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Location: Minnesota | Bondy on the drop. Bend the knees lower the shoulders and Kung Pow!! |
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| Slowly, working a HawgWobbler over a weed bed. Than having the a fish come out of nowhere usually right from underneath the lure like a Triton missile. There is something about a fish smoking a slow moving top water lure. |
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | TOPWATER!!!!! Watching a topwater get humped is the best. Straight retireves like a top raider with the muskie bulging for several yards before jumping on your bait......awesome. A walk the dog bait like a weagle with a muskie pushing water doing a serpantine stalk on your bait with fins protruding the water's surface and then going kamikaze on the weagle.....priceless.
Second, in my book, already mentioned, is a bomb cast of a bucktail in clear water when you see the the fish turns on as soon as the blades are spinning. You see the fish following "hot" the entire length then into several figure 8's and then she decides enough of this child's play.......whooompf!!!!!!!!!!! For me she went on the 8th fisgure 8 for my current PB. Feels like like it was just yesterday though it's truely time for a new PB.
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| handlebarz - 1/23/2014 5:13 PM
Super clear water watching them chase the bait for a long time then making them eat in the Figure 8. I find it so rewarding when you know the fish has seen you but they still want to eat and you for them to take a bite.
The ultimate trickery and persuasion. You own the fish. |
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Location: E. Tenn | Most definitely topwater, at night.. the ultimate test of one's nerves! |
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Location: Contrarian Island | for pure adrenaline rush it's hard to beat a boatside blow up on a topwater at night... close 2nd is watching a big wide back coming from a ways out on your bucktail and eating in the 1st outside turn.... 3rd might be a topwater hit at night out on the cast that sounds like a bowling ball was dropped from 100 feet up... 4th, setting the hook on a sucker hit especially in MN where the chances it's a biggy are good! 5th to me is getting rocked slow rolling a bucktail at night... to me any hit at night is pretty sweet as your senses are so 'in tune' w the bait/rod... dang now this has me wishing it was July and I was out night fishing! F#@k!  |
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| For me...it is when you are burning a bucktail and you see a fish coming all hell bent for it...you can see it in their eyes that they are not letting this get away...I start saying..."net...net...net" before the fish even strikes cuz when you get one coming in this hard and fast... you know it is all over on the first turn of the 8. Makes the hair on my neck and arms stand up just thinking about it....it is why I fish muskies!!! |
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Location: New Hope MN | Watching my friends and family catch their first has always got me pumped up more than anything.
I did get my first night figure 8 fish this past summer. What a rush! |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I might be the only one to say this...but I love catching muskies while trolling. Yes, a topwater hit is crazy exciting, a fish on the 8 is heart pounding...but to be trolling along, time goes by and nothing, then a reel starts screaming! I roll with 6+ lines at a time so it's GO TIME just to figure out with rod is screaming. I'm up and out of the driver's seat like a rocket, hand off the rod then drive and get ready to net a fish, totally fun. Even better is glancing around, seeing a rigger rod bow deeply, then pop up and THEN the reel starts screaming. Is it a snag? Is it a 34"er? Is it another 10lb catfish? Or is it THE ONE? |
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| Anytime I can get them on spin tackle. ( No I don`t do it during peak summer conditions. ) |
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| Casting a Jerkbait. |
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| Topwater, when you see a huge wake following your bait then they smash it! |
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Location: Northern Illinois | After a hard day of fishing, get back to the cabin, eat dinner, hang out with the family, maybe a bonfire and a couple of two hearted ales. It's pitch black outside, quiet around the lake and most are settled in for the night. I take my Black Lelure creeper or black Hawg Wobbler and start zinging it off the pier. Takes a little bit of nerve to slowly creep those things along in the dark just waiting to be attacked. |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Without a doubt getting slackline by a fish over open water, and setting hooks into "the wall".
Second is getting slackline with a hardhead on the drop along a deep weededge.
Third has quickly become a WTD topwater in June especially when the muskies are chasing 'gills and crappies.
4th, and one I do not do that often for some reason, is watching a fish inhale a tube in ultra clear water while sight fishing. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | As far as methods go, I prefer a bucktail figure 8 fish so much that I am (almost) disappointed when I catch them another way! Especially fun at night. Other considerations that make it more fun is when it's on a new lake or a spot I've never fished. It is always encouraging to get bit on a new spot cause it means your instincts to fish that spot or method were right. |
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| My favorite bite is when a fish crushes a bull dawg. A lot of guys talk about feeling little ticks that feel like weeds, but I have experience these fish crushing them. Jerk pause jerk pause Boom. |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | I'm with Slamr, trolling and the drag clicker sings, but the rod is bent straight back at the handle pumping, saying Jumbino! |
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| It`s even more fun when a guy falls asleep and then his drag goes off. |
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