METRO MUSKY HUNTS - MINNEAPOLIS MUSKIES

The muskies are going insane right now, it's been a very strong and consistant bite for the last 10 days or so. With incredible conditions, I knew the muskies were going to be on fire on this September morning. This day started with a first light musky eating in the figure 8 on a black bucktail up in sparse weeds off the inside weed edge. I really like how this structure sets up, it's a big underwater point that is pretty wide so there is a lot of room to hold many muskies. It's about 4 feet of water on top and it's pretty bare with sand/gravel and small patches of green cabbage weeds mixed in. On the sides it has a thick weed bed that goes all the way around it, forming a really nice inside and outside weed edge. With most musky anglers fishing the outside edges, I tend to stay right on top and target the inside weed edge and small cabbage patches.

After catching the first musky and working the area pretty thouroughly, we made a move. The second spot is a complex structure that comes off the side of an island. It's a big flat with multiple underwater points, inside turns and high spots. There was some baitfish hanging around the biggest high spot so we first checked around there, but nothing showed up. So I decided to work in towards the island and fish the biggest part of the flat. It didn't take long with a nice low 40 inch musky following in but it just wouldn't commit. We made it a little further and another fish showed up behind a topwater, following it all the way to the boat and finally deciding to eat on the first turn of the figure 8, INCREDIBLE strike and fight boatside and I was able to scoop it up with the big Clam Collosus Musky Net. The Tackle Industries 10 foot XH rod made quick work of this fish, being able to make big turns boatside to trigger the strike, and having a long rod to absorb the furious headshakes. We proceeded to move a couple of other fish throughout the morning, incuding a really clean and pretty 4 footer, and a 45 inch class fish. Unfortunately they didn't commit to our baits.