Quote Originally Posted by dpear View Post
Last week was strange.Following exceptional fishing since the Opener,fishing dropped off dramatically.Last nite it changed again with most boats reporting multiple fish and a number of good ones.Hopefully the july 'peak' has arrived.And stays.What changed?Who knows?Only the musky god I'm afraid and as mentioned before,he(she?)talks rarely and not to me since I quit drinking.
Regardless,those of you due here soon can cheer up.
I fished the NW Angle area Sat 6/29- Friday July 5th staying at Belle Island in Sabaskoshing bay. It was definitely a weird but decent week of fishing. I caught a 47.5" on 6/30 and a new personal best 48" on 7/1 Water temps were hovering between 68-70 those days and both fish were caught on small muskie cranks. With stable warm weather we expected to fishing to get even better as the week went on but overall saw very few active fish Wed-Friday. My wife did manage to catch a 42" on a topwater and my brother caught a beat-up 41.5" while trolling for walleyes. We threw pretty much everything in the box and could NOT move fish on bucktails or spinnerbaits. Gliders and topwater were the only baits to move fish besides the cranks.

I only saw Frank's white ranger on the water once during our trip...he must have been on a different area of the lake or taking it easy these days!

Here are few pics for those of you in need of a little LOTW muskie fix until you can make the trip up.

48"


47.5"


42"


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