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| Do your patterns break down as the fall progresses, or do they maintain themselves, or get better?
It is interesting that some fisherman fish popular early fall patterns down here, and then as the pattern breaks down they continue to fish it, declaring however that fishing, and days, are tough, when in reality they are on a bad pattern. I find myself speeding up my movements, almost to the point of discontinuing any type of general area presentation or "fishing out" an area, concentrating instead on efficient bait presentations to smaller areas, and slowing down is NOT part of my repetoire unless I feel I am presenting to a SPECIFIC non responding fish that I have located. Guys talk about s-l-o-w glider presentations and I am afraid if they did that, and I had to wait on them in the back of the boat I would end up choking them out!
I often wonder when reading about sucker presentations if guys aren't missing the boat on what are really more efficient and faster water coverage patterns with baits. I personally don't like big rubber but even that has got to beat sucker presentations. I just can't wait for the bobber to go down when musky fishing.
I guess I could slow down some-if I knew that fish were in a specific general area and I had to make close contact with them to get bit but, HECK NO! couldn't do it! Just not part of my musky fishing personality profile. I gotta cast, and gotta see some scenery!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | FSF,
This weekend fishing with Slamr, Lambeau, and Medic we moved right along on controlled drifts with two suckers, weighted a little, down about 2/3 the total depth with no bobber, just the bait clicker to announce a hit. Never missed a beat with the gliders, cranks, spinnerbaits and other presentations, event threw some topwater and a Creature that netted me a nice walleye. I had a very nice fish swipe at an Undertaker, weird deal where she kinda just blew out the water around the bait in the slop up in 3'.
Yesterday the rig was moving along pretty well in the stiff west winds we had and the muskie that ate the Mongo Carp we did not see until she took that sucker. No idea if she came off a couple cribs I centerd the drift over or if she followed a Perka, the only other lure in the water at the time.
I move my lure right along until ice up and cover more water late fall faster than anytime of the year up to that point, but that's me and I'm not normal. | |
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| And your answer to the first question is??
I can see where a sucker might add additional fish to the days catch but at what price. The few times I have dealt with suckers they have added much non fishing time to the day due to babysitting the bait. Not a put down of sucker fisherman just a question about patterns and how you fish.
Do patterns break down as much as fisherman think they do or do they just fail to capitalize on them by inefficient presentations or choice of lures? | |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I would say the patterns change all the way through the fall to ice up. Depends on the lake as to how. Pelican, for example, is slop, shallow reefs and sand breaks from turnover until temps drop to the upper 40's, then it's 6' to 25' on the stones and outside the remaining deep green weeds with the perch. George is the same, except the fish rarely get deeper than 7', at least when one can get them to go. Crescent is totally different, I work the cribs, deep breaks, and very outside of the deeper green stuff all fall until ice up. I find it to be a continuing progression, not a 'fall' pattern one sticks to. | |
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Patterns?