382 - Ty Sennett - Practical Musky Tips and Iowa Musky Madness

Well, I do appreciate the plug, but anyways, like, Hey, I just find it to be amazing.

Like just how consistent you guys are with it.

And the one, the one other note I made here was like side imaging and you talk about it a lot.

And I fished with other guides and it's amazing to me, like how well you guys understand, like just the subtleties of fishing.

like what is a fish or, and how quickly you can recognize it.

You know, you, you told me that you said the story about how you saw the fish on side imaging and then, you know, you were making casts all over the place and it was, you know, the other, the other boat ended up catching it.

Like, how did you, like, I'm guessing it didn't show up probably as like one of those perfect musky shadows that they talk

about.

Cause it was, it was moving.

So you can tell it.

So there's a lot of carp there.

Um, And carp look like, you know, the snack that kids always eat, goldfish.

That's exactly what a carp looks like because they're so fat.

So it's easy to tell a carp from a muskie.

A muskie have, the fins are, you can actually see the fins on side imaging.

So you can see the fin configuration.

Like that fish flew by our boat and we knew which way it was going because it was such a quick blip.

So we knew it was going to our left.

So we fired back there and you can see the fin configuration even on a fish moving like that.

So Like we'll go along and the biggest thing is to not be cocky about it.

Like don't think you know what you're looking at until you actually know what you're looking at.

Like there's times where I'll go buy a fish and I'll back the boat up and go, okay, that is a pike or a muskie because obviously pike have the same shape.

So we knew it was either a pike or a muskie and we pitched to it.

Otherwise, we would just keep casting.

And there's so many times where I'd be like, I'm not sure what that is, but go ahead and make a cast over there.