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| How late can you catch musky? I work until 11pm but was wondering if I would be wasting my time trolling into the am hours |
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Location: Maplewood, MN | Never wasting time if you're fishing. Your productivity will most likely match with the moon. Preferably, you want the moon down when you are fishing. Moonrise, moonset, moon overhead, moon underfoot are all key times to be fishing around. Best of luck! |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I have had some very good nights with the moon up as have others... fish can and do bite at all hours of the day, makes no difference to them what time it is...
..some of the biggest in my boat have come from 2am to 4:30am...fish don't follow a clock 
Edited by BNelson 7/19/2016 7:05 AM
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| Thanks for the input. I guess I never really thought to try late at night because nobody in my area does so......good for me! It would be much easier for me to fish after work rather than wake up at 4 or 5 am after going to bed at 2 am.....on weeknights. The trick will be figuring out how to cast some of my favorite weed beds in the dark if i am not trolling. |
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Location: MN | I would just add you need to be thinking about being safe especially if your alone . Lighting in the boat, lifejackets ect. because if you catch H#!! your on your own. A clean organized boat with minimal stuff is also important. I duck hunt over water so I live in the dark over or in water for several months; their is no end to the dumb stuff I have seen people due and in some cases I needed to step in. |
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| Has anyone noticed on busy lakes before it warms up the fish bite good during the day. But after all the pleasure boats come out the fish disappear. I was wondering myself if they become more nocturnal because of all the boat pressure? |
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| I am certainly thinking about safety. Last year I kayaked all day and on my way home I fell asleep at the wheel and totalled my truck...a hard earned lesson to say the least. Now if I'm tired when I wake up I don't even bother going out. |
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Location: Metro | Alumacraft89 - 7/19/2016 9:01 AM
Has anyone noticed on busy lakes before it warms up the fish bite good during the day. But after all the pleasure boats come out the fish disappear. I was wondering myself if they become more nocturnal because of all the boat pressure?
I have definitely noticed this on Tonka. When it was colder and musky wasn't open yet I heard a lot of guys bass fishing and walleye fishing were catching muskies. It was weird because it all seemed to happen within a two week period.
I am very interested in the night time trolling but haven't participated yet. Tonka has to many surface weeds to troll during the day so I am sure at night it would be nearly impossible. I have found a couple lakes that don't get nearly the same amount of weed though so I might try my luck in these lakes. |
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| I usually fish until I run out of Canadian Hunter or Coke. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Musky952 - 7/19/2016 12:08 PM
Alumacraft89 - 7/19/2016 9:01 AM
Has anyone noticed on busy lakes before it warms up the fish bite good during the day. But after all the pleasure boats come out the fish disappear. I was wondering myself if they become more nocturnal because of all the boat pressure?
I have definitely noticed this on Tonka. When it was colder and musky wasn't open yet I heard a lot of guys bass fishing and walleye fishing were catching muskies. It was weird because it all seemed to happen within a two week period.
The spawn is also happening at that time bringing the muskies to much shallower water where the bass buys are fishing. |
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Location: Metro | MOJOcandy101 - 7/19/2016 1:00 PM
Musky952 - 7/19/2016 12:08 PM
Alumacraft89 - 7/19/2016 9:01 AM
Has anyone noticed on busy lakes before it warms up the fish bite good during the day. But after all the pleasure boats come out the fish disappear. I was wondering myself if they become more nocturnal because of all the boat pressure?
I have definitely noticed this on Tonka. When it was colder and musky wasn't open yet I heard a lot of guys bass fishing and walleye fishing were catching muskies. It was weird because it all seemed to happen within a two week period.
The spawn is also happening at that time bringing the muskies to much shallower water where the bass buys are fishing.
I figured as much too but just thought it was interesting. I have never had that much info come to me all at once from different friends and people I ran into. Wish I could consistently have that throughout the summer. |
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| 2:30 at night or 4:00 in the morning, the only difference is staying out late or getting up early |
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| Sunset. Night fishing is a painful experience........for any species but especially musky. |
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| Depends on a few things for me.
1. Are the fish going at all. By 11:30 if nothing has happened I'll usually call it a night.
2. Weather in the next 24 hours. If I've got weather coming in the next day I'll get some sleep so I can fish the weather.
It's rare if I'm off the water before 11:00. Typically I fish till midnight or so. Or like tonight, I'm just getting home now. |
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| I lived and guided on Leech Lake for a 4 year period. All of my fish over 50, except for 1, was caught at night. I would pick night fishing anytime over day fishing for a few reasons.
1. less boat pressure from pleasure boaters and fisherman
2. usually much cooler
3. for me it seemed to be much more productive for big fish
As far as timeframes, I'd get my line wet whenever I can. You have a 100% better chance at catching a fish with a wet line than a dry line, no matter the moon phase, sunrise/sunset, weather patterns, ettc. My biggest, 54, was caught at about 2AM after fishing all night and catching nothing. Stopped at one more spot before heading home and on the 3rd cast she stuck. If I follwed a lot of other;s advice about moon phases, weather patterns, lack of activity, etc...there are many days I would have not fished and missed opportunities at catching fish. I say fish when you can, no matter what time and no matter what weather. Time on the water will pay off. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | granted 2 very different animals but the biggest bucks move in the very middle on the night (on avg) and it seems the size avg of the fish we catch in the middle of the night is also skewwed to the upper end... no coincedence... agreed with what others say.. nothing better than catching multiple 50s with nobody else on the lake! |
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How late into the night do you fish?