Musky Hunter's

Fishing Time: 6:00 am to 6:00 pm

Weather: Partly cloudy, windy, T-60

Moon Phase:  57% Moon

Location:  Pineview

Bait:  Swimbaits, spinnerbaits, spinners, musky killers

Who Went:  Rick, John, Me

The fishing trio was at it again this weekend, hunting for the sought after Tiger Muskie that lurks in Pineview Reservoir.  We arrived just as the sun was coming up and the air was a brisk thirty degrees.  We launched the boat and immediately began casting towards the bushy shorelines.  It didn't take long before we had a few followers and our confidence began to grow.  Then like a light switch, the wind turned on and didn't let up the rest of the day.  The follows shut off and we searched for any sheltered shoreline we could find.

 

We found a hideout in a bay that gave us a little relief from the wind, but couldn’t find a musky in there.  Rick and John caught quite a few smallmouth, but nothing with any size.  We had that feeling that the wind was here to stay, so we started heading towards the marina to trailer the boat when we noticed a fairly protected shoreline that didn’t seem as windy.  We ended up spending the rest of the day working that same shoreline and had multiple followers on every pass.  It definitely seemed like the wind affected the follows as one pass would be windy and we wouldn’t have any followers and the next pass not as windy with multiple followers.  Even with the follows we still couldn’t convince one to bite.

 

It wasn’t until John tied on a spinnerbait with no steel leader that we finally enticed a hit, and what a hit it was.  Out of nowhere we noticed a musky near the boat.  Could have been a follower that just stuck around or something, either way John tossed his spinnerbait next to him and immediately he hammered it!  Unfortunately with no steel leader the bite was about all we had to be excited about.  The line snapped soon after and it’s now just a good fish story.

 

We continued casting until our arms and backs couldn’t take it anymore and left with no muskies on the board.  It was disappointing with as many followers as we had.  You would think out of that many (15-20) that one would make a mistake, but they definitely got the best of us today.  I literally casted non-stop all day long and that’s the reason no pictures were taken.