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Location: Elkhart, IN | OK, your getting lots of follows but they're not hitting. What do you do to trigger them into strikes rather than just follows? Or is it a matter of catching them at the right time? | |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | It all depends on what type of baits they are following. If they are chasing bucktails, one thing I have had success with is speeding things up. Burn a tail by them and many times they will react with a strike. With most other baits I try to work them even more erratic (twitchers, glides,etc.) but also try to incorporate a couple longer pauses into the retrieve.
Sometimes, but not very often, I find that a change of color will help, but I've been much more successful using the above changes than monkeying around with color. | |
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Location: oswego, il | SV, use baits that are either very fast, very erratic or both. The muskies on the shad lakes over there respond to it. If you are throwing a bucktail, reel it as fast as you possible can, I don't mean fast, I mean make your forearms burn. If it is a jerkbait or a twitch bait, rip the living you know what out of it. | |
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Location: syracuse indiana | yes mark listen to these guys todd is right. just like i was telling you when u called me... well i hope things get better for u.. .catch u later...bill | |
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| First, change direction of bait as it approaches or Z it back and forth
Second, speed it up, and if that doesn't trigger a strike, slow it down
Third, go into your figure eight, first near the surface, then deeper, then deeper still, kneeling if you have to
If that doesn't work, cast back out with the same lure
If that doesn't work, cast back out with a soft plastic (Killer Eel, Bull Dawg, Tigger Tube, Shallow Invader, ...)
If that doesn't work, come back under prime time conditions (first light, last light, moon set, moon rise, pressure change, front approaching, postive horoscope, etc.)
Good luck,
Steve | |
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| Scent was a trick that wasn't mentioned. Scent works. Also, The flouro and straight wire leaders I make/sell come with a smaller Bucher SuperSplitring attached to the top eye of the swivel. Tie my PowerPro80# knot to the ring. As I approach a figure 8, night or day, the rod tip is under water, waiting for the contact of the ring to the top eye. As I feel the tick, I'm already into the first few seconds of the 8. I begin my first sweep such that the lure only changes direction, not speed. Lure speed remains about the same, there are no stalls.
Lessons I've learned.....
1. Big muskies often follow a few feet behind and BELOW the bait. Gotta get that bait down deep. And have patience - do at least 2 quality deep 8s in low light conditions. Every cast.
2. In the day, wear clothes that match the sky. At night, wear light colors - like grey and dirty yellows, so you blend into the bright sky.
3.Set the drag so you can easily give the fish some line, maybe 10-20' -- you want the fight to be out away from the boat.
Hmmm....all I can think of off hand. | |
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Triggering strikes