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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | So how many of you prefer to sit, and how many stand? I stand probably 98% of the time.After about 6 hours, tho, my feet need to take a rest. And then it never fails that I always get a decent fish follow, so my figure 8 SUCKS! LOL! I couldn't believe it when I saw Doug Johnson for the first time hook one on the 8 sitting down. Now THAT'S lure control! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | It's actually a legitimate question. I HAD to sit for a couple seasons due to a surgery, and got pretty good at getting the job done. Some folks can't take standing all day, so there's special seats available that allow one to sort of do both at the same time. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | sworrall - 3/6/2009 10:56 PM
....there's special seats available that allow one to sort of do both at the same time.
Yeah, that's what I need! One of those "leaner" seats!
Guest - 3/6/2009 10:52 PM
wow these post are getting funny sit or stand????? You need to get on the water bad as do I!!!!!
Yeah, Yeah... I know! Only 3 weeks left, and I'll be on the water. Casting... Standing! LOL!
Edited by JimtenHaaf 3/6/2009 10:13 PM
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Location: Rhinelander. | I have an older ranger 360 and its low to the water and narrow in front. Its easy to sit and cast. Very easy to to sit and figure 8 with the 8ft rods. I do believe that when I sit I spoke less fish going into figure 8. When standinding so often they shy away when I bend over to figure 8.
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Location: Sawyer County, WI |
Women sit, men stand.  |
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | Some of us as we get older, due to medical issues cannot stand 100 % of the time, and that includes leaning into or onto a butt seat. Also due to the awkward position of a cable run trolling motor. If we can cast and retrieve and do a figure 8, we are just as able as a person that stands 100 % of the time.
By the way young guns, you will get older, thats a given!! |
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| i voted for sitting but mostly because i fish from a kayak...i'm mostly a smallmouth guy that fishes a river with a muskie "problem".
i treat muskies as an incidental fish.
i throw for them when i come to weedbeds, fallen trees with deeper water just below a feeder creek, and along deeper still water flats where smallies aren't as likely to be. i'll also throw for them in what should be a smallie hole that i can't buy a bite in.
because of how easily a kayaks path is infleunced, i prefer to wade when casting any larger baits, but the waters muskies are being found in often times prohibits that.
i somehow managed to go off topic here.
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| I stand but have a "butt seat" on the front of my Ranger and on my Lund (which is up for sale in about a week !!) this not only provides comfort once in awhile by something to lean against , but I like it when the waves kick up ,, It gives you some to steady yourself on !! |
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Location: Apple Valley | I stand about 95% of the time. I also have a butt seat.
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Location: VA | When floating rivers in some areas you'd better have a seat on that seat, if not you may end up standing IN the water with your boat floating past. NOT a good feeling let me tell ya.
I'm 1/2 and 1/2 and voted so. It's a break to sit and when you get tired of sitting, you can stand a while and it gives the ole body a break. At my age, if I had to stand all day I'd quit fishing entirely. Did I just say that? 
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | I try to stand, but it's getting harder and harder to do it for extended lengths of time like I used to do. I love being on waters where you can troll because then I can take a sitdown break and keep on fishing at 100%. I've tried sitting and casting in my older Alumacraft and it was impossible, too high up and much too high sides to 8. I've done it from the front of my X-190 and it seems doable with longer rods so maybe this year I'll work on it.
I too would suspect that sitting would give you an different kind of edge in 8'ing so as not to show the fish as much motion above them. Standing gives you the advantage of seeing the fish sooner if it's deeper, and being able to more effectively change depths in the 8 I guess, so I'll still try to do it that way as long as possible. |
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Location: Antioch, IL | What is this "sit" thing you speak of??? |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | As mentioned I sit, but on a butt seat. The boat I have allows me to stay near anough to the water so that I'm able to sit and do just fine. I use very long rods (Okuma is sending some 9'-3" rods as I type) which will allow me to do even more with a figure-8. I find that if I'm watching, I can usually see fish coming, While sitting (again on a fairly tall Butt seat), I'm able to see and do figure-8s very effectively. I usually sit and keep one foot on the trolling motor peddle, and the other on the gunnel. Never get tired from standing on one leg, and have very good control of the boat, as well as being very comfortable. I catch lots of fish on figure-8s and feel that sitting actually helps as it minimizes body movement. After 40 years of doing this for many-many days per year you eventually figure out how to do this without making it hurt. You'd be surprised how easy this is to do, and how much longer you can fish with out getting pooped out even at 70 years of age. Doug Johnson |
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Location: Davenport, IA | I stand but sometimes lean against the butt seat. But, you have to be careful as those butt seats will cause some serious back pain if you use them too much. |
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| I stand and I pay. |
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| some of both, mostly stand, but find myself doing a sit case w/ little or no action after 10 hours or so, mostly from boredom. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Seems like whenever I see sitting guys casting I see them catch fish..usually guys that are a bit more 'experienced' (senior)...I guess these guys I see have put their years in and know the structure.... |
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Location: searchin for 50 | On some days when I'm not seeing fish and has been a really longgggggggg day I might sit down and do a little casting .  |
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Location: Iowa City, Iowa | After trying the "leaning pole/seat", I settled on using the one-piece pole from a butt seat and my regular seat attached to it. This gives me the option of leaning on the seat when it is folded or sitting on the seat when I am tired. Why not used an adjustable pole? I found that the maximum height was insufficient for me (6'3"). My setup gives me comfort, stability on the front deck of my Ranger fisherman, and near standing height for casting. |
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Location: Oregon | The casting part whether sitting or standing is not a problem but I prefer to be standing so that I can get a good strong hook set.
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| the only time I sit down fishing for muskies is draggin suckers around in the fall...otherwise 100% standing. |
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | When you get right down to it, ot really doesn't matter, as long as you are out fishing and enjoying the outdoors doing something you enjoy. I remember having just as much fun, if not more using a cane pole when I was a kid, I was fishing!!
Edited by ESOXER 3/8/2009 5:47 PM
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Location: Spencer, Wisconsin | Like many others I also stand to cast about 95% of the time I feel it puts me on the mark where I want to be and when the legs and back get tired then the butt seat works out great to take the load off. No pain no gain! |
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Location: NE Wisconsin | I too, put a regular seat on a "butt seat" pole. Now, I can stand, lean, or sit from the front of my boat. As some of us get older, it is nice to have this option. |
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Location: So. Illinois | I lean on my butt seat so I guess I do a little of both or I don't do either depending on how you look at it.....
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | Doug Johnson hit the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned. I do exactly the same thing only I don't have any 9' rods. I may have to try that this year. A butt seat keeps me on the water for a lot longer time each day. So does the old Genesis trolling motor. Once you're over 65 years old and been doing this muskie stuff for over 50 years you realize you have to make accomodations if you're going to keep it up into your 80's. Like my Grandma used to say, "So soon old, so late smart."
Edited by rpieske 3/9/2009 4:52 PM
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I stand till I can't then go to the next spot and start over. Seats in my 620VS are too far away from the edge of the boat. I always stand.
When I get tired I will go down to one knee on the 8. It helps. Going to be 48 this week. The pain is real now days. Trolling is legal in Southeastern WI and it is a great break from casting in July and August. |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | After 44 years of muskie fishing for an average of 80-120 days per year here's what I have to tell you guys. Learn how to fish with out it hurting. If something that you are doing hurts when you are fishing quit doing that! I found that standing all day while casting was hard and tiring. I now sit and by golly it doesn't hurt any more. Learn how to cast without it hurting. I cast with a very long rod, and use the reel seat as a fulcrum, and the bottom of the rod as a lever and barely move my arms when casting, Nothing hurts ever. I palm my reels but not tightly (i have pretty big hands), and my hands never get tired or sore. See the post on Pain, pain, go away. Learning how to fish without it hurting is one of the secrets to catching more fish. If it hurts you quit! If it doesn't hurt you'll fish longer, and by golly you'll catch more fish. Doug Johnson
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