03-22-2017, 05:04 PM
I've only targeted muskie and pike in Minnesota, not in Utah, so others may have better advice than I do.
However...
If I were fishing here I'd cast a 1-3" flashy spoon parallel-ish to the shoreline beyond a piece of underwater cover and retrieve it just past the cover. Muskie tend to sit in cover and dart out at passing meals.
Lily pad beds were the best.
Live minnows are legal in Minnesota and we never used them for muskie/pike.
My most productive lure was a 5" rubber rainbow trout minnow thing with a big spinner on its nose and 2 trebles off the bottom of it. Unfortunately, it caught the eye of a massive snapping turtle which nomnommed the steel leader before I could retrieve him, the big jerk.
Good luck.
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However...
If I were fishing here I'd cast a 1-3" flashy spoon parallel-ish to the shoreline beyond a piece of underwater cover and retrieve it just past the cover. Muskie tend to sit in cover and dart out at passing meals.
Lily pad beds were the best.
Live minnows are legal in Minnesota and we never used them for muskie/pike.
My most productive lure was a 5" rubber rainbow trout minnow thing with a big spinner on its nose and 2 trebles off the bottom of it. Unfortunately, it caught the eye of a massive snapping turtle which nomnommed the steel leader before I could retrieve him, the big jerk.
Good luck.
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