Moon phases are said to have an effect on fish behavior. Musky anglers especially subscribe to this “musky magic”. This past week was prime with positive fishing voodoo. Plenty of musky were on the move…unfortunately this did not always translate into biting one’s lure, but that’s musky for you. Here’s a pictorial visit of some of last week’s nicer fish…
As you might recall there is no night fishing allowed on Eagle Lake, which means you have a half hour after sunset before you need to stop fishing. During last week sunset was around the 8:35 mark…so 9:05 was the stop time. Some discussion around the fish house table revolved around some controversial musky photo’s from Eagle Lake that featured a totally dark background. Is that legit? Was it the fault of the flash? Here’s an interesting example of a musky photo taken 10 minutes before the cut off time….Nick Stemper and a 45 1/2 incher… Plenty of light still. My conclusion would be that a dark photo is likely a rule breaker…no need for that.
This past week wasn’t all about the musky. Walleye were active and surprisingly shallow…10-15 feet in some locations!
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On behalf of the Boyes Group, I would like to pass on our sincere thanks for hosting the Muskie Madness Week and we thoroughly enjoyed our stay at VBL and had a great time!! This was our 7th year on Eagle Lake and we have stayed at a few other lodges but VBL takes the cake hands down! You can definitely count us in for next year. I’m happy to see you post some of my pics, they turned out well. Thanks again Gord for a wonderful week of fishing and your stellar hospitality, you run a first class operation, we look forward to seeing you next year!
