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Location: New Hope MN | Being that it’s winter and still freezing… I was thinking what lakes I would stock musky into. A few of my hometown favorite lakes came to mind; Clearwater, Bay lake, and farm island (all near Mille Lacs). I honestly picked these lakes because of nostalgic reasons, except Farm island. Farm island would be an amazing lake.
2000 acres + cisco + amazing structure = success IMO.
What Minnesota lake would you stock and why?
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Winnie. State record fish, and fertile water. It would be an awesome fishery. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | the Ely area would be a dream
if not, a fully loaded Rainy Lake ( yes I know they have a small population already) |
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| IMO there are 100's that would be great, Grandparent's had a cabin on Turtle River Lake north of Bemidji,.. 1700 acres, full of whitefish, great weedlines, it could be just like the "Planet" , maybe better. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Long Lake by Park Rapids. Not sure if has tullibees or not, but it could grow tankers regardless. Plus we have a cabin there. |
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| Kirby Budrow - 3/3/2014 12:18 PM
Winnie. State record fish, and fertile water. It would be an awesome fishery. I agree with the thought of doubling down on an existing fishery to make it better.
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Location: oswego, il | Kabetogama, Namakan and Crane. |
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| But for a totally new lake, Trout in Coleraine would be fun to fish, and I imagine it would grow some big muskies. Produces big slime, that's for sure. Lots of forage in there. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | X2 on Rainy. That could be an incredible fishery with a boost in the population! |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | Big Birch near Grey Eagle.
Edited by Clark A 3/3/2014 1:16 PM
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| Gull - amazing structure |
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Location: Minnetonka | Think about the regions that don't have good muskie fishing nearby. Fill in the gaps.
Green Lake - Spicer, MN. |
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Location: Victoria,MN | Koronis would be a good one, of course the stocked fish would eventually get into Rice Lake and the Crow River  |
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| Local = Clearwater and that is never going to happen.
Green lake would be a great addition to that part of the state even though it already has a few in it. Koronis would be an intersting lake in the same region. |
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| The Whitefish Chain, Gull, Pelican, North Long, the Brainerd Lakes area is in dire need of a musky fishery that is close. So many lakes with potential here. |
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Location: oswego, il | How about some of the larger dishpan lakes in southern MN? Give them an earlier opening date. They are loaded with bulkheads and other forage. It would work. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | imo Hammskie has the best idea.... find the areas or regions that don't have good lakes and put em in there...take some pressure off the areas that do... |
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| I thought it a shame most the lakes proposed on the last go around weren't approved for stocking, North Long being a big one. A few others it'd be cool to see brought into the discussion to put fish in though would be Lizzie and Lida, Big Sandy Lake, and a couple more lakes in the Faribault area where the pressure is fairly intense for one 800 acre lake to support. Lots more come to mind, as mentioned areas with no musky water should get the most attention. |
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| I would love to see tetonka finally get approved. see as i live 10 minutes from it. other than that i have to drive minimum of an hour to fish |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Big Sandy would be at the top of my list. Also on the list would be Rainy, Kabetogama, and Burntside. |
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| Tetonka its already proved it can grow 50 inchers from the fish that escaped into it from the hatchery. German Jefferson chain would be sweet too. |
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| wabana chain |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Yeah, big sandy or almost any lake that is connected to the ol' Miss. It's all a fantasy though. |
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| The best lake bar none would be potato lake in park rapids. The lake is big, great forage, tullibee , smallmouth,walleye, pike, sucker, Ect. Plus it's a clear lake that hits 90' ft. With lots of structure such as mid- lake rock humps. Lush cabbage bays. Rivers coming in and out for spawning. Plus we have a cabin on the lake which would make it that much better;).but this would never happen...... People would go nuts if they here that their lake is going to stocked with musky. What I don't understand is that every great Muskie fishery is a great walleye fishery, leech, mile lacs, vermillion, lake of the woods..Every lake should stock Muskie's
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Crane Lake, and Kabetogama are excellent choices and are great Walleye Lakes.... The Structure on these two lakes are off the charts. |
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| Whitefish chain would be sweet! |
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I will give another vote for Long Lake near Park Rapids. My buddy has a cabin there so I stay up there every year. The drive to Mantrap & Leech isn't bad at all, but I would rather just step out the door and be on muskie waters. |
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| The Whitefish chain would be great. So would Potato. With Island, and Eagle feeding into it, I think it would be a fun area. Plus that would eventually take a little pressure off Mantrap, and Elk. I know other lakes in the area are on the Minnesota Muskie list, but they have very small populations of Muskies. I would love for them to replenish the populations in some of those other lakes in the area of Park Rapids. |
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| I too would like to see a few of the lakes mentioned in the Park Rapids area get stocked. For sure take some pressure off of Mantrap. Then definitely Kabetogama and Rainy. That would be awesome. |
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Location: Minnetonka | T-Bone - 3/3/2014 1:33 PM
Koronis would be a good one, of course the stocked fish would eventually get into Rice Lake and the Crow River :)
Was gonna say Koronis too! It would be a nice combo for that region... might as well throw in Big Kandi and Lac Qui Parle since we're dreaming about it. |
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