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Location: Amsterdam | With me being a european guy i got a question.
My question is how different is the musky vs a Northern pike when it comes to feeding, target area's , wind/sun/temp changes etc.
Im just wondering in what way the Musky's are different vs the more common northern pike.
And if you have to target only Northerns or Musky would you change your approuch and lures accordingly?
I recently rejoined the forum after being away a while and really enjoy reading al the posts and watching beutifull fish get caught.
Kind regards
Ted
The Netherlands
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| Just a few obvious points--I hope on safe ground (or water):
- Muskies seem to tolerate warmer water temperatures than northern pike;
- Muskies are more likely to be on rocks than northern pike;
- Muskies are more tolerant of river current than northern pike;
- Muskies are more likely to come to the surface--and hit a surface bait--than
northern pike;
- Muskies are more likely to be active at night than northern pike;
- Northern pike are more likely to fall to a spoon than muskies.
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Location: Chicagoland | Muskies will more often hit on the figure eight |
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Posts: 699
Location: Hugo, MN | Both love Bucktails! In my experience Northerns like the weeds as much as Musky but rarely will you see a Nothern follow like a Musky at least not all the way to the boat in in to a figure 8. |
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Posts: 431
| here are some generalities that I have personally proven wrong many times, but provide something of a guide. I generally fish smaller lures for pike. I also usually find pike in thicker weeds than musky. Pike will strike a lure very hard a lot of times, while musky will strike amazingly light on occasion. Pike can be caught any day, muskies can be caught some days. I always fish bright colors for pike (orange, chartreuse, white). Not sure why, this is the first time of thought about it, but I do. |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Both do love bucktails, though I've had four northern follows to the boat in the last two days. My two northern today fell for a pink and then a red DCG-ish flies. |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Years ago in southern Wisconsin, when I targeted bigger pike on purpose in late summer, I thought nothing of fishing live bait down 25 to 50 feet. I've never caught muskies down that deep until much later in northern Wisconsin, like the end of October through November, but that could very well be a function of the individual lakes.
More than a few times, on lakes with good populations of both, I've seen a well defined pattern where the averaged sized muskies would be going and then shut down. Almost immediately the averaged sized pike would start using the same areas the muskies were in before. Then when the pike would vanish, the muskies would start up again. This was usually a function of severe weather changes. Who chased who off the spot or who left why I can't say. Just something I've noticed.
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| My experience has shown Northern Pike to be very very aggressive, whereas a muskie is a little more tactful and stealthy in his approach. I have caught hundreds of 20-30 inch Norterns in Oneida County while fishing wiht bucktails for musky and they will smash it initially harder than any upper 40"s musky I have encountered yet. |
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Difference in approuch Northern vs Musky