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| So what will the PMTT do about Snipping (or some call it Sharpshooting) for the balance of this or looking ahead to next season.
Either they do nothing or ban it...either way they have to decide. If they decide to ban it does it just need to be off the boat during an event or just turned off ?
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| hopefully they leave the rules in place for the season. if nothing else im personally interested to see if anyone can use the technology to crack leeches open water game |
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Location: Vilas County, WI | Anyone care to copy/paste the PMTT email and vote that went out? |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | I'd vote for letting it stay. It's one thing to locate them but you still have to make them bite. I applaud the team that made this tactic work and got the win. |
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| I'm not a PMTT fisherman. I do not have any live sonar technology.
But, I do help stock Pewaukee Lake, and I do fish it every now and then.
I don't know, nor do I really care what Tim does with HIS tournament. It seems like he's in a really tough position.
But, I would be very interested to see if sharphooting would be as successful on Pewaukee and the other local lakes during the championship. Or, if the ER Chain results were more of a "one off". The subject is interesting to me and thank you to those who have posted about it. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | It's up to the tournament director/owner. Once the decision is made, it's then up to the anglers whether to fish or not.
If you have direct criticisms of the circuit or owner, take it to them. There will be no bashing the PMTT or any circuit here. |
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| So, I have become a pretty regular pistol guy in my old age, pretty much falling in love with certain 1911 style hand-made guns. Guys who wish to compete in competition without all the deadly optics can choose “iron sight” events. I’m guessing musky events may have similar futures. Then again, I also remember when double-tens came along and “changed everything.” Rock and roll and Elvis lasts forever, everything else...not so much! |
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| Ty Sennett made a pretty interesting comment on the post on the PMTT facebook page. He said that it isn't so much locating them that is the issue, it's the ability to follow a fish for long periods of time harassing it until it bites or as he put it "snags it." He didn't accuse the winning team of snagging, but he said that it would be very easy to do so. Now I wouldn't expect a tournament guy to do so and claim it as a legal catch, but what is the recreational angler doing when sharpshooting? Are they snagging a bunch of fish and ripping them up from the depths?
He also said that he would not fish the circuit next year if it's allowed and doesn't even want to compete in the next event. In my opinion that would be a pretty big name for the circuit to lose.
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| I doubt many recreational muskie anglers would snag fish intentionally. Where's the fun in that? Nobody really cares what you caught or how big you said it was. There's really no reward other than the satisfaction of knowing you went out there and got one of the #*^@ things to eat today, and maybe if it was a bigger one you get a cool picture...
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Location: Duluth | Yea, thought the term "saw" fish was watered down when sidescan came out, now it's even worse "saw 8 got 1 to go blah blah livescope blah blah blah."
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| While losing a competitor like Ty Sennet would not goood, my guess is the PMTT is more concerned about losing sponsors like Hummingbird or Garmin. Sponsors are the lifeblood of tournaments
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| Potentially does this take tourney fishing out of the dark ages for muskies. Overall not much has changed...guys still go out and stick fish in practice which most walleye and bass guys try to avoid. Figuring out Location without catching them. Sticking them means taking the fish you found out of play for a few days or so in most cases. |
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| The few guys that I know fishing the PMTT rarely throw a cast anymore pre-fishing and they show up a couple days prior rather than a week early. They basically just drive around charting and marking fish on side imaging. They have been doing that for a few years now. I’m sure some people do still pre-fish for a pattern. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I suppose it would be a different contest if everyone was limited to a paper hydrographic map and a brick on a knotted rope? m |
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| I personally don't have any skin in the game and don't really care what happens in the PMTT. I don't fish it and never have. I do fish some local fundraising tournaments that I'm thinking this strategy is going to trickle down to as there are quite a few PMTT guys that fish the same tournaments. I do enjoy the fact that in a tournament setting, especially the PMTT there will always be a few boats that figure a pattern out. Sometimes its the Twitchers, sometimes the Rubber guys or sometimes the trollers but there are always teams who are successful. This is what in my opinion make tournaments fun and equal. Fast forward to everyone using the live scope and fishing the same way would eliminate a lot of the mystery. It takes away a lot of the biology involved in fishing just because guys have the ability to check out all areas extremely fast and efficiently. Example: It may take me 3 hours to fish a spot to figure out that shallow fish aren't active or they may not even be there. Sharp shooters can comb an entire basin, shoreline and everything in between on a system like Eagle River (which is too small for a tournament like this) in a 3rd of the time prior to even making a cast. A guy doesn't need to know the system, the bait, seasonal movements or any of that. He simply needs to know what a Muskie looks like on his screen. I just don't see the fun or competitiveness in doing this. I understand that you still have to trigger a bite, but if everyone is doing it there are no secrets or strategy. You can follow a fish around on live scope and run your whole tackle box in front of it to see what it will take. You know how far from the boat it is and at what depth. Sure, it's equal if everyone has it but in my eyes it doesn't take the top Muskie guys in the world to do this and you are going to start to see teams that would never waste their entry fee because they knew they couldn't compete start to get into these and do well. Maybe that's what they are looking for. I like the knotted rope idea. |
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| How is the Eagle River/Three Lakes Chain too small for a PMTT event? ERC is 3928 acres with 68 miles of shoreline and TLC is 7600 acres and 106 miles of shoreline for a total of 11,528 acres and 174 miles of shoreline. There is absolutely no way they could scan that entire system in an hour like you claim.
My two cents, people are saying these live units are too expensive probably have $5000 worth of electronics in their boat. Livescope is $1400 for the unit. Most are just mad that these guys figured it out and hit it big. They are using the tools available to their benefit. This same team didn't catch a single fish on Cave Run using the exact same tactics. |
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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | As per the other thread, it is very close to "Musky Catching" and not "Musky Fishing" Ethically it is evolving to shaky ground - essentially just messing with a fish for money and glory with a minimal component of fair chase. There is no connection to what fishing is. The fly fishing crowd has that connection that goes back to the origins of hook and line fishing with rules, regs, ethics and code of conduct on various waters. Musky fishing "was" special given the quest for a fish that follows, is fearless, and huge rare predator. Sharpshooting is not that. Driving around with a screen and teasing fish to bite relentlessly is getting close to pulling trebles for paddlefish. "Still have to get them to bite." I call BS on that one. Muskies are no different than any other fish in that regard - they will bite eventually if you trigger them with the right mix. I have zero interest in the PMTT other than it can set some standard that perhaps can foster a general movement and regulations that bring musky fishing back fair chase, with suggested zones of sanctuary for musky in places where they are vulnerable to high catch per hour fished, and stress from barotrauma, lactic acid buildup from a long fight and heat stress (one can read between the lines as to what I mean here).
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| Double 10s - 7/14/2022 3:57 PM
How is the Eagle River/Three Lakes Chain too small for a PMTT event? ERC is 3928 acres with 68 miles of shoreline and TLC is 7600 acres and 106 miles of shoreline for a total of 11,528 acres and 174 miles of shoreline. There is absolutely no way they could scan that entire system in an hour like you claim.
My two cents, people are saying these live units are too expensive probably have $5000 worth of electronics in their boat. Livescope is $1400 for the unit. Most are just mad that these guys figured it out and hit it big. They are using the tools available to their benefit. This same team didn't catch a single fish on Cave Run using the exact same tactics.
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Location: SW Ohio | Double 10s - 7/14/2022 4:57 PM
How is the Eagle River/Three Lakes Chain too small for a PMTT event? ERC is 3928 acres with 68 miles of shoreline and TLC is 7600 acres and 106 miles of shoreline for a total of 11,528 acres and 174 miles of shoreline. There is absolutely no way they could scan that entire system in an hour like you claim.
My two cents, people are saying these live units are too expensive probably have $5000 worth of electronics in their boat. Livescope is $1400 for the unit. Most are just mad that these guys figured it out and hit it big. They are using the tools available to their benefit. This same team didn't catch a single fish on Cave Run using the exact same tactics.
Nothing to do with live scan but two lakes on TLC were put off-limits within a week of the event (rules change) and Big Stone was out (including that ramp and one other) due to the annual radar boat race. May not take TLC down much but less than anticipated. With the races and two ramps out, we opted to fish ER. Weren't going to chance dropping my friend's ranger 621 off an unfamiliar dirt ramp.
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| So my thought was for this topic was to be about using the newest tech in tourneys. Assuming they keep it...Certainly if you don't at least have one with a basic knowledge of its use your handicapping yourself to the field. It may not be the best pattern on a given week and you still have to find and pattern the rest of the puzzle (getting them to eat is part of "patterning" them) and in the end time management matters. So if you have it you will still have to figure/gamble/allocate out when it's the best play vs other patterns that take more hands on time. I think guys will still win without it... but it narrows your options a bit in the event. The same would apply to guides. IMO guides with or without will still prosper if they do the rest of it right. Anyways...thoughts from the couch. |
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Location: oswego, il | I think people can win without it with some luck on their side. I do think it changes who will and will not compete in the future and at the very least who remains competitive. This will trickle down to small club tournaments and will have an impact there as well. |
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| On another note, 9 ft rods allow much longer casts than before... You're targeting fish much further than the pool cues could. I say ban them while we're at it.
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Location: MN | Double 10s - 7/14/2022 3:57 PM
This same team didn't catch a single fish on Cave Run using the exact same tactics.
Exactly. Some situations it is very useful and some times it’s not. You know…kinda like everything else with fishing.
I know a pro bass guy who used it and it helped him win a tourney. He said it also caused to lose some tourneys because he spent too much time searching instead of fishing and he has since sold the livescope.
If they ban it they should also ban bird 360’s. Maybe side imaging too…..where does it end?
Maybe the PMTT should start a no electronics tournament for all the people who think everything in life needs to be perfectly fair. |
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Location: Duluth | I thought the appeal of honest competition is a standard set of rules, not ability but rules. |
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| If certain electronics were banned during the PMTT tournament, they would also need to be banned for prefishing, as most muskies' home range is small during the summer. That would be hard to enforce. I have never fished a PMTT event, but have prefished for other competitors. On large bodies of water, like Leech or Minnetonka, having a group of friends spread out and check out different areas gives an advantage to the PMTT competitor with the most friends.
Greg Ide
PS With my boat having a 4th, 6th, 9th and 10th place in the Hartman Metro Tourney in the last 8 tourneys, luck still beats electronics, says a guy with a 2003 depthfinder. |
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| "Still have to make them bite" even though we all know location is the single most important factor for success in fishing. Right place right time aka knowing you're actually presenting lures to fish whether thats through electronics or knowing the system and conditions. Put me in the right spot casting to a fish and i dont care about the weather, lure, color, time of day, water temp, moon phase, etc. I'll just try something until the fish bites which is a matter of when, not if. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | ThedockisIN - 7/15/2022 2:31 PM
If certain electronics were banned during the PMTT tournament, they would also need to be banned for prefishing, as most muskies' home range is small during the summer. That would be hard to enforce. I have never fished a PMTT event, but have prefished for other competitors. On large bodies of water, like Leech or Minnetonka, having a group of friends spread out and check out different areas gives an advantage to the PMTT competitor with the most friends.
Greg Ide
PS With my boat having a 4th, 6th, 9th and 10th place in the Hartman Metro Tourney in the last 8 tourneys, luck still beats electronics, says a guy with a 2003 depthfinder.
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Location: E. Tenn | On an outing early this spring, my bow mounted Helix wouldn't power up for some reason, still unknown to me..
I had one of my best days in several years. I credit that to paying more attention to my surroundings, rather than a screen.. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | I don't have a dog in this fight, but I find it notable when a commentator for the British Open (or Open Championship for you purists) this week lamented how technology has changed the game of golf so much that the Old Course ws totally vulnerable to today's players. It's a familiar refrain. I have empathy for those behind the technology curve, but also believe that fishing conditions change and the next winner may not benefit as much from this technique. My biggest concern is how this technique will encourage pulling fish out from depths that will ultimately kill them. |
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| It will undoubtedly result in dead fish. No different than what trolling is doing to Northern Wisconsin. Guys ripping fish up off the thermocline going 4 mph. People just can't resist the urge to do it. Pete Maina said, "fishing the thermocline would have a high success rate, but I wouldn't recommend doing it as you will most likely be causing delayed mortality." It's easy fishing and like the Eagle River Chain, most of our lakes have pretty small basins. Same with warm water, people know it's bad but continue to fish it. |
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| Maybe off topic (?) but the practice of using “friends” and even asking a guy in a bait shop is a violation in some fishing circuits as is pre-fishing beyond a strict few days prior. The sport evolves, the rules evolves. The PGA recently penalized a competitor for merely drawing dots on his club with white-out! They will figure this out. |
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | I picked up a livescope this spring and have been using it all season. I think that people that haven’t used one have a skewed perception of how effective they are. In the part of the year where the open water bite is really going strong than it is very effective, although if the fish are right by the surface like they are sometimes in Minnesota than side imaging is still better for locating them. The closer those fish get to cover/shallow water the less effective it gets. You can still find fish that are tucked up against a reef but the shallower it is and the tighter the fish is to the rocks the less you can see. Same with weeds, once that fish gets in the weeds than your livescope isn’t doing much of anything besides showing you what the weeds look like. Livescope is incredibly effective in a open water scenario but for the rest of the year where most of those fish are shallow and in some sort of cover than it really loses it’s effectiveness. Live imaging isn’t going anywhere so you might as well learn to use it, but I don’t think in any way it is as much of an unfair advantage most of the year as people think it is. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I'll share an experience me and Mauser had on Stonewall Jackson Lake. We were there fishing during the Hot Water mortality study, and came upon one of the project boats. One guy was at the bow with an antenna-looking device, another with a rod and reel and a rubber jigging bait. Muskies were shocked up and implanted with sensors that the project had equipment to detect., and the object was to catch one in hot conditions and see how it survives.
The guy with the antenna was right on top of the fish and the jigger was working all around it trying to get it to bite. We watched maybe five or ten minutes while we were across the channel and never saw the rod bend.
Like my buddy Tony says, "I can take you to the fish but I can't make you catch them!" m |
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| Junkman - 7/16/2022 6:54 AM
Maybe off topic (?) but the practice of using “friends” and even asking a guy in a bait shop is a violation in some fishing circuits as is pre-fishing beyond a strict few days prior. The sport evolves, the rules evolves. The PGA recently penalized a competitor for merely drawing dots on his club with white-out! They will figure this out.
I saw the same story about the white out and it is a good example of a professional circuit making the rules and that is what competitors have to follow. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The Professional Walleye Tour 3rd 2022 event on Green Bay wrapped up yesterday. Multiple anglers mentioned seeing tons of big walleyes on forward-looking sonar, and not being able to get enough of them or the right ones to hit. No one complained from what I have seen. First place is worth over 100 grand. From the winner:
In gin clear water, Hjelm’s fish were suspended 2 to 10 feet off the bottom in water 18 to 24 feet deep. At times, he would slide up as shallow as 14 feet.
“I wasn’t making a cast unless I saw a fish. I had my head down on my Lowrance ActiveTarget the whole time. You knew you were casting on or around fish. I never really understood it until I fished Green Bay, but these walleyes never stop moving. They are constantly on the swim, and you can just watch them come and go on the graph. You’ll get super excited, and then they’ll completely vanish.”
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Location: Duluth | If Im being totally honest, and having scoped myself I just think its lame. I think its lame to,stare at a screen driving around for fish. I think its lame that big names promote fishing that way. Musky guys used to be bad but if it turns into a bunch of dudes making tracks staring at,screens then I'm not sure the "future" of musky fishing is for me. Likely just trout fish more and laugh at all the hoosiers and their fancy gear. |
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| sworrall - 7/16/2022 10:28 AM
The Professional Walleye Tour 3rd 2022 event on Green Bay wrapped up yesterday. Multiple anglers mentioned seeing tons of big walleyes on forward-looking sonar, and not being able to get enough of them or the right ones to hit. No one complained from what I have seen. First place is worth over 100 grand. From the winner:
In gin clear water, Hjelm’s fish were suspended 2 to 10 feet off the bottom in water 18 to 24 feet deep. At times, he would slide up as shallow as 14 feet.
“I wasn’t making a cast unless I saw a fish. I had my head down on my Lowrance ActiveTarget the whole time. You knew you were casting on or around fish. I never really understood it until I fished Green Bay, but these walleyes never stop moving. They are constantly on the swim, and you can just watch them come and go on the graph. You’ll get super excited, and then they’ll completely vanish.”
Hjelm threw a variety of glide baits in natural colors to catch his fish. He had trolling gear with him, but never caught one trolling in the tournament.
Another competitor mentioned that there were lots of walleye, but also huge amounts of bait fish, which made getting walleyes to hit their baits very difficult, |
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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | sworrall - 7/16/2022 10:28 AM
The Professional Walleye Tour 3rd 2022 event on Green Bay wrapped up yesterday. Multiple anglers mentioned seeing tons of big walleyes on forward-looking sonar, and not being able to get enough of them or the right ones to hit. No one complained from what I have seen. First place is worth over 100 grand. From the winner:
In gin clear water, Hjelm’s fish were suspended 2 to 10 feet off the bottom in water 18 to 24 feet deep. At times, he would slide up as shallow as 14 feet.
“I wasn’t making a cast unless I saw a fish. I had my head down on my Lowrance ActiveTarget the whole time. You knew you were casting on or around fish. I never really understood it until I fished Green Bay, but these walleyes never stop moving. They are constantly on the swim, and you can just watch them come and go on the graph. You’ll get super excited, and then they’ll completely vanish.”
Hjelm threw a variety of glide baits in natural colors to catch his fish. He had trolling gear with him, but never caught one trolling in the tournament.
I really don't get your arguments. These guys are going to complain about their sponsors?
There are billions of walleye in North America, with millions being harvested on the commercial, recreational and subsistence fisheries. I think we harvest well over 5 millions pounds on Lake Winnipeg here alone. On the other hand Muskies are an extremely low density predator with a tiny natural distribution and a reproductive biology/strategy that is easily prone to failure.
Driving around with sonar until you find musky is akin to using Roboducks for mallards, used electronic calls on geese or turkeys, and receiving cell phone pics of a buck walking by your trail cam - not fair chase. It is completely irrelevant as far as competitive between people - it is not fishing, it is as close to catching as you can come; in fact I don't think there is any other live sampling technique that would work better - probably more effective than electroshocking or netting.
There is now target lock (holds your transducer on structure), next it will be fish lock, fish ID, bottom emulation, species ID, bait tracker, yadda, yadda, yadda. Geez, we probably will have underwater fish trail cams that will send you an email when the big musky you are chasing shows - you can already get little submersibles now to have a look see.
These anecdotes of "can't get them to bite thing," is an interesting but really baseless argument. Carp are wary - but people that are really good at carp fishing know how to get them to bite in any conditions. Musky are really "dumb" in comparison in the wary of biting department - they will bite, and as things go with this social media age someone is going to want to get a few extra hits or whatever and reveal ways to get "finicky" musky to bite. The excuses for the technologies have the ring of addiction - in this case technology addiction.
I would say the "antis" here are not old timers or anti-technology, or can't afford it, or whatever. (I own a GN4 MSI+) They love muskies and musky fishing and don't like where this is going. It is NOT good for muskies and it doesn't make musky fishing more rewarding- it is a prelude to something worse.
This old Rapala movie has some surprisingly good editing and musky fighting segments, maybe give some context as to what musky fishing (hunting) is supposed to be - a difficult quest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnbaTFwJ10
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Angling Oracle - 7/16/2022 12:55 PM
sworrall - 7/16/2022 10:28 AM
The Professional Walleye Tour 3rd 2022 event on Green Bay wrapped up yesterday. Multiple anglers mentioned seeing tons of big walleyes on forward-looking sonar, and not being able to get enough of them or the right ones to hit. No one complained from what I have seen. First place is worth over 100 grand. From the winner:
In gin clear water, Hjelm’s fish were suspended 2 to 10 feet off the bottom in water 18 to 24 feet deep. At times, he would slide up as shallow as 14 feet.
“I wasn’t making a cast unless I saw a fish. I had my head down on my Lowrance ActiveTarget the whole time. You knew you were casting on or around fish. I never really understood it until I fished Green Bay, but these walleyes never stop moving. They are constantly on the swim, and you can just watch them come and go on the graph. You’ll get super excited, and then they’ll completely vanish.”
Hjelm threw a variety of glide baits in natural colors to catch his fish. He had trolling gear with him, but never caught one trolling in the tournament.
I really don't get your arguments. These guys are going to complain about their sponsors?
There are billions of walleye in North America, with millions being harvested on the commercial, recreational and subsistence fisheries. I think we harvest well over 5 millions pounds on Lake Winnipeg here alone. On the other hand Muskies are an extremely low density predator with a tiny natural distribution and a reproductive biology/strategy that is easily prone to failure.
Driving around with sonar until you find musky is akin to using Roboducks for mallards, used electronic calls on geese or turkeys, and receiving cell phone pics of a buck walking by your trail cam - not fair chase. It is completely irrelevant as far as competitive between people - it is not fishing, it is as close to catching as you can come; in fact I don't think there is any other live sampling technique that would work better - probably more effective than electroshocking or netting.
There is now target lock (holds your transducer on structure ), next it will be fish lock, fish ID, bottom emulation, species ID, bait tracker, yadda, yadda, yadda. Geez, we probably will have underwater fish trail cams that will send you an email when the big musky you are chasing shows - you can already get little submersibles now to have a look see.
These anecdotes of "can't get them to bite thing," is an interesting but really baseless argument. Carp are wary - but people that are really good at carp fishing know how to get them to bite in any conditions. Musky are really "dumb" in comparison in the wary of biting department - they will bite, and as things go with this social media age someone is going to want to get a few extra hits or whatever and reveal ways to get "finicky" musky to bite. The excuses for the technologies have the ring of addiction - in this case technology addiction.
I would say the "antis" here are not old timers or anti-technology, or can't afford it, or whatever. (I own a GN4 MSI+ ) They love muskies and musky fishing and don't like where this is going. It is NOT good for muskies and it doesn't make musky fishing more rewarding- it is a prelude to something worse.
This old Rapala movie has some surprisingly good editing and musky fighting segments, maybe give some context as to what musky fishing (hunting ) is supposed to be - a difficult quest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnbaTFwJ10
Complete miss.
I was pointing out the very widespread use of the tech in that event, the discussion that some of the anglers had a rough time getting the right fish to hit (it wasn't baseless to those anglers), etc. and the fact no one was complaining about it during a very competitive event that paid out about a quarter million dollars and the fact the winner talked about how it was used.
I was not comparing walleyes to muskies, I was comparing tournament angler behavior.
'These guys are going to complain about their sponsors?' Some PMTT anglers did.
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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | sworrall - 7/16/2022 5:37 PM
Complete miss.
I was pointing out the very widespread use of the tech in that event, the discussion that some of the anglers had a rough time getting the right fish to hit (it wasn't baseless to those anglers), etc. and the fact no one was complaining about it during a very competitive event that paid out about a quarter million dollars and the fact the winner talked about how it was used.
I was not comparing walleyes to muskies, I was comparing tournament angler behavior.
'These guys are going to complain about their sponsors?' Some PMTT anglers did.
Observations, not arguments.
I don't know if I did miss it. Perhaps I did take liberties with your observation to try and make my point.
The way I read it is this: the walleye tournament winner demonstrated the effectiveness of live imaging. Apparently this fellow has not fished walleye that exhibit this pattern of behaviour and was sort of taken aback by it, but he adapted, persisted and caught enough fish to win - a pattern is identical to Lake Winnipeg FYI - except even shallower with the turbid water. Lake Winnipeg you need to have some local knowledge as to how to trigger the bite of the big one that will come through - likely he found something that worked for him that others didn't. Live imaging helped him get to those observations and conclusions much more quickly than say 2D alone. Live imaging is very useful - but you still have to put the other stuff together.
Walleye guys didn't whine about live imaging. Not sure why they would as they probably all have one version or other - it is just another tool with the other tools we already mentioned. I don't like the walleye tourneys here as they disrupt the ability of others to access the walleye waters we fish, but they unlikely they have an appreciable effect on the walleye fishery, and neither does live imaging (and other high frequency sonar) on the quality of the walleye fishery.
Outside of the tournament aspect of this (ie fairness to anglers), I do not think live imaging and the improvements in software to come regarding high frequency sonar is going to be a benefit to musky fisheries - on the contrary, it will lead to a deterioration in the quality of fisheries and undermine what the essence of what musky fishing is. My opinion. I could be wrong.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Outside of the tournament aspect of this (ie fairness to anglers), I do not think live imaging and the improvements in software to come regarding high-frequency sonar is going to be a benefit to musky fisheries - on the contrary, it will lead to a deterioration in the quality of fisheries and undermine what the essence of what musky fishing is. My opinion. I could be wrong.
Actually, I don't think you are entirely wrong. Muskie fishing to me is the hunt, not just the catch. I won't be staring at a screen trying to get one to hit anytime soon. |
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Location: deephaven mn | Steve makes the point that Livescope technology is being used in Walleye and Bass tournaments and it is accepted.
It helps you located fish but you still have to make them bite. I have located several muskies with live scope. Most don't react to lures. Ty Sennett was mentioned. He admitted to using Livescope in a tournament he won last year, locating fish outside the deep weed edge. Yes snaging is against the rules. The only way PMTT could inforce this is to have you remove the device before fishing the tournament. Big deal and will turn anglers away. Side Imaging would have to be banned as well as Livescope is just advanced Side imagining |
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Location: Des Plaines, IL | I think the "fairness" argument is a really tough one to make when you have a variety of anglers fishing the musky events. Not everyone is able to use the highest quality rod blanks or reels, and not everyone can afford a $100K boat to get to spots faster, drift slower, etc. Unless everyone is going to be given a 12 foot john boat with oars, a 9.9, and an anchor, all the same rods, and all the same baits, the equipment that people have will be varied, and that's before electronics.
Personally, I spent less on the boat and more on the electronics because I only get to fish 20-30 days a year. For me, I want to be able to maximize that time and not feel lost out there casting at nothing. Seems like the cost variation amongst electronics is similar to that of a $30K boat vs. the $100K boat, people make choices.
As for mortality rates of fish and the effect of live sonar, I'm eager to see the data over the coming years. Does anyone have any studies looking at mortality pre-side imaging and post-side imaging? No one has to worry about me and my live sonar, I practice the safest musky release there is: not catching them. |
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| Where's the argument that jigging deep fish is harmful? From my understanding, the livescopers are seeing most fish suspended 10 ft or above. But my limited knowledge is regarding Vermilion. I know when I troll open water, the deepest bait is about 8-10 ft down. |
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Location: Duluth | dbach17 - 7/18/2022 9:00 AM
Personally, I spent less on the boat and more on the electronics because I only get to fish 20-30 days a year. For me, I want to be able to maximize that time and not feel lost out there casting at nothing. Seems like the cost variation amongst electronics is similar to that of a $30K boat vs. the $100K boat, people make choices.
Yea, we definitely got into the sport for different reasons.
I guess to sound less abrasive, the chase and learning is the sport. "casting around in no mans land" is part of learning and part of what makes an agler actually key in on the conditions....to develop long lasting patterns that will put fish in the net even if your gimball mounted transducer arm all of a sudden decides its doesnt want to work or whatever.
Sidescan isn't even in the same conversation as Livescope.
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| I heard from a bass pro who fishes tournaments everywhere that bass are starting to act differently when pinged with live sonar. Turns them off and they don't eat.
Wonder if this will happen to muskies over time.
I found that when I upgraded to the bigger fancier Humminbirds, my sucker musky catch went down.
So I shut off the sonar and just started running my map, knowing full well what the depth was and that my baits were fine.
And I started catching more muskies. Maybe they could hear or feel that sonar hit and it was keeping them from eating. Maybe I was just fishing better days without the sonar. Who knows.
But it will be interesting to follow.
BTW...I was in a boat and used Live Sonar while smallie fishing this weekend. Probably got 4 smallies to eat all day that I saw on the unit (not my boat). Compared to about 100 that I saw.
I found myself hating that I was staring at the screen, then loving it when a fish actually hit. Whether you are for it, or against it, the fact is, that technology works really well. |
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| Hi! I'm new to Muskie fishing I have a old Thompson or Rhinelander 14 foot guide boat it's made of wood it leaks (it was in perfect shape before my cousin thru a M 80 in it on 4th of July) so I carry a coffee can to bail it out every once in a while.
I don't have a motor or green box (one of those fish finders) I fish with a glass five and one half foot rod it's nice and stiff like a pool cue! I use my grandma's Ambaasadeur 5000 and it has black Dacron line I think 27 pound test not sure how long it's been on the reel. My landing net is 22"X 36" and I have a gaff and a club. For lures I have Bobbie, Suick (I wish there was a way to add weight) Dardevel, Johnson's Silver Minnow, Globe, Cisco Kid Topper, Burmek Top Water, couple Pikie Minnows , Mepps Musky Killers. (out of the three blade colors Silver, Gold, and Black) what do you like best? What kind of leaders do you guy's use? Any good Muskie books and do my oar's scare the fish?
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| vegas492 - 7/18/2022 11:56 AM
I heard from a bass pro who fishes tournaments everywhere that bass are starting to act differently when pinged with live sonar. Turns them off and they don't eat.
Wonder if this will happen to muskies over time.
I found that when I upgraded to the bigger fancier Humminbirds, my sucker musky catch went down.
So I shut off the sonar and just started running my map, knowing full well what the depth was and that my baits were fine.
And I started catching more muskies. Maybe they could hear or feel that sonar hit and it was keeping them from eating. Maybe I was just fishing better days without the sonar. Who knows.
But it will be interesting to follow.
BTW...I was in a boat and used Live Sonar while smallie fishing this weekend. Probably got 4 smallies to eat all day that I saw on the unit (not my boat). Compared to about 100 that I saw.
I found myself hating that I was staring at the screen, then loving it when a fish actually hit. Whether you are for it, or against it, the fact is, that technology works really well.
There are walleye ice guides on Green Bay, who only use sonar when targeting eaters. They say when they are targeting trophies for picture taking, that the true giants, take off when the sonar goes on.
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Location: Northern Illinois | chuckski - 7/18/2022 12:09 PM
Hi! I'm new to Muskie fishing I have a old Thompson or Rhinelander 14 foot guide boat it's made of wood it leaks (it was in perfect shape before my cousin thru a M 80 in it on 4th of July) so I carry a coffee can to bail it out every once in a while.
I don't have a motor or green box (one of those fish finders) I fish with a glass five and one half foot rod it's nice and stiff like a pool cue! I use my grandma's Ambaasadeur 5000 and it has black Dacron line I think 27 pound test not sure how long it's been on the reel. My landing net is 22"X 36" and I have a gaff and a club. For lures I have Bobbie, Suick (I wish there was a way to add weight) Dardevel, Johnson's Silver Minnow, Globe, Cisco Kid Topper, Burmek Top Water, couple Pikie Minnows , Mepps Musky Killers. (out of the three blade colors Silver, Gold, and Black) what do you like best? What kind of leaders do you guy's use? Any good Muskie books and do my oar's scare the fish?
Chuck July 1976
Sounds like more fun than looking at a screen. Got to admit though, a motor would be nice. And the hole (pun intended) leak thing... |
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Location: NW WI | Forgive me it's been a long time, but somewhere online you might find an nteresting article written by someone credible talking about the affects of sonar and smallmouth fishing, i believe in summary it stateted that sonar use decreased hit %. I recall the study taking place in either central or Southern U.S. and my Google search was something about "night time fishing smallmouth". If no one here finds it, I'll dig for it and post it a new thread whenever I have more time. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | So the fifth trip out with the new Mega Live after crappies yesterday. Located and went to a crib with at least 50 crappies festooning the top. Caught 3 on that one and spent too much time trying to figure it out before moving to a couple more and doing better. |
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| sworrall - 7/24/2022 4:23 PM
So the fifth trip out with the new Mega Live after crappies yesterday. Located and went to a crib with at least 50 crappies festooning the top. Caught 3 on that one and spent too much time trying to figure it out before moving to a couple more and doing better.
Steve saw the story about the Mega Live Target lock in the News section here and also something from Humminbird. In both stories the unit was shown mounted on an Ultrex. Could not find whether it will also work on an Ulterra. Not looking to get this year but it would solve a problem I have now with my Mega SI in that when you are in wind or current that requires frequent changes to the trolling motor direction, also changes the SI. |
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| If they spent all this money on electronics alot more then the others,,in a couple years there will be something new and better,,spend that money all over again,,will winnings keep up with that?
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | North of 8 - 7/24/2022 6:54 PM
sworrall - 7/24/2022 4:23 PM
So the fifth trip out with the new Mega Live after crappies yesterday. Located and went to a crib with at least 50 crappies festooning the top. Caught 3 on that one and spent too much time trying to figure it out before moving to a couple more and doing better.
Steve saw the story about the Mega Live Target lock in the News section here and also something from Humminbird. In both stories the unit was shown mounted on an Ultrex. Could not find whether it will also work on an Ulterra. Not looking to get this year but it would solve a problem I have now with my Mega SI in that when you are in wind or current that requires frequent changes to the trolling motor direction, also changes the SI.
I have an Ultrex. The Mega Live mounts on the shaft under the Mega 360. |
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| I have livescope. It is terrific for finding iron water fish and for jigging. It is a huge advantage there. It has its time and place of a person fishes ethically and truly cares about the health of a fish or fishery. |
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Location: SW Ohio | PMTT came out with an answer today. They are banning Live Scope and all other forward looking sonar for Leech and the championship. So that puts the “what will they do” to rest. They’re also offering refunds to those who use it and want to cancel Leech. My vote was to leave it alone for the rest of the year. No, I don’t have live scope or any other right now. But teams have used it for two tournaments already so changing it now made no sense to me. C’est la vie.
My fishing partner and I had already dropped from Leech due to economic and work related issues prior to the outcome of “the vote”. Diesel at $6+ a gal was one big reason. $1200 for fuel alone is a bit steep for us. But we’ll keep our options open going into next year. Who knows…maybe we’ll all be “virtual fishing” with live scope helmets and such. Like fighter pilots but with slime dispensers built in. ;-).
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| Little surprised that was their decision. Must have been the way the majority of their participants voted.
Destroyed the lower unit on my motor hitting a submerged log in an area I have traveled hundreds of times across the lake from my house. While at the dealer, who is a stocking Garmin dealer, I asked if he had a lot of sales of live scope following the PMTT event in Eagle River, a few miles south of him. He just laughed and said, 'don't know about sales but I sure had a lot of calls in the week following'. |
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| John sorry to hear about your motor, surprising with so many of Wisconsin River chains and Flowages with time losing a lot of the wood from time period of say the 1970's when I was a teenager to now. When I was a teenager my grandpa had a spot he fished not on any maps, but a resort owner pulled a bunch of stumps on the ice with a tractor back in the 30's or 40's and my grandpa would catch Big Crappies (and one time a 10 pound Walleye ) also another resort owner got 31 pound Tiger off the spot I thick it was his bother in law of the guy who put the stumps in. I think all the old timers who fished it are all dead. I know the general area if I ever get back there in the warm water months it would be fun to go down with a mask and fins. Or if I had a live scope. |
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| chuckski - 7/26/2022 6:49 PM
John sorry to hear about your motor, surprising with so many of Wisconsin River chains and Flowages with time losing a lot of the wood from time period of say the 1970's when I was a teenager to now. When I was a teenager my grandpa had a spot he fished not on any maps, but a resort owner pulled a bunch of stumps on the ice with a tractor back in the 30's or 40's and my grandpa would catch Big Crappies (and one time a 10 pound Walleye ) also another resort owner got 31 pound Tiger off the spot I thick it was his bother in law of the guy who put the stumps in. I think all the old timers who fished it are all dead. I know the general area if I ever get back there in the warm water months it would be fun to go down with a mask and fins. Or if I had a live scope.
We had bad wind storms in December and then snow/ice in late winter that took down a lot of trees and unfortunately, some ended up in the lake. When I rowed my jon boat over to see if I could find what I hit, the owner of the shore line nearby was in the lake raking up rocks, etc. in anticipation of young visitors. He walked towards me and when I told him what happened, he pointed to a large, pretty much dead white pine that had come down in December. (guy lost over 50 mature trees in that storm). The base of the tree is there but he said he had walked out to see where the top was and could not find it. Could have been that, who knows. I spent an hour rowing back and forth, poking around, looking but did not find anything other than sand/gravel 3 to 4 feet down. A few years ago a log was lodged near the same spot and took out some props. Couple volunteers from the lake association found it, put a chain on it and a winch on shore got it pulled out.
Being on a flowage, logs happen. I was only going 5 mph and probably if I had an aluminum prop instead of stainless, damage would have been limited to the prop. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | North of 8 - 7/26/2022 7:02 PM
chuckski - 7/26/2022 6:49 PM
John sorry to hear about your motor, surprising with so many of Wisconsin River chains and Flowages with time losing a lot of the wood from time period of say the 1970's when I was a teenager to now. When I was a teenager my grandpa had a spot he fished not on any maps, but a resort owner pulled a bunch of stumps on the ice with a tractor back in the 30's or 40's and my grandpa would catch Big Crappies (and one time a 10 pound Walleye ) also another resort owner got 31 pound Tiger off the spot I thick it was his bother in law of the guy who put the stumps in. I think all the old timers who fished it are all dead. I know the general area if I ever get back there in the warm water months it would be fun to go down with a mask and fins. Or if I had a live scope.
We had bad wind storms in December and then snow/ice in late winter that took down a lot of trees and unfortunately, some ended up in the lake. When I rowed my jon boat over to see if I could find what I hit, the owner of the shore line nearby was in the lake raking up rocks, etc. in anticipation of young visitors. He walked towards me and when I told him what happened, he pointed to a large, pretty much dead white pine that had come down in December. (guy lost over 50 mature trees in that storm ). The base of the tree is there but he said he had walked out to see where the top was and could not find it. Could have been that, who knows. I spent an hour rowing back and forth, poking around, looking but did not find anything other than sand/gravel 3 to 4 feet down. A few years ago a log was lodged near the same spot and took out some props. Couple volunteers from the lake association found it, put a chain on it and a winch on shore got it pulled out.
Being on a flowage, logs happen. I was only going 5 mph and probably if I had an aluminum prop instead of stainless, damage would have been limited to the prop.
They pulled a couple very large logs out of the water at the landing last night. |
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