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2 tigers
tons of pan fish (crappie, blue gill, sun fish)
1 SMB
1 Perch

Hit the lake at 6:30. Didn't catch anything until about eight hours in. We finally landed a small mouth with one of my odd lures (one I thought wouldn't catch any fish), which renewed our hopes. Then we figured out floating a worm about a foot off the lake bed produced lots of pan fish. We caught them until we got bored where we tried the same tactics and did the same thing. 10-20 feet of water seemed to hold them. Thats where we got the tiny perch too.

We sat and fished practically all the points on that lake and finally hooked into our first musky of the day in a little sandy cove. After that the bite was on. We must have had three or five hits each after that. I finally landed my first tiger (in my life) right in this same time frame on a "custom" 4" spoon. I was too cheap to go buy the yellow w/ red diamonds dare devil so I used permanent markers to make one, and it worked[cool] My buddy caught his musky off a 6" red and gray rapala.

The weather was perfect, the fishing finally picked up. We finally caught a musky (we definitely didn't cast anywhere near 1000 casts), and we each caught other species that we hadn't ever landed, i.e., smb, and perch.

I'll tell ya I lost sleep over this trip the night before and waking up at 4:15 to get up there in time was worth it, even if the tigers were less than trophy size.

As a cool side note we saw a bunch of little fog tornadoes on the lake that morning, right as the sun was coming out, we hadn't ever seen those before.

I'm only posting my pics because my buddy asked me to leave him out of it. Anyways the fish gods d on us Saturday. And now we're nutty about chasing these illusive 50" pike and musky, we're going to have to hit Yuba before too long.
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Sounds like a nice outing. May have taken a while to find the fish, but sounds like you were on em once you did!

So if TD calls a foursome a "grand slime" wadda ya call it if it didn't include troutskis?

How were the crappie for size?

Ya - another musky fanatic is born. Those suckers are a riot to hook into, and seem to get folks coming back for more!

Was the lake very busy? Lotsa ski boats?

Thanks for the report. Sorry your bud didn't wanna share his photos. Maybe he's embarrassed about the size of his catch? [:p]

All the pan fish were quite small, I've caught bigger sunfish in community ponds. I didn't think the lake was to busy as far as boats go, but the power squadron was up to its same antics as usual. As far as my friend goes his fish was 24" and mine was 22". It's interesting to me that it was that size of fish biting, or maybe it was the size of our lures that was catching that size of fish? I think I'm going to go buy some bigger lures. Have you ever seen the rubber chicken musky lure? There's another lure I'm looking for I saw on a fishing show one day, I can't remember the name but it was a big old sucker, big black head, and a long red rubber tail, kind of a funny/unique looking thing.
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I bet those musky were the ones planted last year. They definitely grow fast. As for lure size, big musky will eat smaller offerings, I've caught several good sized musky up to around 40 inches on a 3" curly tail grub. However, this time of year especially, big jerkbaits and such can be really good as well.

That rubber chicken lure was pretty awesome, I actually have that same chicken kicking around somewhere, I should rig something up and make my own.
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