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| after a whole month of nice weather and no rain, how'd you fare out there in the first cold front in a month landing on the first day of the season? I only saw a couple fish and caught one northern. |
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| Weather was pretty brutal. We picked up a low 40's fish on about the 10th cast and then that was all she wrote. Off the lake by 11 due to lousy, miserable weather.
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Location: In a shack in the woods | Follow on my first cast. Had a total of 3 follows and caught 1 northern. Was off the lake by noon and casted off the dock periodically the rest of the day. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Only saw one...but it was my sons new PB. Just over 47"!! Then the cold front moved in and we saw nothing.
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Jeez LundBob, where were you fishing? That weather looks nothing like what we had in central MN. My hands were frozen, rain gear soaked, and my face was chapped from wind burn. That looks like heaven compared to what we had.
Saw 9 between 35ish to 50ish. Lost a high 40's under the boat. Went home just after dark. Got to play with all the new toys. Word of advice - The Heavy Predator throws mag dawgs like a dream, but it is wayyyy too soft to get a good hook set... Thus the lost fish.
Heading out in a few, I hope everyone has a great season.
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Location: Duluth, MN | Yea that was about 8:30 in the morning. About 11 the clouds moved in and east wind picked up and was raining later in afternoon. |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | Fish East and West Rush 5am to noon, 7 seen with biggest in the mid 40's. Pretty lousy. Conditions overall, cold hands wind burned face, but #*^@ it felt good to be out on the water chasing skis again.
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Fished for a bit on Friday w/ the boys but couldn't connect. Had 4 fish attempt but miss and numerous follows. Dane even had a pretty hot follow, I wish he'd have seen it...  We then got chased from the reservoir by a T-storm.
We skipped fishing Saturday despite it being the best weather day of the entire weekend and went for a hike instead.
I went out this AM in the rain; well, it was just overcast when I got there. Got a scrawny one after about 10 minutes (roughly 6:20) and was pretty optimistic about what might happen the rest of the morning. At about 6:30 it started to rain and that was it for any action from the fish. Quit at 9:30 and headed home to go to church. On the bright side, I had the lake to myself.
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| fished on eagle lake and ended up seeing 1 decent fish and catching a 40.5 on a baby weagle |
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| Saturday I fished for a couple hours and boated a 45.5 inch Musky on a Heli Dawg. I also had 1 mid 30 inch follow. After looking at the picture of the 45.5 and a picture of a 45 incher I caught last year I realized it was the same fish. The markings are exactly the same. I fished today for a couple hours and never saw a thing.
The second pic is the same fish from last year.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | How Cool is catching the same fish twice !
I love hearing stories like this........ CPR Works..... Cool.
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Location: Southwest PA | Anyone else able to lip their big fish this weekend?
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | Definitely cool seeing/hearing about the same fish caught twice. Awesome job! Now the challenge will be to catch her a third time!
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Location: Maplewood, MN | i was on the water by 6:17am and off by 9:40am
follow on my 5th cast
5 follows total, one was high 40's got my heart racing - no bites on the 8's
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Fished Price and Iron counties Thursday through this afternoon, with a quick stop in Vilas County Sat night. Launched the boat Thursday morning on the Flambeau River to a wonderful 37 degree air temperature, yikes. Fishing was so -so until Saturday, just plain awful weather and fishing Expected the same today but the 'Skis were going crazy, only fished from 11-3 and had action from 10 fish, boating 5 and almost nailing a nice approx 48" fish. The smaller Phantom gliders with the rubber tails very tight to structure with pauses were the go to bait, bucktails were ignored. Water temps have dropped 3-5 degrees in the last few days....
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Location: The desert | Visited a buddy in Wyoming this weekend. Did some elk shed hunting and found a few along with a bonus antelope shed. Did some fishing for trout and I landed the three biggest of the weekend, a 19.5 inch rainbow. Also drove around with the .17 loaded and ready to drop prairie dogs. Piled up about 25 or so along with a pocket gopher and a jackrabbit. Saw a bunch of antelope, mule deer, and a few elk. All in all a good weekend. |
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Location: Gurnee, Illinois | Hey Rich, did you "noodle" that one?
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Location: In a shack in the woods | went out last night for 4 hours. So windy and cold it reminded me of fall fishing. Not even a follow |
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Location: WI | Muskyhunter247 - 6/7/2009 8:13 PM
Saturday I fished for a couple hours and boated a 45.5 inch Musky on a Heli Dawg. I also had 1 mid 30 inch follow. After looking at the picture of the 45.5 and a picture of a 45 incher I caught last year I realized it was the same fish. The markings are exactly the same. I fished today for a couple hours and never saw a thing.
The second pic is the same fish from last year.
I think the 'fisherman' grew more than a 1/2 inch in the off-season!! Good work kid!
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Location: New Hope MN | Skunked here. Fished a solid 5 hrs without a follow on Millacs. We swtiched to smallmouth and just killed em. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | PP. antelope shed??? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | On the couch all weekend recovering from a nice case of food borne nasty. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | ghoti - 6/8/2009 7:46 AM
PP. antelope shed???
He probably means an antelope horn sheath.
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Location: The desert | sorenson - 6/8/2009 8:54 AM
ghoti - 6/8/2009 7:46 AM
PP. antelope shed???
He probably means an antelope horn sheath.
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Sure, I dont know jack about wildlife. The horn that used to be attached to an antelope, I found one of those. |
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| All of our follows came on Dawgs and Curly Sues on the outside edge and slightly off the structure. We boated one, 40" on Sunday afternoon to salvage a cold wet weekend. Back at it tonight and every night thereafter.
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Location: Hopefully on the water | Fished out on Green Bay Sunday morning from 6-10:30 and had 2 follows. 1 was low 40" and the other was mid to upper 40" class fish. Had one guy loose 2 fish but never saw what they were so no definate there of a musky. All but 1 fish were moved or temporaily hooked on Bulldawgs. The other fish was on a carp colored flatfish bait. All casting and no trolling out there this weekend for us. Ride out wasn't terrible but the ride back in was a wet one. Up to Vilas for the up comiong weekend. Good luck to everyone. |
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Location: Medford, WI | Fished in the WMT 3 Lakes Chain tourney this weekend. On Saturday, we went to our sports where we planned on fishing most of the time. Saw one get caught about a castlength from our boat, and we didn't see anything at all. Headed to our deeper water spots. Had two up in about 20' of water, but no takers. Ended the day in the rain and coming in to find out that 5 teams had doubled for the day along with 11 other teams catching one fish. Knowing we'd have to double on Sunday to place, we headed to the deeper spots where we knew fish were....changed baits a bit and about 8:00, my partner struck on the 8. Measured in at 35.5". After spending a good time reviving the fish, she was able to hold herself upright and swim away...good feeling to see the fish survive. Looked to be very stressed from the spawn still as it was still really scarred up. Ten minutes after being back out, my partner yelled big fish, only to have the bait pop off about 5 seconds later....low-mid 40"er....ouch! 5 minutes later, he had another follow; so I threw on an almost exact replica of the bait he was throwing and about 5 minutes later, I thought I saw a flash below my bait....around the boat once, nothin....around it a second time and it was right on the bait and just nipped at it....I slammed the hooks home and had the fish neted in about 10 seconds. We knew it'd be close to 34" and measured it right at 34" so we registered it and were able to just get 34" out of it. Then the waiting game began.....ended up getting 10th place and enough money back to register for another tournament. That was a great feeling after blanking on day one!
Just like everyone else mentioned....weather sucked!
Hunter, great fish! Awesome to see it caught twice by the same person. Plan on going back after my first musky last year (48" then) sometime this week, as I saw her in the same spot about a week ago.
Good luck to everyone, hope you're able to enjoy some time outdooors...even in this weather.
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I caught an anchor and a tree, Jonesi got this one on Friday.
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| One 37 tiger in the boat by my causin, his 4th ever so that was cool. Cold, wet, windy is pretty much the best way to describe it. |
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