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Nice work Jeremy, glad you got to get out today, looks like you had fun. Nice Gills smile

P.S. They should make a LIKE button for the pictures

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50-1 interesting. smile you will have to educate me. friday looks awesome. lets make it happen. I'll bring the new lens. oh boy oh boy oh boy lol

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Hit the water with Tom today. Fishing was just plain tough frown I think this weather system shut the fish right off. Hit a small lake neither of us had been on in a long time. Drilled a lot of holes...without much to show for it. Fish just wouldn't bite. We found them, could get them to chase but couldn't get them to bite. I think Tom got a couple perch and a small bass here.

We were on lake number two by 2pm. This lake was Clearwater, it was windy as heck out there shocked Finding the fish was the easy part, catching was the hard part. We got some to bite but size wasn't what we wanted...and the wind was just too much for this size lake.

Off to lake number three. This lake is a small protected body of water, wind wasn't much of a factor here. The fish however, were about as negitive as they could be. We did manage a few gills here, but nothing special.

This was one of the toughest days I have had all winter, we put on some miles and drilled a whole lot of holes, the fish we got we earned full-26589-43825-20140326_164634.jpg

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This brusier was the highlight of the day smile

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My report is the exact opposite of yours Rick. I drilled 2 holes on a lake an hour south of you and absolutely crushed the sunfish. The big Red-Bellied Piranha type sunfish. grin

This Kind

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Sorry bud, without a time and date stamp on your photo..... well it coulda been from last month grin and didn't you dsy an hr away? Put it in the St Cloud forum just to mess with me grinfull-26589-43844-2014_03_2320.55.22.jpg

I too can go an hr away and get them smile

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They always bite on the camera, caught a photo of what I think is a musky in a lake that's not suppose to have them, and is a lake they couldn't migrate into. full-44005-43845-image.jpg

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stripes in the tail tell me that's just a Northern Pike, sometimes the spots line up and look like stripes...

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Well that clears that up thanks. Yea, the only time I see them is when I accidentally catch one and I'm trying to unhook it and not get their snot all over everything. Wish there was a lot less of them in this state or the limits way more liberal.

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I would have to admit looks like a small ski to me.

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Tom, quit yankin' Pauls chain grin we both know there is no way there is muskies in that lake...unless sombody threw one in there that is wink

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I probably would say pike with the camera blurring the dots, like mentioned, the tail does not look quite right....by far a muskie aficionado though. But, yeah, what was the lake?

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I wiggled my way out in the snowstorm today to a little lake northwest of Minneapolis.

Caught a few fish, bigger than the last time I was out there, but still not the 16'' crappies I was promised. They weren't all that aggressive, though with a fair amount of coaxing they'd grab hold. I didn't stick it out too long, as the wind started getting a bit nasty out of the north, and since I'd already caught a bucket full of 15'' crappies, I didn't know if I could carry any more off the lake. grin

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Nature-Put it in the Musky forum.Might make a cool thread.

Mention the lake name in there too. smile

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Mention the lake name in there too. smile

JC, he's not going to give up his 3 perch hotspot that easy. Although anyone can connect the dots, or even rocks in his blurred photos, to see it's the same lake he's been fishing for the last 2 weeks; thanks to Nick's wife giving him a perch spot. Talk about "pounding" a spot to death. His 3 "Jumbos" even made an appearance in a post over in the Annandale forum a day after he caught them just to try and though us off. To think he gave me dump for fishing the chain all week, but we were catching crappies dozens of crappie daily.

Don't worry Paul your pet perch are safe around here; but from the looks of it your new Musky buddy has them whittled down pretty well. Might be time to "pound a different nail somewhere else". 3 "Jumbos" in 2 weeks doesn't make a great perch bite. Who knows though, with the warm weather in the forecast, that farm field runoff rushing in the lake could get really those bigger ones turned on. "Bon appetite'"

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lets chase some 11 inch gills today JC. smile

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Lets see who can post the pic of the biggest gill from today... I'm heading to lake x at noon grin

Royce, who is the guy in your avatar pic??? Can't be you.... no long hair smile

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If your fishing lake X, no contest, you win! If they're on 11"ers, they must be heading just north of St. Joe, a couple hundred miles. Or at least to Osakis.

At least my spots won't be limited by wind today; I will be looking locally.

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That is a definite musky. Pikes lines go horizontal while musky go vertical. full-45008-43873-image.jpg

The rear fins are rounded, it's a Pike

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Good meeting monstermoose today. JC and I popped over. SLOW bite but we were fishin!! smile

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Thanks for coming over Eyeguy and Jeremy. It was nice to meet you guys. I will let ya know when they turn back on.

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