06-23-2011, 04:53 AM
This year has been off, all my bigger smallies have been while throwing big jerkbaits and cranks for muskies, its weird cuz this years theme seems to go like " when we are throwing big stuff for muskies we catch bass and when fishing for bass we catch or hook into the muskies".
Once the water clears and the lake settles down i think things will hopefully pick up. Me and Utcatman covered a lot of shoreline last night from 445pm til 10. The first 5 minutes joe hooked into a real big 5 to 7lb lmb on a crank but she jumped right out of that lake and throw her middle fin and that crank right back at us. Not five or six casts later he hooks into another lmb, thought for sure things were gonna be good. Bad guess, moved to the otherside of the lake and i was questioning about if anything would be where we were fishing and no joke sure enough i get blown up on and hook into a nice muskie, throwback again and this time the hook landed in its mouth, fight on well my baitcaster was set for bass and this muskie screamed drag and rain for cover and actually jumped out of the water into a tree then wrapped itself deep, she was still hooked and i was able to get her moving with my 14 lb pline flouro but just as she came out from the tree once last run and she was gone.
Well still muskie less for the season, we do what we do best and kept on keeping on. I was pissed to lose two in a row and joe got distracted when something blew up on him and sure enough he misseed it. Well we fished til we couldnt see anymore and left the lake skunked!
OH WELL NEXT TIME
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Once the water clears and the lake settles down i think things will hopefully pick up. Me and Utcatman covered a lot of shoreline last night from 445pm til 10. The first 5 minutes joe hooked into a real big 5 to 7lb lmb on a crank but she jumped right out of that lake and throw her middle fin and that crank right back at us. Not five or six casts later he hooks into another lmb, thought for sure things were gonna be good. Bad guess, moved to the otherside of the lake and i was questioning about if anything would be where we were fishing and no joke sure enough i get blown up on and hook into a nice muskie, throwback again and this time the hook landed in its mouth, fight on well my baitcaster was set for bass and this muskie screamed drag and rain for cover and actually jumped out of the water into a tree then wrapped itself deep, she was still hooked and i was able to get her moving with my 14 lb pline flouro but just as she came out from the tree once last run and she was gone.
Well still muskie less for the season, we do what we do best and kept on keeping on. I was pissed to lose two in a row and joe got distracted when something blew up on him and sure enough he misseed it. Well we fished til we couldnt see anymore and left the lake skunked!
OH WELL NEXT TIME
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