Muskie Fishing

[tynan19]

Larry, forgot about this last night but my brother and his friends go up to Northern Maine into the Allagash to fish the Fort Kent Muskie Tournament. http://www.fortkent-muskie.com/index.html They seam to have no problem catching Muskies up there and besides the few logging roads it is as remote as it comes. I will find the pic of last years catch.

[BigFish]

Thanks Tynan! Looks like they catch some beauties up that way!!!

[Finaddict]

Larry - Fished for the tigers in Northern NJ with a guide once - we each had a couple of tigers hit big, big spinners ... tough fish and it was awesome ....

... but why not look a bit farther north up into Ontario? Maybe they don't have the Muskies up there or over in Northern Wisconsin or that area, that is well known musky water over there ... there was a musky tournament up there last week ... could lend some insight if you do a little research ...

... but again, look farther north ... might find some nice remote camps with little pressure - fly in and no one but you and the other few camp members fishing the local lakes ... and up to Whale River in ultra northern ontario ... not sure about muskies but big norther pike and big lake trout that hit flies and other lures.

Just more info to confuse you further, but don't skimp on a trip like this ... do it right.

[Striperhound]

Larry,

Look up Capt John Oravec out of Oak Orchard NY. He is a premier musky guy and relo's his operation to the 1000 Islands in Late Fall and lives big muskies. Last time I saw him I gave him some giant bottle plugs and other saltwater wood that he modified to catch these giants. He is good but hard to book because he is so good

[EricW]

You could also try for some big Northern Pike. A lot of those northern waters that have muskies also have pike in them. From what I have seen you can catch decent numbers of those. I haven't caught a pike yet, but they also look like a blast to catch.

I actually saw a little tiger muskie caught in your neck of the woods back in the late 80's in a trout stream. We were fishing for brook trout and my mother pulled out this fish that we had never seen before. Have no idea how it got in there.

I hope to someday get up to one of those Canadian fish camps and do some pike fishing.

I fish for pickerel all the time and they are a blast. Got out and caught 1/2 a dozen and a few bass last night. All on light tackle. I have lake near me that is loaded with them.