musky fishing must haves

[sirspeed]

I have 500 hours of fishing on vermillion not that its a lot but I avg 100 days a year in northern Wis fishing for them so there are some helpful things to know about vermillion, beside the fact its been being fished a lot more in the last 10 years. e mail me if ya like and maybe I can help ya out.

[GreatWhiteNorth517]

I would suggest starting with a lobotomy. Casting big lures with telephone poles all day to get a few follows and the occasional fish is lunacy...lol

[Beets]

Slop master,bullfrog and firetiger!!!

[luredaddy]

A large bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide. You will get cuts from the Muskies' teeth or gills. Use it liberally, the infections can be bad. John

[bowhunter29]

1. What Vince said

2. A good lure retriever. It can pay for itself on one lure!

I think pretty much everything else was covered.

jeremy

[jmiko]

Being relatively new to muskie fishing myself I can tell you one thing. Heavy line for those heavy baits. New to muskies and new to bait casters I have had a couple of backlashes and when line stops all of a sudden the bait doesn't. Its hard to watch a 25 dollar buck tail fly off into the stratosphere. I started of using 15 lb mono which was a bad idea then I went to 65 lb Power Pro which was better until I watched 45 dollars sink to the bottom of the lake. I now have 80 lb Power Pro slick braid which is nice and keeps your hand a little drier. The best would be to not have any backlashes at all but for me I am not that good yet but I am getting a lot better about keeping my lures tied on.

[finfinder]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kingdo...07256699300833

Check out this small companies Musky trolling weights. They are quick-release and have add on weights.

[Jerry Borst]

Your quickest path to becoming a successful fisherman/(muskies) after accumulating good release tools as already discussed above is learning the "Where". What separates the men from the boys in fishing is the ability of the fishermen to interpret bottom features and the quickest way for us to learn where to cast the most productive features in any body of water is by learning how to troll correctly.

Buck Perry was the most successful troller who ever lived and wrote a book called "Spoonplugging, Your Guide To Lunker Catches"years ago that spells out everything we need to get started in becoming an accomplished fisherman. He talks about how everything in our boat including our boat itself should be viewed as a tool to do a specific job. Buck talks about achieving exact depth and speed control of our baits and says if we have tools that don't allow us to control the depth and speed of our baits they must be replaced with something that will. Obtaining the right tools first saves us a lot of money and makes presenting lures or bait so much easier.

My kids and I had never caught a muskie before reading this book but after reading and studying it over the winter in 1995 we caught 26 muskies that next season. Today we're well over 1800 and though we have picked up many other tips and tricks along the way it was Buck's book by far that had the biggest impact. Not even close!

What this book gives us is a base of true fishing facts and fundamentals that if we stick to the guidelines at some point during a average fishing we will make some kind of contact with the fish. It takes a bit of faith and it takes work but looking back we wouldn't have it any other way. Oh yeah your gonna need a good lure retriever, a must have!

Good luck,