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JUNE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MJBo

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I'm pretty new to Muskies (1st year) so I'm gonna risk opening myself up to getting blasted............

Do you guys really wait until June to fish. I gotta tell ya I can't see myself doing that. Whats the rationale in the metro if these fish really don't spawn naturally (as I've been told).

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I feel your pain, but it's going to be awfully tough casting your plugs for the next couple of months! crazy.gif I guess it's time to pull out the tip-ups and find a pike or two.

BTW, muskies do spawn naturally in some metro waters.

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Yes the wait is tough when you have to sit and watch the walleye guys going to the lake. The reg is of course is designed to protect the spawning and post spawn muskie from fishing pressure on spawning lakes such as Leech. It would be tough to say season opens on Bald Eagle but not Leech, and so forth, it would more then likely open a can worms we would never get closed. I have thought about "fishing pike" on a musky lake as most of us have and decided to let them have there down time plus fishing that early is slow I would have to guess.

I do some early season pike fishing on Upper Red and LOTW to help pass the time. IOWA is always an optoin for some early musky.

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I would mention that just because musky in many lakes do not naturally reproduce does not nessecarily mean that they do not exhibit spawning behavior. Their inability to reproduce is not so much a biological difference as an environmental one.

Given that fact, i would consider it very inappropriate and unethical, as well as illeagal, to fish musky before the opener.

If you really can't wait, head south. Or, better yet, do as i do, and start researching lakes that put out big pike but don't hold musky. This is a great way to spend the winter, and when you get on the water you can limber up your casting techniques legally and ethically.

Fishing musky out of season is just plain wrong.

Steve

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The old timer that taught me to fish musky put it in very simple terms- "Respect the lake and its inhabitants , and they will thank you time and time again"

I can still remember that old gruff voice and the puffs of cigar smoke rolling out as we turned the boat around to pick up a candy wrapper that the boat in front of us lost. I truly think fishing early fits into some of those old wise words. wink.gif

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