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years ago this bluegills-for-bait thing is what got me into musky fishing to begin with. many folks would fish the outflow of a small lake known to hold muskies. the spillway dump-out held everything, walleyes, bass, perch, bluegills, bowfin, trout (that came up from where they were stocked down below) and muskies that came up from the big stream a few miles below that this outflow dumped into. the first day i fished this i was startled many times by the muskies that were shimmying up the concrete outflow in maybe 3-4" of water like salmon! then i caught some small bluegills out of the outflow, lip hooked them on a 2/0 single hook, added maybe a 1 oz slip sinker a couple feet above and simply lowered it down over the high concrete outflow wall, put the clicker on in free-spool and waited. i experienced some interesting things catching them that way that turned out to be VERY consistant at this particuler outflow. often times i would see muskies within inches of the surface just sitting there finning in place in that flowing water. i would ease those live bluegills into the water on the surface to within a couple feet of their noses and although they would cruze up to them to within an inch of their noses, back off and do this maybe 10 times, they would never eat them...EVER! the only time they would eat them is if i let the bluegill / slip sinker go to bottom of the "hole", which was maybe 8' deep, and let them swim around on their own. were those "finning" muskies able to see me / others standing maybe 20' above them or was it the fact that you never saw any of the bluegills (and there were enough of them down in there) swimming freely on there own to the surface like i was presenting the hooked ones to them and the muskies knew that in this "particuler area" that was an "un-natural" thing? another interesting thing i experienced was that they wouldn't touch a bluegill over 3" long in this "area"! i would use many over 3" and up to 10" and learned to just throw them back and hope to catch the smaller ones to put on the hook! next came the swim a tiny bluegill patterned rubber / plastic crankbait in front of their noses and not only did they never touch them, whether it was on the surface or down deep, they NEVER did the nose it / back off / nose it again thing like they at least did with a live one! it almost seemd that when they did the repetative nose it / back off / nose it thing on the live one they were SMELLING it first but still would't eat it because it simply was not in the deeper "comfortable eating area"!...should we be using some sort of scent on our slower moving hardbaits just because? and if that isn't enough, call it being lucky or whatever, back in those early days i used no heavy leaders, simply standard 30 lb mono tied directly to the hook and never had a bite-off even though i was crossing their eyes with hooksets directly above them with maybe 25' of line out! all hooks were left in them on the release by the way and most were hooked within a few inches in past their snouts. these critters are something aren't they! it must be january...  | |||
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