Any Crow or Sabaskong Reports?

[jerkin'm]

Will be headed up in 12 days for a week....itching for a report of some kind...anyone been out? Are the smallies super deep with this hot weather?

[jerkin'm]

5 days and counting....Still no reports? Must be too good..

[rockpt]

All the smallies we caught last week were on open water reefs. We hit the shoreline and shoreline breaks pretty hard and got nothing. Seems like they're already in a fall pattern.

[jerkin'm]

I assume this was on Lake of the Woods? I will be staying on Crow, possibly trailer over to LOW for the day if time permits. Any laker reports?

[rockpt]

Yes, that was on LOTW.

I heard the muskies are taking the lakers right off the hooks on Crow. Buddy told me two 5 lb. lakers were chomped by 50" plus muskies in 50' of water and held on right to the surface.

[fishing4fun]

Now that would be fun using 5# laker for bait under a huge bobber to catch a musky. Naaa just kidding. But the fight and excitement of having that happen while trout fishing would be a rush....

[jerkin'm]

That's the kind of report I like to here...

[Doonbuggy]

Was up on Crow for my first time last month. During the day the skis were probably too deep or lazy. Night trolling was wild though. We boated a pair of 44s" and a 42" in one five hour trip. These fish are clearly thicker than LOW skis b/c of their diet.

At night, the baitfish move to the reefs, the whitefish and trout follow and the muskies follow them. Grandmas and Slammers were the ticket. I don't think you can troll a bait that is too big for them!

On LOW we caught very few smallies just casting shorelines so they must be on the reefs. As for LOW skis we saw most of our fish where you had both weed and rock together. Big slab rocks next to standing reeds is prime, but mostly we just saw fish, couldn't get them to bite.

Smallies on Crow looked to be tightly schooled in deeper water, 20-30'.

Hard to find more beautiful water than Crow, but it is a different type of fishing environment. I have only scratched the surface of that lake, but it leaves me wanting to learn more about it.

DB