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Location: Contrarian Island | Actually I think MKE is closer to GB...38 over 50" huh what? not a chance....
good lake but it is not cranking out 50s. I would wager there were just as many caught on the Mad Chain last year as Pewaukee.
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Location: Wisconsin | And here's where the thread jumped the shark...... |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | slick is just a bitter lurker ... with tell-tail signals.
i remember living on cedar lake in NP having a contest to see who could guess the most iowegians that would be packed into a single john-boat bullhead fishing. winner got the kittie ... |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Somebody is smoking some bad weed man.
No such thing.. Lol jkjk! |
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| Maybe it was just a typo..maybe is was supposed to be 50 over 38"  |
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| Now 50 over 38" I can believe. 50 over 40" too. 50 over 45", maybe, but probably not. But 38 over 50" that is just a plain outright LIE 
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Location: Greenfield, WI | I contacted John Laimon who owns Smokies Musky Shop on the lake for decades.
He confirmed that there had never been a year to match last season.
He confirmed that the number of fish caught & released over 50" last season exceeded 38.
Yes, that is a big number, but Pewaukee receives incredible muskie fishing pressure compared to any other lake. There are days when you could seemingly walk across the lake by stepping from boat to boat. It is a sizable lake with the unique combination of water fertility with a consistant stocking program by both Muskies Inc. and other groups, and it has a huge forage base, as The Pewaukee Lake Study indicated, sponsored by the Milwaukee Chapter of Muskies Inc.
Last year the fishing was insane. Normally the water temps exceed the upper 80's, I never saw the water temperature over 76. The fish were accessable on the weedlines all year.
You can believe it or not. It doesn't matter to me.
It was an incredible extraordinary year on Pewaukee.
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Location: Clintonville, Wi | I've heard of more than 38-50's kept out of green bay in a year back about 4-5 years ago. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | 38 over 50"...wow, that sure seems like a tall tale....how many visited Mike Koepp or Joel Michels boat?
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Location: On Lake St Clair Michigan | Either way is sounds like the lake is a great lake either way you look at it. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | it is a good lake but I can't think of one guy I know from Madison that trailers down there to fish it when we have Wauby and Monona right here.... |
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Location: On Lake St Clair Michigan | We just need to be able to get into Chicago once or twice a week for work. So that is why we selected that area. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i'd rather get into chicago (the loop) from the north (milwaukee/waukeegan) than from the west (madison) ... |
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Location: The desert | jonnysled - 3/18/2010 10:15 PM
i'd rather get into chicago (the loop) from the north (milwaukee/waukeegan) than from the west (madison) ...
Soon enough you'll be able to ride a train. |
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| Everybody that caught a 50(or multiple) out of Pewaukee last year please come forward... Anybody willing to admit it? I don't argue that Pewaukee is a good lake or that the fishing was great last year, I just don't believe the report of 38 fifties.
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| Pointerpride102 - 3/18/2010 10:19 PM
Soon enough you'll be able to ride a train.
Wonder if I will be able to take my boat on the train to go musky fishing?  |
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Location: Manawa Wiscowsin | Don't forget about the upper lakes of the Winnebago chain. The musky fishing has really been coming on in the last few years. In addition there are some big northerns lurking in the weeds. I was trolling for eyes a couple of years ago on Winnebago. I had caught a few nice northerns and two small muskies in that area of the lake before. A white bass hit my lure and a musky hit the white bass close to the boat. That fish jumped three times and headed for Fond Du Lac. I couldn't slow him down with 20lb test. He straightened out the hook and was gone. |
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Location: musky waters of SE, WI | I got two on pewaukee last year, a 50 and 51, as well as losing a sure 50+ boatside. There were quite a few caught last year but surely not 38 more like 15. It was an awesome year on that lake, alot of big fish caught, i don't know if you'll see it that good again unless its another off year with weird temps.
The pewaukee area has good lakes for muskies- pewaukee, oconomowoc, okauchee, as well as smaller lakes, fowler, la belle. But i think the mad chain is going to be a steller fishery in the next 10 years.
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Location: Alexandria, Minnesota | Nice fish Lambeau.........What was the girth on that thing? Looked like a real lard azz. |
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| I believe it was stated at 36 inches, but I cannot confirm that...BR |
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| on the cap city website it says 47 3/4x28 |
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| Milwaukee, not mad-town |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Steve Van Lieshout - 3/15/2010 12:13 PM
More 50"+ muskies have been caught and released back into Pewaukee Lake than any other lake in the state over the last 5 years, which can be upsetting to those fishing in the Boulder Junction or Hayward.
Contact Smokey's Muskie Shop which is located on the south shore of the lake for hard numbers, but I understand 38 were registered at Smokies just last year. That is incredible considering the fishing pressure the lake receives.
Pewaukee is a great lake. One of the best sucker bites I've ever seen and one of the best lakes I've ever fished. I do a majority of my musky fishing in NE Wisconsin and I've never caught legals on back to back casts up there.
You'd also be close to Okauchee, it produces huge fish. The WMT's first 50" was caught out there and so was Dennis Radloff's 52" ( that was closer to 54-55") that was on the Gillespo show.
It can be a fickle mother in the dog days of summer, but so can a majority of lakes.
My Vote is for the Milwaukee area. The fishery here is so diverse. You can musky fish in the morning then head out to Lake Michigan to troll for Salmon then head to the Milwaukee river for Steelhead and Browns....all this in the same day. Madison are doesn't offer that. |
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