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| Any reason you can figure that aloud you to catch your personal best, wether it was hours spent out on the water, switching lures then they turned on excetera... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | If we all knew that we'd be catching personal bests regularly. I caught mine because I was on the right lake at the right time, pretty much. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | big fish can and do bite any second of any day, but have seen a direct correlation to lots of big fish in my boat to lunar events....pay attention to those to increase your chances, even if ever so slightly... |
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Location: Appleton, WI | I think everything has to go right to catch any fish, then you add on a big PB you have to be on the right spot at the right time with the right lure with the correct action the fish wants and then you need to cast said lure by the fish and hope the fish gets in the mood to strike your lure. I would say its a lot of luck and time on the water. Once you get to know a body of water you know if a spot reproduces giants time and time again to go fish it. |
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Location: On the water | Fishing on Lake St. Clair with Greg Thomas. Fished all day and caught some fish. Around 4 o’clock we say were done and Greg says lets troll for 30 more minutes with cowgirls. My buddy catches a 40” and I catch 50”. I believe luck and the right place, right time has a lot to do with it. Good Luck Tom
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| I picked technique change. Caught mine working a WTD bait and had her follow behind. Changed speed and walked it in front of her face for about 10 seconds before she committed. She just kinda slurped it down... then all hell broke loose. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | I'm not sure. I forgot to ask it before I let her go, "Hey, what about this event made you eat this lure?" |
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Location: oswego, il | Lure and rod/reel cboice. Fish were shallow in dark water less than 2ft. They were eatinv twitch baits. Was usimg a mexium action 8ft musky rod. The 5" crane was regularly getting into the bottom and floating on the cast since it was verh windy. Switched to a bass clippin stick and a 4" crane. I would whip cast and no fouled bait. Made the differrnce. |
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Location: Madison, WI | camping on a piece of structure holding piles of bait on big fish water for hours and hours and hours and hours. |
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| Only The muskie gods decide when and where a pb is to be had. |
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Location: Aurora | Wait.. what "made" it bite?
Can i change my answer to "instinct" ?
It was either that or the Ghosttail i was using.
Edited by Sidejack 5/2/2017 4:41 PM
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Location: Southwest Pa | Figure 8 boatside!!! |
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| Nothing I hadn't done a hundred other times in the same spot, she was there and she was hungry I guess.. |
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| Ummmm.....a muskie bait was placed in close enough proximity to make her excited enough to chomp it.....that's all I got. |
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| Greetings,
I was on a great musky bite several years ago that took place on a lake in the Canadian Shield, just before turnover. I caught a 52 and a 52.5 incher on consecutive days. Both fish were caught on the same Bobbie Bait in jailbird color scheme. The interesting thing to me was that both fish ate at boat side, with the lure just floating on the surface of the water - the classic "dead stick" maneuver. I believe the fish followed the lure in and couldn't help themselves when the lure was sitting there motionless.
I was pretty much burned out when the first fish ate. I finished my cast and was just letting the lure float as I was deciding what to do next. I set the hook!
For the second fish, I made a long cast to the "spot on the spot". I could tell the lure was fouled on the leader which pee'd me off big time. I gave the lure a big rip, thinking that I just wasted a cast and blew the spot. The lure was just floating in the water by boatside. She ate just as I was taking up the last of the slack line. I was fortunate that the lure came free of the leader when I ripped it.
Good fishing and tight lines!! |
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| Got my PB yesterday. With the deluge of rain the past week Kinkaid looked like coffee with a heavy dose of cream. Measured light penetration at around 6" and thought I will never catch anything in this muck. Fished a couple of hours alternating two different baits; switched presentations and the fish crushed it on the first cast. No idea why that fish bit - maybe all of the above or none of the above.
Edited by So IL Muskie Hunter 5/3/2017 8:48 AM
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Location: Jane Lew, WV | Floated a ~2 mile section of river over and over throughout the day. I was cranking a bucktail in and looked back to my partner when I felt the weight come on. That's about all she wrote. Luck, fate, whatever. It happened. |
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| A Suick... on the figure eight. |
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Location: Minnesota. | Suick...Sucker pattern if that makes any diff.
Learning how to use my "new to me" (HDS unit - former Vexilar guy e.g on/off!!
) electronics better, much better.
"Dad, ever see anything out here??" "Nope....keep casting, this bar goes out waaaay further than I'd guessed and then it hooks!" 10 tosses later my 54!
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Oddly enough....also a Suick. On the pause . |
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