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Location: West Bend, WI | After the "bombing the depths" thread I have been intrigued and want to get into finding suspended fish. I was out on a deep lake with cisco. I was searching for schools of suspended fish. I found a pretty large school of baitfish in 55 ft of water and they were about 20 ft down. I marked a waypoint on the humminbird 597. I dropped a bondy bait down and was jigging it around the school. I may have gone through the school also. Not sure if I spooked them. I was watching my bait going up and down on the fishfinder. I suddenly saw a large arch about 5 ft under my bait. Then it was gone. Would you consider that a follow? I am trying to get confidence in this type of fishing so any tips would be appreciated. |
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Location: Maplewood, MN | who knows man. i'd count it as a fish, could be a musky or a pike but either way something looked at it. keep at it! |
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| Some friendly advice I was given in the early years of my addiction- here goes
You start out by looking in the mirror, any will do. You have to grit your teeth and say "I am a lean mean musky fishing machine." Repeat this affirmation till it sets in and you will lose that lost feeling while you are out fishing the open water. There is no question it was a fish because you are a lean mean musky fishing machine.  |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | True dat - 9/3/2012 1:30 PM
Some friendly advice I was given in the early years of my addiction- here goes
You start out by looking in the mirror, any will do. You have to grit your teeth and say "I am a lean mean musky fishing machine." Repeat this affirmation till it sets in and you will lose that lost feeling while you are out fishing the open water. There is no question it was a fish because you are a lean mean musky fishing machine. :)
I like that! |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Greg Thomas did a seminar at the TC chapter muskies inc a few months ago and he did a lot of talking about fishing for suspended muskies with a bondy. he showed all of us pictures what a follow would look like if you were to just jib a bondy up and down. If you saw the lines from your jigging action, then an arce came up under your bait for a period of time..? That sounds like exactly what Greg showed us from his pictures of what a follow was while using that technique, I Would say that yes, you got a follow when you saw that.. Keep it up, obviously something is working. |
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| most follows you get on a bondy as you jig are just a straight line underneath the bait.
you bait looks like Mcdonalds arches going up and down, and those fish just sit there
moving along. sometimes they go up and down with it, but mostly the "lookers"
will just swim along staring it down,
now.... its the ones you don't mark that usually smash the heck out of you  |
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Location: Minneapolis | hmmmm What I learned from the "bombing the depths" thread was that you can catch suspendos when you aren't marking baitfish...I'm excited to give it a try. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | It sure was! We had a half-dozen follows the last time I jigged Bondy's for a few hours, but we never got a visual on any of them - they were all 20' deep. It's cool stuff! |
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| i'd say your getting the hang of it! whenever i got a follow at that depth and they dont seem to wanna strike i give it a little rip, very sudden but not too fast? They seem to enjoy that? It might increase your success percentage? |
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