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Location: Passaic, NJ - Upper French River, ON | Can anyone help with some techniques for raising deep muskies in the summer ? We're going to French River in Canada this summer, and were told that they hold up in the deep pools of the gin clear waters.
What's best ? Big spinnerbaits ? Cranks ? We really only want to cast, and only troll while eatin lunch.
Photos, locations, and ski's (hopefully) to follow !
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Location: Washington, PA | I would go with cranks, bulldawgs, and gliders if they are hanging down deep. |
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Location: Holly, MI | How about trying Shumway's Fuzzy Duzzit? I'll be using one deep on the Detroit river this summer. I've played with my new one and it has tons of vibration and flash. |
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| Trolling the local river syatem is my strategy for the mid-summer doldrums this year. Like you I would prefer to cast, but I suspect that trolling is the most effective presentation.
Are you allowed to use live bait? If so, maybe tossing out suckers or big chubs is the way to go. Maybe take it a step further and attach a big minnow to a spinnerbait (add small treble as stinger hook?) with most of the hair trimmed away?
Another option is rubber creatures, though I know next to nothing about those and so can't offer an informed suggestion. Also, bass-sized jigs with pork take big pike in many northern waters, why not muskies?
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| You will be able to us your normal stuff. Work normal struture. Trolling on the rivers is not as easy as it sounds. With reef and what not, eating lunch are trolling maybe fairly dangerous. If the water is clear fish will come up for the baits. I would assume the bucktail bite would be good at that time..BR |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I fish a large river a lot, key in on current breaks such as eddys and slack water behind structure. I fish a lot of timber and stump fields and weedy flats near the deeper channel. If the water is dark such as here, I use bright and loud baits, though sometimes natural colors like perch or walleye can be the ticket. |
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| Why not make a new post and be more specific. There are several that have probably fished that water, that may answer a specific post and not a general one like this(they may not even read it). The ideas mentioned here are not bad but many won't apply to the water you are fishing, from my understanding of it. The one thing brought out in articles and conversation to me is that it is beautiful water, but not heavily populated, but also not heavily pressured. Also place a blurb on the Muskies Inc. site, you may get more help there than anywhere on what to where to and when to. Wish I was going with, the stories from up there sure whet your appetite. Good luck. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Don't forget that current is the key to success on any river(for consistent success that is). Try to narrow down areas, to confined current edges. The nice thing is, once you find a nice fish in a river system, the pattern usually holds till water levels fluctuate alot. I know a guy who does very well with magnum Eagle tails on the French. I have heard that monsters will engulf surface lures when nothing else is working also. Good luck!!! |
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