Hi all, Michelle and have been working a nice fish at Budd and have had a fun time chasing her only to fail getting her to eat anything. She did nose a sucker ,chase a bucktail and follow a Phamtom. Oh she also tried to eat a 29" Pike we had on a stringer on October 1st. We were using our new little Jon boat and with no live well we hung the nice eating sized Pike over the side on the rear anchor rope. The big girl made her first appearance by eating the pike right in front of Michelle. Shell almost fainted and had to sit down stammering (she tried to steal my supper). We returned on the 9th with several large suckers to see if we could get a repeat but the other Muskies ate them all before she got her shot but we did raise her on a Phantom. Got a 38 on a 15" sucker that day and lost two others. hooks would not stay attached to the bait. We returned on the 14th and saw her again and she amazed us by bumping a 13" sucker with her nose and even nipped it in the tail. The sucker was so terrified it played dead and pretended it was a stick!! Pond raised suckers are smart or they dont know a predator when they see one. Caught a 41 and 43 both on 2 hook quick strikes. 5 hits on assorted bucktails and cranks but no other fish landed. Water temps ranged from 59.9 to 63. All in all we raised about 22 fish in three days on the water but only caught three . The coolest thing that we saw was when several hours after catching the 41" on a 12" sucker the same fish came in and followed another sucker for over 1/2 hour. We had at one time three fish under our boat two 40" class fish and one larger one all circling the sucker at once. none would eat. We tried every Bull dawg and big bucktail and I even figure eighted a jointed 9" Loke . I have never seen this kind of behavior from Muskies but it was a lot of excitment and we had a blast. We tried filming some of it but all we got was glare . Using a live decoy at boatside can give you some real thrills and as we proved can put fish in the boat as well. Two different muskies nosed the suckers as if testing them to see if they were real. This must be the difference between pond raised suckers and wild ones. Kingfisher