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| Sucks!!!lets call it what it is,,,,Out with a guy who knows the muskies on tonka better then just about anybody even does seminars,,,left the dock at 4:50am and hit 'prime' spots durring perfect mourn hr's, till 10,,,,nothing seen, not even a snake northern,,,Its been bad but I cant remember it being THIS bad |
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| As good as it gets right now in the metro. Adapt or die a slow painfully HOT death flogging away. |
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| Im NOT trolling open water???Im in this for fun not the chance to hold a fish for a picture anyway possible
I can honnestly say Id rather catch a 45 pushing water roaring snarling behind my topwater then a 50' slamming my jake out in nowhere land
June and july are supposed to be topwater,,bucktail 15 -20 follow days were not supposed to adjust till mid Aug,,"Dammit" |
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| Your right it's no fun to hear the clicker scream as you fight what could be the biggest fish of your life under the peaceful cover of darkness. LOL Have it your way and don't forget the sunscreen! Don't complain if your hell bent on pounding the weed edge when the water is in the 80s. |
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| sometimes a long cooldown in summer gets the topwater bite going anybody move anything in the last couple days???
walking the dog around nokomis I saw a guy get two tigers last night |
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Location: Minnesota | Happy Hooker, I have been really struggling on Tonka as well. I did boat one last night tho. I think these cooler temps will help. Nothing like last year on Tonka. Atleast for me that is.
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| Fished yesterday afternoon. Caught 3....2-37s and a 40 and saw 3 others between 4-5:30. Wed....caught a 37 and lost one around 45. Monday....caught a 39 and saw 3 others. Sunday night.....nice solid 41. Most were on bucktails. |
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| Had two high 40 inch fish sky on me yesterday and lost them both far from the boat. It still hurts. |
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| Was out on Tonka today from 11 to 1:30 pm and saw four fish ranging from 38 - 50". Had one whack a kickin minnow. Twp boats where pulling out when I was and they both had caught there biggest trolling for pike. |
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| Has anyone caught any decent tigers this year.....mid 40s+? |
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| Anyone catch fish last night with the storms in the area? Fished the north metro and ended up with a 39.5". Only fish I saw. |
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Location: Albertville, Minnesota | After an awesome four fish Monday night (all solid mid 40" fish), we got skunked last night. Was out from 7 to midnight, and one swirl at the bait. Goes to show you how fast they can turn off.
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | Game on!!!  |
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| Still as good as it gets in the Metro RIGHT NOW! After a tip from a buddy of mine I got out last night and boated a 36.25",38" and a 46.5" all on a straight model floating Depth Raider. All were caught casting not trolling over the abyss as some would have you believe! |
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| Water temperature came down recently on Minnetonka. did have one smash a shallow invader on the deep weed edge, but no hook-up.
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | It's back. In the 76's yesterday on Indy and 80's today. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Out on Tonka this morning I had temps from 77-79 and I left the water at 9:30 AM. I'm sure it up to 80 now. Gonna be another cooker Thursday! Hopefully the rain will hit us to cool it down a bit. |
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| We are getting over 80 hits for every post. I know people are out there fishing. Please add something to the collective wisdom. We fished Wapogasset on Saturday. They have a beautiful new park/launch with alot of parking. The cost is $5 per day. Water was warm and had a heavy bloom. We saw no muskies, but caught a number of bass.
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Location: Twin Cities | Was on White Bear Monday -- water temps @ 80F... Moved one fish off some deep coontail.
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| Minnetonka this morning hour before and after sunrise. Fished 5-18' weeds and didn't see a thing. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | Tony,
How has the golf tourney in LaCrosse with Nik? I've been hitting quite a few Western Wisco lakes and the suspended bite has been pretty hot. We should get together on Tonka and hit em hard, I haven't fished it yet. Let me know.
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Location: Shoreview, MN | Anybody fishing the metro these days? Forest temp was 84-86 on Sunday - probably shouldn't have been out there but I hadn't been out in almost a month and couldn't resist the sunset period of a full moon day. Was a waste of time anyway - never saw a fish, not even a pike.
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| Fished Forest tonight, saw nothing. Water was 81. Lots of people out casting... |
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| at this point watertemps are beyond stressfull,,, I realize the summer and season are short but If you DO go out how about using the tiger lakes??,,,We stock and manage 20 some tiger lakes and people just dont seem to want to use them,,Tigers dont reproduce and on average live 7yrs so If you do stress one out durring the course of the battle its not has much of a loss has a purestrain until water temps drop |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Was out last night on Tonka fishing walleyes and there were lots of Muskie anglers out. Talked to a few at the landing and all had seen nothing. Water was anywhere from 80-82. Fished the main lake and Wayzata bay, only managed a 11 incher and lots of bass dragging lindy rigs with gulp leeches. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Fished north this weekend... water was 5 degrees cooler than last week. Did metro water temps drop at all with this cold front? Might have put the fish back where they should be... in the Beckmann.
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| Tonka temperature was 80 on Saturday, but dropped down 4-5 degrees on Sunday. One stocked one followed me in on Saturday and a big girl hit a plastic worm, while fishing for bass on a deep weed edge. I was surprised I had her on for as long as I did. She charged the boat and jumped. The image of that massive body out of the water with the head shaking until the worm came flying by my head will last a while.
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | Are you boys catching fish on double 10s in the metro? I've been close enough to two boats each night the past few nights to tell what they were throwing and each guy was throwing them. One boat was using the same color and one had three guys in it.
These turds are only eating rubber for me. |
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| Haven't been out in 3 weeks, THIS SUCKS!
Edited by asteffes 8/7/2007 9:52 AM
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| I agree but there is also very little natural reproduction in the metro lakes. That's why we depend on the DNR and private sources to continually stock fish. |
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