best metro musky/pike lakes

[Grant Pearson]

What are the best metro lakes for catching muskies in your opinion? Can be either size, numbers, or both.

Mine:

1. Bald Eagle

2. Minnetonka

3. White Bear

4. Square for pike

[bgreen82]

id agree with your list. if you REALLY, REALLY WANT TO PUT IN TIME lake elmo can toss out some bigguns ive heard.

[Andrew Erickson]

1-tonka

2-harriet

3-is independence considered metro??

[Giant_Jackpot]

Indy is in Hennepin County so I would consider it Metro. But there are no fish is that lake. I would suggest going elsewhere.

[Andrew Erickson]

hehe

[fishcast]

I'd say square would be an amazing lake for size if it wasn't tamed down so bad by spears. My dad claims to have seen mulitple pike in the 20 plus pound range and had a couple bite but just rip his rigs to shreds when fishing trout "back in the day." I've seen a couple awfully nice fish sight fishing for northerns there but can't get them to bite, and I end up catching 12 inchers instead.

I am not going to name this lake, but it has both muskie and pike in there. I was sightfishing it with airplane jigs for northerns 2 days ago and saw the biggest fish of my life. I have never caught a muskie or very large northern, but I would have to say it was atleast 45+ inches and the thickest fish I have ever seen myself! It probably sounds stupid but I don't know if it was a skie or pike. I assumed it was a skie at first cause it was so huge, but thinking about it afterwords it looked like a northern. I have never been so scared in my fishing life! It didn't bite, it just circled around my jig a few times and was kind of twitching at it. But it was an awesome sight to see to say the least.