Fishing For Spillway Predators!

How's it going everyone? I'm back out here at the river again today. I left the kayak at home this time. We're gonna hit the bank down here below the dam and go after the apex predator in these parts, the muskie. It's mid-October right now, the water's starting to cool off. It's down to about 55 degrees right now so they should be biting. I've got all my gear, let's head down there and see what we can catch. All right, I made it down here without taking a tumble down the rocks. But right now the water level is a little bit low out here on the river, so I'm hoping we'll still find some pike or muskie hanging around up here. I think I'm gonna start out today by throwing a Savage Gear Shine Glider 185. It's a pretty good size lure, it's got awesome action. I'd be surprised if the muskie would say no to that if they're out here. Oh yeah, if I was a muskie I'd try to eat that. Oh, I thought I just had something take a swipe at it there. Oh yeah, I definitely did. He came back for it too. First fish of the day. What do we got here? Oh, it's a pike. Not a bad pike at all. All right, first fish of the day. Decent pike on that Savage Gear Shine Glider. All right, I'm gonna get him back in the water. I'm gonna switch it up. I'm gonna throw a similar lure from Savage Gear. This is their 3D Foreplay V2. Looks like it's a swim and jerk type bait. I'm guessing it'll have pretty similar action to that Shine Glider, but as you can see, it's four segments instead of two. Nice and shiny looking, though I think that'll get those fish's attention. That one's got a little bit tighter swimming action than that Shine Glider, but that does look real nice. There's one. What do we got here? Looks like another pike. Good size pike, though. Oh, look at that. He shook the lure right as I got him in the net. All right, second fish of the day. Nice chunky looking pike. Oh, look at that. I bet he's got a belly full of perch. Got him on that Savage Gear Foreplay. All right, let's let him go. Oh, something's chasing my lure there. Oh, he's still after it. Come on, come up here and eat it. Oh, did you see that? He's still looking at it. He wants that thing. Got him. Oh my gosh, that was sick. Go get up here. Oh, that was crazy. All right, he even unhooked himself for me. Wow, that was sick. That pike chased that lure all the way back up to shore. Had to play around with him for a good 30 seconds or so, but finally I got him to commit. That was awesome. Well, that did not take long at all. I just walked another 50 feet or so downstream here. First cast, that Savage Gear Foreplay lure got slammed. Let's see what we got. It's another pike. I'm really surprised I haven't found any musky out here yet. No complaints out of me, though. It's been a great morning out here so far. Yeah, he definitely wanted that thing. There we go. Fish number four. Nice looking little pike. Off you go. There we go. Let's see what we got here. Pike or musky. Just a little guy, whatever he is. Little pike. That works. Almost took that lure to the face, but a little bug. Well, the pike action is pretty good out here today. Number five. I am really surprised I haven't hooked into a musky yet out here today. This is usually kind of a musky hot spot up here. It's not any real big ones, but they stocked them up above the dam and the lake about five years ago, and a bunch of them made their way down here. So we've got a good population of mid to high 30 inch musky in this river. It is possible that with the water level being down right now, they might have made their way downstream a little bit farther. There we go. This one's a fighter, whatever it is. Come on up here. You like another pike? Heck yeah. Wow, look at that. Another nice pike on that Savage Gear 4 Play. All right, I'm going to get him unhooked and we'll send him on his way. Well, not much luck finding the musky out here today. I think with the water level being so low, they're probably just a little bit farther downstream. Plus, I think I might have jinxed myself this morning by saying that's what I was going after. I should have said I was coming out here for bass or walleye, then I probably would have caught a ton of musky. So remember not to make that mistake next time. Still been an awesome day out here, though. We hammered the pike pretty good. I caught seven or eight of those on those Savage Gear baits. So I had a lot of fun. It's been a good trip out here to the river. It's time for me to get out of here, though. So I hope you guys enjoyed it. Thanks for coming along with me again. I'll see you next time.