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Muskie Fishing
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Muskie Fishing
Welcome to our Muskie fishing paradise. Read about our exciting Muskie fishery - one that you probably have never heard about before!
We are fortunate to have Muskie in our waters because not many fisheries do have them. We think they migrated to our fishery from the world famous Lake Of The Woods Musky fishery to the south and stayed here because we have the right habitat. Muskie are the game fish of choice for seasoned fishermen who seek the thrill of catching these wiley super predators.
We don't know why Muskie are not as widely distributed across the north as are Northern Pike. They must need a rare habitat to flourish. Muskie grow to sixty pounds and more. Pike have spots. Muskie have lines. Pike have light spots on a dark background and Muskie have darker lines on a light background. While they look similar to Northern Pike, biologists say they are not genetically related.
Muskie numbers are never as great as Pike in any fishery were both inhabit. Musky are harder to catch but they present you with the thrill of a life time when you get one on your line. While you can catch Muskie just about anywhere, you may have more success at catching a large Musky if you fish with larger seven to twelve inch baits and troll the deeper holes and lake bottoms. Some veteran Muskie fishermen like to fish for them in the cooler, blowing and rainy weather that comes late in the summer season and early fall but we have had most of our success on more pleasant days. If the truth be told, we have caught so many Muskie on good days we didn't try as hard or as often in cooler, blustery Musky fishing weather.
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Muskie inhabit both deep and shallow waters. They seek protection and solitude in deep holes and forage in both the deep and in the shallow waters so you can catch them almost anywhere at any time. They will often cruise the rivers channels is search of prey. However, catching Muskie is mainly a hit and miss proposition in shallow waters. If you are fishing with larger Musky baits in shallow waters, you are likely to catch five trophy Northern Pike for every Musky you catch. A more focused approach can be realized by fishing trophy Muskie in deeper waters.
Most muskie fisheries are famous. There are so few Muskie fisheries in North America in comparison to the number of Northern Pike fisheries. Most, if not all Musky fisheries have often the subject of Muskie articles and are very well fished. As an example, Muskie have been fished on The Lake Of The Woods, the famous fishery thirty miles to the south of us, in great numbers for generations. Books and articles have been written about the lake and its fishery, adding more and more fishing pressure over the years. In comparison, few savvy Muskie fishermen know of or visit our productive Muskie fishery located only thirty miles to the north and its never had much press, if any and has generally been overlooked. Our Muskie fishery has had little pressure in comparison to the famous Muskie fisheries. As a consequence, we believe that Muskie fishermen can catch more Muskie at Bayview Lodge than at any other fishery in North America!
Muskie seem to inhabit large waters. When you look at a map of Ontario, you can easily pick out the famous Muskie fisheries of the past like Georgian Bay and The Great Lakes. The waters are big. Its not hard to spot other giant Muskie fisheries in the north like Lake Of The Woods. They are so big they attract most of the attention. Our Winnipeg Lakes and River Fishery has gone relatively unnoticed as a Muskie fishery.
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While our fishery is very large, at forty five miles in length, on a map it looks like any other northern region of numerous small lakes. What is not readily apparent is that the lakes in our Muskie fishery are connected! Its really one giant body of water. It's a super Muskie fishery where it's size is obscured by islands, bays, lakes and meandering rivers. As well, the depth of some of the waters of our fishery is obscured by the waters themselves. Who could know by looking at a map that we have Muskie waters that stretches for almost fifty miles and to depths of two hundred feet?
We have spent over twenty years become expert at fishing for and catching Muskie at Bayview Lodge as our photos will show. Welcome to our little known Muskie fishing paradise, one of the few great Muskie fisheries in the world.
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