Muskrat lake

[cgates]

What's the fishing been like on the lake I've been told it has been very hard to fish? Is that the case

[bostonwhaler]

I have not had the same luck on muskrat for bass year. But the tournaments are still producing big weights, most of the local guys will tell you that this year is tuff in the valley

[Mr Twister]

Same everywhere Chris...lol

Keep your rods crossed

[cgates]

I'm not sure i want to drive down to pre fish or fish same as last year.... Smallies

[Mr Twister]

Get Phil to drive!!!

Good luck.

[StarTzar]

I'm not sure i want to drive down to pre fish or fish same as last year.... Smallies

We fished the Muskrat twice with BAA. Always targeted Smallies. Always pre-fished one day one week before.

During the 2011pre-fish (calm and no wind) we must have caught 20 keepers. (Mostly on top water early morning).
Tournament day (very windy) we bombed out with 3 bass for a total of 8.28 (No plan B).

During the 2012 pre-fish (windy) we caught 5 keepers. (Mostly cranking, some on spinner baits).
Tournament day (windy) we got our limit for a total of 16.68 ... 4 smallies (One was a 4.3) and one large mouth.
All smallies were caught on the KVD5 and the largemouth on a wake bait.

We did 80% of our fishing on the North eastern side of the lake.

[cgates]

I'm not sure i want to drive down to pre fish or fish same as last year.... Smallies

We fished the Muskrat twice with BAA. Always targeted Smallies. Always pre-fished one day one week before.

During the 2011pre-fish (calm and no wind) we must have caught 20 keepers. (Mostly on top water early morning).
Tournament day (very windy) we bombed out with 3 bass for a total of 8.28 (No plan B).

During the 2012 pre-fish (windy) we caught 5 keepers. (Mostly cranking, some on spinner baits).
Tournament day (windy) we got our limit for a total of 16.68 ... 4 smallies (One was a 4.3) and one large mouth.
All smallies were caught on the KVD5 and the largemouth on a wake bait.

We did 80% of our fishing on the North eastern side of the lake.

I've really started to love smallie a on muskrat I think I'll go with what I know and pass on the 2 hour drive and 100$ in gas

[bostonwhaler]

ill take you in my boat

[bostonwhaler]

I pretty much live in cobden, I have a skeeter and a trolling motor that will take us all day. you can even captain the bow.

[cgates]

I pretty much live in cobden, I have a skeeter and a trolling motor that will take us all day. you can even captain the bow.

Pm sent

[RJ]

Muskrat hasn't been itself for I'd say about a year. Weights are down at pretty much every event. The guys who fish it regularly are wondering what's up. Maybe the amount of events on it have finally caught up to it.....

I wouldn't pre-fish Chris. It'll ruin your mindset if ya have a tough day. Just go fishing the day of and see what happens.

RJ

[cgates]

Muskrat hasn't been itself for I'd say about a year. Weights are down at pretty much every event. The guys who fish it regularly are wondering what's up. Maybe the amount of events on it have finally caught up to it.....

I wouldn't pre-fish Chris. It'll ruin your mindset if ya have a tough day. Just go fishing the day of and see what happens.

RJ

For some reason my partner hates small jaws????? and i love them mabe you can talk to him It's hard to change an old dog

[Kovalchuk]

I had luck with the largies this past weekend...

Cavitron buzz in the weedy bays and stretches... lazy blow-ups but still got into a good amount of 2lbs. + fish.