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| Last year Late August I had nice fish slash,nip, and follow hot on a reef hawg fished from 5-10 FOW
I jumped when I saw it follow and it scattered away. I was fishing a rock bar protruding from shore.. it was calm sunny and hot in the middle of the day.
Another fish (or the same one IDK) surfaced and attacked something on the surface 50 feet away immediately after the follow on the RH
What would you do in this situation. What bait do you throw at this fish or do you give it time to get hungry again?
Thanks.
RJ
Edited by Mr. RJ 5/28/2010 8:16 AM
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Location: Racine, Wi | I would chuck a weagle back at that fish. I've had some pretty good success throwing WTD baits back at fish I see surface. They seem to follow for a while and eat at boat if you can trigger them in these cases.
However, I'm not sure how active that fish sounds, but if it were super active, I would throw some blades at it and burn the daylights out of them. Very good hooking bait so you have a good chance at getting some steel in that fishes yap. That being said, I actually have a very good hooking percentage with weagles, so I still like the first option for that particular situation.
Edited by tuffy1 5/28/2010 8:26 AM
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Location: Roscoe IL | If that didn't work (Waegle) I would try a beleiver with it hooked on the shallow eyelet so it act's like a topwater. Reel slow and wait for the kaboom! I agree that the WTD would be my first choice. If neither one of those worked, a small bucktail and I would burn it in. Last resort, a rubber swim bait like a storm or anykind and burn that in too.. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Weagle = just another bait |
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Location: Minnetonka | Try a bucktail. I think that's what the most active muskies eat. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | tuffy1 - 5/28/2010 9:16 AM I would chuck a weagle back at that fish. Agree 100% |
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| I would probably never throw a weagle, a surface walk the dog bait, back to a fish which at best sounds iffy on an underwater walk the dog bait(reef hawg).
I think I would rest the fish for a short time(you have pulled it off its "spot"), and allow it to recover its position, such as it might be, and then calm and still conditions, probably burn a bucktail right up on the surface, as fast as it would go. I might follow with a hawg wobbler at the speed of brain death, if the bucktail didn't work.
No response, I would bail on the fish and try later. That still conditions miss is often the only shot imo, shoulda caught it on the first cast.
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| I'd fish that spot a couple more times, if not 3 more times. Once with the reef hawg, once burning a bucktail, and once with rubber of some sort. The way you describe it, there was more than one fish on the spot and odds are one would eat one of those lures if they were as active as you make it sound. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | FSF, while I get where you're coming from, I think that the WTD bait has more triggering power in this case than a reef hawg does. The slow violent side to side movement with pauses (seems to be important in these cases) has more triggering power than the more subtle side to side (or a little more erratic movement with a reefhawg depending on how he was working it). I've had too many fish commit to the weagle as a throw back bait in this case to not throw that back at the fish first. Especially when it surfaces and gives it's location away. Sometimes, it may take coming back a few mins later, but many times, right off the bat that fish will eat.
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| Don't want to hijack the thread but okay now, last year I had a big fish blow up on a weagle and in the moment I yanked the bait from her mouth before she ever really had it (rookie mistake). I continued to throw the weagle back then switched to a bucktail. It was already sunset when she hit on the weagle and that was the last night of a camping trip last year so I did not have an opportunity to go back the next day. I was mad at myself for a few days.
What would you have done different or thrown back in this situation?
Edited by Musky Madman 5/28/2010 1:49 PM
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| firstsixfeet - 5/28/2010 12:01 PM
I would probably never throw a weagle, a surface walk the dog bait, back to a fish which at best sounds iffy on an underwater walk the dog bait(reef hawg).
I think I would rest the fish for a short time(you have pulled it off its "spot"), and allow it to recover its position, such as it might be, and then calm and still conditions, probably burn a bucktail right up on the surface, as fast as it would go. I might follow with a hawg wobbler at the speed of brain death, if the bucktail didn't work.
No response, I would bail on the fish and try later. That still conditions miss is often the only shot imo, shoulda caught it on the first cast.
It's been haunting me that is why I had to ask... And my use of 'active' may be wrong...the fish was activated more like, it nipped on the reef hawg multiple times and i didn't know it and with it being such a unique finesse type of bait I had no experience up to that point throwing the concentration needed. now i do
Then I saw the fish and almost like we locked eyes and it spooked. heh.
Thanks for the posts... If my memory serves me correctly I threw back at the fish with a Low Rider top water... But knew I made a mistake with the RF and the muskie won that time. Such a fun sport!
Edited by Mr. RJ 5/28/2010 2:51 PM
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Location: Minnetonka | If that fish followed and opened its mouth it was active. firstsixfeet had it right on... awesome response. |
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Location: indiana | i have had success throwing a magic maker or hellhound on those fish feeding on surface. sometimes they miss they're prey and are still looking for it in the same area. toss in that area and hope they missed they're first meal. |
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| Hittin the suface, definitely a WTD. If you only have one rod rigged...well sucks to be you. Anyways, in this situation WTD first cast, second rod, second cast burnt bucktail. Still nothin, rod 3 or 4 with something completely different (remember Monty Python). |
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