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By: lonnie197272
Posted: 7/20/2015
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to curlew for the weekend with the family for some musky fishing. Friday was rough with the wind trolled 5-25 fow with no luck. Got up Saturday to a beautiful morning got on the water and cast...
By: deanbrager
Posted: 7/21/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I went to Curlew for a week of sun & fishing. It's been my favorite lake for more than 30 years now. We caught tons of bass & perch, a few trout, and even had a good size muskie break my line just a...
By: PokeyPrasch
Posted: 7/6/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/30/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got up on Saturday with bass on my brain. Put together my pontoon and hit the water around Black's Beach where I was staying. Did very well at both ends of Black's beach, but fingerlings all in betw...
By: Pitboss
Posted: 7/11/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Wow, what a evening of fishing. Got to the fish hole at about 7:30pm. As soon as I put my line in the water I had a tap tap on the line, so I give it a little more line and bam had a fish on. At first...
By: OldFishGuy
Posted: 7/25/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2013
Hot Spots: 0
What a great trip. Took my son and Grandson to Fisherman's Cove Resort on Curlew Lake for a three day fishing getaway. Couldn't have asked for more. Limits every day of fat 12" average Rainbows. ( ...
By: nanddm98
Posted: 5/20/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/3/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was excellent. Bites every 30-60 seconds. Fast and furious on power bait still fishing about 3ft off of the bottom in 30 feet of water. Not as many lunkers as in years past but still caught ...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 8/5/2015
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/30/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Continued from my last report...
We eventually got bored of catching trout and decided to find some Perch. Mostly because of the awsome fried perch that a friend fed our 30 person group. The bass...
By: nanddm98
Posted: 6/21/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was a quite a bit slower than in May but the fish were huge! We caught several fish over two days that were 16-18" and very fat.
By: ElliottM
Posted: 8/26/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This was our first time to Curlew Lake. The comments we kept hearing is that the trout are nowhere near as plentiful as they used to be. We tried fishing from shore around the state park but there was...
By: nanddm98
Posted: 6/13/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was very good. Weather was not. Most of the fish were covered in parasites.
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 12/26/2020
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/25/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Spent our Christmas morning on the ice at Curlew Lake. The ice between the state park and Wiseman Island is 5.5-6" and looks great. It gets considerably thinner east and north of the island. Normally ...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 1/13/2021
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 1/11/2021
Hot Spots: 0
The ice is safe at Curlew although not nearly as thick as it would be in a typical year. Its all about finding a school so if you drill a hole and don't find fish within 10 minutes move on and a dista...
By: deltadawg
Posted: 1/15/2021
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/15/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Checked the ice last night.....froze solid again!!!
6" solid wherever i cut a hole...........Bring yak traks and use caution with the little ones.......its almost deadly how slick it is. Bring ice s...
By: carlakane
Posted: 5/2/2017
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Still pretty cold for around there. The lake was really high and a lot of houses, cabins and docks were getting flooded. The trout were jumping and active between 7 and 9 a.m. We caught 3 using rainbo...
By: thefishinfool
Posted: 5/19/2017
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took a family trip to Curlew lake and stayed for the weekend Caught our limit each day even my son managed to catch some real nice perch biggest bow being 16 inch all on worms smaller blue fox and top...
By: Tiffanys Resort
Posted: 4/28/2016
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/16/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Fishing has been GREAT at Curlew Lake. All the guests at Tiffanys Resort have been catching their limit every day since we opened on April 15th. On April 16th, this young man caught a 45" Muskie!!! Th...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got out and tried the Tiger Muskies with Mark K over the weekend. We fished saurday and sunday. No fish hooked on sunday but saturday was good. Mark released 3 with 2 of those being over 40" One at 43...
By: Sideburns
Posted: 8/5/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Camped at lake Curlew @ Tiffany's resort from 7/26 till 8/2 with my folks and my two daughters, we fished here last year for our first time. This was our second visit to lake Curlew, and the trout fi...
By: ifightnerdz
Posted: 6/16/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2015
Hot Spots: 3
This is my 2nd report. Had a beautiful day out on the water with my wife, 3 children and in-laws. We ended up staying at the state park. The island across from it had Great Blue Heron nests all ov...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/18/1999
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/18/1999
Hot Spots: 0
My family and I go up to Curlew Lake every summer (mid Aug)(for the
last 15 yrs). We have stayed at Pine Point Resort every year, I highly
recommend it. Nice cabins, clean resort, well managed and...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/22/1998
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/1998
Hot Spots: 0
We went to Curlew Lake for the week of July 21st through the 25th to
stay and fish/swim and all around enjoy the heat. Tuesday was a hot day for
the lake as my friend and I hammered the trout all m...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/28/1998
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/28/1998
Hot Spots: 0
Just returned from Curlew, got there the day after the big storm (May
26). We pulled in on Wednesay night (delayed because of road closures
and wash-outs), started fishing day-break on Thursday (28...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/11/1998
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/11/1998
Hot Spots: 0
JUST RETURNED FROM CURLEW.FISHING WAS SLOW FOR TROLLERS DUE TO AN
EARLY REALEASE OF 45,000 6-8 INCHERS FROM THE PENS.COULDNT GET THRU ALL THE
SMALL GUYS.HOWEVER STILLERS WERE HAVING GOOD LUCK ON ORG...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/8/1997
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/1997
Hot Spots: 0
Fished here for six days and caught plenty of fish, but there is an algae bloom on the lake. The ranger at the state park did not recommend that we eat any fish until the state finds out what the alga...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/21/2003
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/21/2003
Hot Spots: 0
The lake is dead. last fall when the season is over. Fish & Game poisoned the lake to get ride of garbage fish (bass). they claimed people in this area want trout. most of them don't know anything abo...
