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| Last Thursday I was bass fishing on a trophy lake [18" min] where Musky have been stocked. With a blazing sun, calm, 80+ deg water, and a significant algae bloom, I spotted a tail fin in the back of a cove. Upon closer investigation I realized it was a Wisconsin-legal musky in less than 2ft of water. I also saw a pack of 3 muskies crusing the shallows and two other single muskies [one with the top half of its tail [not dorsal] fin in the cove. What was going on? What were they hunting? Bass catch & release was very good, but not in that musky cove.
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| The phenomenon you witnessed is known as "surface cruising"...it is officially classified with crop circles, stonehenge, spontaneous combustion and alien abduction. I've heard a number of theories on exactly what they are doing...but I suppose no one really has the slightest clue. We have witnessed similiar "group cruisings" by huge muskies, and even watched them come up and gulp air, then leave a bubble trail on the way back down. It used to be thought that such fish were uncatchable, but almost every musky guy has at least caught one of these mysterious critters. In a small section of river (about 150 square yards), which had 3 big boys actively surface cruising, we had numerous follows, including 2 of the bruts at once, and one hit a jerkbait in about a total of an hour casting the small area off and on during a day. One interesting thing is that I have never seen a smallish (say 30" or less) musky cruising form the ones that have been identified while fishing...I don't know what that means. | |
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Musky behavior question