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| Does anyone fish walleye but have a sucker off the back of the boat? Can't seem to figure out the late fall muskies and ended up spending a bunch of time catching nothing when the walleye bite was on fire. Thinking about trying walleye fishing and throwing a sucker out there in case any muskies are around. Would they be in the same spots as the walleye? | |
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| Should work | |
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| It works if you are in a state where u can fish two rods. When the walleyes stop biting and the sucker gets nervous be ready Good Luck | |
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| A late friend of mine, Al Denniger, told me he saw and lost the biggest musky of his life while doing this in the fall on the Chippewa Flowage. Al guided for many years on the flowage and a year or two before his death he had a guide client cancel because of bad weather. When things cleared a little in the afternoon, he went out and was jigging for walleye and had a big sucker over the side, close to the bottom. The line got tight right after he put the sucker down and he thought the sucker had gotten tangled in logs he knew were in the area. When he went to free it, he realized he had a fish on. Got it to the surface and just before it got to the boat the fish opened its mouth and released the sucker. Now, he had put several thousand muskies in his boat, including fish over 40 pounds but he was certain that was the first 50 pound fish he had ever seen. After it was gone he realized he had not done what he had told thousands of clients to do: set the hook. Thinking the sucker was hung on logs, he had eased it up so as not to get hooked on the log. And once he realized it was fish, never thought to set the hook.
He told me he had good luck on a number of occasions jigging for walleye and soaking a sucker for musky in the fall. | |
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Walleye fishing with a sucker out