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| I tried a sucker pattern, but the stupid fish kept coming up trying to eat the #*^@ boat. The bear pattern scared the crap out of them, couldn't get a fish to follow within 30 feet of the boat. Then I tried camo, but they slam right into it because they can't see it. I am thinking either a sky pattern, or maybe even muskies. I figure they'll be comfortable around other muskies. The question is what size do I make them? My thinking is that if I make them too big it will scare the smaller ones away and my numbers will go way down. But if I make them too small, they'll just be bashing into the boat trying to chase the other muskies away. I figure 43" is a nice size. That way the ones under 40" won't dare approach the boat, and the ones over 45" won't be intimidated by the other muskies hanging around. I think the best bet is a few in the 40-42" range on one side of the boat and a few in the 46 - 48" range on the other side of the boat. So when we're just looking to catch fish we can run in one direction, and when we're after a big one we can run in the other direction.
I've also thought about painting "good place to hide" along the bottom of the boat for the muskies that just follow up and don't commit, because I know they like to hang out under the boat. But then I realized that their ancestry traces back to long before modern times. So for all I know they can't read English, and only understand Ojibwe. Then I realized that I'm not sven sure if they can read at all. If they can, what it it's hieroglyphics or something??? They have been around for 10,000 years or so. Maybe the innuit languages would work??
The whole thing left me kind of stumped. I used to thinki that your best bet was a boat with camo on one side and light blue sky w/clouds on the other, because that's what the background would be most days. But what if you want to work a spot from another angle or cast off the other side of the boat?? And what do you do when it's cloudy, or when you're not working close to a shoreline? I am thinking you need several boats. One for sunny days when you're working a shoreline with the port side towards the shore, one for sunny days when you're working a shoreline with the starboard side towards the shore, one each for cloudy days, maybe painted gray on one side, one for trolling, one for trolling the other way, and I guess you'd need a boat for sucker fishing when you're basically just sitting there and the fish are looking straight up. And then there's night fishing.... Holy crap, black on the bottom with some stars and maybe a moon? I guess you could get by with a full moon boat and a new moon boat for night fishing.
And let's not even start taking about water clarity, algae blooms, stainded water, muddly water, etc.
Crap man, no wonder those #*^@ things are so hard to catch! | |
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