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- [Joe] Welcome to this week's show.
Inside this episode, we feature
three separate topics and conditions.
In segment one, VRP Evinrude Outboard's
regional sales director, Luke Sweet,
joins me on an early summer muskie outing.
After that, I'm crankbait and jerkbait fishing
a tightly-schooled group of bass
over a clump of milfoil weeds
on a cold, misty, overcast day.
Finally, Rich Belanger from St. Croix
joins me on a mid-August, still,
overcast afternoon, and some super-exciting
topwater muskie fishing.
It's all coming up, so
stick around for the action.
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- Hey folks, welcome to our muskie episode.
We've got Luke Sweet from Evinrude.
Great seeing you on the show.
Regional sales director for Evinrude, and
also regional sales director for Muskie Temple.
(both men laugh)
It's funny, Luke and I are out here
on our first muskie voyage together, and
you've been a hunter
and fisherman your whole life.
You're just talking about elk hunting
and all this other stuff.
You're a big-time outdoorsman, and you guys
make fantastic products, and we're out here
just having fun trying to catch a muskie,
and we're raising a few, right?
- We've raised probably a dozen fish
already today, so.
- It's been pretty good, but
we kind of tweaked the retrieval a little bit,
didn't we?
- Yeah, you talk about changing the tempo
a little bit, give it a little burst
of speed, let it back down.
Give it a little burst of speed.
I tried that the second time,
and we hooked up.
- Folks.
- And she came right up out of the water.
- Oh yeah, I'll tell you what,
that was some fantastic, and wait till you see
this, folks, the way this fish jumps,
but it just goes to show you, you've seen it
on my TV show many times, where I talk about
do not get too rhythmic, you know.
Whether you're working on a jerkbait,
whether you're working a topwater lure,
whether you're working the spinner,
do not get too rhythmic, 'cause if you get
too rhythmic, they follow.
But.
- Change it up a little bit.
- Change it up a little bit,
and look what happens.
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You know, so that fish is coming on it,
it, that's what gets them to go.
- You guys are tuning me up, I'm practicing.
- Oh, you're doing it, man,
you're doing it.
- [Camera Man] He cast it a mile.
- Yeah, he's, I just
fish?
- Uh, no.
- Fish, fish!
We're in, we're yeah!
- Whoa.
- Hey!
- Game on, game on, game on.
The burst worked, Chris.
The burst worked.
- There we go.
- Nice job, too, huh?
What do you think, Chris?
Luke's got a good fish on here.
Oh, it's a battler, man.
Watch her, watch that troller motor, now.
Watch that troller motor.
Easy Luke, easy with 'er.
Oh, Luke.
- There we go. Coming up.
- This fish is hooked from here to tomorrow.
You ready?
You got 'er too low.
I can't see 'er, I can't see 'er.
Right here.
Yeah!
(both men laugh and scream)
- Alright.
- That's awesome, that's awesome.
You know what's funny about that?
You and I have come close three times
down this pass here.
- Changed the tempo.
- Changed the tempo.
We were just talking about the burst thing.
Folks, we were just talking about the burst
on the buck tail.
Bursting the bait, I mean,
what was that, two casts with the burst?
And boom.
- Yeah, yeah.
- "I think that, I think that was a weed."
No, that was a fish.
(both men laugh)
Hey, hey baby.
Alright.
You don't mind me pulling the fish out, do you?
- No, please.
- Alright, let's get ahold of this baby here.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Hey you know what's cool?
These people from Evinrude actually can fish.
How 'bout that, Luke?
What do ya think?
Oh, she's hooked great, Luke.
She's just hooked great.
You know what I'm gonna do?
Let me see here.
I think I'm gonna unhook her right in the net,
and there we go.
Thank you.
- She did it herself.
- She did it herself.
What do you think, ladies and gentlemen?
I think he's,
I think Luke,
Luke Sweet is a killer muskie guy.
And now you know, Luke, now you know,
that the burst works.
- First fish of the day.
- The burst works.
- Changing the tempo.
- You got 'er, buddy? You got 'er?
You sure? You got 'er?
- Yeah.
- There you go, folks.
Way to go, dude.
- Second cast, we changed it up a little bit,
switched the tempo bringing it back in,
a little burst, and bam.
- Love it!
We'll be right back.
- And she came up out of the water.
- She came, oh I tell ya
that was the jump of the year.
(Luke laughs)
Doing it, man you're doing it.
[Chris] He cast it a mile.
Yeah, he's, I just,
fish?
- Uh, no.
- Fish! Fish!
- Oh my...
We're in, we're yeah!
Hey!
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- I actually caught a fish?
I actually have a fish.
I got a nice fish on.
Oh, good-fightin' fish too.
I don't know what it is, but boy,
it's a good fighter.
Cold-water cranking, my friends,
cold water.
Oh, it's stayin' down, whatever it is here.
What is it?
Nice largemouth.
Water temperature barely cracking 50 degrees.
Black bottom bay largemouths.
Classic pattern.
Cold water, early spring.
Alrighty, let's see what we got here.
Using my Frabill cranking net here.
Crankbait net.
And fishing with crankbaits.
Put you back.
And what we're fishing with here, my friends,
lipless crankbait.
Spots like this you could try spinner baits,
jigs, swim jigs,
crankbaits, spinner baits.
What I've got here, I've written about this,
I've talked about this, I've filmed it.
The classic north bay pattern.
We're on the northern end of a lake.
When you find, certain lakes have this,
certain lakes don't.
When you find, if you're looking for a good,
cold front, early spring pattern
for bass, one of the best things,
this works for wallies and pike by the way,
and crappies, too, and blue gills,
get on the north end of the lake.
You're gonna have primarily northerly wind flows.
Get on the north side of the lake, and find a
dark bottom weedy bay that's got
some kind of a gravel or sand shoreline
makes it even better, because eventually
the bass'll probably slide in there to spawn,
as well as the crappies and the bass.
And what you're going to find is
this dark bottom absorbs more heat.
It's slightly warmer.
Holds all the bait fish.
Holds all of these bass in like, and pan fish
in a pre-spawn, they're like in a lockdown
holding pattern when the water's in
the high 40s, low 50s.
And then you just bomb cast these spots
with various lures until you find out
what they like, and then you're going to find
schools of fish just kind of scattered
on these spots.
When nothing else produces, these spots produce
early in the season.
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Oh,
Oh, no no no no no no no.
It's funny, once in a blue moon that works,
a little bow and arrow.
Oh, there we go.
Huh, got snagged up on that spot,
did a little bow and arrow flip with my rod
to try to get it unsnagged and caught a bass.
So when I'm fishing along here, see now
I caught that first fish on a crankbait.
Switched tackle here, and that's what
I was saying when I started, it's like,
you know, you might catch
these fish on crankbaits.
Let me get off of here just a little bit.
You might catch these fish on crankbaits.
You might just catch one or two
on a crankbait or spinner bait
and have to go after 'em with a jig, you know.
You just don't know.
In fact, I'm just gonna hook him right over
the side here, underwater.
Good lookin' fish, huh?
Now, now, now.
There you go.
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Got a mixture of largemouth
and smallmouth in here.
What you're gonna find out too is
with most of these suspender jerkbaits
is you get most of your strikes on the pause.
One of the big ways to trigger these fish
when you're fishing with this bait, too, is
is just to mix it up.
Don't do anything rhythmic.
You get into too much rhythm, the fish
just have a tendency to follow
the bait, even bass.
You learn that in the muskie world.
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So, are the bass right here?
I just gotta throw the right bait on 'em?
Yep, yep, that's what it was.
I'm on 'em now.
Yeah.
Jerkbait fishing,
suspender jerkbait fishing.
Cold water bass.
Yeah.
You got it.
Not a floating minnow, like we grew up fishing.
It's suspender.
You can see it suspending in the water,
as I release the bass.
So what we're fishing with here
big casting gear.
I've got one of St. Croix's new
Bass X-Series rods.
Medium fast, six foot six,
I've got fluorocarbon,
I've got 15-pound test fluorocarbon line on here.
There's a whole bunch of different, good
suspending minnow baits out there.
I mean there's a bunch of them.
And I'm fishing with the bait casting gear.
I've got one of Daiwa's TATULA reels here,
the five point five to one, and
I like the little bit slower gear ratio
in the cold water fishing.
Cold water here.
Water's barely 50 degrees, and
tested, I tested this area out with a variety
of different lures, till I found the lure
they really want.
Now we're gonna see if I can catch some more.
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Yep, there's, I think there's another one, see.
Okay, now I caught a fish
on three different baits.
Three different baits, just testing
so the fish are here.
So I caught a fish on crankbait, a jig,
and a suspending jerkbait.
They all caught fish.
There ya go.
What do ya think of that, huh?
These black bottom bay bass
and sometimes in cold weather,
you just gotta check out,
test a bunch of different lures.
One fish will usually tip you off
that you're close.
Then you gotta try some other baits
to see, different categories of baits,
to see which one is the best for the day,
or the best for the time, that hour
or so that you're out there.
Sun's coming out, maybe the fish will pick up.
We'll be right back.
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is brought to you by the Musky Shop.
- Hey folks, welcome to our muskie segment.
Rich Belanger, St. Croix.
- Good morning, Joe.
- Best net man in the business, one of my...
- Well, thank you.
- Well, you're just, you're just killer,
man, I'm telling you, it's unbelievable what
a great partner you are, and you know,
we're talking, you and I always are on
field test trips, trying to bring
great St. Croix products to all of our anglers,
and in the muskie world, we just tagged
a big fish on a Walkin' Raider.
- Mmm-hmm.
- Surface, a zigzag bait.
- But Rich, tell the folks quickly
what makes the best kind of bait for this,
for these glide baits, jerkbaits,
this is a surface glide bait,
so to speak, right?
- It is, yeah.
Very similar to your
your underwater Raider as well.
But to get the proper action on those baits,
typically you're gonna be working
straight down, right?
- [Joe] Right.
- [Rich] Move, move, move, move.
- [Joe] Yep.
- So, a longer rod's gonna hurt you.
You're just slapping the water.
So this particular model we kept at
seven foot six, alright,
but it's gotta have a ton of power,
ton of backbone.
So this is the extra heavy power,
with the fast action, right?.
So you're gonna get that top 18
is where you'll get your movement,
and then it's gonna shut right down.
But you need that top 18 to have
a little movement.
- [Joe] Yes.
- [Rich] To make those baits work.
- [Joe] Yes.
- [Rich] With that little twitch,
so you don't want to have to do it big.
- Yes, it's also nice
once you hook the fish.
- Yeah.
- Have a little bend in the rod.
- It's a quick set, and
you drive 'em quick.
- You know what's interesting.
What I love about this rod, too,
the elite in particular, folks,
is that the 76 jerk.
- Mmm-hmm.
- And the jerkbait stick is, extra heavy,
is a great rod to begin with, but boy
when you go to the elite series,
the way you guys have got,
this is like the ultimate jerkbait,
zigzag topwater bait ever made,
and I don't know that you could ever
improve upon it.
- Well that whole series.
- It is great.
- You know, we've shaved every gram of weight
out of there that we could.
The best components in the world
on those blanks, I mean it's,
it's like you said.
It'll be hard to improve it.
We'll try.
- Man.
- We're never gonna stop trying.
- It's a great stick, man.
So you wanna 76 extra heavy fast,
80-pound grade, piano wire leader,
make sure your hooks are real sharp.
Bay casting, high-speed bay casting reel.
This happens to be Diawa Lexa 400.
And, you can't beat this elite,
this elite 76 extra heavy fast
on these big fish, man.
Watch it in action.
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- Got one.
- [Rich] There it is.
- Come on up, Rich.
Let's get 'er quick.
(both men laugh)
- Way to go, birthday boy.
- Birthday boy on a Walker Texas Ranger.
I like that.
Oh, Walker Texas Ranger, eh?
- Time to get 'er out.
- That's the kind of day you catch a fish on
that kind of a bait.
- Time to get 'em out.
- I think we caught every fish
we've ever caught on a Walker on a trip with you,
it's always been on these midday...
- Midday, flat.
- Overcast, flat.
- No wind.
Let that be a lesson to ya, folks.
- Sweet, nice job.
- Took the wind out of me.
- Come on.
(both men laugh)
- [Rich] There it is.
- Come on up, Rich.
Let's get 'er quick.
(both men laugh)
- That's a pretty fish, too. - Oh, baby.
It is a beautiful fish, isn't it?
- Yeah.
- Big male.
We'll see you next week, folks.
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is brought to you by Recon boats,
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Joe Bucher Outdoors, still number one
in big game fishing products.
And by your Wisconsin Chevy dealers.
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