Well I was able to blow the dust off my musky gear this week and do some real fishing. The cooler nights and recent cloud cover have really done a number on the water temps. The water is consistently staying below 79 degrees now with surface temps at 76 and 77 in the mornings. It is still warm and muskies should be handled quickly. This means cut hooks on deeply hooked fish, take quick pictures, and maybe even skip a measurement. With that said, fishing has been great the past few days.
Fish have been hitting big rubber like Bulldawgs and Medussa’s in deep water. They have been located out over deep structure or open water. Finding bait fish with your graph can be a big help and a good starting point. Fish have been going crazy for big rips and pulls with these baits.
Fish have been active around the moonset as well. A couple of days ago we boated 9 fish from 6:00 am to 2:00 in the afternoon. 4 of these fish came within 45 minutes of moonset. If you have fish located, you will want to be around them when the moon is near the tree line!
With the high pressure/post frontal weather we are experiencing today and this weekend I expect the pattern to slow down a bit. Today we only caught 1 fish and it was in shallow water. We totaled something like 17 fish this week. It was very fishy!! If anybody is looking to book a guide trip, let me know… Most of my days in the next couple of weeks are cleared because I didn’t know when the water would cool down…