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I was waiting for the comments from the cheap seats Paul never disappoints

that's amazing Terry. Sounds like they're as dumb as goldfish who will eat till they pretty much burst (actually also sounds a lot like my Aunt Helga)

in a stiff breeze you could make a big sail out of a tent fly to get some extra speed...just remember you have to paddle back against the wind!

thanks for the link, haven't had a chance to read it yet but I'll give it a look later

i can't get believers to swim anywhere near the speed I want to be going so I use them only in the fall when I slow things down. They have a great side to side wobble but for big speed I have to go with the storm baits, much more of a tight wiggle. Super shadraps are pretty good too for speed but they are smaller and still can't keep up with Storm when the boat is up on plane and people are laughing and pointing

same as you Lew, its the lure that has sped up that gets nailed. I can't recall the slow one ever getting hit. The good news is, the slow one is about to become the fast one and thats when they nail it! With the increased speed of the boat the hookset is a no brainer

ya I am the exact opposite. I'm never going the same speed. I'll try many speeds in the course of a day, plus when you throw in a real sharp zigzag you've got one guy going slow and one guy going fast...see who's they want!

to be more precise the GPS my buddy had for the day was telling us 9.2 mph. I don't always fish this speed, especially now that the water is cooling I'll be slowing it down, but definitely not afraid to give it a shot, especially in the summer. Luckily it was still working for us on Saturday with the water being 69. I used to think 5 or 6 was fast until this past summer. We were at Little lake in Peterborough trolling some heavy spinnerbaits at a good speed when we came up on some weeds. As a bit of a joke to my partner (who already thought I trolled too fast)I put the hammer down, got the boat up on a plane and we watched our spinnerbaits skip across the surface to get away from the weeds...well don't you know it...a 39 inch musky nails this guys spinnerbait as it jumps across the surface, blades weren't even remotely submerged! That day I realized it is next to impossible to go too fast, and I've been at least trying out anywhere from 5-10 mph each time I fish. Don't be afraid to try it..plus the looks you get from people when they realize you have lines in the water is quite funny. "Moron" is probably a common thing they say

the only bait I have that can handle it without added weight is a storm thunderstick. Cheap bait but man can they swim. Grandmas and supershadraps do pretty good up to a certain speed, but after that they kind of roll up to the top, bounce across the surface until the lip hits the water, kick to the side, dive down a few feet, roll up to the top again etc. At a "slower" (5mph) speed a Grandma probably dives 18-20 feet or so, the way we were fishing his Grandma was never getting down more than 2 or 3 feet. Was driving my buddy nuts because he'd never seen a fish hit a lure that's porpoising and not swimming right...now he has! I tell you what though, fishing like this takes a toll on your gear! make sure all the screws are tight because action like this will shake a few things loose.

tee hee ...thats kind of funny. The wife thought so too

and the smell coming from Fred Grant square isn't helping...at least today's rain might clean some of the people that loiter there all day

haven't been outside today with the sniffer, but doesn't surprise me. often get the whiff of farmers field here in downtown barrie...or maybe I'm just smelling the people standing around the 5 points

hey jb, the two smaller fish were contacted at great speed (boat on plane), the big one was at a more of a moderate pace

wow, good memory ehg! I did get a 48 last year, just can't seem to break that barrier

find another lake, and just fish that one when the friend will go with you. If you keep pushing the envelope your friend will become very unpopular with the neighbours, and soon won't be a friend anymore. If this was the only lake in southern Ontario you fight for it, but with so many other great opportunities around I personally wouldn't waste my time

great report! I wonder what people look like that get hit by 20 paintballs

That looks like an awesome time! Might not be trophy pike, but you sure got into a few pretty good ones.

haha good for you! Sometimes its those nothing nothing nothing days that the big one finally shows up to change the worst day ever to the best!

I actually hooked a musky just off the cemetery the time I was there, of course I start hooting and hollering, trash talking my partner, fish flying through the air while we cheer it on etc etc... and then some bagpipes start to play!!! There was a group of about 5 people having a ceremony with an urn about 75 feet away, hidden to our view by a tree! Man was that ever embarrassing. I hope the deceased like fishing, then the family might have gotten a kick out of us celebrating.

what a great report! Nice looking musky too. Is that last fish the dreaded sheephead?

Joey it reminded me of ocean fishing where they troll a bait that just skips across the surface - they don't even make an attempt at getting it submerged

Have had a good season for numbers of muskies in the boat this year, but not many with decent size. We were real excited to get out Saturday after a few days of stable weather and a beauty full moon. The day started out like the rest of my season - small fish and missed opportunities (when will I learn to figure 8 every time!!!) My partner had a 35 inch or so fish hit a grandma that couldn't stay submerged. We were trolling in approx 20 feet of water at "summer speed" - for me that's close to 10 miles per hour - to see if we could still trigger some fish with speed. Not many baits can run true while the boat is on plane! At one point we had dang jetskiers trying to jump our wake while trolling. Anyway, his Grandma was having some difficulty staying down, every once in a while was rolling up to the surface, skipping a couple of times and then going for a quick dive before resurfacing. He was frustrated and wanted me to slow down (we had previously trolled at a more moderate speed without success). I told him just a couple of minutes more, but not to worry since I had caught a fish the last time out when I had a supershadrap on that couldn't take the speed. While I'm telling him this, a musky comes flying through the air chomping down on Grandma during one of its surface runs! Didn't land the fish, but both had a real good look at it. Next was my turn, another dink on, another dink lost. I'd have to put this one on the rack to even get him to 30 inches! The little ones sure can jump though. This one went airborn right beside the boat with a 24 inch vertical, and spit the hook. If my partner had any reflexes he probably could have caught it in mid air. When I commented on his sluggishness, he remarked that the fish would have slipped through the gaps in the net...I guess I deserved that one. And then, just when it seemed like another day of small fish, this beaut came to pay us a visit This fish measured 48 inches with a 20 inch girth, and came trolling a storm thunderstick in 20 feet of water. Its an area of boulders not far from a 10 foot weedy flat on one side, and 30 feet deep on the other side. Its a spot I found earlier this summer while driving around randomly. First couple of times I fished it produced nothing. Frustrating when you find what looks like the perfect spot, behind the backs of the guys casting the weeds, but the fish don't seem to be there! Being stubborn, I didn't give up on this spot, and good thing because the last 3 times there I've contacted fish! A 42 a few weeks back, the 35 incher referred to earlier, and then this 48. Now if only I had a GPS so I could more easily find it each time instead of lining up the brown cottage on this shore, with the willow on the other shore, with the...

oh dear...don't see this heading anywhere good. As far as the post count I think Garry means you did a separate post for each photo, rather than just putting all the photos under one post...inflates a post count artificially

that's quite the snake! I'd go 44-45 looks long and skinny

It seems to me that every musky in Pigeon lake is that size, approx 40 inches. Every time I go to Pigeon we get one that's a carbon copy of that fish, can't seem to find the big ones yet.