We had heard that fishing for Tiger Muskies at Bluewater was good. We enjoyed tiger hunting last year and thought we'd give it a try.
Here's a summary -- Patrick, Andrew and I got on the lake at about 8:45. Had problems with the gas motor so we quickly switched to the electric. Started fishing about 9:15. . We were fishing just south of the no wake buoys on the east side of the lake and Patrick caught a 32” Tiger Muskie almost right away on a Rapala X-Rap (XR-12 in rainbow). Thought fishing was going to be great since we caught that one on about our fifth cast, but we didn’t catch another one until afternoon. Not even a hit. We ended up catching three more - one about 32” on a jointed Rapala (Brook Trout pattern), one at about 24” on a perch colored deep diving X-Rap and another about 18” on a orange deep diving X-Rap. Andrew caught the 24" fish. All three of these were caught between south of the big rocks on the east side of the lake. At various times, we tried fishing the damn area, the area around the orange buoy, and an area in the middle of the lake where we had caught many before. Besides the Rapalas, we also tried PMs (Pather Martin spinners), spoons, and a few big Storm swim baits. The only thing that produced for us were the X-Raps and the jointed Rapala. Both of these have been good at Bluewater for Muskies in the past. Pulled the boat out of the water at 2:00 p.m. Slow day, but had a good time with the boys.
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