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| Was a very hot topic at the outing.....
From fishing with 8 of our site members I got to see many styles and prefered methods of setting the hook and just plain holding the rod. The site members did a fantastic job and I could see many had learned alot on this site to already improve there presentation.
Some things I noted and taught out ont the water last week.
1)Keep your rod at the right angle, not too far down..or up. Knee or waist level for a quicker set.
2)Palming the reel, prefered by myself and I believe it improves on reaction time. Better presentation on jerkbaits. No power is wasted..trust me.
3)Keeping the rod out in front of you, not off to the side or in la la land. Muskies know when you are in la la land.[;)] [:)]
4)Fish only muskie that can SEE, the blind ones miss everytime.
Anything else I might be missing to lower the chances of loosing a shot at a fish?
I am sure there are many more folks out there that want there hooksets improved before they battle a big dog this fall. |
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| I must disagree about keeping the rod too low. When working gliders, the tip of my rod is almost always at the level of the surface of the water. I've found that short twitches with the rod tip low is the best way to work most gliders. In order to set the hook, I move my hands and the rod from a low and in front position to an above the hip and off to the side position. I've never had a problem setting across my body like this. It would be very difficult to work a glider properly without getting the rod tip below the level of your knees.
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| I started a thread about rod angles a couple days ago. Some bait just plain work better with the rod tip up. Harder to get a good hookset but some lures like the magic maker for example, I can make it scream with the rod tip up. Sometimes the weeds dictate where my rod tip is.(insert joke here) |
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| Don't forget the second rule of musky fishing - Keep your hands, wrists and forearms strong by working out in the wieght room.[;)] |
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| Ranger, I came to that realization this may. I fastwalk 2.6mi a day and do the torso trak and push up bars 2-3 times a day depending on how late I work. Going to purchase a bowflex hopefully soon. I also eat right. Went from 212 down to 180. I want to be a 70 year old musky fisherman, my old lifestyle was not going to allow that to happen. |
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| Set the hook with your wrists and forearm, not by waving your arms at the sky. If you raise the rod with your arms, there will be very little actual power transfer from the rod blank. Hookset comes from flexing the rod, not pulling the line toward the angler. A quick wrist flex straight up will generate a much stronger hookset than a wild arm lift, as raising one's arms only lifts the line vertically.
If the other angler in the boat can see your armpits at the end of the hookset, this is something that will benefit you ALOT! |
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| Huh? "Working out in the weight room"?! Hey!, my post was changed!! I said......
oh, wait a minute, our posts must be appropriate for a 10y/o to read.....
Ok, "weight room" it is! Those springy hand squeezer deals would work well at the office or in the car, too.
(Jason, you caught and changed that one, didn't you? No prob, as usual.)
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| I am fairly small, 5'6' 150 lbs. I can rail a 2 lb bass in the air with bass equipment on most hooksets.(short range) A good solid hookset involves the entire upper body. It starts in the forearms and wrists but you are not getting it all in if you don't get a good 45 degrees of rotation in the upper body.I sometimes end up a step or two back. If the bass are biting good I have bruised ribs by the time I get home. The best (hardest) hooksets come when there is no time to think. You could probably guess that I have problems with topwater fishing. Just a little too keyed up most of the time. I pulled a 28 incher (musky) straight out of the water when it hit at boatside. I really think that people over analyze the hookset, your instincts will guide down the right road. Start to override that and you will have problems.(topwater excluded) I have not been doing the muskie thing long so maybe I am over stepping my knowledge. |
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