Great video Bill 👍 🎣. Pike and Musky on the fly rod , is SPECTACULAR FUN 😜.

I am so glad you guys made this video. It's nice seeing you using a 9 weight for smaller fish, too. Congrats on your first musky on the fly!! Braided line for a bite guard? Nope. Wire if you like it. Heavy flouro is best, in my opinion. Better movement and Seaugar IGFA saltwater rated 100# flouro will stop bite offs, if you are not a wire guy. Do not use the rod tip to move your popper, ever. You need to be in contact with the fish, at all times. Stop worrying about color. Worry about profile, shape, size, realism, movement and color last. Musky don't care about color, people do. NEVER worry about putting a musky on the reel. Never. Never raise your rod above your waist. Keep the line as tight as possible, every time, at all times. Do NOT trout set. Strip set, hard and at a low angle. Then, do it two more times. If the fish are under 40", do not let them take line. Pin them and force them in. You never "tire them out." That's how you kill them in August. That fight should have been 12-25 seconds, tops. Musky tire fast, unlike pike. Those flies are much too small for a decent size musky. This is not a set in stone rule. But, overall. 9-10" flies will weed out the tiny ones, for the most part. The reason you are losing them, as if they needed any help tossing that fly, you are letting them run around, with not enough pressure. Sorry to critique so much! Haha! It'll help you, though.

Big fish will find any weakness is your setup. Keep the good stuff coming guys.

yall always do your due diligence in explaining the tactics you learn from the guides and you have gathered over your experience.

Been asking for this one for a few months! As good as I remembered! Thank you!

Exactly what I needed

Couple things here, one that is NOT a big fly. Two, a sink tip is not used to get the fly down in esox fishing, we use unweighted flies with sink tip shooting heads to ACTUALLY throw big flies. I regularly throw 12" BEAST fleyes on my 9wt. Also Esox fishing without a net is straight amateur hour.

Nice. How old was this? Glad Bill finally took out the hone ;o) Thanks NFF.

My camp is down there and now it’s fished hard no one used to fish it

Over fighting muskies is a death wish to these fish. With flyrod it seems to take to long to get in and unhooked. Great catch though

The sound is a little low, but it's a very good video with valuable info.

As with many casting instructors it’s do as I say not as I do. You say out to the right on the back cast and up over the top on the forward cast. I watched and after this instruction I didn’t see you do it once 😂

Is it just me or is this channel unable to show the hookup?

The way you made this seem is Muskie spinner fishing is the fish of 10000 casts but on the fly it’s maybe a 100 casts

Landing nets are illegal in Ontario

Wtg

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