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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | How did the muskies treat you over the weekend? We fished them for about 4 hours, saw one. |
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| skunk city for this guy... |
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Location: Lockport, IL | First day out this year. Soft Plastic.
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| My son nearly caught his first musky yesterday morning but it just wasn't in the cards. The ole not pay attention at the boat and the fish knew it trick. Otherwise no luck. |
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Location: New Hope MN | zip... first time river fishing. I was so confused... |
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Location: Eagle River, WI | 40 3/4" on Sat. before the storm, and 32 1/2" last night right before the wind switched directions on us. Didn't hit her to hard this weekend with the cold water temps and lack of weeds on the lakes up here. Hope she warms up soon.
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Location: Hudson, WI | Caught 2 short ones on a local lake and lost a low 40's right at the boat on Saturday. Sunday I hit the Croix and won't be going back until the water drops at least 6 feet and the no wake is lifted. |
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| Fished 12 hrs Saturday. Saw nothing on the first lake. Picked up and moved at 11:00 to another lake where I lost one fish on a regular bulldawg and had two other follows.
Was on Pelican on Sunday, had one blow out of the water and miss a topraider plus one other follow. Monday, fished Pelican but took a break from musky, went home with 8 nice crappies and 2 walleyes.
Overall, great weekend to be on the water. Wish the muskies would have cooperated a bit more but the season's just begun. Sometimes nice to switch it up and get a couple meals, especially this early in the season when other species are easy to catch. |
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| 7 hours on the water Sat. Skunk city. One half hearted topwater strike that was probably a largemouth. Not even a lazy follow for the effort. Interesting thing learned: 7inch Suick (custom weighted by me) fished better through the shallow weeds than topwater in many locations. |
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| Fished Saturday and Sunday in northern WI. Boated 4 fish, but they were all smaller... Lost one in lower 40s right next to the boat... Had 3 follows, two at the same time, one on my line and one on the wives line.... Also seen a couple larger fish sitting in shallows that were pretty marked up and could have cared less about eating anything we were tossing... |
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| Just got out Saturday afternoon. Stuck a 36, 33, and had one take a swing and a miss at Grandma. Spent the rest of the weekend drinkin beer |
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Location: Hopefully on the water | 1 follow on Saturday Morning pushing 40" on a pacemaker. Sunday 2 short follows on dbl showgirls. Rest of the weekend catching crappies and gills with the kids. Able to get a couple of meals to bring home. Nice to get out casting for a while and get the first follow out of the way. Would have been better if it was the first one to make the net but still good to be out. |
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Location: Janesville, Wi | Had three follows. Two shorts on Minocqua & one low 40's on Lake X. Hate to say the lake since it is very small. Only fished for 7 hrs. Rest of the time was getting crappies, gills, & a ton of northerns on crappie minnows. Can't believe how many northerns there are this year. Will have to put a few hammer handles in the frying pan this year. I love eating a few small ones here & there. Back up for a week starting on 6/10. Hopefully the water hits 70° by then. |
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| Two in the boat. 34.5 and a 32. Both were very shallow (less than 4 feet). One was on a modified shallow invaider and the other hit a baby girl. While we were taking pictures of the 34.5 the other boat muskie fishing by us was taking pictures of a big fish at the opening of a minor. Affirmed my belief in the solunar tables again. |
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| Boated a 34.5 and a 37.5 on a smaller lake in Rusk County. Warm water was they key. |
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| Had a great opener, we boated 5 fish-43,42 1/2,35,34 1/2 and a 32. Lost another 40 + incher and saw 5 more that wouldn't commit. Everything hit on bucktails and topraiders and all were either major or moonset related. |
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| The St. Croix sucked, water was so high, fish were probably swimming with the chipmunks and rabbits up in the woods. I think I saw one on the top of an oak tree. Add the no wake on top of it with the river at flood stage, made for a long weekend. Also some lauches aren't open, making things even worst. |
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Location: martinsburg wv | got five in the boat this week end 40'' 36''35'' 33''32''
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Location: Greenfield, WI | We were fishing a northern WI river system. We saw 12, caught an undersize muskie, a million and seven northerns, a 18" smallmouth, and three small largemouth bass.
BUT the news was on what we didn't catch!
One of my guys was bringing in an 18" northern. At boat side a fat 48 came up and shredded the northern! I saw the muskie coming vertical I was pulling the net out to hopefully net them both. The guy was freaking out and pulled what was left of the northern out of the water. I was trying to get him to put the northern back in the water, but that wasn't going to happen!
He sat down and shook for minutes and just kept repeating,"Did you see that? Did you see that?"
I think that he is now hooked on muskie fishing!
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| Fished for the 1st time all year with my boys on Okoboji. Water temps were 58-61 with very little weed growth. Had 6 follows including a 45" or so but none wanted to bite. Typical opening day as we threw tons of different lures, big, small, topwater, cranks, twitch, you name it. Great to be on water , get everything working,etc but boy is that lake busy with pleasure boaters. |
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Location: Not far enough north! | Fished Kinkaid down here on Sunday against all my better judgement but I wanted to get the new tuffy out on its first fishing day and get her slimed. Well things went good and bad... I knew the lake would be a zoo by noon so we hit the water at 5:30. The water was super dirty about 2" of visibility in the main body of the lake where it is usually several feet. The whole lake was dirty. Well at 6 we slid the net under a 46.75" on the first spot on a new lure in a new boat. Awsome however just as I was getting the net untangled from her teeth she thrashed and the net slipped over the side of the boat! Now I had a choice grab the net or the fish of course I tried to do both and got the net in one hand and her tail in the other but to no avail she was too fresh and one kick and she was gone... No slime in the boat and no pic for proof but a great start to the day. An hour later we lost one trolling.
The idiots came out early and were skiing by 10 and we saw nothing till noon. We hid under a tree in the shade for a couple hours and then fished the evening with nothing. We did however put the new 1760 through the paces with the high wind and the giant rogue wakes from the giant cruiser boats. After that experience I will never worry about the 2&3 footers we see on LOTW. That will be a piece of cake compared to the crazy chop we saw sunday... |
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | had a good weekend, landed 4 muskys : 40, 44, 41, 47. on everything from depth raider, to bucktails, to 9" curly sue rigged like a helidog. caught 3 of them while fishing solo. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Wow Joe, great job on the fish! Your off to a heck of a start this year. We didn't fish as much as we originally had hoped to, but got out about 7 hours Saturday and a few hours Sunday and Monday. My Dad boated a 40 from the back of the boat at 7:00pm Saturday. Caught it on an 8" Slammer on a rock bar. Boat was in 15 feet casting to probably 6. I had a little low 30's clear the water, completely missing a Weagle on a cabbage weed bar in about 6 feet of water.
Other than that we didn't see any other fish. Was pretty surprised at the lack of fish sightings, but we have all year to do better.
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Location: mpls | 4 fish for us on the boarder water opener Saturday ,50",49.5",44"(not including it's entirely missing tail) and a 41". All fish were immediate post spawn fish , just really beat up! All were caught trolling 14" "supernatural" "headlocks" and a couple custom 12" Trueglide crank baits.
Nice way to start the season and work out some cobwebs. Nice average size to start as well- it is all down hill from here 
Joe
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Location: ROckford IL | boated two and lost 4 |
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| fished about 3 hours, had a follow on the third cast and I wasn't paying attention, lost a couple of small ones, but not before an acrobatic show, and caught a couple of little 4-5 lb northerns. I was using a nickel/black rabid squirrel and wife an original floater rapala in 001 (her favorite and I love her for that). |
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| We had 3 in the boat. 2 were sub-30" and this 40" tiger that ate a Double Dawg. I had another one around 40" eat a Double Dawg at boat side, but I couldn't keep it hooked. We raised 4 other short ones.
Greg S
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| 5 friends and I went up and fished the Eagle River chain on Saturday/Sunday and put a good 20 hours in. Saturday we got skunked and didnt see a single fish with stripes, but Sunday everyone but 1 person caught a fish. So we boated 5, all small. We moved a few big fish but it was the little ones that appeared to be more active and willing to bite. And then we got hailed on 30min before we were ready to call it a night, fun times. |
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Location: Ontario, California | Caught 11 of these weird looking Muskies in NJ last weekend. Strange....
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Location: WESTERN WI | Opening weekend our group (2 boats) managed 12 ski's on a numbers lake. Funny the largest 38" came on a 12" sucker. Too bad we ran out of meat. |
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