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| Brad P - 2/26/2014 2:03 PM
[...] Is it because the rule doesn't hold or was it because when you went out you were fishing deep and the fish were all shallow? When we fail, do we know why?
Sometimes. I make it a point when we're up in Canada to talk to all the other musky anglers in camp at the end of the day. Most of the time, results are similar. Everyone sees activity at the same time, everyone catches their fish around the same time, everyone comes back to camp empty handed, or everyone comes back to camp talking about how great it was today...
Sometimes, other boats see and catch fish and you do nothing. If they are willing to give you any insight, you'll likely find they were doing something you were not, somewhere you were not.
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| The other day a front was coming in, BP was dropping, warm day (unusual for this area and time of year ) 56 degrees, good cloud cover, deer were out in early afternoon feeding heavily, fish in fish tank were feeding like a frenzied Piranha. Thought this would be a productive time, Moon Secrets indicated a good time to fish. Five hours worked various jerk and crankbaits real slowly in known good spots....Not one bite or follow  The good part....I really enjoyed my time out and knew I gave it my best shot....still beats driving up and down the Interstates. |
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| Congratulations! You've just made it totally unnecessary to subscribe to any magazine, buy any book, or troll any forum for info. You've summed up muskie fishing in one sentence, "go fishing when you can!". We'll soon see Saric, Bucher, Maina, Heiting, etc, in the unemployment line.
One rule that I've noticed lately is: If I'm out in my boat, they ain't goin'. LOL.
On a serious note, I agree with most of your rules that don't always pan out. |
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| When I don`t get one and the conditions looked good I just figure I didn`t put the lure in front of the rite fish at the rite time that's all. |
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Location: Forest Lake, MN & Bemidji, MN | Great discussion, thanks Jaultman for something productive. It seems like most could agree the classic rules are general guidelines at best as catching often requires multiple things to go right and some of which you may have no influence or control over. I am really interested to hear if guys have caught multiple adult fish during a short period of time (say 4 hours) when no classic rules have been in play?
I fish whenever I can because I can’t that much (1 to 3 times a month and maybe 1 longer trip per year) but I think it’s fun and valuable to pay attention to the classic rules when I do have the luxury of planning. I completely agree with Kirby about the 1 fish who didn’t get the memo about the day being bad. I have had a few days where we didn't have a single follow but caught a fish, it only takes 1 stupid fish. Keeps me going for sure. In general, I lean towards the theory that more often than not there will be some classic rule involved when we catch 1, especially when we catch multiple adult fish in short period on the water. When I have experienced really active numbers of fish and have had multiple fish days (only 9 multiple fish days), it always seems to be during an “event” or classic rule of some sort for me. Just my own personal experience. I have only been muskie fishing 7 years so I would love to hear others stories of multiple catches with no solunar or weather related influences and what you think may have triggered it. My guess is huge schools of baitfish...
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