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| Any help greatly appreciated. How to best fish the river late in the season. Water temps dipping under 50 degrees and some decent current still. Would you go deep or still look shallow? Jerk baits big plastic? Thanks Guys |
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Location: Northern IL | Are there deep holes or areas, if so how deep? |
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Location: Almond, WI | This warm I'd still fish shallow near inflows. When temps get ~40 degrees I'd concentrate on the holes. Generally fish will start to stack in deep holes and bends in very late fall (all species).
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| river has deeper holes can find holes 20ft deep or deeper in spots and have located some big weed beds that still fairly green as well. but river is odd can be right in the middle of one of major 3 rivers in pittsburgh and only be 4ft deep then 200 yds up it drop to 20ft plus deep |
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Location: Northern IL | When dealing with rivers and migratory fish such as walleye, muskie and pike etc. the fishermen needs to be extremely mobile. I've seen times where a school of muskies stayed in the area or hole for weeks at a time, then for what ever reason they move and you'd think there wasn't a muskie in the river.
Most rivers are less than 8-10', the reason for the question. With water deeper than 8-10', these are the areas where you need to focus your time. Not necessarily the bottom of the hole, (it depends) but Stucture connected to this deeper water. I'd start with the largest and deepest hole or area first. If no fish are located jump to the next. Say a hole or area starts to drop at 4', then start by trolling a lure that runs at 5-6' to keep you from straying away from the deeper area until you know the shape of the hole. Boat control is critical and is achieved best with a tiller. Hold your rod feeling your way around while watching you depth finder. When you have made it all the way around the drop off now it's time to run perpendicular to the drop off in a couple of the areas where you saw something different, "Structure" Watch you depthfinder looking for hard bottom and the depth where it stops or goes soft. If the spot is small jig it or cast it, if the hard bottom runs for a stretch troll it. If you hit a fish on the troll throw a marker and go back and work the area. Make it quick because fish do not stay active at this time of year for long.
Good luck.
Edited by jerryb 11/16/2016 3:27 PM
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| Thanks Jerry makes since I appreciate |
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| Bulldawgs and large, soft tail glide baits with the occasional 6-8" bait thrown in once it gets really cold. Hit the depths in the deep wide turns and then shallow rock in the afternoon in the longer seemingly "featureless" sections. Make sure to switch up cast angles if you arent seeing results. Caught nice ones in 4 ft or less on long stretches of rock in the afternoon in a spot that has sunlight all day. |
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| 1st year chasing muskies here. I fish mainly a river. Are bucktails out in the fall? All I hear about are large bulldawgs, live suckers and suick type baits. |
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| riverglide - 11/17/2016 4:54 PM
Bulldawgs and large, soft tail glide baits with the occasional 6-8" bait thrown in once it gets really cold. Hit the depths in the deep wide turns and then shallow rock in the afternoon in the longer seemingly "featureless" sections. Make sure to switch up cast angles if you arent seeing results. Caught nice ones in 4 ft or less on long stretches of rock in the afternoon in a spot that has sunlight all day.
When you say softtail glide baits would that be like a 6-8 inch jake with the grub tail be sufficient? Or are you talking something totally different? |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Softtail glides include Squirko, phantom softail, squirrely hellhound, etc. A twitch bait like a Jake will work also as long as you give it a pronounced pause to give lethargic fish an enticing target |
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| tkuntz - 11/18/2016 10:21 AM
Softtail glides include Squirko, phantom softail, squirrely hellhound, etc. A twitch bait like a Jake will work also as long as you give it a pronounced pause to give lethargic fish an enticing target
I have 6 inch jake all hard body have another same company looks just like Jake but with soft tail looks almost identical to the phantom softtail so I will give that a good run this weekend have never used it yet its either firetiger or perch cant remmeber |
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Location: Ontario | I fish large river with holes up to 100', water is 44F and fish can be found in weeds even brown weeds 3-8'
Jerkbaits work, so is rubber. |
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