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| A few days ago I watched two muskie fishermen, on a small lake,<400 acres, throwing bucktails while near by a water skier and a jetski were running. Since sound travels fast and great distance in water would the sound & vibration of the waterski boat and jetski cancel/mask the sound and vibration of the bucktails? If this does happen then on high traffic water do you loose two of the three factors used for attraction---viaual, sound, vibration?
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| Decoy, great question. I think to some extent it may hinder it some. I suppose it depends on the boat and how much traffic. I know on the fox chain I can feel the vibration of the cigarette boats in my own boat when they are on another lake. When they are out in force, forget about fishing. It has to do something.[:knockout:] |
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| The literature I read while studying the lateral line suggests this "background" noise/vibration are not a problem for the fish to "ignore". Most examples were for natural disturbances like surf, but the principal is the same.
I wouldn't worry about the nuisance... I mean... pleasure boaters one bit. |
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| Hey Decoy,
I was asking myself the same question in Eagle River last weekend(PMTT) and happened to be in the river channel with a TON of boat traffic and saw Tony and Don not less than 30 yrds land a fish( I think it was a pike). It was about 3pm and the traffic was HEAVY. I think they are conditioned by"normal"/common traffic and noise and tend to direct their attention to the off beat sounds. I know Tony was tossing surface lures, not sure what Don was using. I also had a nice follow minutes after that, and almost fell in because of the waves passing boats(it was just past the no wake zone)zooming past full throttle. I also agree with Todd in relation to the Fox Chain, the only time to work it is early am/night because of the heavy traffic out there. In those types of situations I would opt for a loud/irratic presentaion that would stand out against the "normal" traffic sounds that they seem to be conditioned to. Also, in trolling situations we run our lines in the wake 6-7 ft(the length of our rods)and they hit those time and time again. They seem oblivious to the motors and tend to focus on the off beat sound of the lure. That to this day still amazes me.The"Blind"one Matt Polman landed did just that. The lateral line is soooo tuned they can and do recognize the the the difference in vibration/sound. I just got the picture from Matt today and will post ASAP.
Karen |
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