Not a bad Sunday morning

[JoshM3357]

Still hoping for a good muskie before the end of the year.

[muskyjerk]

The small muskies let you know you are doing something right.
The cold water will help your pike stop bleeding. And that is a nice sized pike. Good job!

[lowbidder]

Nice Northern!
I don't want to know your bait selection, but I am curious as to how big a bait you were using to catch that musky. I've had several follows this fall from musky about the same size on baits up to 10" long.
I often wondered if their eyes were bigger than their mouths.

[JoshM3357]

Was throwing a 5" or so stick bait. Actually went down to try for a walleye or two for dinner. I have had a few smaller muskie follow 8" swimbaits this year.

I actually have had a lot of pike/muskie follow swimbaits but not hitting. Anyone have this happen a lot with swim baits? I fish them swim slow with the occasional jerk and speed changes.

[Jasm2]

Congrats! My brother and I hit that place about 7 times this year and got ZEROED!

[JoshM3357]

Thanks everyone!

[ttabaleulb]

Way to go Josh!! If you don't mind me asking, what time of day were you seeing your action? I saw quite a bit of action on Sunday between 11am and 1pm (after the time change). Just curious to see if the times were similar.

[JoshM3357]

I fished from about 8-11. All the fish came around 10:00. I went back down from 4 till dark and didnt get anything.

The fish did seem very active in the morning. There were huge schools of panfish eating stuff off the surface all morning.

[Red Childress]

Congrats on fish #2........u are officially infected with the disease.