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| What makes you think you are going to catch a muskie when you are boat #7 on the day, pounding the same water the others did? |
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| Right time in the right place keeps you believing. Also do something different. If everybody is throwing jerk baits and cranks go with topwater and a bucktail. Fish it deeper or shallower. Or my favorite change up is to jig the area thoroughly. I also like to fish it in the opposite direction that everyone else is going. You will see most Muskie anglers fishing the area making a drift with the wind. I then will fish the area going into the wind. Can be verytough to do on those really windy days, but that is why Ihave a long shaft high thrust trollig motor. |
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| The first time I ever fished over there we WERE the 7th(or 20th) boat off stony point. After working the top and outer edge of the weedline we made a second drift on top of the weedline throwing out deep. Using a giant jointed Lindy Shad in yellow perch I hooked a 24-26" musky. That was how it happened. True story. |
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| I agree 100% with Mike's fishing the other side. If there is a popular fish holding spot that is seeing a lot of pressure I am a big fan of fishing a cast or two off the structure in the deeper water.
I theorize that the added boat and lure pressure on the spot pushes a bunch of these fish off the structure and they hold just off the edge (kind of like sitting on a muskie drive for you deer hunters). This tactic has resulted on a number of releases for me over the years and a lot of jealous looks from the boats pounding the "prime" water. |
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| Hoping that the first 6 boats just irritated them enough to bite. I would work out a bit deeper than every body else also.
Muskies to all.....Pat |
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| Three things:
1. On the lakes I fish, I know the structure very well. I've taken time to map it and I know where the contact points are. After years of diagraming and marking where each fish came from on a particular structure, I can practically throw a marker on a musky's head (not that I'd want to) before I ever make a cast. This is a huge advantage.
2. Most guys are pretty sloppy with their boat control, especially in windy conditions. I'll drop the anchor if I have to in order to cover a contact point completely. Most guys drift through and barely get a cast off before they're out of range.
3. I fish deeper than most. By knowing structural elements as well as I do, I also know where the deeper holding areas are. In your example of a point, there may be a spine extending far out into deeper water with a 16' rockpile 150 yards from the shorline. Not only will most guys not cast this, most won't even know it's there! |
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So you are boat #7 on Stoney Point