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Location: Hugo, MN | So there I am twitching my Musky Treat and the Red October shows up behind the bait so close the tail was just tickling her nose I was ready for the ride of my life but no go she followed in to the boat and cruised around on each of 7 or 8 figure 8s before becoming disinterested. The question here is do any of you pause your twitch baits? What could I have done differently to trigger a strike? |
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Chuck a Spear at it, Toss some Dynamite into the water, Scoop it up into a net, Jump on it and ride it Bare Back 
Seriously though each fish will react differently, I have seen them hit a bait as it was standing still, Have had them hit while trying to pull the bait away from it, but my favorite is to watch the beast circle around and just cream a bait as it just twitched on the surface like a dying fish
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| I always pause my gliders on the retrieve and weight the ones that I build to flutter on the way down and catch the vast majority of my fish on the pause. But I have never caught a fish when I just paused it dead at boatside. I've had them eat a dead still bait as close as 10 or 15 feet from the boat, but for hot followers, I will figure 8 the lures just like any other because most gliders will shimmy side to side when you pull them through the water. Neautral fish will often follow a lure in and hang around for a while and then disappear no matter what type of lure you're using. That's been my experience anyway, you can't make all followers eat. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | Thanks. I wasn't necessarily talking about stopping boatside but stopping the twitch further out or at least pausing it.
Edited by marine_1 7/23/2008 10:48 AM
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| when i finally see her behind the bait, 2 quick twiches and the a pause til the bait starts to sink on its own. If she didnt hit i then give it 1 hard twich and then let it pause/sink, no reaction from that i continue real long slow to the boat.
Works pretty well for hellhound n squirko
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| Don't throw glide baits.
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| I learned fishing for muskies is a lot more fun when I stop trying to figure the fish out and just cast the way I did before I had the internet when I was much younger. But that's probably going to get deleted. |
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| I think the escaping fish has a better shot at getting munched then the paused and sinking fish is, once the musky is hot on its tail.
I know it's not the exact same thing, but my hookups on figure 8ing went way up once I started really ripping the baits on the 8, rather then just making them convenient for the fish to eat them.
We've all seen how fast these fish are, once they want something, they usually get it. Since I started making hot fish work for their meals, I've caught more fish.
Now if I can only find more hot fish.
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Location: Burlington, WI | I put a fish in the boat by having a weagle sit by the side of the boat. I hadn't even seen the fish. I was just kinda screwing around by letting it sit there, and out of nowhere it killed it. You never know what they're going to do. |
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To Pause or Not