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Location: Eagan, MN | Found this short article interesting, though also left me wondering...
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1908&dat=19880612&id=YDUrAAAA...
As with other game fish, are we fishing through lots of musky that simply don't move on our offerings?? On most days, I tend to think so.
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Location: Contrarian Island | our lures definitely go over lots of muskies that don't move on them.... every day. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Vince Coleman? Sweet...bringing me back! Love it!
Oh, and good read about the fish, too. |
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| All day long...
Think about how much water you cover. Between the lateral line and their sight range, if you're on a 200 acre lake I'd say just about every musky in the lake has had a chance at your lures by the end of the day.
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| esoxaddict - 10/6/2015 4:16 PM
All day long...
Think about how much water you cover. Between the lateral line and their sight range, if you're on a 200 acre lake I'd say just about every musky in the lake has had a chance at your lures by the end of the day.
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| I'd absolutely say we go over tons of fish that don't react to a particular lure.
I've had several incidents just this year where I've gone back over a break after moving a fish and caught a completely different fish on a different lure.
I like to run and gun as much as the next angler, but I've been having more success going back over particular areas 2 or 3 times with different lures.
A local guide taught me that technique and It's been paying off all summer.
So are they there? Yep. Are they moving on the offering? Maybe not..
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Location: Hayward, WI | I think it would drive us nuts if we really knew how many we fish past. We've talked about that a lot on LOTW the last couple years.
Fish for hours with no action, then suddenly fish seem to be everywhere for an hour or two.
Or, how often do we catch a fish RIGHT at moonrise, moonset, or a weather change?
I think most of the time, we're fishing past fish a good part of the day, and just catching them when they get active. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Just ran a Water Wolf camera on a sucker on Eagle Lake today. One hit, and a dozen that shadowed the sucker...some for as long as 30 minutes. |
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Location: Metro | sworrall - 10/6/2015 10:24 PM
Just ran a Water Wolf camera on a sucker on Eagle Lake today. One hit, and a dozen that shadowed the sucker...some for as long as 30 minutes.
That's really cool. How hard was it to set up the camera? I have always wanted to do that. |
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| The only thing that gets me to slow down is pulling up on a good spot and knowing that there are muskies there, we just have to dig them out. |
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Location: Black Creek, WI | BrianF has proven to me time and time again that a spot I was convinced did not hold any fish after our initial efforts by going back through with a particular lure that always seems to get them to show themselves. Not very often will a bit occur when doing this... but it confirms that there are fish on the spot that are not interested in playing at the moment. |
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| Every time things are slow I try to guess how many fish had a chance to chase or eat my offerings. |
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Location: Eagan, MN | jaultman, I'm guessing you were replying tongue-in-cheek as they say? Still, I would venture to guess that the answer to your question is...it depends. The answer depends on where the fish are located and your timing. Most of the time, I think muskies are in comfort spots and are not feeding. This is when you will get one fish in, say, 50 that you come across to actually bite. When you are on ambush spots when the fish are actually feeding, I think the percentage of fish that sense your lure and actually bite goes way up. Even under optimal feeding conditions, and those don't last long, I doubt the percentage of muskies sensing your lure and biting is ever more than 50%. Just a guess though. I'm thinking back to some torrid bites we've had. Even when fish were going absolutely berserk, we saw many many fish on both electronics and visually that never even moved. Strange creatures.
Edited by BrianF. 10/7/2015 9:30 AM
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| sworrall - 10/6/2015 10:24 PM
Just ran a Water Wolf camera on a sucker on Eagle Lake today. One hit, and a dozen that shadowed the sucker...some for as long as 30 minutes.
Love to see some of that footage Steve..
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| BrianF. - 10/7/2015 9:28 AM
jaultman, I'm guessing you were replying tongue-in-cheek as they say?
My statement is totally sincere. We always talk about it, especially on two particular bodies of water that we know really, really well. |
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Location: Grand Forks ND | I tried to consciously slow down and fish musky spots like I do walleye spots--back and forth over the same area--and it has paid off nicely this year. |
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| I was thinking about this yesterday while on the water taking a newbie out for the first time. I know there are plenty of fish but the feeding window never opened up. How many muskies our lures buzzed over I will never know but Im sure it was a bunch. |
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Location: Winfield,IN | My home waters have 7 fish per acer I am sure I pass over a few on any given day. |
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