L & M Fishing reports

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Lake: Fawcett

Dates: 6/9/08-6/14/08

Group: Faas

Report: Quality camp excellent. Quality of service excellent. Walleye 50 per man per day. Largest 27 inches. Numberous 22-25 inch walleyes. Largest northern 40 inches. 2 1/2 days of fair weather and 2 1/2 days of rain. Fishing was great!

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Lake: Otatakan

Dates: 6/9/08-6/15/08

Group: Krueger

Report: Great place, great fishing. Equipment top notch as usual. Biggest walleye 23 inches, lots of walleye 19-22 inches. Could catch them pretty well anywhere, one of the best places off the dock in the evenings.

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Lake: Austin

Dates: 6/10/08-6/15/08

Group: Burget

Report: Excellent cabin and L & M service second to none. Fishing slow the first day, but picked up each and every day. Jose caught the fattest 42 inch northern we've ever seen in the small portage lake. Portage trails were alittle tough, but worth it. All caught many, many walleye and northerns. Tim lost the normal amount of blood to the poor little pike he caught. Great trip!!

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Lake: Wright

Dates: 6/11/08-6/17/08

Group: Tomasovic

Report: Wind, rain, every day! Caught fair amount of walleye and pike. A few large fish but not alot. Had a great time, then more wind and rain. Still a great time. See what happens next year.

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Lake: Fishtrap

Dates: 6/12/08-6/19/08

Group: Wyantt

Report: Good fishing all week. Rain and windy first 5 days, last 2 days clear. Over 250 fish for the 2 of us, all artificial. Northern size all the way up to 42 1/2 inches (20++ pounds). Walleye up to 22 inches and bass up to 18 inches. Nothing beats fresh walleye for lunch, rain or shine!!

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Lake: Dobie

Dates: 6/14/08-6/19/08

Group: Gordon

Report: Awesome!! A great cabin, great lake. Great fishing, and only surpassed by our hosts: Larry, Mary, and Shane Adams

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Lake: Fawcett

Dates: 6/14/08-6/21/08

Group: Haberer

Report: Fishing great. Scenery pretty, camp set up well. Largest walleye 28 inches.

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Lake: Wright

Dates: 6/17/08-6/22/08

Group: Kapelski

Report: Excellent fishing and accomodations. Great trip, good weather. Abundant walleye, most over 20 inches. Many large northern, caught 24 pike on fly rod. Cabin was great. We will be back. Best northern was 42 inches. Berkley Gulp alive!!

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Lake: Otatakan

Dates: 6/15/08-6/22/08

Group: Kokal

Report: Good trip. Lots of 19-20 inch walleye. 24 1/2 inch walleye. Fishing on the overcast/cloudy days were better fishing days than sunny days.

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Lake: Fishtrap

Dates: 6/19/08-6/23/08

Group: The Dirty Water Boys

Report: Top water baits worked well!!! Cast for northern, catch big bass. Cast for walleye, catch big bass. Rocks were strong. Weeds still too low to fish. Avg 16 inch bass. Northern running deeper. Hot weather most of the week. Had to work to catch walleye small enough to eat, most too big.

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Lake: Dobie

Dates: 6/19/08-6/23/08

Group: Van Nevel/Schaible

All amenities worked perfectly. Boats were superb and dry. Fishing was the best we've had. Avgeraging 50-75 fish/boat each day. Could of caught many more if we would sit in 1 stop, wanted to explore other area's of the lake and rivers. Great fishing in the river everywhere. Largest northerns were 2 at 40 inches and 1, 36 inch pike. With numerous mid 30 inch class. Saw alot of wildlife including 4 moose and had great weather. Another superb L & M adventure!

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Lake: Fawcett

Dates: 6/21/08-6/28/08

Group: Troup

Report: Great weather. Nice, clean cabin. Fishing was terrific. Walleye were big. Avg size 20-25 inches. Biggest at 27 1/2 inches. Biggest pike 37 1/2 inches. Almost all fish caught on yellow jigs. Could not catch pike on bigger northern baits. Good service. Looking forward to next year already. Thank you, L & M.

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Lake: Fishtrap

Dates: 6/23/08-6/28/08

Group: Miller

Report: Fishing was great all week. Had alot of good times. Largest walleye 30 inches, next biggest just under 30 inches. Caught more walleye on this trip than previous trips. Bass fishing was tougher than previous years. Fished on Fishtrap all trip, no need to portage as we caught all we wanted on the main lake.

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Lake: Austin

Dates: 6/21/08-6/28/08

Group: Cicero

Report: North Portage was great. Big walleye in north portage lake. Lots of walleye in Austin too, just ran smaller in size. Caught 2-24 inch walleye and 23 and 22 1/2 inches. 40 inch, 35 1/2 inch, 31 1/2, and 2-30 inch northerns caught. The largest northern caught the 1st evening of the trip in Austin. Lake transitioning, weeds starting to come up. Perch looking lures along with gold worked well. Used no live bait. Saw plenty of wildlife including bears and mooses. Cabin was nice.

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Lake: Wright

Dates: 6/22/08-6/29/08

Group: Kurgan

Report: Good week. Nice weather and facilities. Caughts lots of fish including 2 pike over 40 inches. Largest being 44 1/2 inches. Had especially good luck in Kaminskag. Strout was so-so fishing compared to previous trips and was difficult to get boats back up the rapids. First class operation. Bring peanuts for the woodchuck. Caught 1 muskie but Shane wont believe us without a picture to verify this muskie.

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Lake: Dobie

Dates: 6/23/08-6/29/08

Group: Jachim

Report: Tons of fish. 100+ per boat per day. Well equiped cabin. Everything was as advertised. Walleyes where mainly 16-22 inches. A handful of northern in the mid 30 inch class and 1 northern at 42 inches. Caught within 20 yards from the dock. The Adams Family are a great group.

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Lake: Austin

Dates: 6/28/08-7/3/08

Group: Holt

Report: Great fishing. 138 walleye and 30 northern for just the 2 of us on this huband/wife team. North portage provided the biggest walleye. Dock fishing gave us the biggest northern. 25 inch walleye, 32 inch northern. Awesome fishing, hardly a slow day. Some rain, but nice weather for the most part.

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Lake: Wright

Dates: 6/29/08-7/4/08

Group: Rose

Report: 2 pike over 40 inches caught in Wright lake itself. Walleyes are running bigger this year, 20+ inch avg. Late weeds this year=slower fishing compared to previous trips. Some walleye in the 24-25 inch range. Cabin was very clean, good trip.

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Lake: Fawcett

Dates: 6/28/08-7/4/08

Group: Oran/Swanson Couples

Excellent cabin and set up. Great lake. Men outfished the women (maybe becuase 8:00 a, was too earily for fishing). L & M did an excellent job again, we will be back. Very few fish in the main lake yet, mostly in the rivers. 1100+ walleyes. 26 3/8 inch walleye being the largest, caught on an ultra light. Largest pike 39 inchs, caught on 4# test ultra light. Guys continue to loose at fill or bust, but whatever.

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Lake: Dobie

Dates: 6/29/08-7/5/08

Group: Cohlmeyer

Report: 80-100 fish per boat per day. Caught 39 inch and 38 inch pike. Natalie caught a 37 inch pike with her first cast off the dock to start the trip off. Fish were scattered all over, in the rivers and out in the main lake. Another great trip with L & M.

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Lake: Dobie

Dates: 7/5/08-7/10/08

Group: Domholt

Report: Great walleye catch even though the mayfly hatch was active. 50-75 walleye per day per person. Deluxe accomodations. Definately coming back. Had 1 large nothern well over 40 inches come up and grabbed a walleye we were fighting to the boat, he praticed his own form of catch and release.

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Lake: Wright

Dates: 7/4/08-7/11/08

Group: Roeder

Report: Great Camp. Best camp we have been too. Marked alot of big fish, but couldnt get them to bite. Caught alot of fish though during our trip which made it a blast. Thanks for the great week. Saw a moose, beaver, otter, martin, ground hogs, bunch of loons.

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Lake: Fawcett

Dates: 7/4/08-7/12/08

Group: Bernard

Report: Great job by L & M. 88 degrees one day, then 54 degree with rain the next day. Lot of walleye in the rivers yet, numberous walleyes in the 23-25 inches. Largest being 26 1/2 inches. Largest pike 36 inches. Saw 2 moose and fox swimming in the channel. Mayfly hatched but still caught lots of fish during the trip. One day it seemed like every walleye we caught was attacked by a northern before we could get it to the boat. Hope to be back again next year.

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Lake: Fishtrap

Dates: 7/10/08-7/13/08

Group: The Johnsons

We saw deer, moose, eagle, turtles, and bear. The cabin was cozy. We did not come to fish, just came for the adventure of the trip. The adventure was great!

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Lake: Dobie

Dates: 7/10/08-7/14/08

Group: Reicks

Report-Caught 1-40 inch pike, caught 1-41 inch pike. One caught on spoon and the other on minnow in the bays. Many 20 plus inch walleye with the largest being 22 inches. Most walleye caught in river narrows area in 5-7 foot of water. Although it rained everyday, we still caught alot of fish. 40 plus per boat each day with some days around 60 fish per boat. Minnows worked best with crawlers almost as good. Lake was too rough with storms to explore the northern part of the lake.