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smaller musky lakes


Gekhang

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hey guys, im looking for a relatively small lake that holds musky as my only form of fishing is shore or canoe and dont want to get bombarded with day traffic. going to try Harriet this evening and see how that goes. any others in the metro you guys would suggest for this time of the year?

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i read through the info and it says "Many species have been stocked over the years (starting in 1979), the most recent being tiger muskellunge in 1988 and 1992. No stocking of any species has occurred since." but 22 years? do tigers live that long?

i will keep nokomis in check.

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Personally, based off of the amount of fish I've seen in any of the smaller metro lakes (and I don't muskie fish much, mostly while bass fishing), I'd say hit up Calhoun or Cedar with a canoe/small boat. I've caught a whole slew of dinks in Calhoun (upper 20's) and I've had quite a few larger follows even. Fun lake with the cleaner water too and fairly easy weedlines to locate. smile

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Nokomis fishes VERY well from shore,,its tigers but nice ones,,the area on the east shore between the 2 drain pipes that look like a double shotgun barrel and the lone point holds tigers and this is a great area to see the infamous surfing muskies that cruise with their head out of the water,,wading in shorts and shoes 'MAKE SURE SHOES' not barefoot works best has you can add quite a bit of range out has this area slopes very gradually ,,,if your a jackpot/jerkbait guy bring the shortest rod you have because wading dosent give you alot of room for downward stroke,,tigers however can be had with pretty simple baits a double bladed bright color chartruse spinnerbait,,the area from big beach to the Minnehaha creek outlet/inlet bridge is good too has this is a fast drop off you MUST wade this because theres too many trees and bushes on shore.

if you want to be a pioneer go try the Mississippi river stretch below coon rapids dam to 694 bridge I know thier in there but to what density??? I keep wanting to do it but never find the time

in the fall oct/Nov I know of one shore musky fisherman who drives in his car around Tonka and gets out at all the channels between bays and makes a couple casts where the channel meets the lake and then drives to the next one has muskys are moving and transitioning through these.

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went to nokomis last night and after about an hour of pulling the double cowgirls on both ends of the bridge, we settled in on bass fishing as the sonar was beeping off like crazy all over the bridge and caught a few nice ones.

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