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| I live 18 miles from Lake St. Clair and Detroit River. Pretty much only place I fish. |
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| i think this post meant to ask how far do you drive on a typical muskie fishing trip rather than your once a year vacation. we all drive a long way on our once a year things. i used to get off of work and drive 200+ miles to fish all night and go back to work in the morning. some lakes are over 400 miles away for that one day or two day trip. gotta love the chicagoland area. |
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Posts: 489
| 1010 miles is the farthest I have done and about as far as I could go... Ohio to angle inlet mn |
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| 4 miles to Pewaukee
135 to Green Bay twice a year
520 to lake X, MN twice a year
545 to Lake Y, MN twice a year
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Posts: 285
Location: Price County WI | 100 yards.....
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Posts: 574
Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | I do 350 miles from home to the cabin in Phillips about every other weekend!
P.S. John at Ross's, thanks for holding the ammo!! |
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Posts: 91
| I live about 45 min to an hour of at least 7 -8 , up and coming muskie lakes. Eastern Pa. and NJ are beginning to produce some nice options for either an "after work" or a" weekend muskie hunt". We're certainly not in the class YET of you guys in the midwest...but we're getting there! |
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Posts: 833
| 25 miles to Tonka
5 miles to Eagle Lake (Metro, MN)
35 Miles to Sugar Lake
10 Miles to Weaver Lake (Tigers)
80 Miles to Mille Lacs
I would say about 85-90% is spent on Tonka, but it is nice to live in the Twin Cities if you are a musky fisherman. |
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Posts: 20218
Location: oswego, il | For me, my typicle drive is around 180 miles to indiana or central/southern illinois. I have a lakes that are much closer but peefer not to fish them. |
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Posts: 1360
Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | My home lake is about 7 miles from my house, but I have another one that is less than 2 miles form my house. Otherwise the most I ever really have to drive is about 20 or so minutes |
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Posts: 94
| Many of you really have it made!
The two lakes I fish the most:
Pomme de Terre - 80 miles
Lake of the Woods - 900 miles
Last year I spent more days on LOTW than on Pomme 
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Posts: 7
| 50' out my back door, but a half dozen trips to Vilas Cty. at 240mi. each.
Mike |
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Posts: 8781
| 389 Miles to Vilas
850 to Eagle
Tried to figure it out once, but I think about 40,000 of the 45,000 miles on my truck have all been driving back and forth to fish. |
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Posts: 572
Location: Maplewood, MN | Within 5 miles I have 2 quality musky lakes to choose from. Within 2 miles I have a nice bass and tiger lake. Within 15 miles I have the St. Croix. I love Minnesota. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | MuskieFever - 2/11/2013 12:27 PM
Within 5 miles I have 2 quality musky lakes to choose from. Within 2 miles I have a nice bass and tiger lake. Within 15 miles I have the St. Croix. I love Minnesota.
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Posts: 639
Location: Hudson, WI | MuskieFever - 2/11/2013 12:27 PM
Within 5 miles I have 2 quality musky lakes to choose from. Within 2 miles I have a nice bass and tiger lake. Within 15 miles I have the St. Croix. I love Minnesota.
Yep. I'm one mile from the Croix and within an hour of Minnetonka, White Bear, Bald Eagle, Waconia, Independance, Forest, Eagle, Owasso, all of the tiger lakes, Bone, Deer, Apple, Blake, Big Round, Cedar, Wapogassett and 2 hours to Hayward. Definitely a blessing. |
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Posts: 121
Location: Plymouth IA | 21 miles to Clear Lake IA every week and almost every month French Lake MN 91 miles. 3 times a year to the near north Alexandria MN area where i used to live, 270 Miles. Up north & back home to Cass Lake MN not enough 340 miles. My heart is up north and my butt is in Iowa because you have to have a job. Thank the good lord that their are Muskies in Clear Lake, IA. |
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Posts: 427
| If I lived as closed to musky water as most of you I am sure that I would not be as happily married as I currently am unless the Mrs. wanted to pick up the rod a little more (pun intended). |
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Posts: 121
Location: Plymouth IA | I must be lucky, my wife will tell me to get out of the house and go fishing. We all go on the near north trips. |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | 2 miles to landing on WI River (class A stretch). 25 miles to other musky lakes |
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Location: The desert | 2-3000 |
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| 30 to Minnetonka, 20 to Waconia, within an hour to Harriet and Independence. 75% is on Minnetoka |
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Posts: 2753
Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Some times 12 miles, sometimes 20-40 miles, sometimes 200 miles, sometimes 900 miles, sometimes more. For me fishing is all about the chase, not how far I have to travel to get to the water. Although, I treat the travel as part of the adventure. This year should be easy, the motor's blown on Esox Maniac, so I won't be going to far.
Have fun!
Al
Edited by ESOX Maniac 2/11/2013 7:02 PM
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Posts: 150
Location: Central Minnesota | 30 miles from West Battle Lake
40 miles from Pelican Lake
50 miles from Big Detroit
Handfull of other lakes within 60 miles. I consider myself pretty lucky. |
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Posts: 13688
Location: minocqua, wi. | most of my driving is wandering around wondering which lake i should go to ... we've got it good here, just that little problem that there are no big fish in wisconsin. |
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Posts: 633
Location: Madison, WI | 2-10 miles Wisconsin river. 25 miles Madison chain. 3-4 hrs north wherever the WMT/Pro-mac takes me. |
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Posts: 125
Location: Barnesville MN | About 10 miles to Pelican Lake or 30 to Big Detroit and a quite a few others less than 60 away. |
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| jonnysled - 2/11/2013 7:10 PM
most of my driving is wandering around wondering which lake i should go to ... we've got it good here, just that little problem that there are no big fish in wisconsin.
Yeah. That.
And the fact that WI fish are so #*^@ ugly... |
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Posts: 791
Location: North Central IL USA | 35 miles to the launch at Shabbona Lake State Park .
50 miles to the launch at Chain O'Lakes State Park. |
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Posts: 3867
| 3 miles to a decent local lake, 50 miles to great local waters and 800 miles to the 10,000 Lakes Music Festival in NW MN. Never been to a Dead show or other where they didn"t let me tow my boat into the scene, no extra charge. Never drove back home without chewing up the last of the blotter and fishing all day and nite ending up sleeping on a picnic table till afternoon. Then I slunk on home. Happens every time. |
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