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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | I have very little luck on suckers. How do you decide how deep to fish them? Do you put them just over the side of the boat vertical or on a slip bobber behind the boat. Any help is great. Thanks |
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Location: S.W. WI | I use Both, Bobber back sometimes and down over the side also. To start, I'd drift or move along- just out from the weed edge or hump or whatever and put sucker down within a few feet of bottom usually, and cast the structure. I also like to wind drift along steep breaks sideways with a down sucker out the back of boat and keep just on edge of break and move boat in and out to stay on edge. Depth is determined by how deep of a break it is and where the critters happen to be on that edge. I'll also cast right down that edge/ up on shallow/ or out from break.
Also, if a cross wind along an edge, I like to use bobber back a ways and it will often blow onto or closer to the edge I'm casting- so boat stays a little out from where sucker is.
Hope this helps some.
-Jon
Edited by Rudedog 10/26/2013 2:29 PM
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Location: Freedom, WI | In Wisconsin unless you are on a lake that allows trolling do not put it on a bobber as the line has to be vertical to be legal. Any motion caused by a trolling motor or the big motor could be considered trolling. Depending on the warden you would have to be careful with a bobber out away from the boat. |
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Location: Elgin, IL | There are some really good guides out there who are live-bait specialists, I would consider a day with one if possible. You will learn a lot in a short bit of time.
I've found several Youtube videos that will shorten the learning curve too.
* One key thing: when trying different methods yourself, ALWAYS be sure to set your reel clicker on, and be sure you are in free spool. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Get the bait in front of the fish with a bobber if fish are shallow or over the side and straight down if fish are deep. If you let your bait just go where it wants, you are fishing blind. |
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Location: WI | My method is to have on trailing off the back corner of the boat on a slip bobber at 15 ft or so. One is between myself and my casting partner at about ten feet to catch the low followers and one off the front of the boat behind me at 15 for or so. Depths are relative to the depth you are in but those depths are pretty common for me. 80% of the time the sucker on the casting side is the one hit. I also believe that using weights to keep the sucker down is crucial to consistent success. Just my way but we have good luck. Here's a nice one caught using this method last weekend.
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Location: WI | If you are wondering about the awesome glasses, I also believe that if you want to catch fish you must look as absurd as possible |
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Location: oswego, il | Hiding a unibrow? :-). Nice fish! |
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Location: Gods Country | What is the best way to fish suckers on a Wisconsin lake that doesn't allow trolling? What do you do when the drift doesn't allow to fish a certain area? I plan on fishing North Twin Lake in Vilas county this week, and I want to soak suckers without getting hassled by the DNR. Any advice is appreciated! |
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| Anothe r good way is to put planer board in front of sucker. Doing this will allow you to fish weed edge while at the same time putting the sucker constantly over shallower weeds. Saw some guy doing this on pewaukee a couple years ago. It works awesome sucker stays tiight to shore or cover while you move around outer weed edge. Only guy I have ever seen do this. |
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| Best prensentaion is scrap suckers. Do what idid when your neighbors house gets foreclosed on steal all the koi from his pond. Had five koi caught five fish in 1.5 hrs. Nothin big all shortys with biggest goin 45 inches. Wish I had more koi |
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Location: Grand Marais, MN | guest - 10/27/2013 3:05 PM
Best prensentaion is scrap suckers. Do what idid when your neighbors house gets foreclosed on steal all the koi from his pond. Had five koi caught five fish in 1.5 hrs. Nothin big all shortys with biggest goin 45 inches. Wish I had more koi
not legal bait in minn. or wisc., but i'm sure it worked really well haha. pretty funny you sound like you've been eyeing those up even before your neighbor left
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Nice fish !
So do you guys take turns casting or do you always run the suckers ?
Trophyseeker50 - 10/27/2013 12:30 AM
My method is to have on trailing off the back corner of the boat on a slip bobber at 15 ft or so. One is between myself and my casting partner at about ten feet to catch the low followers and one off the front of the boat behind me at 15 for or so. Depths are relative to the depth you are in but those depths are pretty common for me. 80% of the time the sucker on the casting side is the one hit. I also believe that using weights to keep the sucker down is crucial to consistent success. Just my way but we have good luck. Here's a nice one caught using this method last weekend. |
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Location: WI | I fish Wisconsin typically on lakes/systems that allow trolling. Have never heard of anyone having trouble with suckers while casting but am waiting to see how the whole "position fishing "/trolling thing plays out. My buddies in MN fish 3 guys. Two casting and one tending to sucker.
Personally I feel like if we (musky anglers) leave the sucker while casting thing alone, there will be no trouble. Until this year I have never heard of any one having trouble with a warden. We are making it worse by asking for clarification and pushing the subject. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I like to run one sucker next to the boat on the side we are casting at 4-6 feet for followers..out the other side i like to run 2
one half way down, one close to bottom... we had 5 hits on suckers saturday alone w this spread... In Dane Co where we can troll i'll run another one out 30 feet on a slip bobber half way down or just above the weeds...
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | Thanks guys. This is what I was looking for. |
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