Color

Color is based on a lot of conditions . What color is the Water - Sky - Lots of choices. I did a study at mccc when I was in my 50s and black and silver were the best. I still go by the seasons light early and darken up as the season goes. We have a super clean water here now and you would think natural colors would work best but there are days that Hot Pink is the best thing you could use. I let the fish tell me.
They can reach as old as 35 years under the right conditions.



May is the month that most Muskie spawn at least in this area of the home range. you will find some that are still spawning in June.
About 18 inches except I have them hit 43 inch Muskie at the boat when I was trying to get the hook out.
Yes and I love Cass Lake. Wabado Little Boy also. I used to fish Bob Ms tournaments back in the 80s 90s
Any other questions I can help you out with?
BobMuskie Bob "Let it Go... Let it Grow"

Fishing with Bass Lures (Odd one for me)

Every one has their favorite Bass lure and most people never use mine. There are thousands of very good lure out there that will catch Bass. Some will work most days and others only now and then. Tubes are one of the hottest baits at this time. When I was a kid our best Bass bait was a Bass Oreno with a Red Head and White Body. They still take fish by the way.

Rattle Traps are great Bass lures as well as spinner baits. It depends on where the Bass are and what they are feeding on that makes the difference in your choice of baits. There is nothing better than a natural bait of course like a big Shinner or Worm

Now to my favorite Bass bait. I have caught the most Bass over the years on a 1 ounce Brass Red Eye Spoon. The most on any day and the biggest of my fish by far except for the 13 pound Large Mouth in Florida. I have taken a 9 and 1/4 pound Large Mouth. My best Smallie was a 7 pound 5 ounce fish. Another odd bait I use that most people don't for Bass is a Buck Tail. I'm talking about a full sized Buck Tail now a little one. The ones I use for Muskie and Pike. You would be surpised at how big a bait a Bass will hit. Another odd ball for Bass that we get hundeds of Bass on is the full sized Rapala Super Shad especially in the Perch or Golden Shiner model. In fact I had a client catch a certified Small mouth that went 8 pounds on a Super Shad.

You kids fish for Bass as they are one of the best fish to learn on and I should know as my fish ever was a Small Mouth Bass in Lake St Clair in 1929. That spot in Lake St Clair holds a lot of memories for me. My first Bass and Pike as well as my first Muskie in 1931.

Remember check the food the fish are feeding on as if you can match it you will have a better chance to get a fish. Color - size - shape all make a difference in tour day on the water.

More to follow. Good Fishing All. Bob

Big Water vs Small water Muskie Fishing

Casting for Muskie in big water is a completely different than in small inland lakes. In a small lake you have a few prime spots and mainly that is where you go 90 percent of the time. I would say that in most waters you only have 10 percent of it that holds fish most of the time. That means that on a 500 acre lake there is 450 acres of dead water. I would say that a good Muskie Hunter would figure out a small lake in a season or two as it depends on how much time he spends on it. The water I fish the most, is around 330,000 acres so I have 33,000 acres where I should catch a fish but I also have 297,000 acres that you usually won't find a fish. I have been fishing this body of water for 78 years now and I might know where the fish are most of the time in about 50 percent of the 10 percent of the fish holding water. In small lakes you can find areas where a creek comes in and it will hold fish for you and it might be in a nice quiet spot and the big fish feel safe but it big water any creek that comes into it usually has boat traffic on it in most cases that creates a different set of problems for the Muskie fisher person. A weed bed on a drop off that holds bait fish is ideal in small waters and it does work in big waters but the drop off on a smal like is a very small area but on a big big water lake that drop off can run for miles. We have one such drop off line where I fish that is several miles long and there are weeds here and there along it. The funny thing is very few of these weedy areas hold fish most of the time. Muskie like to move to other areas a lot. On a small body of water you can find the places they move to without to much trouble. On my lake they might move 10 miles or more. So this is a much bigger problem for the big water fisher person. Muskie are really a river fish and they really like moving water. To give you an idea about big water compared to small water lets take my lake St Clair and Cass Lake Minnesota. Cass is a good sizes lake and has a lot of current seeing as it is part of the headwaters of the Mississippi River. I have fished this lake about 5 times and I have learned almost all of the really good spots on it. I know there are a few more and within a week or two of steady fishing I would have a fairly clear picture of most of their movements and feedin areas. I will give you two years of fishing on my lake and I think you will find that there is a great difference in finding areas here that hold fish compared to Cass. It really is just the fact that the water is so vast and so much of it looks alike. There is another factor not mentioned so far and that is depth. Lake St Clair is more than likely the shallowest Muskie fishery in the world. Anchor Bay the Nortern end of the lake is over 45 square miles with a maxium depth of 14 foot. The Main lake of way over 400 square miles except for the shipping channel has a depth of 24 feet. That is the reason I see more fish per day here than other lakes as they are always nearer to you. Fishing the Great Lakes proves much harder also. There are monster Muskie in all of the Great Lakes but they are also very hard to find. I wish I had a hundred lifetimes so I could fish all of the Muskie lakes in the world. I know a few areas to catch Muskie in Lake Huron, like Geogian Bay for one and the North Channel for another.

Lake St Clair Muskie

Muskie Season opens on Lake St Clair on June the 7th. I'm booked for the weekend and hope to get my client into a decent fish to start the season right. There are some great fish in the system now and they will be getting heavier than ever because of the water claity and also having Whitefish back in the lake.

Pre Season Bass Fishing.

I have been doing a little pre season Bass fishing lately and the success has been fairly good most of the time. We have found that most of the Bass are shallow now and willing to take most of the baits you throw at them. For Us in this area of the Country the baits iht mostly yellow has been working the best. Small size is also the ticket most of the time. Body baits have worked the best for me. Not much luck with Mepps and they are usually very hot at this time of the year. Muskie season opens here on the 7th of June and I will go out for Bass a couple of more times before then. I still like to catch Small Mouth but we have been getting some very big Large Mouth lately. Good Fishing All. Bob

Gas Victim

Well I became a victim of the unreal gas prices as I had a client cancel 2 days. He had booked the first weekend of the Muskie Season. He lives in Pa. and he said the price of gas changed his plans. So I lost two more days pay. Just think if we would ever get together to stop this thievery we could halt a lot of it. If every one in the U.S. didn't buy a bit of gas for 48 hrs what would they do with all the surplus setting on tankers in the Gulf of Mexico and other places around the world. It would drop the price in a hurry. It just makes logic but it will never happen because people just don't pull together the way they did in WW II. My thoughts for the day. Good Fishing Alll. Bob

Mothers Day

Was going to fish today in memory of my Mother. We used to fish togeather a lot in the Spring time. Of course she would hold the worm down with her shoe to put it on the hook and we all would get a good laugh out of that. So Happy Mothers day to all the Mothers out there and especially to the ones that take their Sons and Daughters fishng. Enjoy Your Day. Bob

Worlds best hand tied Buck Tail Time

I won't be long before I will be out tossing my Brunner Runner's know as the worlds best hand tied Muskie Buck Tails Over the last 3 years there have been over 40 Muskie over 50 inches taken on one of them, from the reports I have revievd. I also know that are taking big Pike in the U. K. overseas. I usually cast the smaller ones at this time of the year but there are days that the Muskie want big baits even in the early part of the season. The lighter colored ones are the best most days but not always they might want black. Just like my book Catching Muskie and The Rules of Muskie Fishing There are no Rules. Slow is the way to go early also but again not always. Some days they like to chase but not very often in the early part of the year. I think this is one of the nest lures made for Muskie. I am lowering the price on my on line store this year dor a month or so. So get a good supply while I still have some left. michiganmuskiebob.com

Early season bite.

It is on as the fishing is getting better each day on the whole. Some very big Bass are being taken around here. The Pike are also in full swing. The Walleye are getting near the headwaters of the Detroit River and hitting well now. They will soon start up the shoreline into the main lake. You can follow them all the way around the lake for the next month. Start up the West shore and move all the way around the lake. The Muskie season starts soon and I will be after a couple of world record line class fish this year. We are getting some very heavy fish in our lake now.

Spoon color for Trout and Salmon

Some people seems to think that color makes no difference to fish but I tend to disagree with this. I have found over the years that one color of spoon will work and then the next day it won't. Every rule about what works on bright days such as silver for sunnty days and brass for darker days really won't hold true every bright or dark day. I rarely use bright spoons most of the time even though I should use them more than I do. I usually work brass or darker spoons for Brown Trout and Lake Trout and for Rainbows (Steelhead) and Y Kings usually prefer to use Silver. This works best for me about 95 % of the time. Keep track of the type of day and the color of your spoon for a year or two and see if this pattern holds true. Good Fishing. Bob