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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Steve VanLieshout, Muskie anlger extrordinare, says...
1st rule in Muskie Fishing?
There are no rules.
Best time to go?
When you can!
Please don't misunderstand, I don't freak out over a slight change ( but I might adjust); this is all just a portion of any given day on the water's overall make-up. Some days location trumps any changes and one needs do nothing different. Most days from my data that was the case because I wasn't looking for it back then.
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Location: Warroad, Mn | Well!
Guess I'm not really into pressure changes, fronts, moon rises, and sets, enviromental changes, wind, and all the other stuff that folks can measure. I have the feeling that muskie fisherman like to have something that can be somehow measured or recorded and that's the reason fish bite or don't bite. By doing that we feel that we can somehow predict future fishing success.
After many thousands of days of fishing and many-many fish (we got three today including a 50"er) I have the feeling that what makes fish bite is far to complicated to actually figure out. It's probably a combination of many factors (the biggest one is probably how long it's been since the fish last ate, which is totaly unknown). Weather somehow enters in (probably not barometric pressure, but what changes in weather the changes in pressure brings). No doubt there are many other factors that we don't understand, see, or feel that effect fish behavior.
What I do with all this is just simply fish good spots (the best I know that match the time of year), and fish long and hard. Sooner or later I'll find a fish that's ready to bite.
Not much you can do about weather, but there's a lot you can do about location.
Doug Johnson
Edited by dougj 10/13/2007 9:32 PM
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I don't just like to try to find correlation and see if I can figure out the ways, I REALLY like that part of the challenge and always have. Different strokes, I guess.
Same thing as you Doug, many thousands of days, hours, and fish. We only got one in the Frabill today in Rhinelander, but lost three ( one of which was a very high 40's to 50" class), just bad luck. The activity window coincided exactly with the Major, but after that to dusk the bite was deader than dead. Best activity was about 1 PM to two hours after. We moved 7. The wind shifted from NW to N and back to NW during one hour in which we saw 4 of the 7 and Slamr caught a 40. He should have had a mid 40" fish on a Perka, the thing literally exploded on it and came unpinned. We fished from 9 Am to dark without a break. 600 acre lake, location is pretty easy there.
I agree totally with your 'no doubt' caveat. Congrats on the 50! |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | Well:
Our bite yesterday was in between 9:00 and 10:00, three fish in an hour, including the 50"er. Nothing happening at all till around 4:00 PM and then we
managed to lose a couple of fish.
Today was mixed. Two fish in the AM, again at the first spot. Then one right after noon, and another in the late afternoon.
Weather on both days was dead calm, and partly sunny, or partly cloudy (depending on how you look at it). No wind switches, no enviromental changes, not much of anything that I can tell, yet the fish seemed to be biting.
Beats me!
I just fish good spots.
Doug Johnson |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | We had a morning bite yesterday too, but didn't hook them up. Saw the other three during that timeframe. Today the fish were moving when we got there for about 1/2 hour, but went totally dead other than a low 30" fish that literally nibbled a Wabull and a couple fish that looked over the sucker.
Cloudy all day. It's raining now, thank goodness, we need it. |
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