Musky Figure 8 Boatside Strikes and Converting Follows into Trophy Muskies Most muskies are lost at boatside. The figure eight decides everything. Few aspects of musky fishing have talked about more than figure eights, yet few have been explained in any meaningful way. Most discussions stop at the familiar advice to “do a good figure eight,” which, while technically correct, is functionally useless. It is no different than ending an article on batting by telling a hitter to hit a home run....
Musky Figure 8 Mastery: The Definitive Guide to Boatside Strikes and Trophy Conversion
Written on 02/05/2026
Steven Paul

