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xllund

Posted 9/25/2005 7:03 PM (#160656)
Subject: Fall Musky Movements

Posts: 358

I have kept a rough log (and I do mean rough LOL) the past few years on my angling adventures for muskies. Something interesting happened this weekend that I have seen before, and I am curious if any of you can relate your experiences to this.

For the past couple of years now I have noticed that smaller fish (barely legal to sub-legal) tend to move up shallow first. The shallow weedy bays that will draw the big girls in shortly are now inhabited by these crazed juvenile fish. Anyone else seen this on the waters you fish?

Bring on the fall bite!!!!

AWH

Posted 9/25/2005 7:25 PM (#160657 - in reply to #160656)
Subject: RE: Fall Musky Movements

Posts: 1243

Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN

I was fishing really shallow last week to see if the fish had moved in there yet. I caught the smallest musky I have ever caught on this particular lake while fishing in about 2 to 3 feet. That was the first action I've had in really shallow water this fall. Maybe there's something to your small fish theory. I'll have to pay attention to that.

Aaron

jerryb

Posted 9/25/2005 10:54 PM (#160669 - in reply to #160656)
Subject: RE: Fall Musky Movements

Posts: 688

Location: Northern IL

This is nothing new,,, it's common knowledge that when fish get active (move toward the shallows) the larger adult size fish are more reluctant to do so but as they move out of the sanctuary zone the smaller fish move more shallow,, if they did not they in fact would become LUNCH.

Jerry Borst
Spoonplugger, Instructor

sworrall

Posted 9/25/2005 11:21 PM (#160671 - in reply to #160669)
Subject: RE: Fall Musky Movements

Posts: 32958

Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin

I've been doing well shallow since August on some pretty nice fish. Depends on the water one fishes, I guess.

sworrall

Posted 9/26/2005 12:44 PM (#160730 - in reply to #160671)
Subject: RE: Fall Musky Movements

Posts: 32958

Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin

As an addition, I think one reason the fish are moving in is baitfish, they are definitely in the shallows that time of year. For many seasons I simply followed the perch fishermen on Pleican, and when they moved in, I moved in. Becoming a slop fishing fanatic forced me to look shallow more often through the year, too. I didn't abandon the edges and basin, just added the slop to my milk run. I catch small fish in the slop all season, in fact on one lake here I averaged 5 sub-legals a day a couple trips in August and quit fishing it shallow for fear I'd hurt too many little guys since the lake is not stocked. I wonder if some of the fact small fish are caught first is because they are there throughout the late summer season and most fishermen are not. Just a muse...

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