{"id":124885,"date":"2016-01-31T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/muskie-fishing-tips\/"},"modified":"2016-01-31T20:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T20:54:01","slug":"muskie-fishing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/muskie-fishing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Muskie Fishing Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ross Nichols<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New to the sport or a seasoned veteran, these tips should help improve your game.<\/p>\n<p>1. LEADERS \u2013 Use a 3-5 foot leader for trolling depending on water clarity. 130-150 pound test. A 12 inch in wire or fluorocarbon for casting.<\/p>\n<p>2. NET- One with a sizable basket for the muskie in your fishing area. Put some glow tape around the net and place a flashlight on the yoke.\u00a0 When netting in the dark the net and fish will show up. If you are alone, once the fish is in the net, place net in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.down-east.com\/website_003.htm\">Down East rod holder<\/a>\u00a0 and attach lanyard<\/p>\n<p>3. RELEASE TOOLS \u2013 Have long handle, long nose pliers, vise grips for removing hooks in a fish or for \u201cT&#8221; your hooks and a Knipex bolt cutter easily accessible for cutting hooks.\u00a0 You will also need a hook out tool.\u00a0\u00a0 Tools can be expensive &#8211; tie a lanyard with clip to each tool and attach it to you net in order to prevent loss.<\/p>\n<p>4. CAMERA- Have your camera ready for that photo of a lifetime, ensure that battery is charged and be sure to protect it during the cold weather from freezing. Take a release shot in the water.<\/p>\n<p>5. When trolling at last light or night trolling, put a little glow tape around tip of your rod, when the light from your headlight or spot light shines on the tip you will be able see your rod action.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ross Nichols New to the sport or a seasoned veteran, these tips should help improve your game. 1. LEADERS \u2013 Use a 3-5 foot leader for trolling depending on water clarity. 130-150 pound test. A 12 inch in wire or fluorocarbon for casting. 2. NET- One with a sizable basket for the muskie in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muskies.kracmedia.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}