Leech Lake?

[jeffro]

Has anyone else fished leech this year? Catch or see any fish? I fished both Kabekona and Sucker opener weekend and Nothing. going back up the 18th & 19th.

[Random guy]

Hang in there Jeffro. Leech can be a moody lake early in the season. It really turns on as time goes by and by the 4th of July it's really cookin'. As far as the time you will be up there next look to INSIDE weed line. Those big fat piggies like to lay behind in the skinny water and get all warmed up and feeling happy. Also look for those huge shallow weed beds were the warmer water is blowing across them. Musky Chow (baitfish) will come with the warmer water creating a all u can eat buffet.

[jeffro]

Thanks Jon. We had good luck last opener fishing deeper weeds where we could find them but we will try shallower this weekend.

[Random guy]

Any thing one learned last year can be thrown out the window I have been on Leech for years and last year was just plain "out there".When they should be deep they were shallow, when they should be going on rocks you found them in the sand. I think thats how I lost so much hair last year.

[RK]

Hiya,

Leech might be the moodiest muskie lake I've ever fished. It seems like it can blow hot and cold from one minute to the next, and some years, like last year, it can be 'off' all year. And some parts of the lake blow hot and cold from one year to the next besides. Part of what makes Leech cool though - when you get something figured out you feel like you've done something. Some lakes, you could train a monkey to cast a bucktail to the weed flats and catch fish, but Leech takes some skull work. Not to say I haven't roundly cursed it as a miserable swamp from time to time...

Thing I've noticed about Leech early over the years is you'll sometimes find fish in very shallow early-developing weedbeds - sometimes just on random pieces of shoreline. Only way to find them is go looking when it's calm. These little beds come and go from year to year so you have to find them all over again each season.

Cheers,

RK

[walleye1957]

Went to Leech on Sunday 6/12,I got to net a 48" (19 1/2inch girth) or around Walker Bay. I went out with Al Maas and you talk about 1 stud of a musky fisherman.... lost 2...3 follows, nothing to huge.