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| Ya Steve, good points. Do whatever you have confidence in — I’m just a firm believer that Muskie follow a slow troll for a long time. It worked for me, but might not work for others. I know it doesn’t hurt—so I do it. I’ve had to much luck with it. I do think reaction rules as well. It’s just another tool in the chest. Everyone should do what works for them. |
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Location: Aurora | It makes total sense because back when $100 was worth something, they weren't nearly as conditioned to gasoline and other petroleum-based products and they'd hit anything!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Conditioned to gasoline? Whachousmokin'?
Way before my time, that one is. |
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| My experience tells me that I have caught a lot more fish after I quit smoking cigarettes than before. I believe that they can smell cigarette smoke on your lures with out a doubt. I do not allow smoking in my shop were all my lures hang ever. Maybe it's just because I spend more time fishing and less time smoking now but I truly believe they can smell us and smoke is a strong odor. I have seen muskies follow and nose up right to the bait then leave as for no reason and I believe this reaction is related to smell.
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| Gas is too expensive. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I have watched muskies come in and nose a golden shiner under the ice for minutes then turn down and suck up dead minnows on the bottom instead of eating the live shiner with a small hook and 8# flour leader.
Since I have a dog with me most of the time I toss dead minnows in the water instead of on the ice where she will eat them. Dead stinky minnows are more attractive than live bait at times. This winter I'm going to do more filming under water and will test this out again. Fish can be lazy.
How many of us had dead suckers ate while other rods had live suckers on them?
That happens every year to me. Dead stinky suckers can out produce live suckers at times. Maybe scent can come into play for muskies at times. |
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| Mikes Extreme - 12/29/2017 11:27 AM
I have watched muskies come in and nose a golden shiner under the ice for minutes then turn down and suck up dead minnows on the bottom instead of eating the live shiner with a small hook and 8# flour leader.
Since I have a dog with me most of the time I toss dead minnows in the water instead of on the ice where she will eat them. Dead stinky minnows are more attractive than live bait at times. This winter I'm going to do more filming under water and will test this out again. Fish can be lazy.
How many of us had dead suckers ate while other rods had live suckers on them?
That happens every year to me. Dead stinky suckers can out produce live suckers at times. Maybe scent can come into play for muskies at times.
I don't know about musky's but when I fished with bait for pike, more often than not they hit the dead one.
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| Could be that musky smell the way they do for a reason. To find where other musky are feeding. In our area they group up a lot and maybe they are tuned into each other and not the bait. |
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| Everybody has walked past a bakery or pizza place caught the whiff and jumped in for a slice of pie or za on the spontaneous,,don't tell me bacon in the pan doesn't attract..if a highly sophisticated intelligent creature like myself can be triggered a fish can,,
somebodys gonna find out the right formula. |
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| If you watch your scents, the dollars will take care of themselves! |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Dr. Bruce Tufts ( Tufts Lab Queens University ) told me that in order for a scent to enter a muskies olfactory system it had to be water soluble. At the time he told me that that as far as he knew Berkley was the only "company" conducting actual scientific lab experiments. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | As well as being a scientist Bruce fishes bass tournaments Bruce fly fishes for Atlantic salmon and many saltwater species. He dosen't use scent.
i knew a guy years back who sprayed his lures with WD 40 when ice fishing.He also rubbed it on his hands for arthritis. I usually caught more fish than him and he never cured his arthritis. |
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Location: Wisconsin River | Now i'm going to put hot dogs in my tubes?
Do they sink or float?
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Location: Aurora | Going by memory but i think the vienna sausages float and the little smokies sink.
The viennas in BBQ sauce seemed to work better than the regulars but they didn't stay on the hook for very long cuz they were so tender. The hot dog pieces found in the beans & weenies cans held together much better on the hook for some reason.
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Location: oswego, il | I am going to work on a surface and sub surface walk the dog hotdog rig. A footlong version, for the MN guys. 
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