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| Chuck,
Welcome back! It's great to be able to access your knowledge base and to know that you are just plain with us again.
When you head to open water, what determines where you stop? Is it just when you see bait fish on the electronics, or do you need to mark a big fish with it? Does the shape of the bait cloud influence your decision? i.e.- tight ball = no predators or scattered bait fish = predators present. Are you on lakes that you can troll or strictly casting? How do you know when it's time to give up on classic structure and head for open water? What are you mainly using? Cranks? Thanks in advance and once again, welcome back![:)]
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| Hello Jim, I'm glad I'm back too! Whats going on with this board is what I think was the idea that was originaly to take place on all the muskie info boards, lets hope it stays this way, I enjoy trying to help my fellow muskie brethren. Also thanks to Steve Worrall for inviting me and making me the first field editor of MuskieFIRST, it was are friendship of over 20yrs that made it an easy decision to come back. Now to answer your question, where I generally start is the first deep water or break just ajaicent to a prime shallow feeding structure and then work my way out, this is a great BIG fish tactic Jim, four footers and better are a little less cautious over deep water and I believe thats where they spend most of their time anyway! The presence of bait-fish are important but NOT imparitive and it doesn't matter to me if there schooled tight or scatterd, although I prefer a scatterd school, that sometimes means something down there has spooked them and possiably feeding on them! On colors and baits anything in the box will work but crank and jerk-baits are my first choice, match the color to the water clarity and forage base. Hope this helps my friend.
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| Thanks Chuck! That helped a bunch.[:)]
Jim McCullough | |
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Chuck, Open Water?