Anyone find the Northerns or Muskies?

[channelcat]

I fished hard for 4 hours last Saturday in monona bay and the triangle from shore trying for the monsters thinking they were spawning shallow but not a bite i was using and large Cleo silver like a shiner. Anyone have a better spot or method?

[Ziggy]

http://www.northern.edu/natsource/FISH/Northe1.htm

We were catching them thru the ice in early Feb and thet were FULL of eggs. I think they spawned mid to end of March at the latest. They have been in the inlets and ditches of smaller 4-600 acre Lakes feeding off pannies for the last week though. Red Cedar and Ripley to name a couple. Red Cedar is a no motor Lake if you go there. Not even electric trollers. Ripley is no motor in the old Vasby's ditch and the other one to the east gets really shallow really fast.

[1deadeye]

The muskie spawns when the water temperature is 48 to 59 degrees

Northern pike spawn in late March to early May. Though they occasionally lay eggs under the ice, they usually begin moving into small streams and flooded marshes when the water temperature is 39 to 52 degrees

Channel catfish spawn when water temperatures reach 75 degrees

Scott