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Just looking at fishing next week, and some of the major lunar times fall directly in the heat of the day.. dont think it will be too hot for the fish, just wondered if they would still possibly turn on during these times even tho it may be the hottest part of the day..
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Location: Contrarian Island | for what it's worth on a recent fishing trip to MN we had pretty much zero action after dark...fish were hitting the net from 7am to 8pm....so yes, fish when the majors are if you can
Edited by BNelson 8/1/2010 6:00 PM
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Agreed. | |
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| As in every other phase of musky fishing dos and don'ts, doing the right thing will often land you no fish, just the way it is! The average day on the water will not include catching a musky. On the other hand, you really don't want to "kick away" your chances either. Any kind of moon phase or action should be treated as a "best opportunity" for a strike, even though you will not connect most of those times. These are the times when you should not be driving around, not be stopping for a sandwich, not rummaging around in the bait box looking for a silver bullet, or otherwise being unprepared for the "moment." You should be in your best spot, with your highest confidence bait, making your best casts and flawless figure eights. This is when you go back to the spot where you saw the really good fish that was less interested in you than the other way around. The thing that turns that "shopper" into a "buyer" could very well have something to do with what the moon is doing. Marty Forman | |
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| Marty, maybe in your world the avg day isn't putting 1 in the net. Above avg anglers easily put at least 1 in the net every day. My expectations must be higher than yours. | |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | CU,
there's quite a few very very good muskie anglers who do not 'easily' put a muskie in the net every day. What does that have to do with the question, anyway? | |
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| Honestly, it does not bother me in the least to admit to being "not the best stick on the lake" or saying again that I don't catch a fish every day. I did catch three one evening out of only four casts in about ten or fifteen minutes time...but I am sixty years old and it has happened only once. The best way to look at this is that if you take all the tournaments that all the different folks have put on for the last ten years and average them all together, you will find that when 100 tournament anglers go out to fish for muskies, that 15 will come back having caught a fish and 85 will come back having not. Clearly there are days when the catch is big, and there are days like this year's WMT on Lac Vieux Desert when not a single fish was caught. But, all in all, good times and bad times, a decent musky angler will only get a fish maybe one for every 25-30 hours on the water. For those like the above poster who is a whole lot better than me...God Bless You....I'm just not that good. Marty Forman | |
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Location: Richland Center, WI. | Well said Marty.
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Location: Germantown, WI | I agree. Well said Marty. If I could only give one piece of advice, it would be spend as much time on the water as possible. Go early and stay late, if you can. If you can't stay all day then try to be there during at least one major lunar period. If you can't be there during a major lunar period then try to be there at dawn or dusk.
I'm not sure where Average Buster is fishing, but my experience of fishing muskies for almost 30 years squares pretty well with what Marty wrote. I realize there are many better fishermen than me out there. I don't get to spend as much time on the water as I used to when I was young, single and didn't have a young child at home. Most of the time now I am fishing half days on Saturday mornings whether or not there is a major period or not. Most of my musky fishing these days takes place on the highly pressured waters of SE Wisconsin.
When I am on vacation in Canada, fishing 12-13 hours per day, my catch rate per day goes up dramatically. Does that mean that I am a better musky fisherman in Canada that I am in SE Wisconsin? I don't think it does. The difference is that the waters I fish in Canada have more muskies, less fishing pressure and I am hitting almost all the major periods.
So spend as much time musky fishing as you can. Fish on the best waters that you can. Enjoy it all, the good times and the bad. If you are at all like me the muskies are going to kick your butt sometimes, but that's all part of the game.
Edited by MUSKYLUND1 8/3/2010 12:48 PM
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | They can turn on anytime of the day or night and it can easily have no bearing on any solunar occurrance. Just go fishing, fish as long as you want to and try to be in a good spot when there is a solunar period as it sometimes is an edge in your favor.
Problem with the middle of the day is that it is tought for us to be out there. I've got a lot better things to do than play race course pylon or try for a heat stroke. But if you are lucky enough to be on the water in the middle of the week or somewhere there is moderate traffic, by all means go for it. The fish don't have a watch, they don't have a moon chart, and if they did I'll bet they still wouldn't know what to do with them. For them there are only two times of day, feeding time and not feeding time. The more time you can invest the greater your chances for being there when the fish want to feed. | |
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major lunar times in middle of summer days