed tops. |
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| Out on tonka for the first time fri right before the storm,,I got a 50' and partner got a smaller one,,when I first measured it it was 49.5 only to find out latter my buddys ruler has a inch long butt cap on the bottom. I was born here in twin cities and lived here all my life but STILL forgot how bad summer tonka boat traffic is,,despite the lunker I will try to avoid tonka till sept or play the storm window. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Fished Tonka last night for a few hours, the wind was out of this world combined with the boat waves made for the wettest ride of my life cutting across the main lake. Lost a fish boat side right away then had a nice fish role over a bait. Fished pretty shallow. |
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Location: Minnetonka | I hear you on that one, Cave. We fished Sunday... gusting to 40 mph. We made several passes with dual drift socks and the trolling motor... really tests your sea legs. Saw an absolute tank on a soft plastic around 6 pm... right where she should have been... livin' on the edge.
P.S. Heard you were sleeping on the net for that fish.  |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Hammy no net would have put that fish in the boat unless you had a 10-12 foot extension, might hit tonka tomorrow morning, all those sail boats out there makes for a mess. I hit it last year and there were hundreds of them combined with the rest of the boats it made for a worthless night on the lake. Your best odds are finding a small bay and staying there it was bobbing and weaving at 5mph through all those boats last year. |
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| Records show last week in june-first wk of july is usually good for metro Tigers,,anybody tryin,,,had one good day last week,,hot,humid no wind is tiger time |
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| Fish have been moving in the metro area lately. Find the deep weed edges and you will find fish. However, I did see another group put 2 in their boat fishing EXTREMELY shallow!!! Most of the action has come on suicks and crankbaits. Lots of followers on bucktails, but not many takers.
Put 4 in the boat in the last couple days with my buddies 49" being the largest.
Water temps have been in the mid 70's. Look for areas with deep weed growth or shallower areas with sand/rock and mixed in reeds/weeds.
Good Luck!
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| We stuck two on Sunday evening. |
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Location: Shoreview, MN | Fished Forest last Thurs evening. Surface temp was 78. Pond weed is gone (except for perhaps a little in 14-16') and the shallow weeds beginning to develop. Nice cabbage in spots but you've got to spend some time to find it. We only raised one fish and only heard of two small fish caught. Most guys where throwing either Cowgirls or Bulldogs. Bulldawgs in 16-20 semed to be moving some fish. Not much going on shallow.
Fished White bear Sat and Sun am. Water temps 72 Sat, 74 by Sun noon. Lots of muskyhunters out Sat and again, a lot of people throwing Cowgirls or Bulldawgs. I raise four fish Sat - three were small and over shallow rocks with a small Phantom. Came back Sun and caught the 4th - a fat 46" - using a Grandma around an isolated patch of deep cabbage. Never saw another fish all day - not even a pike. Plenty of weeds - lots of millfoil - and some deep cabbage but again I had to spend time finding it.
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Location: Twin Cities | Tonka on Tues, fished many of my mid-late summer spots and got nothing from it. Seems that maybe a week or two more of heat will help. Didnt try much shallow - maybe i should have, but i did manage one 43 on a mid lake structure which really threw all my ideas of what the fish were up to out the door. Seen one other caught on a shallow weedline. The Milf is getting up almost all the way. And there were 2 MILF sightings. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Tuesday seemed like a decent day to catch a muskie... pre frontal conditions... windy and hot. HOT was the definition of the fatty that got the hooks on the figure 8... good times. Several other decent looking follows... from platinum blondes in wakeboarding boats.
Anyone else getting the silent treatment from this cold front? Last night was brutal.
Edited by Hammskie 6/28/2007 2:11 PM
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| Yep,
My buddy and I boated 4 on Monday and then on Tuesday evening, the action was already much slower. Winds changed from the SE to the NW and the fish seemed to turn off.
I hope to maybe get out tomorrow morning so we'll see if anything picks up.
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Location: Onalaska, WI | Dogger,
What is an MILF? |
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Location: WI | MILF......MOM I'D LIKE TO _ _ _ _........................get to know better!! |
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Location: Minnetonka | Muskie I'd Like to Find |
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| Fished a west metro lake last night from 9 until midnight with no luck. I figured with the hot weather and the busy traffic during the day that the night bite might be pretty good, but no luck for me. I was VERY surprised to see 3 other boats fishing the same shoreline as myself last night too, normally I don't see many other guys out there that time of night.
Not sure if anyone had any luck, but I didn't see anyone boat anything.
I might have to try the morning bite and see how that is going because the evenings have been tough lately.
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Location: Maple Grove | I took the future wife and in laws out panfishing on Independence yesterday. I had surface water temps in the eighties on most of the lake. Should come down with cooler weather on the way. Question...I noticed the sign at the entrance to the park says it closes at sunset. Does that mean you have to be out of there by then, or can you fish it at night? |
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Location: Otsego, MN | You can fish it at night with a permit it's $20 I think. If you are out there after dark you will be ticketed by park police. |
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