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| Trolling muskies through October snow squalls. |
I continue to monitor the fall trolling season on a local muskie lake. The lake has some very large muskies that "turn on" after turnover. But, the water temperatures are still in the low 50s and muskies are set up in the shallows and better targeted casting. But, I am content to troll and see what I can run into. So, we spent another day pulling a 10-inch Believer 50 feet out on one rod and a 10-inch Jake "30 pulls out" on another (the one without the line counter). Our typical trolling run included main lake points, steep shorelines, islands, offshore reefs, saddles, neck downs, and open water.
It ended up being another long and cold day on the lake. But, between snow squalls we managed to hook-up a nice 38-inch pike in open water. Not a muskie, but a fine local speciman. And, no doubt a cisco-eater.
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| Grab-n-grin fall pike. |
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| Breathe. |
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| Twitch in the tail... and goin' back! |
The muskie bite definitely was NOT on yet. And, the weather wasn't much better. After putting in an honest day on the water we motored back to the landing into falling ice pellets stinging our already cold faces. It was a fall fisherman's acupuncture session and it felt good (I swear my back felt better from it). A flock of fresh divers got up in front of us and bursted into the northwest. They must have just came down because we haven't seen ducks all fall. It warmed us with anticipation. The migration is starting and we'll be carrying shotguns tomorrow. Soon the lakes will be turning over and muskies big enough to eat ducks will chomp anything they can get their mouths around before ice-up.
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| A post-trolling grouse hunt. |
Ahhh, the beer and smoked ciscos tasted good at the end of this day.
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