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| Please share some of your successful cast back experiences (i.e. you have a fish either follow or blow up on one bait and you cast back at it with another type of bait and trigger it to strike). It is always helpful to hear what kind of successful combinations have worked for people. Helps to have an ACE in the hole! |
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| I have always liked pitching twitch baits back at muskies that dart off. I twitch them on the surface and they cant resist it. You have to pitch it way in front the muskie or off to one side of him. Just let them pop and sputter on the surface and they will come up and hammer it.
Best one was when I have a follow on a bucktail by a hot 45" that blasted under the boat. I ran to the otherside of my deck and grabed the next rod I had there. It was late June and I had a 5" Slammer on the rod. Pitched it out and let it pop on the surface. Then [:bigsmile:] you know the rest of the story.[;)] |
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| One of the most explosive hits that I have experienced came on a cast back on the Chippewa Flowage. I was fishing a weed patch that was adjacent to a river channel. Casting a Tallywacker (Wacker's catch Whoppers), I had a nice fish blow up on it but missed. It seemed like a good fish. Instead of casting to the exact same spot with the same bait, I took a Hawg Wobbler and casted across the spot at a different angle. The fish hammered the bait about 4 feet from the boat. Nearly had to change my shorts. The hook buried right through the bone on the fishes upper jaw. After an awesome battle, we netted the 47" fish. Hawg Wobblers are great cast back baits after an explosion on a quick mover. |
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| The best one I have ever had was a hot fish following a spinnerbait burned in and did not eat it but I knew he was hot ( I now know it was a trophy male ) I casted to him a few more times without any success getting him to eat so I switched to a reef hawg in similar color and on the first cast and on the second pull the fight was on. I then tought I had a much bigger fish as this fish was staying deep and taking me a round the boat multiple times and even once I came across the back to get to the other side and not see the fish. I then saw this fish trying to knock the lure off his face using the foot of my big motor. ( Fish are dumb huh Steve ) After finaly netting and seeing this fish was quite small for such of big fight but after measument I noticed it was a trophy male. Oh ya it was 47 X 19.5 inches.[:bigsmile:] |
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| Rich,
I had a fish right around 50" do the same thing to me several weekends ago. She whacked that Muskie Stalker out of her mouth as intentionally as can be off the lower unit. (I'll admit it... I did say some rather colourful metaphores at the time!)
BUT, you can't land them all. Losing the odd one keeps us interested. I'd just be happier if it was a 40 rather than a 50 that had done the dirty deed.
Steve Wickens |
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Everyone - Successful Cast Back Experiences