7 Retrieve Tips For Minnowbaits

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2016 issue of Musky Hunter. To see more classic articles like this, subscribe to the Musky Hunter Digital Collection: https://simplecirc.com/subscribe/musky-hunter-collection By Steve Heiting, Managing Editor We knew the musky was there; after all, it had showed itself for three consecutive days. A thick patch of green cabbage along the shoreline was its haunt, and four times it had deeply followed a bucktail before turning away at boatside. Now a cold mist was falling, and the wind had switched around to the north — not the conditions you would expect a big musky to bite, especially a fish whose interest had previously been no better than lukewarm. But you can’t catch a musky if you don’t try for it, and since we were in the neighborhood we swung the boat over to the shoreline she called home. Rather than snap on a bucktail, I reached into my lure storage and grabbed a Magnum ShallowRaider, figuring its big profile and wobble were sure to get noticed. And, the lure would run four or five feet deeper than the bucktails the musky had followed previously, making it something she could eat without coming up to the…
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