2 days of Musky Fishing with more to come!

I went out all day sunday with a new musky guy. We tried some back water spots on the north end of lake saint clair early in the day. We pretty much threw everything but the kitchen sink at’em without seeing a single fish. The water temp was mid 40′s and I think we may have been fishing our baits too fast. The main thing we were doing was trying to find weed beds that were still green. Which, surprisingly we found lots of. But the fish didn’t seem to be active.

From there we headed south near the 400 club, but way out. About a mile of shore. We tossed glide baits & big jakes with no success. From there we headed over to a point down by 9 mile tower. Again glide baits big jakes and even a swim bait with nothing.

From there is was down to the mouth of the detroit river for some jigging. We used a couple different bondy baits. We worked the west break and I moved us from shallow to deep and back again as we drifted trying to see if we could find the fish. Dustin had 2 tap’s and I came up dry. Byt this time it was dark and we headed back to the harley launch. Which by the way still has 2 dock’s in. Not sure how long that will last though.

Yesterday I went back to the area we first fished on sunday morning. This time I stuck with big body baits, 10″ nils to be exact. I varied my retrieves form slow and steady to more of a jerk type retrieve. I even threw in some pauses and jerks during a steady retrieve. Right around dusk I had something hit the bait so hard it knocked slack into my line. Unfortunately I missed the fish. As I reeled it in I did see something following but it was to dark to tell how big or small. That was the only fish in that area.

So it seems pretty obvious that the fish want something big & slow. I wish we would have done more of that on sunday, but……

As I headed back to harley I decided to fish the channel leading into the clinton river. It was after dark and there were no boats out so I figured why not. I put on a solid black 10″ nils and started working it across the channel, slow with some pauses & jerks thrown in. About 200 yards form the break wall something smacked it hard! I jerked back and there was nothing there. When I got the nils in it had a nice gash on the back end of it. So something was there. I’m not sure what happened but, I’ll be sharpening my hooks tonight for more musky fun over the thanksgiving holiday.

Oh here is a little tip. If you’re out on lake saint clair during duck season make sure and look out for the open water duck hunters. If I wasn’t really looking hard I would have run over 2 of them. typically they’re in something really really low in the water or kayaks. If you see what looks like a bunch of ducks swing realy really wide or you might run someone over or thier gear. Kep in mind to that they have guns and more than likely you don’t so, no need to start a fight where you dont have to.

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