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| Just wondering what conditions everyone finds they have the most muskie success in? I find that early spring and late fall snow days bring up the piggies for me. What do you guys/gals catch the fatties most in? |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Rain or Shine with a ton of wind. It can be calm and overcast and I wont see a thing....up pops up a 10 mph chop and BOOM, fish everywhere. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Cloudy, windy, rain or snow are my preferred conditions. I am a vampire, in that I don't like sunny days what so ever.
Muskie fishing has given me a whole new perspective on nasty weather conditions!
Edited by Steve Van Lieshout 4/2/2004 12:13 PM
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | Right before a thunderstorm when the wind really picks up. |
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Location: Wauwatosa, WI | Year after year it seems that late fall provides the best results of my season. Last fall was great for large and fat ski's, but I froze my tail in early November. I wish my best fishing was in July so I would stop abusing my body like that. The rods and reels complain even more, but what I'm going to do, I love catching big fish.
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Location: Washington, PA | In the spring the warm sunny days get em going. |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Rainy overcast days and when a thunderstorm is approaching . |
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Location: Black Creek, WI | My logbook would suggst that sunny days with little or no wind have put the most fish in my boat. Not exactly my preferred weather condition.... which just goes to show that the "self fulfilling prophecy" really can affect our results. Seems that when I find time to go fishing, it is usually a post cold-front situation with high bluebird skies. Thus, I catch the most fish under the most predominat weather condition I'm faced with. No different than if all you ever throw is a black bucktail... then I bet the black bucktail is your best bait (heh heh).
Now... if I could choose the conditions under which I could fish..... I'd pick a day when a warm front/storm is moving in after 3-5 days of warm stable weather.
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| As long as the weather is stable or just about to change I like it. We have had more multiple fish days when it was sunny and calm. Caught my largest fish when it was unbearable hot and still. |
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| Any pressure change and/or wind shift seems to get them moving. My biggest came when the pressure was dropping, the wind kicked up and it started snowing! 
Steve
Edited by muskyboy 4/2/2004 3:44 PM
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Location: Racine WI | Moon phase is far more important than weather. I seem to catch muskies only once in a blue moon.  |
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Location: Holly, MI | jlong - 4/2/2004 2:34 PM
..... I'd pick a day when a warm front/storm is moving in after 3-5 days of warm stable weather.
jlong
You bet..give me a big storm moving in, especially if the barometer is dropping fast. Nothing worse than having a sissy on board that doesn't want to get wet when the storm breaks either. |
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Location: oswego, il | Lake condition seems to play a bigger factor for me over weather conditions. I will catch more fish on a bright sunny day on the same lake when the lake is in good condition(no bloom, temps are good, lake levels good, weeds are normal, ect) over a perfect weather condition when the lake is not prime. Give me a prime lake condition every time, regardless of weather. |
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Location: DES MOINES, IOWA | On our opening trip to Lotw, we do better on the warmer, sunny days with the fish turning on 10-4.Later July trip, do better on cloudy days, and the last couple of hours before dark. Wow, I take that back about sunny days in June.Try non bluebird days with intermitent clouds to just plain cloudy for June.Being single, I can do what I want for a decorating scheme, and I think a wall full of Musky pictures are cool. I just looked at them and realized there are very few taken on bluebird type of days.I had never really looked before.Just relying on an obviously poor memory.One of the reasons I started using a fishing diary. |
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What Weather Conditions Give You the Best Action?