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| Just wanted to share a cool experience I had last weekend. We were grinding through mid day last Sunday, clear skies and water was great for seeing fish, not so great for getting them to commit. Seemed like a good time to scout out some new spots and see if they had any fish on them. As we were working our way down the point I had a small bait-ball shadowing the boat, a little bigger than a basketball. I'd run my bucktail through them every few casts just to watch them do their thing, something to keep amused. As I did my figure 8 for the thousandth time that day, something was off with the bait-ball. As I looked way back behind the lure I saw a nice fish coming in low and slow, following the same path the bucktail had just been on. I kept doing my 8 as I watched the fish come in closer... Then bam! She turned about 90 degrees and 3 body lengths to the bait ball, doing her best to get all of them in her mouth. So awesome watching a 4 foot fish (just a guess) try to obliterate some one inch minnows. I don't think it got one. My friend and I had a great "did you just see that!" chuckle as the bait ball got out of their at Mach 10 and the Muskie slinked back into the depths. Totally worth the grind to see something so cool. |
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Location: Illinois | Very cool!! |
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Location: Vilas County, WI | So in other words I should be dragging some fat heads this fall instead of suckers! 
Cool story man |
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| Very cool.
On a smaller scale, my buddy and I were putting my pier in early one spring when we noticed small splashes at the water's edge. We looked closer and found that a school of 6-10" bass had pinned a school of minnows against the shoreline. The splashes were made by 5" pike who were leaping out of the water and OVER the line of bass to land in the middle of the minnows. How in the world did those brave little pike learn to do that? asks me. |
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| Cool experience.
Last weekend, I watched as a sub 30" muskie floated motionless as schools of bait were flowing down stream around it and not once did it try to eat anything. Some of the bait was even swimming into the muskie and it didn't even move for the 5-10 minutes I watched it. It only moved a little when I bumped a small shad body on a jig into the front of it before I left the area. |
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