First for everything....

[Woody B]

I was out last night on Minnetonka fishing ski's with a couple of buds and something crazy happened. I was casting a 10" Grandma in about 12-14 FOW when I got a huge hook up. It came up and we all got a quick glimps before it made its first run we thought it was a smaller muskie. The fish came up again to reveal itself and boy were we shocked, it was a giant walleye. It measured a plump 27.5in my biggest by far. What a great surprise for a slow night of muskie fishing.

[markkstanley]

Nice eye. Lots of big walleyes in Tonka so don't be surprised if you get some more. I target them in the fall with cranks and do very well. You'll catch some big largemouths with musky tackle too.

[cjac]

Nice bonus fish Woody!

How bad has the recreational boat traffic been these last couple nights? Working my way towards the door at work for some muskie time....'tonka if I have time, if not the backyard lake.

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You'll catch some big

largemouths

with musky tackle too.

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Talk about a first for everything!! Mark, you are now calling them by their name......you like bass now!!!

[Woody B]

Traffic was low and has been low during the week. You will still get your occasional crazy running 90mph between you and the bouy your fishing around but overall it's been quiet during the week. I'll be out this weekend early in the morning, I fish until about 10:30 and get off before the big cruisers fire up.

[stayman79]

Don't want to hi-jack this topic (nice walleye by the way) but any of you guys got a recent water temp for Tonka? It's gotta be creeping up there. Reason I ask is I have a chance to go out there Friday am in another guys' boat and he doesn't like to fish muskies if the temp gets over 78 due to the increased chance of them not surviving the CPR. Makes sense to me. I'm just trying to get an idea before we head out there. We could always fish for something smaller, I guess...but what fun is that?

If you know, post it!

Thanks!

[markkstanley]

Over 80 sorry to say. I'm shutting down musky fishing until temps get back to high 70s. I don't want to have a dead musky on my hands. Green carp and panfish it is with some evening walleye fishing.

[Lund 2025]

Good idea Mark. Muskies are too far and few between to risk losing them due to high water temps. Good time to catch up on that honey-do list so I am ready to go again after a cool down.