- [Joe] Welcome to this week's episode.
Inside this power-packed show, we feature
three separate seasons and conditions.
In segment one, chief editor Josiah Winterhoff joins me
for a scenic October musky outing
and some stained water minnow bait muskies.
After that we shift back to one of our key focus topics
of the 2018 bass series, swim jigs.
Finally the dude, Chas Martin, joins me once again
in our featured musky segment,
and the subject is spying on cruiser muskies.
All this and more coming up soon.
Stick around for all the action.
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- Oh, yeah, just put a fish back, my friends.
Just gonna check everything here.
We're fishing in early October,
55 to 58 degree water depending upon
where you're fishing this time of the year
and the conditions, and I just caught a fish.
And one of my main lures to fish,
this is the first day the wind's been out of the northwest
and we've got a cold front.
It's been a warm, like a warm late September, early October
and here comes one of our first good cold fronts
and it's gonna get colder tomorrow,
and then we're even gonna get some cold icy rain.
But this is one of my top baits
for fishing this time of the year.
It's a Shallow Raider, the original seven inch,
7 1/4 inch Shallow Raider, and
what I do with it this time of the year, by the way,
I fish it on a flexible leader.
You see I've got one of the fast attach snaps on here,
which is my favorite snap
on one of our premium leaders here,
but it's the seven strand model,
and I fish it on 65 pound test.
I fish it on a smaller reel, but a long rod.
I'm fishing on a St. Croix's nine-foot
medium-heavy fast Legend Elite here.
Now, what's cool about the way I fish this bait
is that I combine it,
I make it a jerk bait and crank bait.
So I do two things.
Most people either throw this out and crank it in,
or they throw it out and they jerk it all the way about
and they do these dead sticking
and all this kind of stuff at boatside.
I combine the two and I think it works better for me.
I'll cast it out, jerk, let it rise,
jerk, let it rise, jerk, jerk, you know, let it rise,
do a bunch of this bump and rise kind of stuff
over the cover.
Once I'm out of the cover,
I turn it into a straight retrieve crank bait,
and I finish with a figure eight.
Now, why would you do that?
Well, I want the jerk bait action when I'm around the cover,
but then I want the straight retrieve action
so that it enhances the ability
for me to catch fish at boatside.
And when you combine the two, you get the good
boatside strikes, you get a lot more strikes at boatside,
with the traditional retrieve and the figure eight,
yet you still have the jerk bait action.
And by the way, one last thing,
don't be afraid to pause the daylights outta your bait
in the fall like this when the water starts to get cold,
and you create a lot more slack in your line
so you get a more lateral movement
and you'll get a lot of those fish to hit.
In fact, the fish you're about to see
hit exactly like that, on a slack line
with a lot of lateral movement over cover.
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Fish.
Got a musky here, folks.
Oh, yeah.
Got a musky here, folks, yep.
Yep, got a musky here.
I got one, come on up here, Josiah.
Come on up here.
We got a musky, come on.
Pick him up, there you go.
Just leave him right in the net.
Good job, Josiah.
Master cameraman, master landing net guy.
You got a musky already.
- Way to go. - How about that?
How about that, huh?
- Not even an hour in.
- So what we're doing here, folks, is
my chief cameraman and videographer,
and editor and producer here.
You're kinda the jack of all trades,
but now you're also musky fishing.
- Guess so.
- I wanted to teach him how to musky fish this fall,
so after the season was kinda winding down,
took Josiah out here on a beautiful fall trip.
You can see the beautiful colors out here.
We're having a great morning here.
We just got started.
- Yeah.
- And just caught a musky.
And well, we'll show you more about the technique here
after I unhook the fish, but
your maiden voyage, Josiah,
at least I found out what they're hitting.
- Yeah, look at him, a beauty.
- Do you want to do me a favor and get the tool box?
- Sure.
- Big tools are essential, my friends.
Long nosed pliers are you know,
especially with an offset handle like this,
I think are essential, and keep the fish in the water
and do as much of this as you can in the water.
In the water's the key thing here.
All right, so Shallow Raider,
the new crackerjack tiger pattern.
All right.
So, you know, let the landing net
and your tools do the job, and the weight of the fish.
So I'll grab a hold of this hook like this
and just give it a little boom, right?
And she's off.
Now the fish is free,
and you take the fish out.
You see?
Beautiful.
We'll go right over the side of the boat with him,
back in the water.
Gonna take my other hand here so I can get the--
Good, good.
In the water with you.
And we'll be right back.
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- There we go.
There we go.
There we go, deep tree fish.
Deep trees.
See, there's a fishing,
man-made fish cribs,
and sunken trees,
and a lot of people all over the country,
all over the country, people do this
where they put structures in the water,
cover, obstructions in the water
to attract fish,
so they can fish them off their docks.
And you know, they're panfish magnets.
In fact, I'm gonna show you some footage here,
some panfish under these docks and stuff.
There's just, it's unbelievable
how many fish that are there.
But there's also
some nice largemouths there too, huh?
What do you think?
So we're gonna fish today.
Man-made sunken structure.
So here we are.
Fishing with a St. Croix Bass X Series rod.
This is 66 medium-heavy fast.
Got a Daiwa bait casting reel here, the TATULA,
5.5:1 gear ratio reel.
And I've got some of Beast Braid,
Joe Bucher Outdoors Beast Braid on here, in the green.
We're fishing more of a green colored water, moss green.
And on the business end here I've got a
Dirty Jigs swim jig here in that crawdad-like blue gill,
he calls it a bluegill pattern.
You can call it a lot of different things.
It's got everything in here that's very crawdaddy,
and these fish are feeding on bait fish,
feeding on crawdads, and
it's a matter of just target fishing and then
one more thing, polarized glasses.
I've seen the targets most of the time I'm fishing.
I'm not actually looking at sonar as much
as I am using my visual sonar.
Let's go get another one.
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And you reel your jig up to about here, you can do this.
You got that underhand
alley-oop cast, and
you can't do that with a 7 1/2-foot rod.
You've got to go to a pitch or a flip.
And this little Jimmy Houston style cast
is really a great way to fish these spots.
See, you just a little, when you're doing this dock fishing,
it's just perfect, isn't it?
It just works so nice for that kind of fishing.
So you need a shorter rod.
And really, a medium action works well too,
a medium heavy gives you a little bit more backbone.
Beautiful.
A little more backbone.
Yeah, baby.
As Chas Martin would say, dude.
See, what the medium heavy does is
it gives you a little bit more boom when you set the hook
for the weedless jig.
Now you add braided line to that and you've got
a super duper combination.
Oh, that's a nice fish, too, isn't it?
Look at that, oh, baby.
All right.
Oh, did that fish take it deep.
That fish took it deep.
Wow, big female, huh?
Yeah.
Northern Wisconsin, quality bass.
Yeah.
You can see I net my fish.
Frankly, I don't understand what's the deal
with these tournaments with these guys not netting fish
and just hauling them up and flopping them
into the boat kinda thing.
This is way better on the fish,
way better on the angler.
Yeah, let's go see if we can get another one.
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Big tree in the water here.
Gotta be a lot of fish under this sunken tree.
Might be a man-made fish crib.
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Got lots of them in this one yesterday too.
Got him.
Yep.
So there you go.
There you go, my friends.
Oh, good fish, too, yep.
Man-made fish cribs,
sunken brush piles, logs.
Folks kinda helping you out
by trying to make their fishing better.
They're making your fishing better.
Yeah.
Get the little net on this one here.
There we go.
So it's important to not only watch your sonar,
but use this sonar right here,
your eyes, your visual.
Look for targets.
Fish ahead of the boat,
and take advantage, when you see a--
When you see a dock with a lot of activity
and you see stuff in the water there,
this guy's probably an angler,
or that family is full of anglers.
Hey, and I'll tell you what.
Tough to beat this jig, isn't it?
Get yourself some of these Dirty Jigs.
You're gonna catch some fish off of these docks
and these sunken brush piles and these cribs.
We'll be right back.
I'm gonna put you back.
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- [Voiceover] This featured segment is brought to you by
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- Hey, folks, welcome to our musky segment.
Chas Martin and I, we're having this interesting day,
an interesting trip, aren't we?
- It really is. - Yeah.
Yeah, this fish that, one guy pulls it up
and the next guy catches it.
- Well, so we got the beach thing going.
We got the solar bite going,
and then like you said, in addition to that,
it's this dual lure thing
where one guy will have a fish follow in kinda lazy.
The second angler throws in a cast back lure,
seems to get a reaction out of the fish,
and then you got this visual thing going on,
where you saw the musky, and then you got her
coming in hot again.
- It was amazing, folks.
Chas raised the fish on a Glide Raider,
and it initially came in on my lure.
What, maybe five minutes ago, 10 minutes ago.
And then it took off, and then Chas
did a cast back, which we've been having success
with cast backs with glide baits.
Here comes the fish, but real lazy,
and then just starts to veer off,
and I can actually see the fish veering off,
and I threw a cast way out in front of it.
Well, you'll see the video.
And I throw a cast out in front of it,
and just almost like you're sight fishing
tarpon or bonefish, and just gunned that
and herded that bait.
That fish came, you know, it fired that fish up.
Sometimes it takes some other bait
to fire the fish up.
- Well, and that's another thing to mention
is that you can--
You read the fish's, you know, it's attitude
and then you gunned your bucktail up
to really trigger that strike.
- How many times have we talked about that
in the last four or five years,
about this bursting or gunning the bait?
- Absolutely, man.
- You know, it's one thing to just
throw it out and crank it in steady,
or throw it out and then crank it in steady fast.
I think it's much more productive to do the
one, two, three, four, five, and then da-da-da-da-da,
one, two, three, four, da-da-da, you know?
- Well, yeah, 'cause you could see that fish
respond to the burst. - Yes.
- And then she snuck up and then you get her again.
And she, you really got her going.
- Yes, and it's the same thing with the figure eight.
When I had the fish strike the figure eight,
it isn't just a fast figure eight.
It isn't just a slow figure eight.
It's a bursting figure eight and then backing off,
bursting and backing off, and the fish just comes up
and overtakes the bait and voila.
And again, one last thing, watch the nine foot rod.
The softer action, nine foot rods, medium heavy,
medium medium, nine foot rods,
the St. Croix Legend Elite, just
you own 'em.
- Dude.
That fish was peeling drag off the side.
- How about that Texas tea?
- Oh, yeah. - This bait continues to be--
- The 500 is just so good at triggering fish.
And not just small fish. - No.
- You have so many guys say oh, really?
We're gonna go after small ones?
Uh-uh, it catches big muskies, man.
- That was fun, that was a fun big fish to me.
- Oh, yeah. - Yeah.
- Man.
- Check it out, folks.
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- Gonna get it rigged up.
You know, these fish don't seem to really
respond to them much.
They like little blades.
The little blades thing is really working on them.
Well.
We'll see.
But those 500s are sure getting them gone, man.
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Is it any better with the big hooks?
- Nah, I don't know.
Not much.
See, those fish, we're bringing those fish up.
They're really very neutral fish.
- Yeah.
- Those aren't really cranked up fish, you know?
- No, But they're here, though.
- Yeah oh, there's a fish.
- You see one?
- Yep.
I thought he followed your bait in.
- Did he?
Nice, nice.
Nice, man.
All right.
That's, is that a different fish?
- Take him, dude.
- Quick, treading water.
All right.
Pull him up to me.
All right, we've got her.
Dude, nice job.
Woo.
- She followed in your jerk bait, dude.
- Did she really?
- Yes, yes.
I saw her out there and I thought I saw a flash
and then I did see the flash.
I saw her glance out over there.
Remember I said hey, there she is?
I saw her coming off your jerk bait,
and I did the tarpon thing.
I threw past her, and she went vroom,
and she came in on it.
- That's awesome, man.
Nice work.
- There we go, my friends.
Oh, what a beautiful fish, huh?
Wow, I actually saw that fish
chase Chas' bait in.
I saw it take off and I threw a bait way out in front of it.
And gunned it and there you have it.
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- Nice, nice.
Nice, man.
All right.
That's, is that a different fish?
- Take him, dude.
- Quickly, treading water.
All right, pull him up to me.
All right we've got her.
- We'll see you next week.
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