![]() ![]() This isn’t the power fishing most musky anglers prefer, but it’s highly effective. (Shutterstock image)Įither should be fished in a vertical manner, close to the bottom, while drifting over the deeper holes and pools muskies spend much of their time in when the water is cold. Strikes on large, vertically presented baits tend to occur on the fall, so keep a tight line as the lure descends and be ready to sink the hooks at the first sign of a bite. My most productive examples of this are a classic leadhead jig tipped with a chub or sucker minnow and a half-ounce Silver Buddy blade bait. However, put a smaller vertical presentation in front of a musky and the result can be far better. And even if you can get them down that deep, their horizontal movement is more than an inactive muskie is likely to respond to. I’ve used a jig-and-minnow to catch 40-inch-plus muskies that bit as lightly as a 12-inch walleye.Ĭlassic muskie lures-crankbaits, glide baits and big rubber baits-typically don’t reach the depths at which these fish are holding. In my experience fish that hold in the depths of these pools aren’t very active, but still might be catchable if you put some easy-to-eat morsels in front of them. This could be a deep hole on an outside river bend deep slots behind barriers such as islands in slack-water pools formed below and sometimes above sand, gravel and rock bars, often at the mouths of small feeder streams and below river dams, particularly if a lock chamber is present. GO VERTICAL WITH SMALL BAITSĪs mentioned, muskies spend much of the winter and early spring in areas protected from the main force of a river. Let’s examine three tactics that will help you put muskies in the boat (or, in some cases, on the bank) in the early spring. They can, which provides justification for folks who feel a musky catch isn’t valid unless the fish succumbed to a dedicated musky lure. This isn’t to say muskies can’t be caught on outsize lures now. ![]()
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