best weekend so far.

[gethanet]

Me and my cousin went up by the alex area to do allittle camping with the 2 boys and try to hook a ski. Been fishing skis for a couple years now and only gotten 5 to my name with a 41 being the biggest. My cousin has had some on but has only gotten 1 at 39". Well first night out I was casting a northland bionic spinerbait with yellow hair copper blades and a chartruse and silver flake magombo teaser. I was casting about 10 foot to the outside of the reeds trying to go around all the slop. Well the spinner bait came up to some slop that I couldn't get around so I was just starting to pull it over when it looked like a bass came up and sucked it down. So I set the hook. Was kinda surprized the bass had allittle weight but then figured it was a couple pound pike. But as it got to the boat low and behold a 37.5" ski. Thats about it that night.

Next morn. took my boy (9) and my cousins boy (6) out to see if they could hook a pike or bass with spinnerbait. Of course we were still after skis. After about 20 min I looked down at ny boys spinnerbait as he brought it up to the boat and a 45-46" ski right behind it. I told him to leave it in the water and of course he lifted it out as saying why. That fish would of deff hit that bait. You could see how excited the ski was it was almost twiching with it's fins flicking and you could see it looking for the bait for a couple seconds. I would liked to see what my boy would of done if it would of hit beside the boat. He should of been able to hable it since he pulled in a 35 pound flathead cat last year.

Well we got about 100 yards down shore and I seen a ripple on the surface so I chucked out my pearch salmo jerkbait got to jerks and wham hit. Set the hook and I had a jumper he jumped about 6 times out of the water. It ended up to be 40.5". Not bad. Got about 20 more yards and my cousin got a 40.25" on a purle bucktail with chart blades. About 10 more yards I had on blow up on a poes jackpot had him on for a couple secounds but got off. Maybe got 10 feet and my cousin hooked a 30.5" tiger on a yellow bucktail. Definatly not the same fish that hit the jackpot. Within anouther 75-100 yards I had 2 more 40+ fish follow up to the boat. One on a big spinnerbait and one on a orange with black spots tail propbait. Boy did he make a wake behind that. That was it for the rest of the weekend ex a couple follows.

I don't know why all those fish were in that area. There was no signs of baitfish just some sparsh bulrushes with good cabbge out alittle ways. What do you guys think is the reason for them being so close together and that agresive. By the way we had to cut hooks because they all but swallowed the baits.

[MSRiverdog]

Congrats on the great weekend. I was by myself and had a day like that a few years ago on a lake in WS, got off the lake saying to my self "Muskies are easy". Boated 4, 36 to 40 had 3 strikes and 2 follows in about 4 hours.

[whitewolf6647]

Sounds like Lobster was kind to you guys this last weekend. Were they still in shallow? I haven't been over there for over a week now. I'm starting to go through withdrawls so I'm going back on Wednesday and Thrusday.

[gethanet]

wolf we got them on the edges of the reeds and over the cabbage a bit deeper and also in that sloppy stuff on the top between the two. The later they would hit just as you were getting hung up in it or pulling it over. They sure where agressive they would hit a lure so good they were almost passing them out the other side. Good luck. We probaly won't get up there till mid to late sept.

[rascalP]

Sounds like a great trip for the boys. Now they're spoiled.

Had a day like that last year about this time, 2 mid 40's in the boat and about a dozen more blow up on our top-waters. twice we had fish hit at the same time. One of those we got to the net. Better muskie fisher's could have made that a 4 or 5 fish day. Seemed like every muskie in the area was ON for 4 or 5 hours. VERY foggy morning. Perfect storm! Alot of fish gave up there locations that day.

This year, same lake, I got a boil on my lure. As I brought it in, there it was. And there was another one, nose to tail, inches apart from the first, same size. Well, I guess I need work on my boatside manuevers, cause neither bit, but it showed me that more than one muskie can share the same spot

[CommonSense Guy]

It sounds like the fish are getting active. We have done well the last few days. 5 fish in the boat including a 40, and a 47. Lots of active fish moved. Even my girlfriend stuck one at the boat last night.

Heading up to Hayward to fish this weekend. Anyone have any reports? I will be hoping around on a few lakes out there.

Any of you guys fishing around Alex ever get on Oscar? I have fished it twice and found some nice spots but nothing in the boat. I know there were some big fish in there at one point. Many have been killed