[ad_1] For anglers looking to challenge themselves, muskie fishing offers an exciting and rewarding experience.
When muskie fishing, never cast without finishing with a perfect figure-eight near the boat. This is the advice we give every friend and colleague who joins us on the water.
Often, especially with those new to fishing for these large, toothy fish, we notice the message hasn’t fully sunk in early in the day. When we remind them, they typically say, “But I can see clearly behind my lure, and there’s nothing there.”
It doesn’t matter.
Just the other day, I caught a beautiful, thick muskie by casting onto a point, reeling my lure back to the boat, and then performing a figure-eight. As I began to lift the lure for my next cast—with the bait at least halfway out of the water—a huge white head with its mouth wide open shot up like a great white shark and engulfed the lure. It was like that scene from the movie Jaws.
I likely wouldn’t have caught—or even seen—the fish if I hadn’t made a figure-eight by instinct next to the boat to finish my cast.
Performing a figure-eight after every cast may seem unnecessary or even time-consuming, but if you do it religiously, you’ll catch two, three, four, or more muskies over the season, depending on how often you fish. While that number may seem low, I’ll adopt any technique into my muskie repertoire if it means catching more of these large, toothy predators.
Now, observe, learn, and listen carefully:
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