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Location: Metro | I tried looking for this using the search function but didn't come up with any results. When is the best time to use top water lures? Is it affective to use them this time of year when they are up in the shallows or buried in weeds?
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Location: Alex or Alek? | There are no rules to muskie fishing  I'm not terrible knowledgeable on this topic, but If you aren't catching them on something else why not try em.
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| Don't use them when they bounce off of the ice. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Yes now....most of the action we had last week up on LOW was on topwater. Only 1 follow on a bucktail. Although once turnover happens i've had less success. |
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| Caught one tonight in 57 degree water on top.
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Location: Metro | Put one in the boat last night on a fat bastard. First fish I have seen in a while and she ate it on the 8. Hopefully my luck continues. |
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Location: Metro | ulbian - 9/28/2016 3:24 PM
Don't use them when they bounce off of the ice.
this is awesome hahahha |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | ulbian - 9/28/2016 4:24 PM Don't use them when they bounce off of the ice. Yep! More than once we've had multiple fish days in late November just days before the lake iced over. Weagle magic.
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| Now is that time. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | while they can and do work from start of season to the end... my personal opinion is in general there are other lures that will get hit more often post turnover... but like Will said, you never know what the fish want and it could be a slow working weagle in 40 degree water... love topwater in sept and thru about mid Oct...has been one of my best years for topwater fish as I think I have 23 or 24 on top with a couple 51+ers
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| Had 2 follow on a top water(prop bait) with their backs out of the water this past weekend, couldn't get them to bite. This is my first year musky fishing hard.. Any tips on an 8 with a top water? |
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Location: Metro | Do it the same way you would a bucktail. I put one in the boat on a top water 8 a few days ago. Also had a top water strike but she spit the hooks. Top water is really fun. |
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Location: Ashland WI | Saul - 10/2/2016 11:24 PM
Had 2 follow on a top water(prop bait) with their backs out of the water this past weekend, couldn't get them to bite. This is my first year musky fishing hard.. Any tips on an 8 with a top water?
I think you have a better chance triggering them earlier. As soon as I see a follow (or back) with topwater, I try to get really eratic with it. Unlike many lures, you can (at times) see a follow much earlier in the retrieve. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Saul - 10/2/2016 11:24 PM
Had 2 follow on a top water(prop bait) with their backs out of the water this past weekend, couldn't get them to bite. This is my first year musky fishing hard.. Any tips on an 8 with a top water?
As soon as you see you have a follow try throwing your rod all the way to the right and then to the left. That Z pattern will hopefully trigger the hit. |
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Location: Metro | Lundbob - 10/3/2016 8:56 AM
As soon as you see you have a follow try throwing your rod all the way to the right and then to the left. That Z pattern will hopefully trigger the hit.
I have seen this work too. I personally haven't seen it in a boat that I am fishing out of but I believe on the keyes outdoors intro they have someone in the boat doing this and it triggers a strike. I think it might be Ben Olsen fishing a top water bait. |
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