Can The Duck Lure Catch A Spillway BEAST?

Good morning everyone. I'm back at it again. I've got my buddy Jacob here with me today. Jagatooth Tackle on YouTube. Check him out. We're heading down to the spillway to hopefully hook into some ferocious river beasts. Yeah, pike and muskie. That's what we're after out here this morning. We're going to hike our way down the rocks here. I'm going to concentrate on that so I don't slip and fall and break my neck. I'll see you guys at the bottom. All right, we made it down the rocks. Jacob's hooked up with a smallie already. Not really what we're after. We're looking for those river monsters today, pike and muskie. I think I'm going to go with topwater. I'm going to try that duck lure again, the Savage Gear 3D Duck. Got some real nice pike the last time I threw that lure. Makes a lot of commotion. It should get those fish's attention over the roar of the water coming over the dam here. Get a quick look at Jacob's first catch of the day. Yeah. Got him in the head but he swiped at it. Nice. That's a nice smallie, isn't it? Heck yeah. You're on the board. I might have you take a quick pic if you don't mind. Sure. Good enough. Yeah. Big one. Right there. I'm going to get my ducky over here. Yeah, there he is. See him? Uh-huh. I don't know if he was paying much attention to my lure. I think he wanted your bass there. Ooh. I thought I saw him move there. Oh, that's a good sign. The muskie are active. I like to see that. Toss that duck up there between those concrete blocks. Ooh, something just swiped at it there. So I'm giving that lure lots of pauses up there. It's a little bit of a concrete lip right here, so I want to try to keep that lure behind that in the pool underneath the dam there as long as I can. Jacob is smacking the bass down there. Something just popped the surface right over there. There we go. I'm pretty sure that's a muskie. Oh, yeah. Look at that. We're going to follow him downstream to the net. Come on up here, you. Got him. Look at that. First catch of the day on the duck. Good? Yep. All right, you guys. First catch of the day on that Savage Gear duck. We hooked into an awesome muskie. What a beautiful fish. All right. Let's set her free. Oh, yeah. She's kicking. She's ready to go. Oh, I just got nailed up there right up in that corner. Oh, it's a smallie. A smallie on the duck lure. I'm going to have to find a little bit better rock to stand on to land this fish. I won't be doing that now. She just wants to jump. Jeez, look at that. Big old fat smallie on that Savage Gear duck. I'm not sure if we'd get any bass on that duck in the road here today, but that's definitely the size of a smallie that would try to eat that thing. Beauty of a fish. All right. Jacob switched it up to a muskrat. Am I in my view here? I'm going to let him have that spot up there. We'll try a little bit farther down here. So I'm fishing that duck lure on my 7'1 medium heavy power fast action St. Croix Bass X-Rod. We've got a Shimano SLX DC reel. I really like that digital brake system. I seem to get a little bit more distance on the cast with that brake system. So I like it for fishing here at the dam. I can get a little bit closer to that other side of the river over there. And I'm running 30 pound Power Pro Super Slick V2 braid. And then I've got a steel leader in front of that duck today. You got one following it? Oh, I see him there. Jacob's got a muskie following his muskrat lure. Look at the concentration out of Jacob. Super focused on that fish. I guess the fish said no thanks. He'll get one before the day is done. Oh, there's something. Something just grabbed that duck over there. There's a little bit of a pool over there. I think it's a smallie. I still got him. I think he was swimming right back at me. Let's see if a muskie chases that bass up. Oh, I don't see a muskie anywhere. A lot of times they'll chase the bass up when you're reeling one in. You've got that treble hook and that hook in your mouth shot. There we go. Oh, that popped out nice and easy. Second smallie of the day. On that savage deer duck. All right, quick, quick. Go hide before muskie gets you. Jacob is hooked up on his muskrat lure here. About to get down here as close as I can to the water. Oh, yeah, that is a nice pike. There we go. Nice. Got one on the muskrat. That's a nice pike. That's a nice pike actually for that rapdoor. Nice, man. Give it a little release here. I'm not sure about the muskie. Take a look at this big old rapdoor. Yeah, he's about the size of some of those muskie. Yeah, he is. One of the bigger pike I think I've ever caught. They're following it back, but it's hard to get the muskies to eat this thing. The muskrat lure. Yeah, thanks. Nice, man. I'm just giving that duck little pops up there like it's an injured bird or something. Let's see if that'll get something to commit. It's been pretty slow going. Haven't really had much action the last half hour or so. Maybe not the best conditions for top water. Pretty much blue bird skies out here today, but I've had some of my best top water action for pike at least on days pretty much just like today. So you never know unless you try. But no complaints out of me. We're catching a few. Hey, there's no place I'd rather be. I've already hooked into one muskie today. I think any muskie fisherman would tell you that's a successful day. Jacob's hooked up here. Just threw a dead perch on a hook and tossed it up there. Tossed another perch right here on the rock. Is it a muskie? Yeah, it is. Oh, nice jump. Sweet. No, that's a pike. That's a big pike. Almost looks like that same one that you caught before. Yeah, that's a nice, nice pike on the dead perch. Way to go, man. Did he? Oh, sweet. I could do that for you. All right, Jacob with another nice pike. Look at that mean looking monster. Nice catch, man. Yeah, I can't catch these muskies before the pike are in there. There we go. It's a hot one out here, man. Yeah, it is. Getting a little bit warm out here on these rocks. We'll give it a little while longer. I'm still hoping for one more muskie out here. They haven't really been super active out here today. Took a dead perch to catch that one. I was down on the rocks and I found two dead perch, so I threw it up there and he took it right away. All right, you guys, that's going to do it for today's trip. We're starting to get our gear packed up, getting ready to head back up the rocks. It's been a fun morning out here at the spillway, though. It's kind of slow going the last couple hours. The fish just haven't seemed all that active, but got on some nice action this morning. Caught that beautiful muskie on the duck lure, as well as a couple smallies, which kind of surprised me, but they were both good sized smallies. So I'd say that was a successful day for Mr. Duck. Jake up here did really well, too. I think he caught two or three smallies before I even had my line in the water this morning. So he was hammering those the first hour, caught a couple really nice pike. Check out his channel. I'll leave a link in the video description down below. Jagged Tooth Tackle. And I'll leave links for all the gear I was using out here today as well. So that's going to do it for this one. It's been a fun morning out here. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Thanks for coming along with me. I'll see you next time.