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| Trolling is allowed in Michigan and I think it would be difficult to find a DNR fisheries biologist who would say that it has an adverse affect on musky fishing.
Though I would rather cast, I certainly troll on occassion, like LATE LATE season when wind chills are in the lower teens and casting is impossible due to icing up of gear. I also troll in the dead heat of mid-summer when it seems I have to stumble (well, with some forethought) across suspendos to find a decent fish.
It seems to me, little more than a novice musky guy compared to many of you readers, that trolling is only a controversy in states where it is not yet legal. In states like MI we know that trolling is not easy or any guarentee of putting a fish in the boat. While any idiot can drag a bait behind the boat, most of those idiots haven't considered issues like structure, theromocline, baitfish migrations, etc. Last, almost all serious musky guys'gals release our fish.
So why not trolling? |
