No discussion of illegal activity. It’s also a great time for Gavin to be fishing his undisputed favorite muskie lure: The bucktail.“During this time you’ll usually find me throwing some type of bucktail,” Gavin said. This primer on muskie fishing for beginners will help you get started.Muskies are an apex predator and eat a lot of different fish, many of which are fairly large in size. Most casters lure fish in from 5 to 15 feet deep while trollers usually catch them from 8 to 30. “The muskies will be hanging right there with the baitfish. Although preparations for the cold weather fishing can turn some anglers off, if properly dressed it's an exhilarating experience. Fall is an excellent time to fish muskies. On cloudy days fish can hit all day, at virtually any time.”No abusive comments, threats, or personal attacks. The muskies are staying down deeper in the colder weather, and a crankbait can sink to the deeper areas that your other musky baits will not. The purpose of this article is to educate against this practice and to share some commonsense ways to minimize the stress on muskies during the catch and release process in high water temp situations. So here are some suggestions to make sure that happens. Most muskies are caught less than 30 feet deep, often from 15 to 25 feet. You will want to do that with a healthy uninjured fish, so you can catch it another time. A stiff, and relatively short, rod is standard, with at least 25- to 40-pound line, though many diehard muskie anglers use thin-diameter microfilament lines from 50- to 80-pound strength. A bucktail will be hitting the water a lot, you’re making a lot of casts, and you’re not wearing yourself out ripping and jerking like with some other lures. In no way shape or form do I recommend fishing for muskies above 80* surface temperatures and feel that it should be avoided for the safety of muskies. “I like to run those over the tops of those young emergent weeds, and I’ll do the same with smaller jerkbaits. Racist, sexist, homophobic, and generally hateful comments are not tolerated. Probably the most-popular way to fish these areas is to troll, but you can also cast to them.
“I’ll either be fishing fairly shallow in or around [muskie] spawning bays, or, if I’m fishing a lake such as Vermillion, I might be fishing stretches of open water, kind of out in the middle of nowhere, in deep water where muskies recovering from the spawn will be hanging near large schools of tullibees.”Gavin explained that his shallow-water pattern will include fishing smaller bucktails, or smaller glide baits or jerk baits, lures with a relative slow side-to-side action to match a cold-water muskie’s slower metabolism. Keep comments on topic. They will strike it with a vengeance! Great examples are Phantoms with their slow, side-to-side action that really seem to trigger strikes when the muskies are not quite active enough to chase bucktails.“Topwaters can be great early too,” Gavin admits, especially lures like the Giant Jackpot, and Musky Buster Phat Boy, both of which produce a muskie-attracting, spook-style walk-the-dog action.Most early season muskie fisherman would not think to fish deep but Gavin says this somewhat newer strategy can be killer when muskies are targeting protein-rich tullibee, also called ciscoes.“The time-honored idea is that after muskies are done spawning they’re recovering in the shallows, but if you’ve got the right lake, with ciscoes suspended out over deep water, muskies can hang out there relatively unbothered, and that’s a great place for them to recover from the spawn as well.“Vermillion is a good cisco lake, and you want to focus in on those open-water basin areas—and that’s literally going out into those 35- to 50-foot depths and looking for schools of ciscoes on your depth finder,” Gavin explained.

Bucktails and jerkbaits are especially favored for casting, as well as large topwater lures. That fish sported a 24-plus-inch girth and an estimated weight of some 40 pounds, before its careful release.From spring through late fall, Gavin fishes muskies about 50 to 60 days per year—both Minneapolis metro area muskie lakes and several of the state’s storied northcountry waters, particularly Leech and Vermillion Lakes. Seldom are muskie catches one after the other like a good crappie bite. “Muskie fishing can be so difficult, and you really need to put all the odds in your favor, and as a lure you can’t find one that’s more efficient. Successful muskie fishing requires discipline, dedication, patience, and a lot of hours on the water. Black is the top producer.Large, shallow-running minnow-style plugs are also effective, especially around the edges of weeds and sometimes over the top of deeply submerged vegetation.Diving plugs can be both cast and trolled.

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