Two things were obvious: the muskie following my lure was a giant, and it was coming in hot—its focus completely on my bucktail spinner ... Many times unseen muskies will come from nowhere to eat at ...

Josh Smeltzer “When it comes to using bucktail to fool muskie, there are some metaphysics involved,” Bohen told me. “They’ll eat molded soft plastics, but I look at the way a muskie comes ...