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| MnSteveH you are right on about White Bear. I saw 4 small fish low and slow but also 2 fish mid forties that I managed to keep my lure away from. Lots of muskie guys out Wednesday morning, more than I would have thought. I think the weekend will be pretty good but to many rec boaters for me to go back there. Thanks for the dead on reports, I'll be back on WB next Wednesday. capt bigfish |
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| I fished Tonka this morning. The water has warmed up considerably the past week. The only muskie I saw followed in a bass spinnerbait. I followed it from a long way out. The fish had her mouth closed and the gills were not flaring. It was all over the spinnerbait and responded to what I did; speed up, slow down, and changed direction. It sort of followed the first figure 8 and then just moved away. Hopefully this was a good sign.
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| On Sugar last night from 5-930. Two hammerhandles, a baby bass, and two strikes from what I believe were muskies. Both hit at the very start of the retrieve and didnt get hooks. Had one fish egging me on porposing around the boat. Each time only about 5 feet from my lure. It was at least cool to see that.
I am still on the big goose egg for the year. THe weather is finally starting to come around so I am hoping to get a little more action soon. One can only hope. |
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| We fished Deer in Polk County today. The water seems more off colored than in the past. Many of the docks were posted for recent weed spraying. After seeing nobody home in our usual spots, we switched over to bass. We caught alot, all under 14". The surface temperature was about 70 degrees. We caught the bass on the inside weed edge. We caught most of the fish on a small crankbait. We were not hooking up on the spinnerbaits, so went to a smaller size with a trailer hook. I had a muskie on the crankbait, fought him to the boat where he bit off. He was in the weeds in less than 4 feet. It sounds like I am not the only one with a goose egg. I need to try something different, so it is time to pull out the musky flyrod.
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| 3 more hrs on WB this morning 5-8 AM, then had to go to work. I must be crazy, but I'm out of town for a week starting tomorrow so I had to give it one more shot. Thought the full moon set prior to sunrise would have a few moving but still skunked. Saw two fish on a deep edge, one kind-of followed, ther other just kind-of appeared - very lazy!. ALso saw a very large fish surfacing over 45' of water - saw it twice and was for sure a ski. There as shuge pod of bait suspended about 18' down. I worked the area real hard from top down but didn't move a fish. There's a tremendous mayfly hatch going on right now and I'm convinced that the majority of fish are suspended over deep water. Where's that MH article about trolling during a mayfly hatch?
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Location: Twin Cities | I fished Deer on 6/30 -- Warming water, didn't see that 70 until I left. Moved a few and caught one. Think deeper and slower next time out... |
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| We fished Inde this morning. At 6:30 water temperatures ranged from 73-75. Water look like thin pea soup and much of the curlytail pond weed is dying off. Talked to a guy who said several people saw and caught fish on Friday night. We moved no musky this morning, but did catch and release a 31" northern. Inde sure seems to be a different experience than it was 5 years ago. I am not a hydrologist, but guess it has too much nitrogen-rich run-off and maybe the spraying negatively impacted the good weed beds. People havbe been asking for an Inde post. I hope they will post, if it turns around.
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Well, after my wifes passing last week I went out and bought my liscence and had my first day on the water yesterday. I went with a friend but it's hard to be out there without her. Went to Forest Lake. I have been on the lake a few times over the years, but have to say that I don't know it very well, so I relied on my friend as a guide.
The water looked kind of dark to me, but I guess I can't compare it to other years as I don't know it will enough. A lot of the weeds looked brown but did manage to find a little green cabbage and coontail. Water temp was 75. Tought that we might get a fish as the sky was cloudy most of the day and it started to rain in the evening.
Caught 2 pike,one about 5 or six pounds, on glide baits and had a mid 40 inch class fish follow my surface bait. The one pike was pretty decent for a metro lake. Other than that not much else to report. |
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | Hit a north metro lake last night for a few hours.
Fish were hot and I was not!
Missed 4 fish total including one that was a solid 45".
Couldn't get the hooks in them.
Two fish were on the Weagel topwater and the other two were on a Snowcrest Mag willow buck.
Fish are starting to rock, this weekend should be hot!!! |
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Location: Hugo, Mn | Killer,
I was on a N. Metro lake last evening and nailed a 49x21. Largest to date for me. Had a couple others follow but turn at the boat.
Dave
Edited by Hugo 7/12/2004 7:29 AM
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | Congrats on the nice fish Hugo!!!
Pics????
I think I saw your fish twice on Tuesday night  |
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Location: Hugo, Mn | Phish,
Steve posted it for me in the July photo post topic. Saw another out there that looked even bigger the other day.
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | I might go out to the WB tonight?
I saw the pic....NICE FISH! |
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Location: Hugo, Mn | Phish,
Good Luck. I'm grounded for awhile (finishing the basement). Might get out a little this weekend.
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| PK:
Where you living now? Obviously back here in the cities.
Give me a shout via email and we can get together.
[email protected]
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | Hugo,
I hear ya on that one. I have a honey do list a mile long and growing!!!! 
Midge,
Yep back in NE Mpls. Sounds like a plan, I'll drop you an email. |
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Location: Wayzata, MN | <p>I plan on hitting Tonka tomorrow night and sunday morning. I haven't been out there in a few weeks, so I'm hoping things have picked up.</p><p>With the warmer weather... they gotta start get'n in the mood... right?</p><p /> |
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Location: MN | Last Saturday nailed a 43"and 47" on Tonka on bucktails inside the weed line. I'll be back out this weekend concentrating outside and then going in! They are starting to go! |
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Location: Wayzata, MN | Tahoe, that's good to hear~! A 43 & a 47, nice fish, way to go~! |
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Location: MN | Thrasher - Thanks! Coincidentally, the 43" was the same fish I caught on opener in the same spot and same time. My other spot produced the 47". Bucktail of choice was a Mania Lilly Tail in Black. I have had no luck with jerks or top waters yet......I would think they should be going strong with this extended period of warm weather and I hear the weekend outlook is going to be beautiful!
Good Luck and let me know if you need more advice...Do you fish Tonka quite a bit for Ski's? |
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Location: Wayzata, MN | Tahoe... yup, I'm out there quite a bit, I live close, so it's easier to slip in there than other lakes when times tight. I do fish other lakes too. Rush, Island, Chip, etc... I'll day trip anywhere in MN & WI. I'm hoping to hit Big Siss and a couple other lkakes in WI soon...
My parents had a cabin on Tonka from '69 to '87. I've been fishing musky since '85. I'm always looking for tips, etc... thanks...
It's an addiction I'm proud to say I have [grin].... |
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| shh,
my wife thinks I fish Tonka for the fish.
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Location: Hugo, Mn | Man..I need a cold shower after reading that one!!! I got to get out to Tonka. To bad you didn't hook that fish while you were there. |
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Location: Wayzata, MN | That was wild... I didn't know if I should feel disappointed... or...... [grin]
I gotta get me one of those camcorder helmet deals~! |
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| Fished French this morning-lots of fishermen, very green (and smelly), weeds decaying, no fish. We didn't even see one.
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| We fished Bone in Polk county today. Water temperature was in the low 70s and the water looked good. It was a beautiful day, the overcast helped. The crappies were biting this morning on clouser minnows on the bottom in weeds in 5-8 feet. The bass were hunkered down in the weeds, there are several types of cabbage, both shallow and deep. We caught them with flies, plastic worms and spinnerbaits. There were alot of musky fishers out, hitting all the usual spots. Alas, I am still muskyless tom. Looking forward to some significant time on V shortly and maybe will run into the real Musky Tom, but I think he might be going to hear ZZ Top. Too much work coming up for awhile, so no fishing until Vermilion. Keep up the reports and catch a 50".
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| Got out early this morning on one of my favorite city lakes and managed a 39" and had 3 other follows. I also heard from a guy fishing at the dock that another fisherman had caught a 38". The one I caught was taken deep using a perch colored countdown Depth Raider.
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Location: Wayzata, MN | A friend of mine boated a 42 incher last night on Indy... nice shape, solid release... |
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Location: Burnsville, MN | Nice fish Dave, I've been pulling a couple off of the lakes, my girls have caught a couple as well. If you need someone to net your fish, let me know.
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Location: Wayzata, MN | Tonka finally decided to give up a couple... we fished friday, blue bird sky, post cold front... mid-day.... go figure [grin] Tim's was a 38 incher and mine was a 43 incher. Nice clean fish, easy releases.
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