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Clinton River Cruises
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Daily Dinner Cruise w/DJ & Dancing M-Thur 6:30pm-10 Dinner Buffet $39pp

Daily Dinner Cruise w/DJ & Dancing Fri-Sun 6:30pm-10 Dinner Buffet $45pp

Enjoy live Mother's Day Cruise May 6 1pm-4:00 Dinner Buffet $39pp

entertainment & happy Karaoke Cruise June 3 5pm-9:00 Special Menu $35pp

Waterfront hour specials! Father's Day Cruise June 17 1pm-4:00 Dinner Buffet $39pp

“open air” Our full menu
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dining with seafood, steaks, ribs, Boat Town USA Festival of Lights Aug. 4 7pm-10:30 TBD TBD
boat dockage and char-grilled
Fall Color Cruise Oct. 21 1pm-3:00 Munchies $19pp
Complete burgers
Halloween Cruise (To Crew's Inn & Back) Oct. 27 7pm-10:00 Special Menu $30pp
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2011 Fishing Recap continued from page 16 ..... Dave from Indiana
for both action & size in many years, which was the consensus amongst the Charter Cap-
tains!
The Muskie season opened in the start of June and took off with a bang. We were
catching them right as the season opened and as the heat of the summer came and warmed up
the waters and made us very hot, well so did the Muskie fishing get very hot! Muskie fish-
ing was amazing in 2011 with most
Continued from above left....The Shortcut days boating 10 fish or more per
through Fisher Bay trip! There were many days of dou-
Watch your depths until you know it's ble and triple headers, which made
safe for your vessel... There must be a flying for some fun and crazy fishing! The
saucer under the water in the area. Every time I summer was also a great year for
got GPS coordinates, the next time I would visit some mid-summer monsters…We
they would be different. Once I marked it in the caught many fish over the 30lbs, with our season's best at 35lbs., there were
GPS, however, I was always led to the correct also 3-4 over the 40# mark which were caught around the lake!
spot. The fall started out slow and rough fishing for September with
The hardest cut to find is the one taking a lot of days to be canceled due to the poor weather conditions, which made it
hard to even fish and the cold fronts were keeping their jaws closed. However
you back to the Sni (Chenal Bout Rond) from October brought some nice weather changes and the fishing got much better.
Fisher Bay - see #2. For first timers, it's better We started to see our numbers of fish caught increase as well as their size, which
to come from this direction first and mark it with was more typical of fall fishing. October produced many monsters across the
your GPS. A few years ago it got dark on us and lake and even the smaller Muskies were all coming in with fat bellies due to
we ended up pushing our 17' boat through 6" of their fall feeding frenzy which
water because we didn't mark it...(actually, my continued through winter's ar-
girlfriend and I sat in the boat while the men rival.
pushed us through...so not that big a deal). Fall fishing
If you use the visuals described you also was great for the perch….
can do this...and, once you do it, it's easy. We had some nice days with
good action that is always en-
Also, watch for other boats to make it easier to joyed through the winter sea-
find...and please note there is a bridge between son!
Brown's and Little Muscamoot Bay. With the We would like
size boat you need to go through these cuts, to thank all of our customers
you should have no problem going under the for their support and business
bridge. making 2011 an amazing and
successful fishing season!

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