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Location: Nowheresville, MN | Water temp was down to 76 by Monday morning. BUT, I fear not to stay. It's about to climb again...
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Location: Minnetonka | tfootstalker - 8/6/2007 9:26 PM
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.
This is the double 10 revolution. I think it's kind of cool that an entire boat will throw double 10s during the day. A guy can feel pretty confident working the same line right behind them with a Bulldawg... assuming the fish that have already seen 5 or 6 "double 10s" that day. At night... different story. They eating dawgs at night for you? |
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Location: Minnesota | Ya, I think I haven't seen a boat yet that wasn't throwing them. I can hear that jingle in my sleep. I have been doing good on some different blades that are somewhat simular.
Hammskie, got one on the Donkee yesterday!
Dan
www.bookemsmuskyshop.com
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | Haven't been fishing after dark.
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| The Metro bite has been the toughest I have ever seen this year! Might have to fish a little more out of town for awhile. Forest and WBL havn't been good for me. Any one having luck on Bald Eagle? |
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| Got a skinny 48" on Tonka Sat. a.m. - looked like it had scoliosis - on a buzzbait over the shallow weeds. Huge head, skinny body. |
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Location: Mayer, MN | First for the year for me, a little 32" on a bulldawg. First time ski fishing since the end of June also, the water temps/oxygen levels must still be at "be careful" levels, due to the slow recovery behavior this fish showed, even after an easy hook removal and very quick pic. 
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| Not that it's going to last but water temps did come down some. On Friday night I had 83.2 and by Sunday morning it was 75.5. We just need some cooler nights!
Now if we could loose about 100 boats full of muskie fisherman/day I could get to my more known spots...does anyone fish bass any more?  |
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Location: Shoreview, MN | With the continued high water temps I took Hooker's advice and tried my local tiger lake last night. Caught two about 30"er's in heavy weeds in 2-4'. 80 degree water temp. Both swam off no problem. Size-wise they were certainly nothing to get very excited about but I haven't fished for tigers in several years and I forgot how fiesty these "little" tigers are. Both really slammed my spinner bait and one went 3' + out of the water.
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Location: Mayer, MN | Going to give Crystal a try tonight for Tigers. Will report back.
I having nothing to show for my efforts.
Edited by lots of luck 8/15/2007 11:08 AM
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| good for you MNSTEVE,,everybody needs to rediscover the tiger fisherie,,I too was out last night on nokomis and couldnt close the deal on one that hot a candy |
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Location: Minnetonka | Since we're talking tigers... my buddy got this monster a few weeks back.
46 inches... his personal best muskie... and a complete chunk-osaurus.
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Beutiful!!!!
Is that a Minn Tiger???
you dont have to name lake but is it a stocked tiger lake or a natural tiger???
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Location: Otsego, MN | It's from the metro, natural. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Yeah... Weaver Lake.
Cave men are also natural to the metro area.
Now I'll ask... how many "natural" tiger lakes are there in the metro?
Edited by Hammskie 8/15/2007 2:30 PM
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| Reason I asked is it looked a little too clear to be a 'stocked' metro fish
I know theres some tigers in Mille Lacs in fact rumors of a HUGE one in the DNR nets a couple yeras back |
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Location: Mayer, MN | I caught and released a 39" Tiger on Lake Minnetonka on 10-15-05. The weekend that the PMTT Championship was going on. Anyways, is there Tiger stocking history on Tonka or is this fish a natural reproduced fish? Or just a case of a few tigers ending up in the stocking efforts of some pure strain.
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| My old man got a 43" tiger out of Tonka, that same year on walleye opener. Same bay even (I know just about every dock, etc.)... I've never heard of another since.
BTW, I was a judge for the PMTT championships. Ended up measuring both of the winning fish for Brovoski. My buddy had a disposable camera in his tackle box which he snapped some photos. He finally developed it last weekend so we were just reminising about the tourney. Man, I'd love to fish with that guy some time!
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| brovoski guides now. He fishes northern mn mostly but he still fishes the metro at times. He is great to fish with. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Never fished w/ Josh... but I definitely owe him credit for the fish I've caught on fig. 8 this year. He also caught a HUGE 52 in the MMTT Vermilion this year. He got great pics of it... but not sure you'll ever see them. |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | The DNR did stock some tigers in there about 10 years ago now. They were going to dump them in a different lake in the fall and it froze over so instead they put them in tonka. One or two also "escape" in there from time to time, but I wouldn't know anything about that... |
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Location: Mayer, MN | After watching Johan Santana set a Twins strike out record with 17 K's, I went out Sunday (8-19-07) afternoon 3-7 p.m.. Had a nice break in the rain and while fishing around Smithtown Bay I did not see another boat for about 2 hours. Rather neat experience for being on Tonka. It was not productive fish wise on the west end for me, but the quiet, peace and watching the loons swim around my boat was a winner in my book.  |
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| East end was pretty dead too, until the rain and thunder drove us off. We are fishing tomorrow and will give an update then.
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| with all the rain,cool nights,and clouds what has the watertemps droped to?? |
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| One or two might escape into Harriet but I wouldn't know much about that either... |
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| Water temps around the metro have dropped about 10 degrees or so in the last four days. Especially the inner city lakes with storm runoff flowing into them. Was out on Calhoun last night and temps were down to 72 degrees. |
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Location: Mayer, MN | happy hooker - 8/21/2007 7:13 PM
with all the rain,cool nights,and clouds what has the watertemps droped to??
I had 70.5 on Sunday the 19th on the west end of Tonka. |
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Location: Minnetonka | I saw some nice Tonka fish from this weekend in another post. Anyone else have any luck elsewhere in the metro? How are those cool water temps treating you?
... had a fat 47 explode a LOWrider last night, then shat up the marine carpeting... a healthy fish and amazing fight.
Bring on the wind and cold... 'cause boat traffic is getting old.
Edited by Hammskie 8/27/2007 8:44 AM
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Location: MPLS, MN | I don't even mess with Tonka till after Labor Day. Except Bass opener. |
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| Fished Tonka on Sunday...too nice...small bass only.
It seems like everytime I go out I get bluebird skies.
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