Musky

Never fished it for muskies and thinking of giving them a try in the next couple weeks between catching walleyes. Love some tips and ideas of where to try for them. Thanks in advance.

Scott, you can throw a zillion different lures… I know cause I have a zillion. You’ll get some fish, and big muscles!

I fished with Chris Beeksma on Bone Lake several years ago for Muskies. He had me bring 12 ” + sucker minnows and we rigged them on live bait sucker rigs (with a single front and a trebble in the rear… You have to have a spinner in the front for in Minnesota). Hey, live bait is the way to go! You drift and troll the rigs next to weeds and drops… and the muskies just inhale the rigs. The bait has to be alive and swimming, they eat no dead ones. A big rubber-core sinker in front about two feet will take the sucker down.

Bait Rigs Tackle of Madison WI. makes a great rig for this. I think Cabela’s has it. And they make a “fin-spin” attachment spinner/hook that you attach into the sucker’s fin to trail behind the sucker that spins and attracts. Hammered nickle is best for spinners and finspins, in clear water.

Bucktals, jerks, bulldogs… whatever…. you can throw what thrills you. Muskies will hit a big sucker everytime!

Now, you can not cast that sucker… so when you are in the shallow weeds and slop, you gotta have some artificials too! Thats when I pitch some of the zillions of lures in the big box! Lots of luck! Hawger

How’s it going Hawger. Which bone lake were you fishing?

I fish one not to far from Amery Wisconsin. I used to catch some real nice perch there and it wasn’t far from a real good walleye and bluegill lake.

Bone Lake near Balsom Lake, at Luck, WI.