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Fat Fish Guide Service
Patrick Sheahan
680 Reserve Lane
Phelps, WI 54554
| Muskie fishing is usually not a type of fishing where you anchor your boat and sit on one spot. Your boat is constantly in motion, either drifting or by trolling motor as you try to cover as much of an area as you can. If the wind is right, so it drifts your boat in the right direction, you can save your battery. Even if you are drifting, you will generally make positional adjustments with your electric motor. |
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| Begin drifting quite some distance from the area you are actually fishing. Muskies often hang around in the deeper water off some favored spot. Try to keep your boat perpedicular (right angle) to the direction you want it to move. This can be a real problem, if the wind doesn't favor this and, whoever is handy to the electric motor will have to keep adjusting for it. This can cause some snarling because he is losing casting time. Such is life. |
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| In general, muskies do not usually fear a boat. You can drift a particular area more than once, come back to it later, or whatever. They will follow your lure right up to the boat, which is the reason for the figure-8 at the end of your cast. Heavy boat traffic will upset them, though. |
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| Lakes with heavy usage from power boats, water skiers, and jet skies can make both fishermen and muskies grumpy. If you fish such a lake during the summer, you may do much better fishing at night. Night fishing is a whole new ball of wax and there are many things you need to know that you do not have to bother with during the day. Do not night fish a lake that you are not familiar with because you can have no end of problems. |
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| There is much more about boat control that a muskie fisherman needs to know and master. If you know the basic techniques, it will do much to increase your muskie action. Fat Fish covers many of these techniques in its Instructional Outings. |
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| E-mail or call now for an Instructional Outing! |
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