What's My Favorite Fish to Catch You Ask?
Do you have a favorite fish you fish for? I'm asked this often. Like my answer to "Where's my favorite place to fish or be outdoors," my answer is basically the same - all of them. I fish for crappie, blue gill and walleye to eat. I fish for large mouth, small mouth bass, northern pike and muskie for the hunt and fight. I fish for trout mostly just to get out where they live.
Seriously I Don't Really Have a Favorite Place to Fish - I Love Them All
I was asked the other day if I have a favorite place to fish or be outdoors. Well, my favorite place to fish, that's easy, it's anywhere I'm fishing. Seriously don't really have a favorite place.
Free Fishing Days During National Fishing And Boating Week
National Fishing and Boating Week is June 5-13, 2021. The majority of states are offering free fishing days or weekends during that time, so it’s a great opportunity to introduce a child or friend to fishing or to head somewhere new.
Never Lose Another Fish Fight Again
Knots fail. Leaders snap. Lures pop free. Whatever the reason, if you spend enough time on the water, you’re going to lose fish—probably some big ones to boot. Even the pros suffer break-offs. But not too often, because they learn from their mistakes. Here, six of the best share some of those painful lessons so you’re never deprived of another grip-and-grin shot again.
Muskie Fall Fishing Secrets
Few freshwater experiences rival the adrenaline rush you get when a monster muskie shadows your lure to the boat. But this addictive surge of epinephrine can make it hard to focus on the best course of action to convert follows into strikes and, more importantly, get the fish in the boat.
Softbaits For Fishing Big Muskie And Pike
When scissorheads go one-on-one against most anything else, they win. Pike meets perch? Win. Put pike and muskies up against other everyday stuff—mono line, fingers, boat seats, landing nets, and pretty much any traditional softbait in your box—and the result is as predictable as scissors on paper.
Casting For Muskies
Consider musky fishing a moderately deep lake where a mere 500 adult muskies swim and disappear in 5,000 acres of fishable water. That’s one catchable fish per 10 acres of water, or one muskie in just over 9 football fields.
Best Odds of Catching A Muskie
Muskie fishing windows of opportunity open and shut all the time. Major windows relate to seasonal patterns. Each Calendar Period and water temperature range corresponds to general locational and behavioral patterns. Phases of each lunar cycle affect muskie behavior. Each day, moonrise, moon overhead, moonset, and moon-under-foot times can spur a bite.