When and were to fish sand areas for muskies?

[RipNLip]

I think this could be quite a subject for you guys to mull over.
I would like to here your ideas on this subject.What the heck are those muskies chasing when they are up on shallow sand?

Perch.

Tom B

[jlong]

During low light..... SUCKERS!

[Marc Thorpe]

Anything thats food and relates to sand.perch,bullheads,channel cats,shiners,suckers,mooeyes,alewife.One other thing,the attributes of warming sand.

marc

[HerbB]

Crayfish. Try brown bucktails or spinner baits with a plastic double-tail trailer sometime when the fish are in the shallows. Give it a little pumping action and you're in business.

[Otter]

IMHO, the best sand is sand with an isolated clump of weeds or a rock on it. If you can find that, you may have a date with Big Momma.

[Musky Fever]

The best time to fish the sand is early in the season, the sand will warm the water faster and the Muskies will be active on the sand flats.

[Mike Michalak]

I never would've believed it if I didn't see it first-hand, then tried it. Our company used to put on fishing adventures and we held our annual muskie Wallhanger on the Eagle River (WI) chain every Oct/Nov. This is big fish time.

We had a guy from Iowa up here, flipping 1/2-ounce weedless jigs with a 12" motoroil worm up into the sand. They nailed it! He had three on in about two hours. I went back out with him and worked the same area with the same result! Three more fish.

All we did was toss the rig into the sand in about 6" of water and twitch it back. For whatever reason, these fish (37" the largest) wanted the worms.

Ralph

I see those early season sand fish and can't get them to bite. Later in the year, seems to be a different story. Do you have a technique that will proeduce bites from these disinterested early season sand fish?

BrianF.
Twin Cities

[Musky Fever]

Brian,

I work em real slow with jerk baits and twitch small cranks. The water I fish is stained, I don't know if that makes a diferrence or not.

Good luck!