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Location: Ontario | Hi All,
I am going to the cottage for a musky fishing weekend and a couple of us more addicted guys are contemplating doing a night fish. I have only done this once before and it was mid summer. I just wanted to know if anyone had any input on lure presntations, etc. Do we just use the same techniques we would use during the day? Target areas we have moved fish, etc.? Or are there certain things we should change once the sun goes down. It is a full moon on Thursday and suppose to be rainy and overcast all weekend.
Thanks for any assitance you can provide,
Matty |
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| One thing you might want to do different at night, is get ready for some unexpected explosions. |
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| I like to use rubber glow beads in front of my swivel. Lets you know when to start your 8's and keeps the swivel out of your rods eye.A good head lamp will come in handy. And like they said.....BE READY ! |
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| oh and lights on the boat |
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Location: Rhinelander, WI | If the structure you are fishing allows you to, slow down your presentation when it finally gets really dark. I'd target the same spots you've moved fish during the day. |
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| I believe the full moon is Sunday - Make sure everyone has headlamps and keep the boat as clean as possible.... slow roll dbl 10's and 13's - finish every cast with an 8 and hang on.. you never know what might eat during the Oct. full moon  |
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Location: lansing, il | heres few items to help you at night.
the glow tape is from glowin outdoors, works great on your footpedal, trolling motor, tools, trailer etc.
the net lights are by mike hulbert and musky armor, after using the net light i dont know how i nite fished without one.
the glow leaders are not super bright but throw off enough light to help keep you from running your swivel into the tip of your rod.
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Location: McFarland | Before this year I did'nt night fish much but I am now a true believer and love it! 4 of my 5 biggest fish have now come after dark and all of them have been caught slow rolling double 10's. Make sure you are figure 8ing though because 3 of the fish came on the 8 and boy is that a lot of fun when all hell breaks loose boatside. Like mentioned above though make sure your boat is in order and you have a good headlight on...good luck |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | I wanna play!! |
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| lol we'll give this guy so much stuff to remember that he'll probably forget something important, like pliers hehe |
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Location: Ontario | Wow....I need a bigger note pad!!! At this rate, Ill probably forget the boat. This is great advice guys, I appreciate it |
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| First time night fishing for muskie, maybe a first aid kit would be a good idea.
Slow rolling 10's, but any color recommendations or other lure options? |
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Location: Ontario | I use a colour I can see. I use white/grey/silver 99% of the time at night on spinners. The fish won't care about colour, the pace you fish at seems to be #1. Fish the exact same spots as during the day, mix up casts towards and away from spots..fish exactly as you would when its light out. The only major difference is slowing down your bait. The overall pace of fishing in the dark is slower. Not just how fast you reel, but navigating carefully, picking your casts, blowing the odd cast by fouling (in cover or by tumbling the bait mid air becuase you can't see it). I think this is part of why night fishing can be effective. You just work a lot more methodically and deliberately thru areas. Trolling at night is just as productive. |
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Location: Ontario | I see a lot of interest in the big blades. I am up in Canada and the water temp and air temp are dropping fast, and we have kind of moved toward more jerk baits. Are the double's more effective at night no matter what time of year as they will pick up any available light? |
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Location: Ontario | There's next to zero light at night. It's like picking a spoon to downrig for lakers with at 85 feet deep or to jig with thru the ice...there's zero light and flash isn't happening. Run that same spoon down 10 feet on a sunny day in May and you're getting huge flash. Those big blades work all year, we got them last season on 13's in 56 degree water in June and in 56 degree water in October. The fish are eating the thump of the lure and the water it displaces. It's a big, slow(er) moving target they feel on their lateral lines and make up their minds about long, long before it's in sight range. Especially at night. Most people will tell you that black's best at night, we catch fish on nothing but white. The fish are eating the thump. But in a good-sized tail of mariboo or tinsel undulating and pulsating in behind it and the fish has a lot to zone in on without needing to see much of anything. Maybe its because we're go slower, but fish at night that track that thump are well hooked and hit hard. If you're on a good spot and fishing the right way, you could probably catch them on all-chartreuse or all-pink. If you like surface baits, try a 10 or 13" jointed Believer. What part of ONT are you in? |
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Location: Contrarian Island | don't get hung up thinking only big blades will get bit at nite...big mistake..work the same areas you were seeing/moving fish during the day...just like during the day they can and do change their mood as to what they will move on at night..i also don't think it necessarily has to be a slow moving bait...the lateral line is amazing and faster moving baits at night can and do work when slow won't trigger them.....try slower moving topwaters if temps are low, big minnowbaits, even mag dawgs slowly sweeped or straight cranked can work..any bait they hit during the day can and does work at night...i also don't think the bait has to be "big" to be very deadly at night...sure sometimes they want big,,,but sometimes they want small...I've had good luck with small creepers and smaller hawg wobblers at night...all the way up to the biggest of blades...gotta try it all to figure out what they want...it's always changing...big blades are a good start..but mix it up if you have a boat partner..have him throwing something else like a big hawg wobbler ...
get yourself a bright headlamp...cat eyes just don't cut it...Petzl makes some good models...more light the better once you hook a big one...good luck
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| Markham, but fishing the kawartha lakes near peterborough |
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| Being someone that learned before the days of the internet and big blade bucktails and bulldawgs.....Throw something that floats |
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Location: Ontario | Big spinnerbaits are the best night baits I hear about on the Kawarthas, I have a couple buddies with many years out there, they catch some really nice walleye on them too. Pigeon gets mentioned a lot as a good lake for night fishing. Like bn said, just about any bait they're biting during the day will work at night. I haven't done it much, but I could totally see how a big, slow cranked rubber bait could kill 'em. The lakes you're talking about are a zoo all year and heavy fishing pressure, I could see plastic working for sure. |
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