"Vittorix" wrote in message
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Hi to all!
I'm an Italian fishing-maniac ;-) who resides in Chicago and who doesn't
enjoy little fishes (I always like aiming to medium/big fishes).

Yesterday I went fishing in an harbor in Chicago downtown, just for
trying various lures I bought at BPS and studying how they work when
suddenly I saw a beautiful and relaxed 6pound like Muskie resting 3 feet
under the surface.
I casted far the lure I had at the moment, a Martin Panther like spinner
and I achieved to make him aggressive speeding my reel and flipping with
my wrist, he chased my lure and he tried to bite the spinner twice
softly, not in a determined and hard way.
Then he saw me and he went slowly away. I tried a lot o other lures but
unusefully and I can't imagine what I wronged, if I wronged anything.

As a muskie guide for over a decade, I can positively tell you that you did
nothing wrong. Pike species like northern and muskies are very curious
creatures and will follow a lure just to see what's up. The only thing that
you might have done differently would have been to stick your rod tip into
the water about a foot and draw as large of a figure 8 in the water as you
could.

Sometimes the change in the lure's speed and direction will trigger a
strike, other times it won't.

If he really wanted that lure, believe me, he would have had it. AND, if
muskie fishing was easy, everyone would be doing it.

Welcome to the often times frustrating world of toothy critters.
--
Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com
G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
http://www.herefishyfishy.com