muskie trip out of metro 11/12-11/15

[Kodiak]

I am going to get out of town for one last shebang for the year. I am looking at going to wi, near hayward or fishing miltona or millelacs..

where do you think would be a good weekend destination to chase some big fish?

thanks,

J

[mrklean]

mille lace or miltona seeing some big ones come out of there as of late

[Esox_Magnum]

You know whre I'll be, saw 2 tankers yesterday and lost one decent one.

[JRedig]

What is your goal? To catch something or to catch your biggest something? Mille Lacs has the potential, but you have to ask yourself, "am i ok not catching the biggest fish of my life for days on end?" or do you need some action? The mind can mess with ya out there...for every super tanker Hamernick has gotten recently, I'd wager there are over 2000 hours fished by him and others without seeing a thing. Heck, i'd bet it's worse than that.

[10,000 Casts]

We fished Mille Lacs Saturday and Sunday after catching that big girl last Sunday. Saturday, we didn't see a fish and Sunday my buddy had one hit at the boat and he didn't get hooks in her. If you know what you are doing out there, you will have a chance at 1 fish per day maaaaybe 2 I figure right now.. But that fish very well might be a 40LB+ to the state record so it's well worth it.

Miltona has some huge fish in there too and you have more chances at mid 40" fish but less chances at mid 40lb fish.

Wisconsin... ya... about that... I hear Green Bay/Fox have some big fish if you want to troll but other than that, you can catch 38" Muskies anywhere...

[Kodiak]

i just want to get away for the weekend with the ol lady and catch some fish, not looking for the HUGE pb fish, i would rather have action then no action and a chance at a pb.

[AnglerX]

If you are looking for action I'd head up to the Hayward area. Cast and soak suckers at the same time and you are bound to boat a few fish. There's a few nice resorts near Spider, Lost Land, and Teal that should still be open this time of year. All three of those are decent numbers lakes with some nice fish swimming around as well. Good Luck!

[AWH]

Given what you're looking for, I would agree with going to the Hayward area. Considering the weather, Mille Lacs and Miltona can both get pretty ugly in windy conditions, which are common in the fall.

Aaron

[muskieboy46]

When you say the Hayward area is a decent numbers area, what would you consider to be the normal size of the fish caught there?

[Nick Kuhn]

When you say the Hayward area is a decent numbers area, what would you consider to be the normal size of the fish caught there?

From a recent tournaments results I will sort them by A1 and A2 lakes. A1 are considered big fish lakes with less action. A2 lakes very from balance of size and action to pure action.

A1 Fish: 51, 50, 48, 47.5, 47, 44.5, 42, 41.5, 40x4, 39.5, 39.25, 39, 38.75, 36x2, 35.5, 34.75, 34.5, 34.

A1 Average: 40.85"

A2 Fish: 47, 46, 44.5x2, 44, 43.5x2, 43, 42.5x3, 42x3, 41.75, 41x4, 40.5, 40x4, 39.5x3, 39x3, 38.75, 38.5, 38x7, 37.5x4, 37x5, 36.5x4, 36.25, 36x3, 35.75, 35.5x4, 35x7, 34.5x2, 34x8

A2 Average: 38.25"

[muskieboy46]

Thanks for the info! Do you know how many teams were fishing the tournaments?

[Kodiak]

man there are a lot of good lakes around hayward after spending some time looking!

[Castinski]

For what it's worth, a friend and I went up to hayward last weekend and managed 3 in the net in about 8 hrs of fishing in the 38"-40" range. We also missed several. All action was on suckers. We fished Teal Lake and a lake on the Tigercat Chain. Could be even better now that the lakes have settled down a bit more from turnover. Fun times.

[Nick Kuhn]

Thanks for the info! Do you know how many teams were fishing the tournaments?

There were 100 or so teams fishing 20 or so different lakes for 3 days. The winner boated both the 50 and 51. The next few places were all 3 fish teams.