Musky Fishing with Red October Tubes, NW Ontario. Part 1 of 2 - Solo

Red October Tubes - one of my favorite musky baits. Fishing solo in northwestern Ontario for muskie and northern pike using both the shallow and deep (heavy) versions of rigged Red October Monster tubes results in a few nice musky catches and follows. The natural erratic action can be enhanced by a vigorous retrieve or can slow it right down to a dead stop for jigging action. Versatile musky and big northern pike bait.
This is part 1 of a 2 part series using big rubber - next up I'm out with my friend Rob Olson and his son Ben for more musky action (underwater in b-roll in part 1 courtesy of Ben).
Timestamps:
00:00 - Muskie 1 - jumper on red october
02:21 - Big follower x 2
05:05 - Breakline bite and miss
06:10 - Pike chomped by big muskie
07:50 - Nice Pike on Bondy Orba
09:14 - Big Muskie miss, catch Muskie 2
12:18 - Nice pike on red october
13:57 - Missed hookset on Fig 8
15:02 - Muskie 3 on deep red october
17:27 - Muskie 4 on red october
19:14 - Muskie 5 on deep red october
20:40 - Muskie follow on orba
#musky #muskyfishing #redoctober #muskie

[@jdean1851]

AWESOME TRIP! VERY KOOL 2 TONE MUSKY! ALL GREAT STRIKES and FISH! THANX 4 POSTING" CHEERS!

[@thelonesomefisherman7425]

Some nice fish. Lake of The Woods is beautiful.

[@TheAnglingOracle]

Thanks. High water but fishing was still pretty good.

[@scottnorvell2955]

Well done!

[@muskyslayeroutdoors3499]

nice to see some good fish handling!

[@TheAnglingOracle]

Thanks for noticing and commenting on that - these fish are super rare so very important to me to get them back healthy.

[@muskyslayeroutdoors3499]

@@TheAnglingOracle for sure! love the videos!

[@curtadams3281]

I have yet to catch a Musky on the double curly tailed Red October, but it looks so good that I keep trying

[@TheAnglingOracle]

They look great and sure they will catch. My concern is if same soft plastic as the RO tubes that they won't last with too many bites - maybe a good problem to have but up here ton of big (and small) pike wear out all but the toughest rubber lures.

[@approachingtarget.4503]

Positive to the water release, negative to the deep hookset.
Shrink the trailer hook. Same success, safer hook up!

[@TheAnglingOracle]

Agree with the too long of trailer on the red octobers and nervous about a deep swallow. Prefer the shorter trailer on titan tubes but they just aren't big enough. This fish actually just was in the jaw and water release because totally spent from long hard fight way out.