Yesterday marked the fifth capture of a muskie for our live-bait study. So far we have one on a quick-strike, two on J-hooks (one dead), and two on circle hooks including yesterday's catch.As you can see by the photo, the circle hook performed flawlessly and gave us a textbook hook-up. After about 4.5 minutes the fish began to speed toward deeper water away from the boat. It was at that time that I engaged the reel and began reeling quickly and steadily. The line tightened and the battle was on.
Perhaps this method could be a safe, viable method of passively fishing muskies with live-bait.
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