Weekend on the Flowage
Came up for Saturday and Sunday to fish muskies. First time on the Flowage for this year. Right away we saw a low 40's fish swimming along the top making wakes. The fish was acting funny, it would wake along then once the boat got close it would splash all over then go back to waking. We followed the fish for ~10 minutes while it did this and threw everything but the boat anchor at it. Finally we got bored with chasing this fish around the lake and moved on. Had one blow up a topwater in the morning on our second spot but not get hooked. Later in the afternoon got a 46" on a topwater. That was it for Saturday as the rain pushed us off the lake. Sunday morning we got a 32" on a jerk bait within 10 casts and had another over 40 follow up to the boat on topwater but could not convert the 8. We only fished for a couple hours Sunday and headed home. All in all a great trip. All the fish came from weeds for the most part. The missed fish and the follow came between the shore and weed edge. The fish we landed were on the edge.
Also, if anyone is thinking about getting iPilot Link, I would strongly recommend it. This weekend was the first time on the water with a map card installed to use "follow the contour" feature. This system works great! I would say in the time we were on the water I manually ran the trolling motor maybe 10-15 minutes? In the wind I could see it not being as accurate but many of the features work wonders when structure fishing.
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