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| I remember reading an article by Dick Gries several years ago refering to the angle at which we retrieve our bucktails and spinnerbaits.What do you guys think? I'm a believer that the angle CAN make a difference especially where a diversity of cover exists. Steve |
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Location: Belgium | I have found that approaching the spot from a different angle gets the following fish more often than trying the same angle. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | One guide I was with tried to break me of my bassin' ways and get me to point my rodtip at the bait. That way, when a strike happens, I hookset straight up and don't fight the fish at an angle. I kept catching myself with the angled retrieve last week, need more practice. m |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | Based on the volumes of info out there in cyberspace I'm concluding that the varying retrieve angles are more successful on all predators. Probably why glide baits generate so much interest even on the finicky fish. And the bumping of the baits off of structure. Same principle I'd assume. |
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Location: Presque Isle Wisconsin | I think it can make all the difference in the world especially on conditioned fish.I have noticed this most especially on areas that the wind is blowing into. It seems the muskies like the bait coming at them from the windward side> It looks more natural I would assume.A spot or peice of structure has not been covered properly unless different retreive angles have been tried.In open water Ive noticed a better success rate throwing into the wind vs. throwing downwind. Same principle would seem to apply.Probably the most common place this should be utilzed is parking the boat in the weeds and throwing to deeper water. It seems obvious but a lot of people dont do it and just continue to throw perpendicular to the weedline which is often times the most unproductive approach. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Retrieve angles definately play a role in the fish you will catch and nowhere is this more evident than in a river situation with current(where I spend most of my time). I cannot tell you how many times I hit the same spot with the same lure as a guy who was just there and hit it with the "right" angle and pop a fish. Bringing lures through and accross the strike zone in a natural fashion, giving a fish time(you should always to visualize where the fish is holding), but not too much, is more important than using the "hot" lure. A friend and mentor(chuck Schauer) has proven this time and time again fishing the pressured waters of north east WI, as he is a retrieve angle detail freak! Great thread!!!! |
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| This an area where a good bass fisherman could have an advantage. Bass fishing you always are slow rolling spinnerbaits down into logs and brush piles and them burning them out. Always making two or three casts to something at different angles. I know that I forget that stuff sometimes when I pull out the muskie gear. Just because you got close doesn't mean you were close enough. Sometimes a person needs to work the cover not just cast to it, there is a difference. Its all in the angle or is it in the angler. |
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| Kevin Nash in IL is the best at this stuff...BR |
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