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| i'm a newbie musky fisherman. I've been fishing on a lake with my buddy here in Minnesota who is mainly a hardcore bass fisherman like I used to be. Maybe I didn't notice it while cranking a spinnerbait for bass but yesterday when we went out, it was impossible for me to properly work my Weagle with him cruising up & down the weedline. The Weagle was gliding on the surface of a water & his boat was more or less pulling the lure along.
Also, tried to finesse & work a Phantom jerkbait as well as a Super Appealer & am wondering... does the boat need to be in constant motion? I'm not saying we need to drop the anchor but for crying out loud, when the action of your lure completely sucks because of the trolling motor - I would say it's time to give it a rest.
How does everyone else operate the trolling motor while casting something like a Weagle or a jerkbait or glidebait? |
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Location: Minnesota | Its really a personal preference of the one whos fishing... but for myself, I find that I prefer to really work the area slow and hard... so thus the trolling motor would be slow... I would try to control the boat so that my next cast would land approx 2 feet from my previous cast and that my partner would be able to do the same with understanding that his casts would land between my two casts... Its all about making sure that the lure lands close enough to the strike zones...
Some would like to do run-n-guns... work the area fast and hard then move on...
Weagles... you are supposed to work it slowly... and if its your partner is controlling the boat... then its you that needs to adapt... I find that I start weagles with downward swishes of the rod til about halfway through then I slowly change it over to sideway swishes...
Having said that... I guess you'll need to compromise with your partner about fishing an area slowly for your Phantoms and Weagles, then switch over to bucktails or dawgs when he wants to fish an area fast... |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | +1 to that. I know of a few guys that are pretty much in love with their trolling motors and if you don't have a boat but wanna get out on the water, unfortunately, you need to adapt. If they're control freaks and want to run the trolling motor 'til the battery is dead... you'll probably need to put away the Weagles and Phantoms. The finesse baits don't play well when you're runnin' 'n gunnin' like that. Stick with the baits you can crank/rip like bucktails, big spinnerbaits and the bulldawgs as previously mentioned and the fast trolling motor won't even phase you. Good luck! |
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Location: In a shack in the woods | I adjust the trolling motor according to the baits I am throwing. About .4 mph for slower baits and 1-1.2 for running and gunning. |
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| My cousin used to do that to me when I was a kid and we were bass fishing. I'd get ALL po'ed. After awhile I'd just let my jointed rapala out on a long line behind the boat. We weren't going fast enough to make it dive,It'd just kinda wiggle on the surface and either pause or speed up when we turned. Bass tore it up  Then HE got mad cause I outfished HIM in HIS boat. Wonder if muskys would react the same as the bass?? |
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| Like everyone else said, you'll have to adapt to your partner and the speed of presentation. Try to plan ahead on the way to the water so you can be throwing baits that will work well together given the pace. That way you can start fast and if nothing is going the both of you can slow down.
Good Luck! |
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casting & the trolling motor