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Location: Xenia, Ohio | While, fishing in Canada last year my buddy’s where back in small bay fishing, I seen them trolling down the bank out of the bay, I asked how are you doing they said great we just caught a 45 incher and 48 incher back in that bay by the lily pads throwing spinner baits, I said wow do you think there are more back there, they said no we had raised them earlier in the week, I said I will give it try 3rd cast 50 inchers, is this unusual for 3 musky to come out the same spot within one hour?
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| Not unusual at all. There is a reason one fish was there, why not two or three. Have seen it alot, especially in Canada when two fish will bee following th same bait. |
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| One of the things you will hear said with "exclamation points" in a Tom Gelb seminar, is that the BIGGEST single predicter of catching a musky is "having just caught one!" It's the really big reason for not wasting a whole lot of time with measuring, photos, and chest pounding after boating a fish. It's a fish that bites in short windows that can appear to be like a frenzy, and often run in packs. I once had the true pleasure of three fish in only four casts during such a time. The secret (not really a secret at all) is to have a good bait, moving through good water, using good fundamentals and equipment finishing every cast with a quality figure eight.......and then still be doing it when one of these suicide frenzies happen to occur. And, if you are Tom Gelb, you will actually pretty much know when those times are most likely to occur too. Marty |
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| Never caught them in the same spot , but I have caught 3 out of the same small weedbed in a 45 minute span. Lots of fun when something like that happens--and I do believe it was a small feeding window in the Fall period that triggerd this. Just wjsh it would have lasted longer or that I could have thrown 2 lures at once. |
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Location: Xenia, Ohio | This occurred last year July 9th 12 noon. all three fish from the same spot. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | We were on a reef off an island in LOW one year and raised at least 36 fish off it on 3 or four passes. It was a small finger off a point and we had 2 and 3 fish following at one time. All in a span of about 15 minute to a 1/2 hour it was unreal. Then we couldn't raise a single one. Its like someone turn them off with a switch.
Later that day I had a fish following my jackpot and was right under it and near the boat, buddy was pulling the boat ahead with the trolling motor and I was just jerking in place and it look to be a 4 footer. My buddy was watching all this while reeling in and made an "L" by the boat and had a fish grab hit bait. He lost his fish, mine never hit, just sunk out off sight.
So more than one fish in a area, yes believe its true. |
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Location: Coon Rapids, MN | I have seen multiple fish in the same location many times. I have also watched 3 fish follow to the boat with 2 continuing into the figure 8. I'd say that at least half the time you find a fish there is more in that same location. I feel that the structure dictates how large of a location the pack of fish will be spread over. |
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Location: Elgin IL | All these stories have one thing in common...you go back to these spots at dusk and what do you see....another boat |
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| I'd say it's fairly common but still WAY cool. Using GPS it becomes pretty clear certain waypoints (specific locations) give up tons of fish. Sometimes back to back to back. |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | Doesn't happen often that you catch three muskies in the same spot. However, there's a lot of times that you will see three muskies in the same spot. I suppose if you are lucky all three will bite. Doug Johnson
Edited by dougj 3/1/2011 6:28 PM
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | Last season at Chautauqua Lake my boat caught 187 muskies in one area the size of a football field.Out of those 187 muskies 93 were caught on the exact same turn,in the same spot.Many fish were caught 2 or more times as well.Most also hit the same Wiley 5 1/2" Jtd crankbait in brown perch color a second time or more.
High barometer they were deeper then 35 ft to 39 ft down 25 ft,Low barometer stacked in 30 ft depth,down 20 ft.
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I didn't triple last year, but typically triple on one spot about once or twice each year. Myfastest three were three high 30 to low 40 inch Muskies in about ten minutes. My largest triple was 48, 48 and 49 in about twenty minutes. When the Muskies go, they go.
I have found that the key to catching multiple fish on one spot at one time is getting the fish released and getting back to casting quickly. If one spends twenty minutes measuring and taking pictures of a fish, one usually only catches one at a time. Get the picture taken and get her back in the water quickly. Better yet, fight her fast, skip the picture unless she is really big, and just shake the hook out and turn her loose as soon as she's ready. Get back to casting and then one can catch more before the feeding window slams shut. And slams shut it usually does. Seems the fish feed and shut down for several hours or more so one has to take advantage when the opportunity comes.
Those multi-fish times don't happen often, but sure are fun when they do. 
Edited by Herb_b 3/2/2011 12:05 PM
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| We had a day on Eagle last year where I think we had 7 fish come out of the same weedbed in a matter of 1/2 hour. It was literally every couple casts. We estimated 3 of them to be over 50. Caught 2 - 41 and 48, and had one up that just made me stop breathing. It wasn't just that one spot, either. It was all day long. By the end of the day we were laughing and taking bets on how many casts it would be before we saw another 50.
No rhyme or reason to it either. The day before was perfect - SW wind, cloudy, rain on and off. We caught one fish. The next day? Post frontal, calm, blue skies, and there were fish everywhere.
Don't know what makes them all start moving at the same time, but it's sure fun when it happens! |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I seem to remember that most every time I get a triple like that, I usually don't see a fish for another week or two - that is if I tell my wife. Then she thinks I don't need to go fishing because I was successful. Gosh its hard to keep my mouth shut after a great outing like that. She'll say "Did you catch anything tonight?" And I'll say "No, not much doing". My ten year old daughter knows though. |
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | I didn't catch three muskies in one spot , but, I did catch one musky and one pike in the same exact spot within 10 minutes of each other while casting. |
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| This story doesn't surprise me at all. A few years back I caught 46 and 45 inchers, both in figure eights, in three casts to the same six stalks of cabbage. Several times my partner or I have boated fish on back to back casts, including my partner doing it the evening I got the 46 and 45. (That day we didn't catch a musky until the 46 at 8:15 p.m. and ended up with seven in total between 8:15 and 9:45. ) |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | Those multi-fish days sure are nice - especially when one has had many no fish days in a row. I always find it amazing how one can fish for days and see nothing and all of a sudden the fish turn on and become easy to catch.
The worse thing is when I go out and catch two or three good fish and then tell my friends. So naturally they get excited and then we go out and nothing doing. Muskies can sure make a fool out of a person.
Muskie fishing can be so humbling at times. 
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