The excitement of the fall musky hunting trip you planned with your buddies has finally arrived! Text messages and phone calls are sent with abandon in the days leading up to your departure and you can barely sleep the night before launching on the first morning of the trip. You’ve been in charge of planning the “hot spots” for the weekend and your buddies are confident you’ve got the pattern dialed in like usual but as you idle up to your favorite weed bar, you notice that the weeds are brown, decayed and overall greatly diminished. In fact, the water clarity doesn’t even look the same and the water temps are almost in the 40’s! Instead of letting panic set in simply flip out your smart phone, pull up a map of your lake or body of water and search for this one easy sure-fire type of spot that will get you and your buddies on a big musky: current areas! That’s the secret! Yes, it’s actually that simple! Find areas on your lake or body of water that have current or even better, water flow into or out of your lake into a different body of water via a creek or channel and you will be ON the muskies! Remember, muskies originated as a river fish so finding them holding in areas with water flow isn’t all that mind blowing but there is more to it than that! Current areas attract muskies and all sorts of other species in the fall period because of the oxygenated waters moving in and out of the area. As the days get shorter photosynthesis slows down and weeds start to decay and die off, which reduces the amount of dissolved oxygen available for a fish’s breathing. Areas with current and water flow bring fresher, more oxygenated waters into the region and this attracts baitfish and, of course, muskies! Finding and fishing current areas in the fall period is one of my biggest secrets for locating and catching nice muskies as weeds begin to die off. Another important aspect of this video is like to share with you is the deadliness or fishing blades in cold water. “Legend” has it that muskies no longer chase or eat bucktails once the water cools down in the fall.... and this “old wives’ tail” couldn’t be further from the truth! One of my favorite fall lures to throw, even when the water temps range from 40-50 degrees are bucktails (in-line spinners). The key to using them late in the season is to “slow-roll” them and to overall, fish then slower. Because the weeds at this time have been greatly diminished, slow-rolling Buchertails over cabbage flats is easy and even easier when it comes to fishing them over rocks. The key again, is to just fish them slow. Muskies love bucktails and there is no reason not to be throwing them in cold water!