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Location: oswego, il | 1) lee kay
2)jake wolf hatchery holding tanks
3)jake wolf hatchery truck tanks(hard to troll but can do)
4)minnesota fish farm
5)upper oconomowoc spillway
6)lake wingra spillway
7)pre season eagle lake
8)ice out st claire
9)spring lake fyke nets
10)trilby lake and banana lake tie for 10th |
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Location: Michigan | Now Brock why would you highlight those lake? Probably some of the highest hour per fish lakes anywhere... The payoff can be good, but who has the stamina to fish 40 hours plus per fish? And a trophy? May take a season or a lifetime. |
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Location: Michigan | ToddM,
Where can you fish on LSC at ice out? |
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| IAJustin - 6/22/2011 4:30 PM
We do? My list of Top 100 lakes would not include one from Iowa
Deer hunting Iowa is #1. Muskies? Not so much. |
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Location: Hobart, Indiana | Out of the ones I've caught fish would be (in no order):
1. Lake St. Clair
2. Cass Lake
3. Lake Bemidji
4. Lake Webster
5. Lake Vermillion
6.-10. HAVE NO IDEA! |
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| Are all the people that are voting going by what other people have said or you actually fish these water?
Since I've fished probably every trophy waters in Canada Ill put up my list. If you don't put Georgian bay on top you have never fished it.
1- Georgian bay
2- St Lawrence River
and the rest are not even close
You want Numbers with a possibility of a descent fish will put St Clair at number
10- St Clair
You can say what you want fish the top two the come back, and put your opinion up. |
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Location: MN | Mr know it all has weighed in everyone. Don't bother with your opinion. But he must not have fished the Ottawa River. |
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| What about Lake of The Woods, Long Legged Lake, Eagle, and many others to name a few. He may have caught a giant on Georgian Bay, but how many fish did he actually catch? I don't judge a lake or river as "great" if one i caught one big giant, but consistency. For example, I caught 30 fish on St. Clair last year, including two 51's. There was always action, and in my opinion, the best I've ever fished.
I know everyone has a different experience and opinion, which makes this discussion so cool. This has also given me some ideas of possible destinations to fish. I really want to fish the St Lawrence, but only with a guide who knows the area. Thanks for all the great answers! |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | The best musky water depends on where you are in the game for a newbe it would be a numbers lake and some never get past the numbers stage. For others that have played the game for a while and are looking for that ONE fish there are places that are considered the Yankee Stadium of musky fishing and they prepared to fish all season and if they only caught that ONE fish they would be happy campers and consider the season a success. Don't go to the stadium looking for base hits HOPE for a Grand Slam |
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Location: Ontario | Depends on your outlook. I have fished many muskie lakes that produce great numbers of fish. For my money, Id take Georgian Bay and the privacy of its waters over any lake with traffic. Its like a fly in experience without taking the plane. Until you have experienced it, its hard to compare. Maybe the numbers aren't there regularly, but fishing for 2-3 months a year with no other people around is pretty sweet. |
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Location: Dixon, IL | I pick Georgian Bay for world record musky!
Top ten.... forget it! I fish any lake that have good number of muskies from spring to summer and few but monster in fall! Maybe river during winter! |
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| I wouldn't turn down trip to Georgian Bay for a whole week. |
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Location: Ontario | As an add on to the favourite lake conversation. Favourite 10 things to do in a day of fishing in the fall
1. Wake up at 6 am, coffee with a big splash of Bailey's, get the cobwebs out
2.Prepare food and bevvies for morning fish, boat and rods
3.Catch fish in sweater weather
4.Breakfast,caesars,marinate steaks for dinner
5.More fishing...
6.Back to cabin for a refreshment grilled sausages and burgers
7. Prepare for evening fish( Excitement time !! )
8.Tell lots of stories and pray
9. More prayers
10. Back to cabin for steaks, red wine, refreshments a warm fire, and wait til the morning to start all over again |
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Location: Ontario | All I remember about Nip pi ssing is a thousand boats stacked up outside the sewage plant catching walleye. Yuch
French River is awesome
Edited by Tim R 7/4/2013 10:15 AM
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Location: Kansas City BBQ Capitol of the world | "1. Wake up at 6 am, coffee with a big splash of Bailey's, get the cobwebs out
2.Prepare food and bevvies for morning fish, boat and rods
3.Catch fish in sweater weather
4.Breakfast,caesars,marinate steaks for dinner
5.More fishing...
6.Back to cabin for a refreshment grilled sausages and burgers
7. Prepare for evening fish( Excitement time !! )
8.Tell lots of stories and pray
9. More prayers
10. Back to cabin for steaks, red wine, refreshments a warm fire, and wait til the morning to start all over again."
I want to fish with TimR!
Staying on topic the best waters for me are within the State
1.) Fellows
2.) Pomme de Terre
3.) Hazel Creek
The best water I had fished out of State.
1.) Cass
2.) Niagara River/St. Larry
3.) Leech Lake
Can't comment on any others as I had never fished them but if I did I'm sure many would be in my top 10.
Ron
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Location: Ontario | Cmon up Ron...My cabin sleeps 17, so bring some friends !! Funny thing is, you're from Kansas City and I run BBQ restaurants here in Canada.  |
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Location: Kansas City BBQ Capitol of the world | Wow,
BBQ, Canada and Muskies...That's like a dream!
I wish I could Tim that would be awesome. I could even come up with MuskieBob but he is cutting back on the calories he tells me and I would hate to lead him into temptation like that.
Ron |
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| CrappieKid - 6/20/2011 2:09 PM
1. Lake X
2. Lake X
3. Lake X
4. Lake X
5. Lake X
6. Lake X
7. Lake X
8. Lake X
9. Lake X
10. Lake X
Always somebody trying to get on here and pretend they know something. Obviously 1-3, as anybody could name them and many already have, but then we get to 4. Lake X, and I have to call BS, cause obviously you don't know what you are talking about, and again at 7. Lake X, another choice that defies reason. Go back to school kid, and study up on the great musky lakes.
Also, if this list had been written in December, the Utah DNR brood stock pond would have to be WAAAAY up there. Not so great any more........but.....just sayin.. |
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| Strictly depends where you're fishing. There's one place on Iowa that blows away any lake in USA. When you can catch 3-9 Muskie a day, everyday, the brushy creek has my vote. |
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Location: Minneconia | You mean Brushy Creek spillway, right? |
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Location: Smith Creek | IOWA:
Come for the pig farms, stay for the muskies. |
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Location: Ontario | Too funny !! |
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| jjondal - 7/12/2013 10:01 AM
There's one place on Iowa that blows away any lake in USA. When you can catch 3-9 Muskie a day, everyday, the brushy creek has my vote.
Ha. Even if that were true posting that on a the internet is probably not the smartest thing in the world. |
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| I've seen some big piggies come out of Iowa, and it looks like it's becoming a great muskie fishery. |
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| 1) believe it or not Mississippi River northern mn
2)Mille acs
3)leech
4)forest
Rest to be fished |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Pointerpride102 - 6/22/2011 5:37 PM
Mud Lake
Bass lake
Pine Lake
Lost Lake
There need not be any others.
You forgot Long... also Banana |
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Location: Freedom, WI | as someone said above, you've got to include the chippewa flowage |
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| Chip in the top 20 is a travesty. Numbers, average size ,pressure,big fish or scenery are not even close to make a Top 10 List. |
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| Chippewa Flowage is quite possibly the most overrated musky water in the world... |
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