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Location: Seymour, WI | The last two issues of Musky Hunter and Esox Angler both had articles about slop fishing for muskies during cold front conditions. Wondering how many people have tried this and if you had success doing it? Would your go to bait be spinner bait? I'm going to give it a shot the next time I'm faced with blue bird conditions.
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Location: Madtown, WI | Yes...particularly in September.
I have done this a couple times...but it was the first time that stands out. COLD, bluebird, N wind, post frontal....didn't even feel like a day you would want to be out. Fish were in 2 feet of water tight in the slop coontail. Would pitch topwaters and reef hawgs in these small pockets and the fish responded. If memory serves me correct I landed 2, buddy got one or so and we had more action. I have duplicated this since.
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| The barometric pressure lately has been what my buddy and I consider "low". I think this low pressure has much of the same effect a cold front has on the fish. This past Sunday all we fished were weedbeds. I spent probably 45 minutes - 1 hour working over a weedbed about 75 yards long and 40 yards wide. I grinded a spinnerbait in the weeds and pitch casted a Bulldawg into lanes and pockets, keeping it high and letting it flutter down into the pockets. While we didn't catch anything, the only fish we saw all day was on the inside weedline of this weedbed.
Two years ago on LOTW we gave two guys info on what was working for us. We hadn't boated anything at that point throwing mainly hair and topwater. What they did was get themselves into the sickest, nastiest slop they could find and pitch Bulldawgs into lanes all day long. Needless to say, they did much better than we did. Try spinnerbaits, but don't forget your Dawgs. | |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Ask anyone who fishes with me, I love the slop on the bluebird days. In fact, sometimes I redefine what slop is, driving those who fish with me to weed strewn near madness, but the fish are there, and can be caught. I use several different lures, including a Willow Mag or Muskie Mag Violent Strike, a huge Sluggo, my favorite pocket punchers; a Suick or a Salmmer crank, a Violent Strike Mag Buzz, even a Wabull carefully placed.
Most folks fish slop way too fast. Just an observation. | |
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Slop fishing during cold front