Muskie Hunter!

Spent a morning on Lake Minnetonka guiding for muskies and was able to get Dave on this dandy 47" toothy critter.  More info to follow.  Fish On!  

Update on Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 1:37PM by Matt Peters

Been meaning to write a short follow up to the recent muskie action.  Finally I was able to slow down enough to put up some info for all those that are curious as to what the muskies are doing.  Since the first week of Oct was all in the 80's even reaching 90 a few times the water actually warmed up a bit.  The fish were a bit confused and the turn over was slowed drastically.  That has all changed in most of Lake Waconia and Lake Minnetonka.  The water has started to cool again and the lakes are pretty clear right now.  Some areas have a little stain in them yet from a September algae bloom.  

That brings me to right now!  We are still catching a few fish shallow that made a move back up after the warm weather.  Most of the fish we are seeing are not up in the 2-4 foot sand or rocks like so many of us like to fish.  The fish seem to have pulled back to the 4-6 foot inside weed edges where the grass is still a little green(not dead).  If you can run a bait over the tops of weeds that are alive and not far from the edge you will see a fewmuskies lurking.  Still throwing a lot of big inline spinners but reeling them fast enough to keep them over the tops of the shallow weeds.  I have not spent much time on the outside weed edge.  The weather looks like it is going to be pretty stable in the coming days and fairly nice....which means I will be back out in search of a few more toothy critters.  

In the mean time I am spending every living moment in a tree stand chasing dandy whitetails with my Mathews Z7 Extreme Tactical!  

Until next time, Fish On and stretch the string!