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Got out last night for a while, found the bit to be pretty slow, unless you are fishing for Muskie! I was not. I bet there was still 30+ boats on the water when I pulled out at Midnight so maybe some better reports will come in. Nice night, but surprised to see so many people fishing on a Tuesday night. Can't imagine what Friday will look like.

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Was out last night with Catchin' Whopper and ended up getting 20 walleyes. What a night to be out too, perfectly clear and minimal wind. Talk about perfect fall weather with fishing in minimal clothing and the fish biting J
We ended up getting on the water about 9 and fish till 3 and we caught fish very quickly and the bite then died off about 12. We caught fish on the weed lines and hearing other reports that was the only place to get a consistent bite. The majority of the fish that we caught was in about 9feet of water but we did manage a couple in 12 and some in 8. The inside of the weed line also produced for us. It appears that the weeds start about 6 feet but obviously this can change from spot to spot.
The colors that worked for us varied greatly throughout the night. We started getting them on the lime/white floating Rapalas and then got some on the firetiger rouges. The hot color however, was a black/orange husky jerks in size 12. We caught the majority of our fish on these but clown at the end of the night managed to get about 6 fish. This surprised me because throughout the night I was changing back and forth expecting the clown to produce with as much moonlight there was.
The speed that we had most of our success was between 1.5 and 2 mphs. The fish would hit with just a straight retrieve but we had the most success on sweep and pause with our rods.
If you where by fish they would hit pretty much instantly as many times our rod holders would shack when the fish hit. The size for the night was pretty consistent with 22-25 inchers.
I cannot wait to get up there again, will be there tomorrow night.

A

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monday 8-2am. eyes were hitting off shore rocks 6-8ft, #14 black and gold huskie jerks. after 11:30 the wind picked up slightly, from then on had fish on pretty much every pass

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I will be up Friday night with the old man. Anybody been fishing around Wahkon bay or is everyone going to the rock reefs? I will trailer if I have to but it would be nice to stay in teh area

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I'm so stoked for Sat. night I think I'm going to explode!! I really appreciate all the reports you guys have been posting. I've been busy fishing down in Red Wing the last couple of weeks and I'm excited to get back to the pond!! Any tips on which side of the lake would be great, thanks. Hope to see some people out this weekend.

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Labby-not sure it matter too much as to the side of the lake with the full moon phase. It seems to turn the fish on everywhere. I have heard excellent reports from the NW corner of the lake lately. Indian will be going no doubt.

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I went out by my self last night, but I wasn't alone the whole time. I caught 7 eyes, with 2 being 25"and 27". I was only out from 5to 10pm. went muskie fishing till 7:30, no luck as usual. The walleye bite for me started really good, but faded fast.

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Fished out on the three mile rock pile last night out from Liberty. Trolled and trolled and trolled. Caught two fish from 8-1am. Had other boats around but they would come out to the flat for a half hour and leave. Might try the West side tonight.

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