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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Beyond "don't eat yellow snow", what is ONE tip you would give to all muskie fisherman, young, old and everyone in between?
Mine would be (somewhat existentially): fish in a way that you enjoy the fishing part of the experience....or you won't last long enough to get much in the way of the catching part.
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| Fish smarter not harder, since my bone cancer, I'm unable to fish for very long stretches so I fish the key times, dawn, dusk, storms, etc. |
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| Dont Get frustrated if it was easy everyone would do it...Keep at it the REWARD is well worth the wait.... |
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Location: Minnesota. | From a lesson on the Big V - more than once this last few weeks,,,,when the sucka hits you and you put the steel to her, even w/a bent rod, don't stop reeeling like heck or you'll get spat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dammmmit! |
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| For me its that as soon as I lose faith that Im going to catch a fish and get lazy is when I get a follow and screw up. Force yourself to keep believing a fish is behind your lure so that your ready when it happens. Hardest thing for me to do for 6+ straight hours. |
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Location: oswego, il | Perfect your awareness. Everything improves from there.
Edited by ToddM 7/26/2017 1:13 PM
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Location: Waukee, IA | Check your hooks every time you get snagged or bump a rock. Resharpen or replace dulled hooks. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Be respectful to the fish and other muskie fisherman. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | spend less money on baits, and more money on fishing w the best in the game on their waters to learn as much as possible.
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| Be humble, there is always someone who catches more and bigger fish. |
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Location: Ashland WI | The biggest secret is simply "time on the water".
In general, those who catch the most fish, spend a lot of time on the water. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin | “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
? Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea |
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Location: Tulsa, OK | My tip would be to always be ready when it is extremely slow and transition into a good figure 8 on each cast. Because the 1 time you don't you are guaranteed to blow your chance at a fish. |
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| Change it up often. Often times you have to wait for a feeding window or find the right fish but when the traditional approach isn't working be willing to go deeper, go shallower, try faster moving baits or slow things down. Many times the fish were biting but I was too stubborn to leave the pattern that had been working and missed out on a hot bite that was just a few contours away from where I was struggling. Even when I had been moving fish on one pattern I'll make a quick run in shallow or out deep and find that there's fish both places or that the bite moved part way through the day.
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Another: put jumper cables and/or a jump pack in your boat. Trust me on this one. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | sharpen your hooks. get good at it. and do it often. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | I see way too many new guys in the hobby spend too many hours/days/money fishing tough water. 1-2 trips per year on good water is just way more valuable than beating tough lakes to a froth and not contacting fish or learning anything...
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| Fish a while and take the time to find out what works for best for you (not others). You need to gain confidence in your methods- baits used. Then slowly add other techniques as you go until you buildup a variety of techniques for different situations. |
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| Perfect your figure 8.... 80% of people that think they are doing it right are making fatal mistakes. |
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Location: MN | Fatal? |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | Fish good spots! Learn how to recognize good spots at different times of the year. Fish location is the most important part of fishing success! |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Musky Brian - 7/26/2017 4:26 PM
I see way too many new guys in the hobby spend too many hours/days/money fishing tough water. 1-2 trips per year on good water is just way more valuable than beating tough lakes to a froth and not contacting fish or learning anything...
I can agree with this as a new guy. I like to beat the Illinois water until I get to go up north in a few weeks here. But I can say I'd rather go fishing a not catch anything than sit on my couch and say "man, I wonder if I would have got one today" |
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Location: SE, WI. | Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained..... Like Tom Gelb says, if you always do, what you always done, you will always get, what you always got! JD |
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Location: S.W. WI | Look around occasionally and realize how awesome it is just to be out there. The fish will come in time. Enjoy the ride. Enjoy the lost fish too, they put on a heck of a show sometimes. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Slow the ride down. You will miss more than you think if the trolling motor is always at mach 30. |
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| Have everything you could possibly need. And a spare of everything you could possibly need. |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Rudedog - 7/26/2017 9:59 PM
Enjoy the lost fish too,
From a general fishing point of view, fishing for any species. Isn't this what makes fishing so much fun? If you caught every fish what would be the point in trying. That "lost fish" is what makes us go back.
Just last week, went smallmouth fishing at a place I "thought" I would never go back to. Caught a few fish but the whole industrial scenery isn't my cup of tea. Until, I hooked something, something big, fought for about 2 minutes and broke me off. At that moment, plans were made to return the next week, I'll see how it goes 
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Location: oswego, il | Mo16, wait until you hook into a striper therr and it makes some 50ft runs on you. Try the other industrial place to the west of there and tangle with a blue cat. |
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Location: The desert | If you don't know where to start, go back to the beginning. |
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