What an incredible night on the water! We had everything in our favor for this trip, we had a moon close to sunset and we had low pressure with heavy cloud cover and a chance of rain. This "perfect storm really turned the muskies on. Two nice fish hit the net, three follows and one lost fish for a 4 hour PM trip made for an excellent evening on the water.

Another musky in the net on an evening trip. Fish are up shallow and getting active. Yesterday brought very high winds which meant we had to change our game plan and fish protected shoreline areas. We hit some known musky areas around a long stretch of docks and we found a few active fish. Starting out with an active follow, then shortly after we caught a nice 40 inch musky. Two more fish followed but they weren't interested in eating.

Over the last week there has been a significant amount of muskies using shallow locations including green cabbage, red cabbage, milfoil and a sand/gravel mix. These fish have been chasing a variety of baits but mainly some sort of fast moving blade bait, like bucktails and spinnerbaits. With the increase in musky activity, there has also been an increase in fishing pressure. When these muskies see a lot of fishing pressure, they tend to stick tight to their preffered weed beds and home locations and only chase when they are really ready to feed. This last week was a struggle to find following fish, it's difficult because we want to gather intel by seeing fish. We want intel on where they are located, cover they are using, and baits they are chasing. That's part of the fun in musky fishing, is having interaction with them and figuring out how to out-smart them, but when they won't budge, it can get frustrating. On the bright side though, if you keep fishing known musky locations, you WIll catch fish. All week we were getting bites, we just weren't getting the follows we were hoping for to help lead us in the right direction. The fish pictured above, was one of three muskies caught in that morning session, and not one single follow! We are entering a very consistent, fish producing time of the season, arguably one of the most predictable times of the season, and without a doubt a time all of us musky fisherman look forward to every year.