Kevin Nelson
06-28-2009, 11:19 PM
After a very nice week of mostly summer weather, the departure of our Muskie Opener guests also was the departure of the nice weather. Saturday AM our bay was reading lake temps in the mid 60's and Sunday AM our lake temperature at the dock was 47 degrees - the wind blew all of our warm surface water away. Before Saturday, Kakagi was hitting the upper 60's and fish were migrating toward summer locations. LOTW was running mid 70's around most of Stevens Bay and expect Stevens Bay would have had more warmer water being blown in on Saturday.
Muskie Opener week was exciting with every boat having the thrill of seeing some very big fish. Best catch for the week was 49.5" Muskie with most groups landing at least one between 45-48". The guests reported several large Muskies lost during the week and a whole bunch of lazy post spawn type follows. Expecting mostly Bass and Lake Trout groups in during the next few weeks, so we might not be posting a reported 50+" fish soon.
Lake Trout have not quite made it to the usual summer holes yet and reports have been mostly scattered fish the past two weeks. Some of the slowdown in Lake Trout is the Bass and Muskie groups have not been fishing for Lake Trout very often.
Bass are still being seen on the beds in places on Kakagi while others are starting to move to the rocks (east end). Surface lures are starting to work on Kakagi, for those who enjoying having a bass come out of no where and explode on you lure. Cedartree bass were biting well in the winds on Saturday - just a little hard to control the boat enough to fish a wind blown rocky shore near gravel.
Northern Pike were solid on Cedartree with a 34" caught by a 1st time guest on Saturday. The southern parts of Whitefish Bay on LOTW were also very good for Pike action with 50 Northerns caught during a day trip.
Walleye action included a great day on Cedartree with 100 boated and many too big to keep, caught by some 1st time Cedartree guests.
Cedartree water levels are starting to go down to the point where most of the Cedartree boats are now usable - just a little congested with all of the boats huddled together :-)
The weekend winds have blown extra debris on the lakes - so observe more caution on the waters. Our pedal boat was blown out - Jenny went with on the successful recovery mission, after some guests reported a sighting in a nearby bay. Our main dock sustained damages - looks like we will be needing to replace a badly cracked board or two, when the winds let up. My boat found a submerged hunk of wood in the narrows going into Cedartree Bay, it put an unusual curl in the prop - looks like it will straighten out.
The 47 degree waters will postpone swimming activity at our beach for most of the coming week - might need to visit some of the remote beach area's when we hunt down our 65 degree waters again. :-)
Regards,
Muskie Opener week was exciting with every boat having the thrill of seeing some very big fish. Best catch for the week was 49.5" Muskie with most groups landing at least one between 45-48". The guests reported several large Muskies lost during the week and a whole bunch of lazy post spawn type follows. Expecting mostly Bass and Lake Trout groups in during the next few weeks, so we might not be posting a reported 50+" fish soon.
Lake Trout have not quite made it to the usual summer holes yet and reports have been mostly scattered fish the past two weeks. Some of the slowdown in Lake Trout is the Bass and Muskie groups have not been fishing for Lake Trout very often.
Bass are still being seen on the beds in places on Kakagi while others are starting to move to the rocks (east end). Surface lures are starting to work on Kakagi, for those who enjoying having a bass come out of no where and explode on you lure. Cedartree bass were biting well in the winds on Saturday - just a little hard to control the boat enough to fish a wind blown rocky shore near gravel.
Northern Pike were solid on Cedartree with a 34" caught by a 1st time guest on Saturday. The southern parts of Whitefish Bay on LOTW were also very good for Pike action with 50 Northerns caught during a day trip.
Walleye action included a great day on Cedartree with 100 boated and many too big to keep, caught by some 1st time Cedartree guests.
Cedartree water levels are starting to go down to the point where most of the Cedartree boats are now usable - just a little congested with all of the boats huddled together :-)
The weekend winds have blown extra debris on the lakes - so observe more caution on the waters. Our pedal boat was blown out - Jenny went with on the successful recovery mission, after some guests reported a sighting in a nearby bay. Our main dock sustained damages - looks like we will be needing to replace a badly cracked board or two, when the winds let up. My boat found a submerged hunk of wood in the narrows going into Cedartree Bay, it put an unusual curl in the prop - looks like it will straighten out.
The 47 degree waters will postpone swimming activity at our beach for most of the coming week - might need to visit some of the remote beach area's when we hunt down our 65 degree waters again. :-)
Regards,