I am planning on heading out to Alum Creek Reservoir to fish the spillway for Muskie. Anyone ever try their luck there? Seen some pics on another website that got me interested so I am going to give it a try. Decided to do that instead of going all the way to Lake erie for walleye.
Muskie Fishing
- Thread starter gogger
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no offense but you probably wont catch one. you might, but generally you wont. they call em the fish of 10,000 casts for a reason. I know soem people who fished for them for 2-3 years before even getting one to follow a lure. i have fished for them a couple times, nothing yet.
I've had two run-ins with them twice in 5 years of fishing seriously. First time one hit a 10" tube coming across the water like a snake and the second time was on a very calm morning where I could see a massive wake that kept swimming around this ball of bait fish. So I slowly got the boat about 70 feet from the bait ball and started ripping a 1/2oz chart/white spinner bait, on my thrid cast BAM I got the pleasure of seeing one smack the spinny right below the surface but the fight only lasted about 10 seconds....
Out of my two run-ins I still haven't landed one yet but it makes for some great fish storys. I did how ever land my first northern last year !! Finding them is very hard, then making them bite is even harder, plus Landing them with out the proper net and stuff is a long shot !!
Out of my two run-ins I still haven't landed one yet but it makes for some great fish storys. I did how ever land my first northern last year !! Finding them is very hard, then making them bite is even harder, plus Landing them with out the proper net and stuff is a long shot !!
Hmm, really? I have caught quite a few musky in the campground that I go to every summer. Never got a huge one, but 10-15 pounders aren't that rare. The lake is infested with northerns, musky, and tiger musky, and you catch some if you put in the time. I usually get them on live bait, but you only get a musky once about every 10-20 fish, so they are definitely rarer than others, but not "the fish of 10,000 casts," at least not there.
I never knew how difficult they were supposed to be to catch until I saw this thread and looked them up. Maybe the concentration in this lake is just much higher than in others, but I never considered them really difficult to catch. I have only caught one in a different place once, so maybe I just found musky heaven or something.
I never knew how difficult they were supposed to be to catch until I saw this thread and looked them up. Maybe the concentration in this lake is just much higher than in others, but I never considered them really difficult to catch. I have only caught one in a different place once, so maybe I just found musky heaven or something.
Joe where your fishing the population must be very high. Far as the spot I mentioned it's a 275 acre lake with more bass and other pan fish in it then musky. When musky do get caught there they usually are in the 40" range !!
Well I checked the ohio game fishing website and they were talking about catching muskie in the spillway. That is were we headed. After being there 5 minutes a guy about 100 yards from us caught one about 40 inches long. So we got a little closer to him. He soon caught another and a guy directly across from him had one on also. The guys closest to the dam were hooking them.
Those of us trying to hook a muskie kept working closer to the dam. They must have suddenly quit biting. The guys that had been hooking them suddenly were not. So after a while they started leaving. We eventually were the last there casting into the spillway waters.
We had a few strikes, none from muskie I believe. But we learned a little from watching the guys that were catching them.
Ohio stocks its reservoirs with muskie so they are there. And a lot of them. I talked to a guy at the bait store that had caught 43 so far this year at Alum below the dam. So we will keep trying until we figure it out.
Those of us trying to hook a muskie kept working closer to the dam. They must have suddenly quit biting. The guys that had been hooking them suddenly were not. So after a while they started leaving. We eventually were the last there casting into the spillway waters.
We had a few strikes, none from muskie I believe. But we learned a little from watching the guys that were catching them.
Ohio stocks its reservoirs with muskie so they are there. And a lot of them. I talked to a guy at the bait store that had caught 43 so far this year at Alum below the dam. So we will keep trying until we figure it out.
Well someone caught one on a Keitech Swimbait. It's on youtube. Here is a link to that catch. http://www.ohiogamefishing.com/community/showthread.php?t=173482