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Location: Southern Ontario, Detroit River and Lake StClair | I was out yesterday and had something happen I thought was crazy. I had the same fish (low 40"s) come in on a bait 5 times in 7 casts. We had a major front come through and had drop in air temp of almost 20 degrees and in water temp 8 degrees over the previous 24 hrs. Were fishing a 12-13ft trench between shore and a 5-6ft main lake flat. I pulled the fish off a 10ftx10ft clump of cabbage weeds growing up in the middle of the trench. I know it was same fish because of the mark it had on its head that I saw every time but once when it was side ways. After the second time both my sons tossed different baits around the clump one a 2 1/2oz spinnerbait and the other a standard Wallleye BullDawg. The fish only came in on the Walleye coloured DepthRaider I was tossing. No matter what I did, fast, slow, stop and go the fish came in fish its nose on the baits ass but didn't eat. I dont know what else I could have done but the fish was deffiantly into the bait. I've never seen a fish come in this hard before that many times and not eat at least on of the baits that were in the water. Anyone else ever had anything like this happen? Did you get the fish? What did you do? We came back about an hour and a half later and fished the area over but it never showed again.
Thanks and Good Fishin'
Tim
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | well this past week i had this happen a couple times. the first was on a bulldawg. the musky followed in and was about 5 feet behind the bait. i noticed it had a distinctive white mark on the corner of its mouth that was very noticeable from looking down at it as it followed. I kept casting the and same fish followed 3 or 4 times. it never followed "hot" on the bait, it always stayed 5 feet back. never caught it
also had a fish on a mag bull dawg follow in like 3 times. so i switched to a smaller bull dawg to see if it would trgiger a strike, nope he just followed again, and again lol. so then i quickly switched to a twitch bait and twitched it right under the surface and to no surpirse he followed again. I think he followed like 7 times at least and i could tell it was the same fish because it was same spot and with in a matter of minutes and every time it followed it acted the exact same way: it would follow 5-6 feet behind and as i figure 8ed it would slowely swim to the side and then turn around very slowely. never caught it
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| We had that this year.A 36" came in a half dozen times really hot on about every other cast.It went around on my submerged topraider figure eight a half turn every time and would dart off fast into the darkness 4 times in a row.My friend had the same follow hot but darting gone the next cast.It crushed the next cast after that on my buddies ghost buck tail.This all was in two minutes I would say.I am constantly surprised how crazy these fish are. |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Day after MN opener this year, I had a low 50 inch follow 9 times in 12 consecutive casts. 5 times on a Phat Daddy, 3 times on a stomper and once on a creepenstien. Went back several times during the week, and never saw the fish again. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | We were on the Winnepeg River System, near Minaki, Ont. We were drifting, pushed at "warp speed" by the wind through a narrow channel between two islands. We had a low 40" fish come in on 3 consecutive casts and follow many, many, figure 8's, "O's", figure commas, triangles, and any other shapes we could do. What was note worthy was that we had drifted well over 50 yards over that time frame. It did everything but eat! |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | It was a while ago but it followed 5 times in a row and 4 more times in the next dozen casts. I think it got tired swimming after lures or it would have kept on following! We darn near fell overboard laughing watching it. There's a fish I garantee never saw the plus side of 40". |
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Location: Twin Cities | Last fall I had a 52-53 inch class fish that I saw on 30-40 occasions over about 2 months. Followed from the same spot each time and had a distinguishing mark on it's tail. I only ever had it eat once and after playing it for 2-3 minutes alone, I was going for the net and it opened it's mouth, shook, bulldawg popped out, gone. Next day a friend of mine and I raised her 3 times and he had her on for a second but lost her as well. Kept seeing her right until freeze up, haven't seen her this year. I'm sure that will haunt me for quite some time. |
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Location: Cave Run Lake KY. | Come back her with live bait on a quickset. allso after dark with a very slow creeper. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | I had one before camped out on a point. Low 40's. I tried every lure at every speed. Bucktails, dawgs, topwater, Burt, even a friggin' spoon! Every time, she would rush it, sometimes even with her mouth open. Then stop suddendly just before crushing it. It's almost like she was just trying to scare it out of her territory. Then, just a couple weeks ago, I had another fish follow up on a pounder. When she saw me, she turned, and dove under the boat. I kept 8'ing, and after about 30 sec., she came charging back out, and bit the tail, then scampered off under the boat again. Instead of 8'ing, I just started spashing the lure around on the top of the water. She hit it again after another 30 seconds, but again, failed to get any hooks. I left her alone for about 1 hour until sunset, and came back with a topraider, which she crushed first cast..... then spit out. The was the last I saw of her. STUPID FISH!!! LOL! |
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| for 2 seasons in a row, near the same spot we had one fish up over 10 times total, and she would chase anything and everything..skinny product of catch and release or just annorexic
Edited by RiddingBaits 8/24/2009 8:54 PM
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| Roughneck1860 - 8/23/2009 10:25 AM
I was out yesterday and had something happen I thought was crazy. I had the same fish (low 40"s) come in on a bait 5 times in 7 casts. We had a major front come through and had drop in air temp of almost 20 degrees and in water temp 8 degrees over the previous 24 hrs. Were fishing a 12-13ft trench between shore and a 5-6ft main lake flat. I pulled the fish off a 10ftx10ft clump of cabbage weeds growing up in the middle of the trench. I know it was same fish because of the mark it had on its head that I saw every time but once when it was side ways. After the second time both my sons tossed different baits around the clump one a 2 1/2oz spinnerbait and the other a standard Wallleye BullDawg. The fish only came in on the Walleye coloured DepthRaider I was tossing. No matter what I did, fast, slow, stop and go the fish came in fish its nose on the baits ass but didn't eat. I dont know what else I could have done but the fish was deffiantly into the bait. I've never seen a fish come in this hard before that many times and not eat at least on of the baits that were in the water. Anyone else ever had anything like this happen? Did you get the fish? What did you do? We came back about an hour and a half later and fished the area over but it never showed again.
Thanks and Good Fishin'
Tim
Try going back about an hour later and launch a bomb cast by her, then BURN the bait passed her and maybe get a reaction strike from her! Just a thought, thats all!
Brian |
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