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Location: Duluth | Had the local DNR tell me that Whiteface Reservoir would be a match. Would be butting heads with walleye guys to try and get it stocked though. |
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| Kabetogama. It would be a drive, but it has some incredible potential for big fish with it's forage base.
Big Burch in Todd County: Ciscoes, Perch, White Suckers, strong forage base.
Big Deer near Effie: Probably has a nascent population due to tributary to Big Fork River, would be low pressure, has Ciscoes.
I'm biased on the last two since I have easy access.
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Location: Duluth, MN | Slow Eddie - 3/4/2014 12:16 PM
Had the local DNR tell me that Whiteface Reservoir would be a match. Would be butting heads with walleye guys to try and get it stocked though.
Ive heard the same about Whiteface as well for a few years now. Hopefullly it happens! Be nice to have a lake between Duluth and Vermilion... |
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| Going to need lobbying $$$ to make that happen. I know old T-Bone is dying to see Koronis get stocked. That lake has Ciscoes too! Would be a fun one for sure. |
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Location: Victoria,MN | Brad P - 3/4/2014 2:02 PM
Going to need lobbying $$$ to make that happen. I know old T-Bone is dying to see Koronis get stocked. That lake has Ciscoes too! Would be a fun one for sure.
I'm not that old Brad lol
Koronis has some decent habitat |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Whitefish chain for sure it would be awesome! I've seen 2 of them in there already. |
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Location: West Metro, MN | I have always thought that Big Marine would be a great muskie lake to add another option in the metro. Tetonka would be great too, the south half of the state is very under represented. |
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| Fish Lake and Boulder Lakes north of Duluth would be awesome. Both flow directly into Muskie waters/St Louis River. |
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Location: Alexandria, Minnesota | Minnewaska near Glenwood, MN was a stocked lake back in the 70's would be an awesome lake or the Chain of Lakes in Alex, Carlos is loaded with Tulibees....Also would like to see Winnebigosh stocked like Mille Lacs used to be, put 10,000 fingerlings in there for 10 years.. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Boots Electric - 3/4/2014 10:31 PM
Fish Lake and Boulder Lakes north of Duluth would be awesome. Both flow directly into Muskie waters/St Louis River.
I believe Fish and Boulder were stocked a bit back in the 70's. Seems I rememebr my old man getting a couple by accident out of boulder back in the early 80's. Also a few summers ago a guy caught what I am 99% sure was a small 30"ish tiger out of Fish....maybe some of them made it?? I think Fish would be a hard sell at the moment as theyre really working on repairing the crash of the walleye fishery there. Id love to see it though as that would put 4 muskie waters right out my back door! 
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Location: Minnesota | Whiteface and boulder would be a nightmare would love to own a prop and lower unit shop near by!! Fish lake would be a awesome addition to the Duluth area. Big Sandy would produce pigs excellent forage and super structure with hard to reach backwaters. That would be a musky maniacs paradise! |
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Location: Maine Township, MN | Ottertail. |
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Location: MN | I'd love to see Fish Lake by Duluth but good luck with that. The DNR and locals will pound their heads against a wall trying to make that a walleye lake. To say Boulder and Fish flow directly into musky waters is a stretch. There are mutliple dams between them and the St Louis trib where the majority of the muskies live.
IMO Big Sandy would not be a good candidate. Look at how many fish died and escaped during the 2012 flood. There also a lot of escape routes that would reduce the stocked fish population. I'd love to see it stocked but I would be suprised if the DNR did. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Spread them out in all areas. dreaming= Madison Lake in LeSuer County. The lake is full of shad up to around 5 lbs. Would be a great fertile growth factory of a lake. Southern MN needs two more lakes bad! |
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Location: Grand Forks ND | Might as well stock Lizzie, there are already a few in there. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Is there any avenue for us muskie guys to push/persuade/ask for particular lakes to be stocked? |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Medicine Lake... I swear that lake would do really well for Muskie, Plus its small so the numbers would not have to be super high to get the job done. Plus I can darn near cast to it from my deck
I would have wished the Sauk Chain of lakes if the same question was asked 5 years ago. But they already did that, which is awesome!
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Location: Victoria,MN | jakejusa - 3/5/2014 1:24 PM
Spread them out in all areas. dreaming= Madison Lake in LeSuer County. The lake is full of shad up to around 5 lbs. Would be a great fertile growth factory of a lake. Southern MN needs two more lakes bad!
Madison or Washington I think would be good , southern Mn definitely needs more.
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | I'd really like to see something in Anoka County but the forage base probably isn’t that great, no shiners or anything like they have up north to get big, so I don't think you'd get giants. They might actually make pretty decent tiger musky lakes though as they have similar forage bases to Lake Johanna.
I could get behind medicine lake as well.
I would certainly get behind the whitefish chain as it would present an option for a weekend trip that isn't as far way from the metro.
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| All of them!! Call me selfish but miss the days when I was the only one fishing muskies.
Still my fav but WAY too many people on the ski bandwagon these days...just not enough lakes to get away from the crowds no matter where you go. |
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| Francis would be a good lake as well. Like said above we need more lakes in Southern MN more than we do up Nirth |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | "Might as well stock Lizzie, there are already a few in there." That's what was thought about TeTonka they are already there. But the new DNR commissioner pulled the plug on the stocking in another truly political maneuver. |
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| Nershi - 3/5/2014 1:16 PM
I'd love to see Fish Lake by Duluth but good luck with that. The DNR and locals will pound their heads against a wall trying to make that a walleye lake. To say Boulder and Fish flow directly into musky waters is a stretch. There are mutliple dams between them and the St Louis trib where the majority of the muskies live.
IMO Big Sandy would not be a good candidate. Look at how many fish died and escaped during the 2012 flood. There also a lot of escape routes that would reduce the stocked fish population. I'd love to see it stocked but I would be suprised if the DNR did.
Not a stretch at all. Boulder flows directly into Muskie water. Fish flows into the outflow of the Muskie water. The reason many of the lakes already stocked, were chosen, was there assimilation to(if loosely) to the great lakes or bodies of water harboring(if but a remnant) Muskie pop. In terms of Duluth area waters, there aren't many better choices, and as the second largest populated region of the state, arguing for another Muskie lake in the area isn't a stretch. Having ties to waters already containing Muskies would be ones best chance for being chosen imo.
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| Kabetogama would become the next Vermillion. Diddo for Rainy.
A couple more:
Clearwater by Annandale - big, lots of structure/forage, and would take some pressure off of Sugar
Farm Island - for the days when you get blown off Mille Lacs
Crow River in the west metro - would add a different type of fishing experience and provide opportunities for anglers who don't have boats. |
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Location: Maple Grove MN | i would like to see the natural musky lakes that no longer have a fishable population of musky be restored.
May
Sugar
Mule
lower Bottle
upper bottle
emma
stocking
little sand
big sand
Belle Taine
Ida
Long
Spider
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Wolf
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| brenth - 3/6/2014 6:57 AM
i would like to see the natural musky lakes that no longer have a fishable population of musky be restored.
May
Sugar
Mule
lower Bottle
upper bottle
emma
stocking
little sand
big sand
Belle Taine
Ida
Long
Spider
Steamboat
Wolf
Girl
Woman
While they are at it they could fix the lakes they diluted the gene pool on with shoepac fish, moose deer (spider only has shoepac) by stocking a few year classes of leech lake strain. |
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| woman lake needs more so does little boy and wabedo. also as a new lake ten mile lake in Hackensack would be awesome, technically it should be already with the river systems and the connecting swamps from leech and boy river chain but it never happened naturally I guess or it did but not enough to sustain healthy enough over the yrs and slowly died out of muskies as some of the lakes in this area i believe maybe have. |
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Location: Dawson, MN | Only problem with lac qui parle is the best part of the lake is closed during Oct and Nov
Green lake or Minnewaska or Ida get my votes |
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Location: Aurora | BFD - 3/3/2014 2:04 PM
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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