Muskie fishing tips?

[ewurm]

Found a small lake in Minneapolis crawling with Muskies. I was tossing a spinnerbait on the pier yesterday when I saw a ]v[onster emerge from the depths and roll on the surface. Shortly after, a guy that was fly fishing accidentally snagged a 14" Muskie. I tried deep diving crank baits, stickbaits, spinnerbaits, etc. I was thinking of trying topwater, but someone told me the water was too cold for that right now. Any advice on how to hook one of these beasts?

 

[JD7.62]

Muskies are suckers for suckers! If you can catch suckers (northern hogsuckers, golden river redhorse, ect) for bait you will catch them!

 

[ewurm]

I'm too impatient for live bait, but if all else fails I'll try it.

 

[phantoms]

people here in wi are having success righ tnow with top water lures. id give them a try. also, swimming joes work great!!! bulldogs have a lot of success too. big bucktails and musky spinnerbaits also.

 

[rallysman]

A guy I work with fishing for nothing buy musky. I mean nothing else. If he's fishing, it's for musky. He even told me he doesn't know how to catch a bass or a crappie LOL.....


I'll ask him tomorrow.

 

[spotfin]

Aren't muskys called "The fish of a thousand casts"?

 

[ettfettbranamn]

I only know what works over here where the water is dark and "foggy" but I seem to have better luck with 4 inch yellow jig type worm than my friends have with all their expensive gear.. water here is between 14 and 19 degrees Celsius..

 

[toxicfish]

I don't know much if any about fishing for muskie... But if I was to try I would use a big jointed crank bait and troll around edges of weed beds at different depths...................... or something

 

[ewurm]

I was thinking of trying a huge swimbait next time, or I might try that plastic worm idea.

 

[phantoms]

ewurm, get a swimming joe. the dang thing swims so realisticly and is soft.