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| ...reading (again for the thousandth time) Muskies on the Shield, and had a sort of epiphany. One of the waters that I consistently fish in WI is set up much in the way that a spot a friend got his 53" fish on LOTW. I"ve never really employed the same search and destroy tactics, primarily because of the difference in water, structure, and the overall makeup of the lake.
The thing is, however, is that it is all there. Pearsons' spot on a spot. I've just never put it together. I have fished this lake for a number of years with good success, but I also realized that I am one of the guys he is talking about that is like a fish out of water, unless I have weeds. That's the primary thing we relate to in many instances, weedbeds, and what might be relating to them. I think it really is funny that, many times, we aren't looking at it in a different light. Granted there are those here that are going to say that they are fishing one water the same as another, so long as they are similar in all things, and that's fine. I also know firsthand that a lot of guys aren't they are relating to the things that they know on the waters they fish, they aren't looking for the tree in the forrest so to speak.
Anyhow, what caught my attention at this point was the passage that he is writing about several complexes thrown together, and in the same place. While we really don't see it a lot on the WI/MN lakes that I know best, we do see it in several instances, just maybe not with boulders and islands strewn about.
My question to you is this: How many of you fish a lake based on geographic location, and tactics that are familiar with that particular body of water, rather than taking what you have learned from say....Canada trips, or natural lakes versus flowages? I'm not really speaking about the obvious things, and maybe it is all obvious to another. I'm talking about using the windcurrents, and structural locations to maximum potential in the right situation and combination. Fishing a saddle between two islands on each face before pulling into and fishing the saddle itself. I'm not talking about canada trips, its about applying these things to our own backyards. I'm guilty of it, and just realized it for the first time tonight. For that matter, I know three things that I will change when I next meet this spot, and attack it completely differently. | |
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So I'm sitting here at work...