I've been planning my June 2017 trip to Crown Land and I just added muskies to the menu. For a few years, I fished nothing but muskies, but missed the steady action of bass. However, I know a bunching of lakes that all have muskies and I'll do a couple days of musky fishing. They're relatively little fish, between 30 inches and 40 inches, but they feel big in a canoe. I'm not going to take musky rods and lures because a couple full days of casting will hurt too much. Instead, i'll fish with stout bass bait casters and biggish Mepps. Does anyone else fish for muskies from a canoe?

I like to target large northerns, not fanatical but a fun pastime! Very similar approach. Tackle is either a St. Croix med/heavy 7ft 1 piece rod and AbuGarcia Royal Express reel, or 8 wt flygear. Fish out of solo canoe (Wenonah Advantage). I use a gripper and rarely bring em in the canoe. Favorite cast lure is BucherTail 500 Series in Firetiger. Flys mostly large streamers/bunnytails. Have caught a few Muskies so geared in home state of WI.

butthead

The cute little musky used as the cover photo on my blog (An Irregular Trip > mastertangler@blogspot) was taken via trolling a topwater lure. That is certainly a method I would use in the future for both pike and muskie if I thought they were shallow.

Good Rod holder is a must......braid is helpful. Throw it back and paddle around. Good method when you tire of casting and excellent if your exploring new water because you can paddle without concern.

Use something that works with a steady retrieve, like a whopper plopper. Put the rod high in the air to keep most of the line out of the water. Wait for the big splash and then......well, you know the rest. Try it, it's fun and effective.

Muskies on the menu!!!!! You gonna eat those monsters???? jk ;)

quote QueticoMike: "Muskies on the menu!!!!! You gonna eat those monsters???? jk ;)"

Never again! You must be remembering that one time I ate a musky because I couldn't catch anything else to eat and I forced myself to eat every last morsel.

quote mastertangler: "The cute little musky used as the cover photo on my blog (An Irregular Trip > mastertangler@blogspot) was taken via trolling a topwater lure. That is certainly a method I would use in the future for both pike and muskie if I thought they were shallow.


Good Rod holder is a must......braid is helpful. Throw it back and paddle around. Good method when you tire of casting and excellent if your exploring new water because you can paddle without concern.


Use something that works with a steady retrieve, like a whopper plopper. Put the rod high in the air to keep most of the line out of the water. Wait for the big splash and then......well, you know the rest. Try it, it's fun and effective."

I've caught some muskies trolling to where I'm going to fish, but I've had better luck casting. I once caught five muskies in an hour and had a sixth one that got off (It was nearly a musky on every cast. I guessed correctly that they'd be bunched in a narrow strait that ran southwest to northeast when the air warmed and the wind howled from the southwest.). That was fun, but the ultimate is hooking one on a figure eight from a canoe! I caught two at dusk that way. Both blew up on surface lures and when I couldn't find each one with subsequent casts, I thought that they might be parked beneath the canoe...which they were!

quote butthead: "I like to target large northerns, not fanatical but a fun pastime! Very similar approach. Tackle is either a St. Croix med/heavy 7ft 1 piece rod and AbuGarcia Royal Express reel, or 8 wt flygear. Fish out of solo canoe (Wenonah Advantage). I use a gripper and rarely bring em in the canoe. Favorite cast lure is BucherTail 500 Series in Firetiger. Flys mostly large streamers/bunnytails. Have caught a few Muskies so geared in home state of WI.


butthead"

I'm thinking of trying those grippers. I've caught a lot of muskies on those BucherTails! They're great lures and easy on the back.

Wow what a woman! Figure 8 out of a canoe! I'm to chicken to even consider trying to get a muskie to blast a bait at boatside while in a canoe even if I could accomplish the maneuver.

The Bucher is a nice lure but the Mepps Musky Marabou is better iMO.

quote QueticoMike: "Muskies on the menu!!!!! You gonna eat those monsters???? jk ;)"
Had a small muskie a decade ago and it didn't taste good at all. Bullhead tastes better.