Pointerpride102 - 8/4/2019 7:59 PM



What makes you say that the Sab Bay Area is just like fishing Wisconsin?

Finprof - 8/8/2019 4:15 PM



Because the flowage that I fish looks like a mini LOTW. Rock ledges, rock islands, etc... Just that it is a ton smaller.

BNelson - 8/9/2019 9:18 AM
Guys should spend more time figuring out how to be better shield lake fishermen than trying to figure out where the successful guys are fishing. Read and watch Dick Ps Muskies on the Shield a few times.. ;)

IAJustin - 8/9/2019 2:55 PM

I believe when you fish according to Dick is 4:45am. :)

BNelson - 8/9/2019 9:18 AM
Guys should spend more time figuring out how to be better shield lake fishermen than trying to figure out where the successful guys are fishing. )

Pointerpride102 - 8/9/2019 9:27 AM



And what are you dreaming that the angle has?

Finprof - 8/10/2019 3:43 PM





A few people who aren't dumbasses that can answer a serious question!

Again, to those that really tried to answer my question, thank you. I really do appreciate it.To the rest of you - this is why I hardly come on here anymore. Musky fisherman really can be a bunch of di#*$.

I have been battling lung and heart disease for over a year and a half now. I finally feel good enough to fish a little this year outside of my Canadian trip. Who knows when my last year will be? God help me if I try to figure things out a bit before next year. Sheesh!

I guess my point was, if you aren’t looking to fish rocks, rocks, and more rocks...then LOTW might not be the place for you. Good weeds are hard to find on LOTW now.

undersized - 8/15/2019 10:56 AM


Interesting.

I found more cabbage this year on LotW than at any time over the past 10 years. The guide we spent time with said the same thing and has watched patches of cabbage grow from a single clump into 50yd weedbeds over the past 3 years. Of course, the cabbage is mostly dying down by mid-August like when you're there right now anyway so that makes it a bit tougher to find too - that doesn't mean there's none in July though.

By no stretch is it back to "Wonder Bay" like before the rusties came through where it could hold huge amounts of baitfish and therefore muskies, but there's good cabbage around in the right places that does hold some fish and maybe, just maybe, a new balance is finally sorting itself out in the ecosystem?

Pointerpride102 - 8/14/2019 5:29 PM



I guess my point was, if you aren’t looking to fish rocks, rocks, and more rocks...then LOTW might not be the place for you. Good weeds are hard to find on LOTW now, so if you’re looking at fishing big weed beds, you won’t find it in the Angle area. There are some weeds to be found in all areas of the lake, but the days of great cabbage beds are long gone. By no means does that mean you’ll never find fish in the weeds that are out there, they are certainly there. But if you’re thinking there will be more weeds, you may be left disappointed again. Also the days of 20+ fish weeks for two in a boat seem to be over. It’s possible, but is happening less and less based on reports.

The areas of the lake are all different, yet all similar as well. As noted how you fish a spot is often more important than the spot itself. Most areas of the lake have fish and plenty of them. In my opinion traffic seems higher in the Angle but there are more spots. Less spots in the Sab area, but the obvious ones often have boats on them.

I don’t think anyone was really trying to be a Richard to you, but saying it’s like fishing Wisconsin was an interesting take. If you don’t want to fish rocks, then you probably aren’t going to like any part of LOTW.

Musky Brian - 8/16/2019 8:15 PM

The super thick stuff alone with nothing else in the mix does not yield good results in my experience, occasional flashes at best, usually not very big ones. There’s a lot of that stuff in Big Narrows. In my experience it had to be mixed in with something else...a few good underwater boulders, bullrush, part of a point, a tree, a beaver hut ...something.

The one piece of green I think people overlook out there are actually lily pads, especially sparse patches