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| 39 " on a top Raider. TOP WATER MUSKIES ROCK.
33" Pike on a Jake.
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Location: Wayzata, MN | I fished Tonka sunday and last night... le zippo......
I will never understand, with a big open bay to play in... why the tube pullers have to churn up the shoreline weedbeds... odd.
Wish I was out there this morning... storms moving in. |
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| Out on Lake Elmo on Tuesday night, fishing in very shallow water 2-3 feet with a big spinner bait and plastic trailer. Had a 3 foot wide hole open up next to a patch of cabbage, got hooks for just a moment but no fish. Of course, that night I had my camera, so its no wonder. . . last week when my 8 year old caught her first muskie (28" tiger), I left the camera at home.
Bill
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| Yesterday was prime for Musky action.
We hit the water @ 6:00 AM. 6:15 AM I did not even get my line in the water and I was on the net. 38" topwater musky. 6:20 AM 2nd fish up on topwater slipped the hooks. 6:20 - 11:50 AM about a dozen small pike. Last case before heading in 45-47" Musky hit boatside on a figure 8. CRP'd and off the water shortly after noon.
The fish cut a dig hole in the Beckman, I got the hooks out, she put them back in again.
My boat partner said it best. " Thats an Anger fish" I still laugh when I think about it. |
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| Wierd morning on the WB. started out pretty good ... 30 " pike, 19" bass, 39" ski on topwater (maybe just a fluke...), all before the wind shifted at about 8 am, then nothing, not a single follow. I pounded weeds, rocks, edges, threw topwater, tails, spinners, cranks , nada.. With the rain moving in I expected that fish would be moving better. Instead, as soon as the clouds started moving in everything shut down. Oh, well, one's better than none. |
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| Just got back from a week on Vermilion. Great sleeping weather!
We got 3 follows, 2 weeds and 1 rocks. People we talked to said they
were getting some follows, but no biters. However, heard about a guide and
his wife who caught about 100" of musky in 2 fish the day of the storm. The mayflies
were late and the bass we caught were very fat. We found no topwater bite yet, even on the bass.
I caught several nice northerns on the flyrod on divers. They were alot of fun. We went on the reef that others had
been telling the resort owner held no walleyes. Nothing showed up on the depth finder, however it was loaded with walleyes as seen on the
Aqua-view. Overall I am glad to be home and fishing Tonka.
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| Calhoun July 31, no fish caught, we saw 4 live fish all on topwater, 1 dead 44" in the NW part of the lake. Pretty fresh kill, probably hooked mid-week. It makes me sick when I see that. Weeds were low, they must have been trimmed, the water looks good. I'll go back. |
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| Hit Owasso Sat night for a short time - thought I would hit it just right - hot sunny day, full moon rising 1/2 hr after sunset, approaching storms, ... pretty much had the lake to oursleves too ... but nobody bothered to tell the fish. Not even a single follow and we hit all the prime spots. The lake's very dingy (6-12" visibility) and we found no weeds anywhere in the main lakes areas so the spraying must have been very severe again this year.
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| Hit Owasso Sunday morning. Scum on the surface, and lots of algea. I saw a couple explosions of muskies going after schools of sunfish. I lost sight of my White tiger manta at 2 feet. My dad, nephew, and son joined me after 9:15 am, and the sunfish were biting nicely. I should have gone to White Bear.
Lance
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| Hit Calhoun last weekend and pulled in my biggest to date (38")on a Depth Raider. Also landed a few nice northerns.
Fished White Bear on Saturday morning, found a new spot and then hooked and lost boatside a upper 30's low 40's fish.
Still not seeing to strong a bucktail bite. When are these fish gonna turn on?
steve
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| Just a test. |
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Location: Wayzata, MN | I hit Tonka for a few hours last night. Other than a 23" northern and my favorite SeaRay tuber... not much else happened. I have one explosion as my cast landed... too far out to see what it was, or how big...
I'm looking forward to post Labor Day on Tonka... less big boats, etc...
Oh, I forgot one thing... I found out the 'wave capacity' of my 18' Crestliner Canadian. A large boat went by [within casting range of course] and slowed to maximum wake for me [what a guy!]... the curler came to within 2 inches of coming over the bow... Da ol'grey ghost can take a pretty good wave... she was a bigg'un.... good to now the limits I guess............ |
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| I fish atleast once one evening during the work week and one day during the weekend in the metro. The fishing was pretty good at the end of June. My fishing partner and I boated seven fish. But since then it has been slow. Seeing some fish but they are not that hot. Had a mid 40's blow up at the boat on White Bear the other night but no luck. Fished Harriet a few times. The city must have either poisoned or cleared out all the milfoil with that machine. They lake is totally bare. It really killed the fishing. There is no habitat and tough to find any kind of weedline. I was able to find one small patch of milfoil and moved three fish from it. I think they fish will lock into any kind of weeds left.
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| Had a very short window this morning, so I ran over to Lake Elmo and fished from 6:45 to 8:30 A.M. Picked up a 22 inch tiger on my third cast, a 35 inch northern 15 minutes later (my biggest northern to date); and lost a low 30 inch tiger on a spectalular jump about 15 feet from the boat. All fish caught in less than 5 feet of water, and on a Thorne Bros. red/white spinner bait with a large silver blade, and a smaller gold blade. Also had a white and pink 6 inch Kalin curly tail grub on the hook.
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| Thought it was going to be rainy today, so packed the rain gear
and went to Tonka. Caught a bunch of northerns on a spinnerbait
and a suntan. I either have to get out earlier or go out later.
The warmest water we found was in St. Louis Bay with 75 on the surface
and 70 at 6 feet on the bottom. I wish I had more to report.
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| Good weather Friday helped to put 5 in the boat, 4 over 40", with this one the biggest.
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| now that is a day of fishing!
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Location: Albertville, Minnesota | Nice fish.
Hopefully tonight we do as good if not better than last Thursday on Tonka. Will be out this weekend battling the boat traffic also. I wonder what this 3 day cold spell is going to do to the fish. Its warming up a bit so it should be interesting.
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| fished Tonka this morning.
sighted none, caught same.
tom |
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Location: MN | Fished Tonka Sat AM - Caught a 47.5" on a shallow raider after she followed a Marv's spinnerbait and raised 4 other fish. Good morning to be on the water! |
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| Was out on Forest for a couple hrs tonight. Had one blow up on a topraider right at dusk, and another eat the magambo tail off a spinner bait - how do they do that and miss the hooks? Lake One has lots of great cabbage this year and millfoil out to about 9 ft. Water's relatively clear too - about 3-4 ft visibiloity on lake one, but some algea bloom too. Seems as if the harvesters have not been out there. Does anybody know if they stopped harvesting this year?
Anybody suggest any patterns? I was working the weeds in 4-6 ft. Couldn't get anything to chase faster baits, only action was when I slowed down.
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | This year the harvesters have been out on Forest Lake. I don't know if you fish Lake Three or not but that whole section of the lake is screwed up. Tough to find weeds and when you do they are thick. Spots where we used to see fish everytime we were out aren't producing follows or anything anymore. My friends have been working the lake prety hard and found some new areas and have been doing quite well. All I can say is fish the 8-10 foot range seems to be producing for them.
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| Was out for an hour on Lake Elmo last night with my 5 year old daughter
and got her a small tiger-her first.
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| White bear coughed up another one on Wed night.
Same Durst custom Granny, 2 weeks in a row. Same size, and girth on both fish.
I assume they get bigger. But at any size they get the blood going.
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| After being skunked Mon night on Forest I headed out again Tues and got a 37 and 38, lost a 3rd and saw several others. Had action on all three lakes with lake 3 showing slightly larger fish. The weedbeds are better his year than I've seen in a long time (even on lake 3) I'm sure the cold front has them turned off again right now, but things are starting to look up. Fish already seem to be in early fall patterns, twitch and jerk and long the weedlines.
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| Spent the evening on WBL last night. Had a couple of fish flash at topwaters right near the boat, and my fishing partner had a big fish blow up on his Doc. The splash was so loud, I thought he had done a cannonball of the front of the boat!
As a bonus, I also had a 19 inch largemouth hammer my Topraider. Nice fish for bait.
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| White Bear Lake is hitting indeed! My brother nabbed a 53 incher there, a couple of days ago this week, mid-day, during overcast/humid conditions. Please see my posting under the "White Bear Lake" heading for more details on hot spots.... This lake is HOT!!
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Location: Wayzata, MN | Finally got back on the water after nursing a sore back for the last 3 weeks.
I hit Tonka sunday for about 5 1/2 hrs. Perfect weather [grey cloudy, threatening weather, a little fog... ahhhh].
Only fishing boats out there... gawd, I was in heaven.
Not sure where the muskies were tho...
I checked out some new area that show promise. The biggest thing I boated was a 25" nothern.
It didn't matter... I was back on the water [<--pardon the pun;]
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| We fished Saturday morning and it was heaven with the
clouds and lack of party boaters. They were hitting on any color as long as it was white.
We ended up with a bunch of fish we released. The biggest was a 32.5" northern. We fished a number
of new weedbeds. The northerns were hitting hard. The one musky follow came to the boat
when I was casting without concentration. It was funny hearing you have a musky follow and then scramble
to get your attention back and stumble trying to start an 8. What was ironic was that we had both cast to the same spot
and the non-focussed one hadd the follow.
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Location: Wayzata, MN | We hit Tonka last night for a couple hours. Two follows [one each]. A couple of 40 inch class fish. Northerns were biting too...
Weeds are continuing to die off. Traffic is lightening up. Still a few id-juts out there... but hey, it wouldn't be 'Tonka fishing' if
there wasn't some 'entertainment' too...
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