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| I'm use to fishing stained water. I recently started fishing a clear body of water. I've been moving lots of fish on the clear body using glides baits but can not get the Muskies to strike.
Today I tried various lures but can't get the fish to follow let alone strike. Will these fish eventually strike the glide baits later on in the season or does someone have success throwing something else? What about a different presentation?
Any help would be appreciated.
Jeff_J |
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| Try downsizing your presentation. Sometimes in clear water this can be a real help. Also, if the fish are relating to the weed edge at all try a smaller bass sized crankbait. Also try a jig as a follow up on some of those following fish.
Good Luck.
Let Em Go...Let Em grow.....Mike |
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| I would consider speeding up. I fish a clear lake and my best tactic from the openner to the end of june was burning bucktails despite the cold water. Speeding up gives the fish to chance to think about it its either eat the lure or let it get away. This is the only advice I can think of, also I agree smaller baits can be good mostly because they are easier to fish fast. |
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| I second swimwhiz''s comment on the speed. We troll quite fast now and close to the boat (5m) and I mainly fish clear waters. They idea is not to give them too much time to consider taking it or not. When fished faster they have to chase it and then they won''t let it go.
Also, of there are loads of baitfish, downsize your lure and use natural colors. Leave the fancy ones at home, bring along perch and sucker-colors, perhaps also trout-patterns. I''ve been doing great on perch-patterns lately. Not a normal one though, a very dark-colored, shining version of a rapala perch-supershadrap. And that seems to be the best color right now because I keep hearing great reports on dark perch patterns |
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