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| So I was fishing for bass yesterday with a rage-tail toad (topwater soft plastic), and I had one come up and swipe at it with about four feet of line left out. A crank later, I'm out of room to keep retrieving. Without even thinking about what I was doing, I started figure 8'ing. Sure enough, made the first turn, and when I was about halfway through the 8, the thing grabbed on. It ended up only being about a 15 incher, but me and the guy in the boat (FAT-SKI, he's my witness!) had to laugh at catching a largemouth on a figure 8.
What surprise catches have your muskie instincts helped you put in the net?
Edited by MuskieMark01 7/19/2012 9:23 PM
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | Walleyes, bass (both smallieies and largies), and pike..... |
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| watched a 38" pike go around 10 time once before eating, pike often eat first turn, but rarely will they say with you that long....lots of walleyes too on cranks but again its almost always on the L or first turn. |
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| 36" Dogfish a couple years ago on a mepps musky marabou....I even knew what it was before starting the first turn, but I just couldn't stop. |
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Location: Minneapolis | schools of white bass |
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| A few nice walleyes over the years. Walleyes follow a lot at times. Have had half a dozen twelve to fifteen inchers behind jerkbaits before. Sadly when this happens muskies are apparently buried in mud at the bottom of lake. They are nowhere to be found. |
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| Salmon and trout on lake Michigan. more than you would think. |
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Location: Tennessee | crappie on a roadrunner |
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Location: 15 miles east of Lake Kinkaid | Salmon and trout on lake Michigan like pistolpete said. Largemouth and smallmouth many, many times ( mostly all 3+ lbs). In saltwater: barracuda, king mackerel, amberjack, and bonito. I know many of the hardcore California big bass guys throwing swimbaits figure 8 every cast.
Edited by MuskyMATT7 7/19/2012 11:09 PM
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | So obviously the figure 8 can be and is important for more species than just muskies. So with so many people stating that they have caught multiple different types of fish on the 8, should it become common practice for all species of fishing? Obviously as musky guys we do it on instinct, and yes muskies will follow more often then other species. But would it be beneficial to figure 8 every time regardless of targeted species?
I personally have never caught a different species on the 8 and it was cool when it happened the other night. I have had pike go around the 8, but never eat...
Edited by FAT-SKI 7/20/2012 9:10 AM
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Location: Eagan, MN | I've caught dogfish, pike and lots of smallies on the figure 8. I do an L turn when power fishing for any species, mostly just force of habit, but I think it's a good idea with smallies. |
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| Why wouldn't "the 8" work on any/all species of fish? You have to think like...and put yourself in the perspective of the predator/prey relationship. If a fish...of any species, is persuing it's prey...that prey I'm sure will be darting left, right, in any direction to try and evade the predator to the best of it's ability. That prey will be changing directions multiple times in an effort to save it's life and prevent being eaten. "The 8" is just the angler replicating the prey's last ditch effort to flee the predator. The more active that predator is will determine if or how many times it may follow the prey in the changes of directions or how many times it wants to go around in the 8 with you.
Figure 8 is certainly not limited to just muskie fishing. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Caught a crappie on a beetle spin on the second turn once. I even set back into his face to ensure a solid hook up! Lol |
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Location: Stones throw away...finally!! | Picked up a 29" walleye on Waconia several years back. Post sunset on a 10" Suick (walleye color of all things). Thought it was a dink musky in the low light. Too date, it is still my largest. Haha. |
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Location: IL | I have caught small mouth on the figure 8 its pretty badass.. now when I bass fish I figure 8 every cast I make! |
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| I just got back from Canada and caught a 38 1/2" on the figure 8 it was pretty cool. |
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Location: Perryville, MO | I was explaining the process of making a figure 8 to a bass buddy a couple of years ago that had fished Southern IL forever (probably started shortly after Noah's flood waters) and he started smiling. He explained that it was a technique that he learned when he was a kid for working brushpiles for bass. A super stout 8-9' rod (before long rods were common....basically a heavy duty cane pole) with a 3' leader attached to a mepps style spinner. Sure enough, he opened his rod closet and buried at the back he still had one with a spinner attached). He had a name for what they called it back in the day and I can't remember it for the life of me (not gonna be able to ask him until I cross the Jordan river and meet him on the other side). I asked a couple of bass guys at the local sportsman club and they said they had heard of old-timers doing it, but didn't know what they called it. Anybody ever heard of it? |
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| Ive caught lots of northerns on 8s especially when fishing shallow bays. Had about an 8 pounder take top water once on an 8 once. I've had big bass follow and hit on an 8 before. |
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| Got an 19" brookie fishing a trophy trout lake out of a float tube on a figure 8 in about 4 feet of water. Saw her coming and she tried to eat the erratic bait I was retrieving twice before I got it back to my flippers. Brought her around a couple of times and she chomped it. If you've ever caught a nice brookie on a float tube, you know how fun it can be having them tow you and spin you around short range. Awesome fish and a great memory of a trout season opener. |
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| hawkeye9 - 7/21/2012 12:23 PM
I was explaining the process of making a figure 8 to a bass buddy a couple of years ago that had fished Southern IL forever (probably started shortly after Noah's flood waters) and he started smiling. He explained that it was a technique that he learned when he was a kid for working brushpiles for bass. A super stout 8-9' rod (before long rods were common....basically a heavy duty cane pole) with a 3' leader attached to a mepps style spinner. Sure enough, he opened his rod closet and buried at the back he still had one with a spinner attached). He had a name for what they called it back in the day and I can't remember it for the life of me (not gonna be able to ask him until I cross the Jordan river and meet him on the other side). I asked a couple of bass guys at the local sportsman club and they said they had heard of old-timers doing it, but didn't know what they called it. Anybody ever heard of it?
Just a shot in the dark, but would it be called "jigger-poling" by any chance? I know bass guys used to use long cane poles and a short leader and fish lay downs and the like with topwater lures, creek chubs, et cetera. They was an article about it in Bassmaster a year or two ago. |
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| Gills? |
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| Gills, and even gar |
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Location: Seymour, WI | I've had pike hit baits after I've lifted them out of the water. That will get your attention. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Dogfish, Garfish, Pike AND a bass have both followed AND eaten on the figure 8 in my boat. |
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Other species on the 8?