Cold weather bass and musky sightings

[sega]

What I've found is that I can get them to follow, but once they see me or especially when they see me before they see my lure it's done. They're more curious about me than any lure I have. It's pretty wild, I've had them swim right up to and past me, eyeing me the whole time. They're very curious lol.


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[perchy]

It's hard to do a figure 8 from a kayak. I've never tangled with Muskies, but I've had a large Northern Pike do the same thing where once they see me they slink away.

[Romo]

I've experience this with snakeheads a lot. Long casts!

[mike o]

Caught a nice smallie on a husky jerk in the Susquehanna today using a 15 second pause. Thanks20151221_145112.jpg

[sega]

Nice one. Glad the tip helped ya!


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[perchy]

Sega, have you tried Burke Lake in Virginia? There are Muskies in there.

[sega]

No I have not. Are they stocked?


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[perchy]

http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/fishing...ection=fishing

"Burke Lake provides a trophy muskie fishery with numerous fish in the 20-25-pound range. Muskie were initially stocked into Burke Lake in 1966 and have been stocked annually at a rate of 2/acre. Stocked muskie tend to run about 6 inches on average. In 1997, a gigantic 49 and one quarter-inch muskie was caught in a trap net. Anglers have annually caught several citation size muskie. A citation size muskie is a minimum of either 40 inches or 15 pounds. The largest muskie caught at Burke Lake was a 26.5-pound trophy in 1985.

Muskie can be caught with large buck tail spinners and crank baits by casting in late fall to early spring. Burke Lake normally stratifies (by temperature layers) in late spring. The thermocline is established about 10 feet down, and muskie tend to hang just above this layer. Anglers have success trolling large crankbaits and buck tails from late spring to fall, targeting the muskie hovering above the thermocline in the cooler water that still has sufficient dissolved oxygen. Anglers should target points and vegetated flats early in the year before trolling near creek channels and break lines as the year progresses."

[sega]

Damn! I'm going to have to check that out that's awesome. Be cool to get a few of us ski hunters out there with some radios, and see what we could pull up.


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[perchy]

New report from Burke Lake, VA.

http://www.baybass.com/node/232

[perchy]

Sega, I found a youtube video of a musky someone caught out of Burke lake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3ilDrI4ofg

[mike o]

More success on a Husky Jerk. My friend Drew and I fished the shore of Loch Raven for 45 minutes before dark. We caught 2 fish and his was a nice one.drews bass.jpg

[perchy]

Nice job! Your son reminds me of myself when I was about his age. My first fish was actually caught on a blue and orange Husky Jerk. Funny how all these old lures still kick ass!