I got out for a while Thursday afternoon, went to a lake I don't go to often, but my "favorite" lake has been busy lately, so I gave it a shot.

 

I went straight across the lake to a small back bay that's shown my musky a few times in the past, I got there just as the the afternoon's "peak fishing time" started.

 

I started with a big pink/red/brown synthetic Buford, and it wasn't long before I had a follow on the figure-8 from decent 40"+ fish.  Couldn't get her to eat on that cast, so I tossed the fly out a few more times...got another follow on the figure-8.  She did this twice more, so I decided to swap flies and see if she'd eat something different...

 

That's where it got weird.

 

For the next two and a half hours, and 13 different flies, she apparently set up house under the boat...or near it...and would come out and follow a fly once or twice, a couple three times...she actually ate one of them twice, but spit it back out so fast (the line never went tight) that I couldn't get the hook in her.

 

I put the boat on spot lock and didn't move 20 feet in any direction the whole time.

 

Here's the flies:

 

 

The ones on the left are the ones she followed, the two on the right are the ones she ignored.  The one she ate is the 3rd one down, still on the 8 wt.

 

I've never had a fish that hot, for that long, that didn't eat something...

Pretty wild! She must have seen your steel leader and decided not to bite………just kidding !!!  Sounds like one smart fish, probably been avoiding capture all summer 

Probably looking for shade lol

Just another confirmation that muskies are just plain crazy and make those that fish for them crazy in the process.

15 hours ago, Scott F said:

Just another confirmation that muskies are just plain crazy and make those that fish for them crazy in the process.

Dat's da troof...