Musky Fishing

[shane25]

I have a buddy that just bought a place on Woodland Lake in Brighton. My question is has anyone had any luck fishing for Musky on the lake? I've never caught a Musky and would love to get one this year. Any suggestions? I was also thinking of taking a charter out on St. Clair. Does anyone have any suggestions on that?
Thanks for your help and good luck.

[it pimp2001]

Shane,
I fish St Clair for Musky's quite often and have had great sucsess. I would use your heavy gear and buy a few lures and give it a go yourself. My want to charter once to learn but there really are no magic tricks. short stiff rod with penn 302's spooled with 25 # mono. You can run banana weights to take the lure down but 10 feet of line with the rod inverted down in the rod holder. Troll faster then slower, my guess is 4-8 mph. Ive had good luck with a lure called Believer, any natural color will work. The lake is loaded with em, practice catch and release and remember the season is closed.

[ESOX]

I find casting for Muskie on St. Clair even more fun than trolling. I use an extra heavy 7.5' flipping stick with 17# braided line to toss BIG Rapalas, Bucktails, Suick Thrillers, and Esox sized spinnerbaits. Good areas are where the channels are adjacent to large weedy flats. Try around "B" bouy, the Old South Channel, and the Middle Channel. Catch and Release is the only way to keep St. Clair the world-class lake it is. Take pictures, not fish!!

[Fishnnut]

Esox,
Do you use the BIG shallow running Rapala's, ?
What is a Suick Thriller ?
do you keep the lures just below the surface or a 5 or more feet down.
I will have to look on my map for bouy B: .
Is this by gull island ?

Do you ever go to Canada and are the rules different

[WALLEYE MIKE]

I have gps. cord. for B-Bouy. Its real close to the end of the north channel mouth.

[ESOX]

A Suick Thriller is a jerkbait that is flattened on the horizontal plane and has an adjustable metal tail to control depth and action. I get mine at Lakeside Tackle in St. Clair Shores. The Rapalas I use are the 18cm (7") floaters. I use the floater over the weed beds that are just under the surface, or crank them down along the channel edges. Muskie don't react much to a bait running below them, their eyes are positioned so as to see upwards. I generally will not run much more than 5' maximum at the channel edges. Take Care,
Esox Catch & Release!!!!