Fishing Michigan

There are so many different terms when it comes to fishing,  specially muskie fishing.  You have follows, boils, rolls,  and now the “nudge”.  I was thinking about this up north, and after several occurances I decided to give it a name to add to one’s vocabulary.

When casting out spinnerbaits, specially inlines like Northland’s Bionic Bucktail, or one of my new fav’s, the Mepps Musky Maribou there were several times where the line seemed to go slack just for a split second on the retrieve.  Each time, there were not any weeds hanging on the baits.  It didnt take long to realize it wasn’t weeds, but fish taking swipes at the bucktails.

I have had muskie and pike bump cranks before, (hmm, another new name, “bump”) but when this happend, it was like they were “nudging”  the baits forward causing the line to have that momentary slack in it.  This was confirmed a few times when the ski’s would follow the bait in after the initial contact.

This had been going on for years,  but I finally had a name for it pop in, the light bulb going off.