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| so yesterday i was fishing infront a creek mouth that flows into a bay and hooked a massive clump of weeds. wanting to get my line back out as soon as possible i reeled as fast as i could until the weeds and my xrap where skimming atop the water. then without warning a upper 30" tried to eat the clump of weeds came at least 3ft out of the water. has anything similar happened to you guys? |
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| On Osborne bay years back my Weagle landed on a thick mat of grass, as I'm reeling in the weagle and a mat about the size of a garbage can lid I see a little 32" or so following behind. I don't think the fish could see the bait through the mat, I think it was following it's cover. That was pretty weird. Not aggressive like yours but weird nonetheless. |
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Location: E. Tenn | Had a mid 30 eat a weed fouled shallow invader a couple of years ago.. I guess he needed some roughage in his diet..
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Location: Little Arbor Vitae Lake, WI | Opening week on LOTW several years ago, I was throwing a bucktail & dragged it thru a weed bed. I hooked a huge clump and was jerking it back to the boat. Longest fish I ever saw followed it. I have caught fish over 50", this one was much longer. It was skinny but I think well over 60". It watched me pull the weeds off my bait, then swam away. |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | the rare vegetarian muskie |
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Location: WI | Hooked a 3+ foot reed with a Hellhound, pulled the reed out of the lake bottom. Reeled in quickly & saw about a 40" muskie that followed right to the boat. A friend had small muskie follow a Burmek B1 with just the back section wobbling behind the weed covered front section. |
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Location: oswego, il | I have had muskies follow lures with 6ft of weeds on it. I have caught muskies and my pb pike with weeds on the lure.
Here is a tip that has landed me a few fish. You foul the bait. Its done. It can even be and have caught fish doing this with a glide bait. Pop the bait hard 2-3 times to get as much #*#* off the bait. Then scream it back as cast as you can. It works and as i stated even with glide baits. I had a 50"class indiana fish eat a savage gear bait doing it. Lost it! Caught several wisconsin muskies this way. Got the pike trolling a depth raider just after it hit a weed hump.
Edited by ToddM 6/18/2017 8:26 PM
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| Had a tangled bull dog with a clump of weeds attached. While trying to pull the mess in I got crushed by a big fish. Lost it after a few head shakes. Scared me pretty good. Biggest follow I've ever seen followed super hard and aggressive on a fouled phantom with weeds on it. |
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| Pretty much rip and burn, if it moves it's food. |
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Location: MN | Dug a reef Hawg into a nice clump of weeds and it completely covered the lure. While pulling at across the surface had a Lower 40 inch class explode on it. Obviously didn't catch the fish but really blew my mind
My buddy also has a bowling ball size clump of weeds on his hell hound and had a fish follow it to the boat |
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