08-13-2012, 07:09 PM
I made it out to Newton this morning and was pretty excited to go try all the tips you guys gave me (thanks again). But I didn't realize just how bad the boat ramp was. I did not have a four wheel drive tow vehicle and the water was about 10ft or more below the end of the ramp and I knew I wouldn't make it back up the steep dirt hill below the ramp. Feeling a little discouraged after driving about an hour and a half to get there I went and parked the boat, but there were fish jumping all over the place so I decided to walk down to the shore and see what I could see. There were small largemouth swimming around everywhere but then I saw some dark shadows south from the ramp a little ways. I walked over and there was a pretty good sized muskie sitting almost right on the bank. I casted towards him but he just turned and went the other way. But then about 10ft farther down I saw another one, I casted just past him and to the side a little and he instantly turned around and smashed my lure!
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Not a bad fish for my first time there. So even though we didn't get the boat launched, the day wasn't a TOTAL failure. We only stuck around for about an hour but didn't manage to catch anything else but small bass. I've never seen so many muskie in one place though, just in the small cove by the ramp I probably saw 20 or more muskies just sitting almost right on the bank in different places, just couldn't get them to bite anything.
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Not a bad fish for my first time there. So even though we didn't get the boat launched, the day wasn't a TOTAL failure. We only stuck around for about an hour but didn't manage to catch anything else but small bass. I've never seen so many muskie in one place though, just in the small cove by the ramp I probably saw 20 or more muskies just sitting almost right on the bank in different places, just couldn't get them to bite anything.
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