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Crescent lake

muskylunkin

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My lady and I are going to do a little camping trip up there Sun-Tues. She wants to eat fish (walleye) so I will definitely be doing a little bottom feeder fishing, however early mornings and late evenings I will be doing the fishing I love.

Any advice? I'm excited for all those rocks up there, deep edges of the islands, any advice is much appreciated.

Any of you guys ever catch a real monster up there? Been fishing the metro only this year and the fish I have caught are quite slender and petite. Looking for pictures to be proud of.

I'll give a detailed fishing report Wednesday (hopefully with pics). Appreciate the info guys!

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My brother got a 29 1/2" last May (2010). We also caught several others between 17-24" Only kept what we could eat (a couple small ones) the rest of them wet back. Hopefully you follow suit. Lots of people taking big fish out of these lakes...... Gd luck!

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Appreciate the walleye info, should have been more clear, I will be fishing muskies early morning and evenings. Advice on both is great tho! Walleyes when she decides to get up. Otherwise I will be throwin the big stuff. Once again, any and all advice is much appreciated!

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It's a shoepac strain lake, so by nature there won't be any monsters by any means. Fish them the same way you would any other shield lake, structure and weeds. Smaller single blade tail is what I caught mine on.

I caught a 36" up there about 8 years ago, real skinny fish but lots of fight.

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I've fished this lake many many times and have never caught a muskie over 7 pounds. Seen one swimming that might have topped out at 10 pounds. Most will run about 5 pounds. It's already been mentioned, but they just don't grow big here. I like jointed raps, blue fox spinners, and skitter props.

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Like someone above mentioned Crescent has the Shoepack strain. The result is a TON of muskies between say 25 & 34 inches. My first morning there I caught a 32 and lost 4 more. Mind you we got there at 9am and left about 12:30. Great time. Might want to downsize accordingly. Also the smallmouth population is ridiculous. Expect to tie into more than a few when chasing walleyes. Definitely one of my favorite lakes.

Note: Watch for the big reef. It really sneaks up on you....

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Crescent lake fishing report

Morning # 1

Went bass fishing, they were where they should have been, fallen logs, points, rocks, islands, weed beds. Caught 33 of them, not one over a pound, sad.

Late afternoon, early evening went walleye fishing off the sunken rocks out there, more tiny smallies.

Morning #2

Musky fishing, caught 2 lil critters off a point with weedbed and a nice sharp drop, fun but, you guys were right. Just lil guys. Had a follow by a big smallie on a red show girl.

Great camping and the lady loved it so thats good news. Big thunderstorm Mon night/ tues morning. Good trip but I need to get to Mille Lacs ASAP!

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