Fishing trip 2004

These are pictures of Steve and LynnÕs first trip this year. We travelled to one of our favorite clear water Canadian shield lakes in late June and early July. Conditions were perfect as light west-southwest winds and plenty of sunshine warmed the cool shallow bays from the mid sixties to the low seventies. Heavy spring rains contributed to above normal water levels, as the muskies were drawn to, and remained in, the shallows at the end of their spawn. We targeted shallow, timbered, dark water bays and nooks. Where there were inflowing creeks, these areas were even more productive holding numbers of good sized muskies. Smaller bucktails and spinner baits, twitch baits, topwaters, and plastics, triggered the most strikes in these shallow water presentations. Each of us caught large fish trolling in deeper water adjacent to rock reefs. Weed growth was very late and the earliest rising beds only started to hold fish during the last few days of our trip. For the ten day muskie hunt, the four of us, Steve, Lynn, John Ryan, and Karl Sherer, boated 29 muskies with an average length of 40.4 inches.

Steve 'Big Tuna' Statland	Lynn Shuster
Not a muskie, but still a great fish