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Location: Yahara River Chain | Hi guys, i just got an email from DonF. He takes some fantastic photos of the muskie trying to get into Lake Wingra each spring and share them with me and the Cap City club. Enjoy!!!
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| That bottom ones got some hops. Great shots gotta have good timing to get those. |
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| Very cool. I'd like to see that in person. Great pictures! The bottom 3 should qualify for the Musky Hunter calendar. |
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Location: Richland Center, WI. | Hi Gerard,
Are the muskies jumping now? Was down to Madison a couple years ago and got some pics. Looks like I need to grab the camera and get down there!
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Thanks for posting Gerard. I always look forward to the Wingra pics each spring.
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Ken, yes I got them from Don today. If it rains that should accelerate the action.
Jono, Don always sends me a bunch of them over the couple of weeks this is happening and if he does I will post more. I had one from last year as my desktop background. Now I've chosen a new one from this batch.  |
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| can anyone tell me where the spillway is? Streets preferably. Thank you. |
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| I believe it's Wingra Dr. Go to the end of Mills St. and take a right. It's right by the zoo |
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Location: Madison WI | Here is some pigs that I got on camera last week down at the dam, no jumpers just chilling like they didn't have a care in the world.
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Location: N.FIB | those are great pics |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Very neat pictures! Some of those look like pretty nice fish. |
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Location: WI | Very cool! |
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| how big are those 3 that are sitting there |
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Location: Madison WI | f4m1 - 3/26/2009 11:57 PM
how big are those 3 that are sitting there
It depends on which pic your talking about, one of them there is prolly 2 45's and a lower 40, the other one is of 2 45's and the other one is prolly about 47-48 inches. I was literally 2-4 ft from them that day. Hopefully the water level drops so I can make my way across the spillway and see the big females in the corner. |
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| Are they there at all times of the day? Just at a certain time? |
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| Some great pictures. |
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Location: Minn. | Always my favorite pictures of the year. Its always nice to see Muskies get AIR. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | guest - 3/27/2009 9:14 AM
Are they there at all times of the day? Just at a certain time?
Not sure what you mean, but yes they are there throughout the day. Many are staged in the pool below and every now and again one takes a shot on getting up the spillway. Sometimes they make, most times they don't, sometimes they do only to slip back over where they came from. They normally draw a good crowd and more so on warmer sunny days. |
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | they are there til the end of may, come see the show. i was with jeff when he took them pics and i got some video that i will post. all them fish where big fish. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | Hey Gerard, can you please email those pics full size? I'd like to make a desktop out of them!
[email protected]
Edited by MuskieMike 3/27/2009 3:55 PM
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Location: Madison WI | Here are some of the recent pics of fish @ Wingra
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | right now if they jump and make it they have now where to go. the spillwayis getting low so they cant swin across. WE NEED RAIN!!! |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | cast for them with bass stuff |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Those scars across the back of the fish in the last pic may be from jumping and hitting the edge of the spillway.
When you see the fish in the air like that, ever wonder if they see the lake above and store that sight in their memory bank? Like little explorers. . . |
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| fish4musky1 - 4/20/2009 11:55 AM
cast for them with bass stuff
The area below this spillway is a refuge and you can not fish it until the end on May or the begining of June. Signs are posted around the area. |
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| Those are some great pics. |
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Location: Madison WI | Guest - 4/20/2009 12:20 PM
fish4musky1 - 4/20/2009 11:55 AM
cast for them with bass stuff
The area below this spillway is a refuge and you can not fish it until the end on May or the begining of June. Signs are posted around the area.
Those signs still don't deter people from fishing there, heck we were there on Saturday and some guy walked up and actually snagged a fish before he got his butt chewed out for fishing there. |
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Location: Madison WI | Sam Ubl - 4/20/2009 12:02 PM
Those scars across the back of the fish in the last pic may be from jumping and hitting the edge of the spillway.
When you see the fish in the air like that, ever wonder if they see the lake above and store that sight in their memory bank? Like little explorers. . .
I highly doubt those are spill way scars, that fish definetly had something try to eat him more then once. The scars close up look like it got T-Boned by something bigger and took a couple of headshakes and then got released. I have seen enough fish with spillway scars and they don't look like those. |
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | muskyhunter24 - 4/20/2009 2:03 PM
Sam Ubl - 4/20/2009 12:02 PM
Those scars across the back of the fish in the last pic may be from jumping and hitting the edge of the spillway.
When you see the fish in the air like that, ever wonder if they see the lake above and store that sight in their memory bank? Like little explorers. . .
I highly doubt those are spill way scars, that fish definetly had something try to eat him more then once. The scars close up look like it got T-Boned by something bigger and took a couple of headshakes and then got released. I have seen enough fish with spillway scars and they don't look like those.
i think the same, he was grabed by a big girl who just wanted some loveing. they have a funny why of showing it. we have seen that fish for about a week now. the tail is really messed up too. |
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | heres a few.
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