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| Describe your day on the water. How many different baits you try before the fish tell you what they want or don't want. Do you start shallow, maybe deep?. Do you run and gun. Do you camp on spots? in general, what is a day like for you on the water? Let's say this is for the month of September to keep the variables down. Or pick a stretch of time to best Describe a day on the water
Let's also assume the first hour or two into the day shows no action. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | A typical day on the water is...Relaxing,... Nothing I'd else I'd rather be doing !!
In a ten hr. day I will use maybe 6-8 lures depending on the weather/ temps/wind...…
I tend to camp on "Good looking spots" but on a 10 hr. day I may hit 7-10 different spots... In Sept.
I hate to fish when it feels like WORK... I'm all about a Relaxing Fun day,.... But will probably fish harder than 80% who don my boat....
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Location: oswego, il | A typical day on the water will vary depending on where you fish, size of the water and the amount of experience you have on those bodies of water. I fish alot of smaller type lakes in fibland, cheeseland and indianer. I expect not to get skunked because I have experience on those bodies of water. Often do very well. I also fish lsc and have enough experience there to start with a good game plan that I do not need to vary much.
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| Being a bit older 4 hr. is plenty and as mentioned the fresh air - relaxation is as important as catching any fish. I've fished the same lakes (with rare exception) so I only fish 4 to 7 spots in a day. Typically toss 3 different lures per outing: usually a jerkbait, crankbait and spinner - bucktail. Of course the baits used changes w time of year and which lake. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Drive for two to three hours. Unwrap the boat, launch, cast all day - trolling in no wake zones - maybe see one or two, drive two to three hours home and call it a real good day. This one happened to interrupt things this morning. (42) m
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| ToddM - 11/1/2018 8:44 PM
A typical day on the water will vary depending on where you fish, size of the water and the amount of experience you have on those bodies of water. I fish alot of smaller type lakes in fibland, cheeseland and indianer. I expect not to get skunked because I have experience on those bodies of water. Often do very well. I also fish lsc and have enough experience there to start with a good game plan that I do not need to vary much.
That is a wealth of vague information. |
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Location: oswego, il | I fish a variety of places very few of them with the same aproach so i don't have a typical day on the water other that it being specific to that body and time of year. |
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| Same routine in bait progression,,the only variable is ear plugs in or out with partner,,
Country music,political station or baseball 'ball 2',, out to left??? -"Foul",,,and it's ear plugs in. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | That is a wealth of vague information.
Dude, if you're looking for a formula for methodically catching muskies, I'm not sure it's been invented yet. You go to places you know have held fish in the past during these times, throw what you think you remember works, and you hope the fish are there and cooperative.
Best answer on the baits question is, "If throw the wrong bait long enough and hard enough, sooner or later it becomes the right bait." m |
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| mikie - 11/3/2018 12:28 PM
That is a wealth of vague information.
Dude, if you're looking for a formula for methodically catching muskies, I'm not sure it's been invented yet. You go to places you know have held fish in the past during these times, throw what you think you remember works, and you hope the fish are there and cooperative.
Best answer on the baits question is, "If throw the wrong bait long enough and hard enough, sooner or later it becomes the right bait." m
Dude, read the question. Pick a lake in your mind if that helps. Then, simply describe what YOU would do to fish it for the day. Maybe that lake is a shallow bite or other. Maybe you fish that shallow bite lake and see nothing the first hour or two. What's your next move? Other posts were a good insight to the question. Im Not looking for a formula. As you said, there isn't one. Plan of attack on a unnamed body of water in a given time of year is all I was going for. Pretty simple. |
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| mikie - 11/3/2018 1:28 PM
Best answer on the baits question is, "If throw the wrong bait long enough and hard enough, sooner or later it becomes the right bait." m
My experience shows the opposite. When throwing the wrong bait consistently it pretty much never becomes a productive bait. Sticking w the few time tested baits that work on that lake -for that time of year proves to be the winning ticket. Takes a while to determine which - when.
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Location: oswego, il | The wrong bait may become the right bait but it will take a long time on the water to be that bait.
To further answer the question originally asked, with experience, comes less progression. I already know where the fish are and the baits i need to throw. As i said those change with each area i fish. Certainly easy to start at a weed edge or a reef, most of the time you can find fish there. |
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A typical day on the water