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- Plan your trip with the "Fish Expert" - get latest version
- Check weather conditions as trip approaches to make sure you have
- a good plan and the right equipment
- Put fishing trips for year on work vacation schedule
- Reserve lodge early
- Get fishing license early with appropiate stamps
- Go to spring fishing, deer shows
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- Check equipment before going on trip
- Ask locals (sportshops, retirees, etc.) to confirm your fishing plan
- and locations.
- Check all equipment ahead of time for proper working condition -
- Review fish cleaning procedure
- Make map of locations for different wind directions and approaches
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- **Bottom line on fish locator shows up fuzzy for soft bottom (muck); bottom
- line on locator shows up sharper on a hard bottom (rock, gravel).
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- You can determine if lake has "turned over" in fall by taking water
- temperature readings; a turned over lake has more constant temperatures
- at all depths. A lake not yet turned over has more variable water
- temperatures from top to bottom and "thermocline" still is intact.
- You fish an early fall lake which has not turned over usually by
- using summer techniques.
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- Thermocline is cooler layer of water formed in summer under warmer surface
- layer which exhibits large drop in water temperature yet still has
- sufficient oxygen for fish to use. Summer heat may push fish into this
- thermocline.
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- In fall surface temperature cools, and water sinks to bottom causing
- the "fall turnover". Thus water temperature becomes more standard at
- all depths.
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- For musky make sure you use a wire leader.
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- Try different colors until one works, then stick with it.
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- Walleyes school so once you catch one, catch more in the same spot.
- Use jigs with a light "wire" hook for better hooking success especially
- with light tackle.
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- Walleyes like deep water, current, and gravel.
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- With monofilament line wet or lubricate line before tying knots; dry
- monofilament breaks easily when stretched.
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- For Ice fishing:
- Mark depths so when you catch fish you can get to same depth again;
- use twist ties to mark depth on line.
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