Why do muskie follow a lure all the way to the boat without hitting?

A muskie is a stalk-and-burst predator that eats large, infrequent meals, so the final commit is expensive and it inspects prey for as long as the presentation allows. A lure tracking in a straight line at constant speed never trips the "prey is escaping" trigger — the fish simply keeps pace, gathers visual information, and declines. Follows are not failures; they are the normal state of muskie fishing, and on many days they outnumber eats ten to one. The fix is to take the decision away from the fish: change speed and direction at the boat with a figure-8, or come back at a lower light window when the same fish is more committed.

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