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| In that case you only need one! In the right place at the right time that is. |
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Location: Tomahawk, WI | Don't overthink and overanalyze it. They are just fish and just want to eat.
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Pick your partner wisely (right K-bob?).
Work at a bait shop that caters to the musky crowd, and get chatty with the customers. Keeping your ears open turns you on to new lakes and patterns. |
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| Learn to cast better. All good muskie sticks I have fished with are excellent casters. Crank your cast control so it is very loose and use your thumb to control spool rotation. They make long, accurate casts, and their baits are moving immediatley when they hit the water.
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | Turn back now before it is too late and all you think about is musky fishing.
If it's too late: Pay close attention to all the details, big or small, even the smallest thing can help tip the scales to put that one good fish in the boat instead of loose it or not even get a chance at it. |
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| Fish productive spots more thoroughly find the spot on the spot. |
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Location: sauk rapids, mn | I would say, don't get stuck in the rut of trying the same old thing, because you had success a few times. sometimes you have to try other means to catch fish. they are not always in 12 feet of water,or in the weeds. if something is not working, try something different. most of all, enjoy the moment, whether you are catching fish or not! |
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Location: Ashland WI | make a list of all of your local waters and make it your goal to catch some fish in all of them. |
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| when your bucktail hits the water the blades should be spinning |
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Location: East of muskie country | Be prepared for the catch
Have the proper tools and net, go through the motions mentally, know how you will take a picture, make the release, etc...Nothing kills the thrill more, for a CPR fisherman, than a botched release or a hook in the hand. |
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Location: Marshfield, WI | Be ready when your bait hits the water. At least twice this year, my boat has had fish hit before the reel was even engaged. For me, I was ready and got my first of the year. For my partner, he missed his fish and we still aren't sure what the fish was.
If you feel anything different, set the hook. Sometimes it feels like added weight, like a weed, or a stick/log. I'd rather set the hook into a log than think its a log and find out it was a fish.
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Location: WI | Finish your casts, even if there are some weeds on the lure.
I learned this the hard way this past saturday...pulled a suick with trailing weeds up early and then had a ski come cruising in. Doh! I'm sure this will happen again to me. |
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| The day AFTER a strong blow, fish the calm side...the bait are still there, as are the muskies!! 
Edited by Donnie3737 6/26/2007 6:55 AM
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Location: Twin Cities | Keep your lure in the water... |
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| To add: the best day to go muskie fishing, is any day that ends in "Y" no matter what the weather or moon phase. The memories are made and laughed over with whom you have fished with, whether you caught someting or not. Life is to short to take this all too serious! |
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| sometimes you just have to stop and smell the weeds...... (bob meisikhomer)
Always be ready! Seen way to many botched fish because people were sleeping at the reel.
If you cry enough in the boat, you'll catch fish too! just ask yon. |
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Location: Kentucky | Make a commitment to learn something new about muskies, your equipment, your buddies, and your favorite waters every day; then stay humble enough to admit you don't know it all. |
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Location: Madtown, WI | A build on Norms learning the water.
A great time to do it....when the fish aren't biting.
If you are spent, been pounding the water for nothing...take a break and drive around a new piece of structure...or even an old one....Spring is perfect time for this.
You will be amazed how much more you learn about a spot if you REALLY spend time on the spot trying to learn it and not just fish it. drive all over the thing...mark insides and out....heck, throw a mask in the boat...you see something that looks good...shove your head in the water with the mask and take a look!!!
Goes to Brads Visualization, plus people will start talking about you!! (who is that retard with his head over the side of the boat?)
Hit a couple spots doing this....
You will get your PMA back after finding a couple new twists on spots...then start fishing again!
I did it two weeks ago...worked like a charm!
Cory
Edited by C.Painter 6/26/2007 1:24 PM
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| realize that most musky fisherman at the top of the food chain are used car salesmen that will say anything to sell a product or make a point. some of the best musky men i have fished with have used so called second rate rods and home made lures. with very productive results. join the local clubs . fish with people you dont know well that arent guides. this will give you x-factor that help you become a journeyman of the water. |
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| mr reality..heck yah you can catch tons of ski's with homemade lures and 2nd rate equipment, even a crappy boat for that matter as the boat doesn't catch the fish.....but who wants to hook a big one and have that 2nd rate equipment fail?
I've used more models of reels, rods, etc than I can count the last 15 yrs and one constant is good equipment will make life easier on the water...
that's reality |
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| reality - 6/26/2007 1:11 PM
...fish with people you dont know well that arent guides. this will give you x-factor that help you become a journeyman of the water.
What if they don't know what they are doing? In order to become a journeyman of any sort you need instruction from someone who actually knows something.
I'm kinda thinkin' you'd be better off learning from someone who puts food on the table by knowing whats going on out there than just some dude with a boat and second rate equipment... |
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| i use a diawa rod and a cortland rod, they are so called second rate rods. but preform very very well. my point is you dont need a $200 dollar rod, but many would lead you to believe that. also i must say i learned all the bread and butter about musky fishing by reading ,watching and fishing with pro guides all over indiana ,wisconsin , minn, and ontario. but fishing with the grunts of musky men took me to a whole different understanding of fishing. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i like the term the "muskygrunts" guest ... and know many of them and understand your point completely ... fortunately for me fishing in both the eagle river and rhinelander leagues and living in this area i've met a number of the "muskygrunts" you speak of and agree completely with your point as re-stated ... |
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | Argh! I see some I thought of have been spoken already! So here is one off the top of my head:
KISS Muskytime's is my all time favorite as way too many beginners and vets don't choose a foundation to build on or go back to when things get tough. Even though I preach it I am guilty of of trying to teach some my method even if they don't want to hear it! 
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I promote and sell boats, not used cars. Buy a boat to fish muskies, not a used car. Used cars sink. |
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| Though I've never tested this myself, I suspect that all cars sink, Steve. Perhaps a better bit of advice would be "fish out of that which floats"? |
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Location: God's Country......USA..... Western Wisconsin | Fish every chance you get, no one ever caught one while sitting on the couch. |
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| all it takes to catch a musky is putting a bait in from of them that they want to eat when theyre hungry. dont overthink it. soak in all the info you can but always have the sense to go with what you know. and hire guides! |
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Location: Sandusky, OH | Find a bait you enjoy fishing, learn to fish it well, and have at it. You'll be doing far more casting than catching anyway, might as well enjoy the feeling of working a good bait well. Obviously, if that bait matches preferences for the body of water you fish, all the better.
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Location: WI | Cars only sink a few months out of the year, at least up here. |
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