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My experience with tiger musky has been different than what a lot of people will tell you...I have caught big fish out of Newton, Pineview, as well as others without spending loads of time...
...personally, I think the trick is to find something new. In both Pineview and Newton, fishing pressure was relatively high for the toothy buggers and catching fish was exactly like people described until I found that one lure...my first big Musky came on a pink pixie, and it was no fluke. I had cast every big crankbait, rattletrap, and musky lure I had when finally I became desperate. So, I tied on the relatively small pink salmon spoon and started casting. Within minutes I had landed my first musky on my first outing to Pineview...before I had left I had landed seven more small fish. The following day I returned and fish a couple hours more. My results with the pixie were the same--I caught numerous fish and ended my day with a pretty nice fish--45 inches. That was about 10 years ago.
On Newton my experience was similar...fishermen were strewn across the lake fishing for virtually every kind of fish under the sun including Musky. It was July and I was determined to land at least one. Again, I threw every lure in my box including an array of pixies that I now carry with me whenever I musky fish...nothing was working and the fishing was driving me nuts because I was seeing fish on the surface fairly regularly. About an hour before dark my floating rapala tangled itself and spun across the surface as I reeled it back in...to my surprise, a musky hit the lure as it spun in not how the lure was designed to work. It was my first kind of action all day...so, I intentionally connected one the lures hooks into the swivel portion of the steal leader and began casting. Again, within minutes I had a second take and my first fish...at dark, I landed my second fish--a 43 inch musky that hit the tangled lure about 5 feet from my tube (I almost always fish for musky from a float tube...a lot of fun).
On my favorite Utah musky reservoir, I now always take my usual spinning gear and tackle but also always bring my fly rod and fly assortment along as well...it seems that at this particular lake that fish are relatively easy to catch early in the season but as fishing pressure mounts, the fishing gets tougher and tougher with my usual tackle. But, not with the fly rod...the exact opposite happens.
If you want to catch a big fish, yeah....you just might have to spend some time. But, I strongly suggest that you look for things that are a bit out of the ordinary and see if you can trigger a response...in my experience that difference has made all the difference. I now spend usually 2or 3 days a year fishing for tiger musky...not very many. But, in those 2or 3 days, I have always been fortunate enough to catch some musky and now have caught a handful of fish over 20 pounds. These big ones are perhaps not the monsters that lurk, but I think they would probably make you
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And, FWIW, I definitely think big musky are easier to catch and require less effort and time than big lake trout....
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...personally, I think the trick is to find something new. In both Pineview and Newton, fishing pressure was relatively high for the toothy buggers and catching fish was exactly like people described until I found that one lure...my first big Musky came on a pink pixie, and it was no fluke. I had cast every big crankbait, rattletrap, and musky lure I had when finally I became desperate. So, I tied on the relatively small pink salmon spoon and started casting. Within minutes I had landed my first musky on my first outing to Pineview...before I had left I had landed seven more small fish. The following day I returned and fish a couple hours more. My results with the pixie were the same--I caught numerous fish and ended my day with a pretty nice fish--45 inches. That was about 10 years ago.
On Newton my experience was similar...fishermen were strewn across the lake fishing for virtually every kind of fish under the sun including Musky. It was July and I was determined to land at least one. Again, I threw every lure in my box including an array of pixies that I now carry with me whenever I musky fish...nothing was working and the fishing was driving me nuts because I was seeing fish on the surface fairly regularly. About an hour before dark my floating rapala tangled itself and spun across the surface as I reeled it back in...to my surprise, a musky hit the lure as it spun in not how the lure was designed to work. It was my first kind of action all day...so, I intentionally connected one the lures hooks into the swivel portion of the steal leader and began casting. Again, within minutes I had a second take and my first fish...at dark, I landed my second fish--a 43 inch musky that hit the tangled lure about 5 feet from my tube (I almost always fish for musky from a float tube...a lot of fun).
On my favorite Utah musky reservoir, I now always take my usual spinning gear and tackle but also always bring my fly rod and fly assortment along as well...it seems that at this particular lake that fish are relatively easy to catch early in the season but as fishing pressure mounts, the fishing gets tougher and tougher with my usual tackle. But, not with the fly rod...the exact opposite happens.
If you want to catch a big fish, yeah....you just might have to spend some time. But, I strongly suggest that you look for things that are a bit out of the ordinary and see if you can trigger a response...in my experience that difference has made all the difference. I now spend usually 2or 3 days a year fishing for tiger musky...not very many. But, in those 2or 3 days, I have always been fortunate enough to catch some musky and now have caught a handful of fish over 20 pounds. These big ones are perhaps not the monsters that lurk, but I think they would probably make you
!And, FWIW, I definitely think big musky are easier to catch and require less effort and time than big lake trout....
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