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| troll jakes on the northwest side of the lake after the weeds. dont be afraid to troll 5 mph or more if its cloudy or raining. slow your boat down the hotter and sunnier it is outside.let the jake hit the bottom, these are the most aggressive fish and baddest in the lake, the sand kicking up from the lure will trigger a strike. dont concentrate on color concentrate more on shape and size and patterns, if it doesnt look like its natural prey dont use it. The exception of the rule is wild patters and crazy colors. odds are this isnt the first lure shes seen and wont be the last. If that doesnt work throw topwaters. river2sea makes a lure called the whopper plopper. get the perch colored 1 and try the shallow flats and wherever you find cabage. in 2 years i have bought 4 of these and 3 were destroyed by the 4th or 5th musky caught on them. good luck kid. if it were easy the hmong would fish them. |
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| troll jakes on the northwest side of the lake after the weeds. dont be afraid to troll 5 mph or more if its cloudy or raining. slow your boat down the hotter and sunnier it is outside.let the jake hit the bottom, these are the most aggressive fish and baddest in the lake, the sand kicking up from the lure will trigger a strike. dont concentrate on color concentrate more on shape and size and patterns, if it doesnt look like its natural prey dont use it. The exception of the rule is wild patters and crazy colors. odds are this isnt the first lure shes seen and wont be the last. If that doesnt work throw topwaters. river2sea makes a lure called the whopper plopper. get the perch colored 1 and try the shallow flats and wherever you find cabage. in 2 years i have bought 4 of these and 3 were destroyed by the 4th or 5th musky caught on them. good luck kid. if it were easy the hmong would fish them. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I have seen one constant correlation all year all over MN and that has been lure location. This has held on Leech, Mille Lacs, and every metro lake we have fished. We have had no luck at all on lures run high in the water column. Bucktails run up high have barely drawn even a follow and we have not had even one follow on topwater all year. Presentations such as diving lures in open water and spinner baits dropped down to the weed tops have produced the best results.
If you use a bucktail, let it drop down a few feet closer to the weed tops and structure. Just throwing it out and immediately reeling it back in high in the water column can produce results in shalllow water, but usually not so much on deep edges or open water.
A spinner bait is a similar presentation to a bucktail. It is just more weedless and can usually be run deeper and closer to cover without fouling. Good spinner baits include CJs, Rad Dogs, Grinders, Candy Spins and Funky Chickens. Thornes carries those and a lot of other good spinner baits as well.
As Doug Smith has said "Its better to put a bad lure in a good place than a good lure in a bad place". Often times the difference between a "good" place and a "bad" place is how deep the lure is running. Just a few feet can make a huge difference.
Good luck. |
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