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| at what point in the season do you guys/gals throw bucktails??? I have always waited for the water temp to be in the high 60's and into the 70's. Do you all burn them or slow retieve?? (I guess I'm asking too when to start burning?)
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| I start burning them when I start getting a lot of follows without a taker, seems to trip there trigger sometimes. As for when to start to toss bucktails I have caught muskies on opening weekend on them. I know of at least 4 skies that were taken off bucktails this year with water temps under 65. Its just another tool in the arsonal to try when the go to baits are not working. |
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| Throw them NOW! Burn them NOW! I gave 3 too much time to think, and that's why they are follows not boated.
[:blackeye:] [:knockout:] [:((] [::)]
-Phil |
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| Burn baby burn!! |
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| A muskie can swim faster than anyone can reel in a bucktail, and their food can also swim faster than a bucktail.
Don't give them time to think....only eat[:0] |
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| Any time is a good time to throw one. They work when the temps are in the low 40's even. They are versatile, slow, fast, varying speeds, they work in all conditions. |
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| I throw in-lines whenever and whereever they won't get snagged. If there's lots of rock or weed I switch to a spinnerbait. You'll have good action on blades from open up until fall when the lake turns. You can still catch them on blades then but you have to move back off the breakline far enough to allow the fish to come up out of deeper water. This is usually what's going on when people can't understand why there spinnerbaits are not producing in fall as well as they we're in the spring. It's simple really. Spinnerbaits and bucktails move fast usually 1-2 feet under. If the fish have moved out onto the breaks and are not in the leading weed edge and you fish the same boat position the fish will not have time to catch the bait because the lure does not pass over it until it's almost at the boat. I figured this out a couple years ago when my favorite pike kayak lake all of the sudden started producing 2 pike an evening when it was producing up to thirty. What I did is swithc to a jig and minnow and fished the deep water. After that I was catching 20-25 a night again. Bad news is word got out about the lake which is a bad thing for a small lake in a big city. Not many pike there any more.
Brian
I usually back up and switch to jerkbaits when that happens. |
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| Simple when water temps are in the 60's and the fish stop following my Undertaker. |
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| Muskytothehuhhuh (feel like I'm listening to JAY-Z),
Especially if you are hitting the Fox Chain, BURN THEM! Got a 32 and had 2 more spook from the boat right before getting ready to nail it. Got then one on a figure 8.
-Phil |
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