Just read a post on the MHM board where people were complaining about the difficulty of getting fish to hit on Vermillion, as they get so much pressure. Sounds like people were still throwing the same kind of stuff in the same kind of ways and getting the same kind of results.

The pike over here can get extremely pressurized and become very difficult to tempt, either following a long way behind or a long way below and bolting as soon as they see the boat. What seems to work best is to go really subtle with them, rather than trying to speed up or give them erratic maneuvers. We fish a lot of soft plastic swimbaits, hard swimbaits, glidebaits fished pretty much on a straight retrieve or more recently flies fished with very very slow constant retrieves.

Obviously your musky and our pike are very different creatures, but I wondered whether you've found that going subtle - without going to small lures - has made a difference when you're musky fishing, or does it just not get them interested in the first place?