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Location: north west wisconsin | from what i have got out of everything ive read just looking for photos for Jason is that it was extremely hot for a couple weeks before that and all the tubilees had died, dead fish floating everywhere, so their food source was scarce (sp) i read that somewhere i dont remember where but im sure there is more to it than that. |
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Location: Rhinelander. | Thats for that reason. I figured something fairl drastic had to happen to cause such a frenzy. Thanks again........Pfeiff |
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| Last summer Don, not too far from Rhinelander, I witnessed people walleye fishing and pulling out a musky every 5 or so casts. It was a typical fall day, the front moving through was not too big but was one of our last good storms of the year last year. I still have no idea what was going on, it had to be a major abundance of baitfish or something. Not sure if I should say where the spot is just because of how many people literally hammer it each year, and each year there are more people. That day the biggest fish pulled out was a 49.5" 33lb beauty caught by a guy who had just brought my dad a big walleye to mount from the day before. It was exciting as all hell to watch, until a husband wife and 2 kids about 14 and 17 showed up. While talking with the dad about musky fishing and how crazy this was, and hearing about how his kids have caught 800 muskies combined over the past few years (He really said that, I'm not making it up), I was watching one of his kids over his shoulder, he must have had really good eyes let me tell you..because 3 casts in a row he hooked a different musky on, not in the mouth either. After watching a little longer I gathered that these kids were intentionally trying to snag the fish. I said my peace and they left. It was one of the sickest things I've seen in fishing, especially when the mom was on the other side cheering them on..I mean cmon what do you do in a situation like that? I think we will being seeing a lot more stupid stuff like that to come, just with how many more people each year are becoming interesting in Musky fishing.
Long story short, how many of those leech lake fish in the pics were caught by not snagging em? This day I am talkin about, the fish were willingly hitting like bluegills on crawlers..but I think some of the ones these kids were snagging were fish others were releasing and were recuperating. I wish I was alive back when Muskys were "abundant" in our area, I know they still are good in numbers but I wonder how many are as big in some of the lakes, as shown in that pic..that's pretty nuts! |
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| reading about the July 1955 musky massacre over coffee this morn, I found this detailed and informative article the delves into some of the questions in this old thread
https://sportingclassicsdaily.com/when-the-muskies-went-wild/
Edited by curdmudgeon 4/28/2024 6:54 AM
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| sworrall - 4/6/2008 12:30 AM
Nothing wrong with the advancements made in the sport since the 50's, on all counts.
how did the quote age re: FFS? just joshing, its all good.
time goes round, tech advances, fish get hammered harder, or do they? Those 1955 guys sure slaughtered a lot too with ancient gear. In fact, low-tech gear in this case probably killed some muskies from spooled reels or broken line leaving musky swimming away with lure lockjaw. Not to mention the culture of the days.
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Location: Duluth | Saw a big GB fish on another forum. Guy said it was. 60lbs because he put it on a scale, but released the fish.......
Picture is of him doing vertical gill hold. Some things don't change |
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| CincySkeez - 4/28/2024 10:22 AM
Saw a big GB fish on another forum. Guy said it was. 60lbs because he put it on a scale, but released the fish.......
Picture is of him doing vertical gill hold. Some things don't change
The guy was a walleye fishermen on the Peshtigo river. He was not fishing musky and may not know anything about holds, etc. Accidental catches happen. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | curdmudgeon - 4/28/2024 7:04 AM
sworrall - 4/6/2008 12:30 AM
Nothing wrong with the advancements made in the sport since the 50's, on all counts.
how did the quote age re: FFS? just joshing, its all good.
time goes round, tech advances, fish get hammered harder, or do they? Those 1955 guys sure slaughtered a lot too with ancient gear. In fact, low-tech gear in this case probably killed some muskies from spooled reels or broken line leaving musky swimming away with lure lockjaw. Not to mention the culture of the days.
There could be easily more fish caught on a given day on leech now. You’d just never know it. They all go back mostly unharmed. |
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| Kirby makes a good point. The story of Suick lure was that it got musky for 30 straight days from Pelican. Guessing all or most got thumped. With a 50" limit, doubtful that many musky are kept from Pelican (legally) in a decade. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | curdmudgeon - 4/28/2024 7:04 AM
sworrall - 4/6/2008 12:30 AM
Nothing wrong with the advancements made in the sport since the 50's, on all counts.
how did the quote age re: FFS? just joshing, its all good.
time goes round, tech advances, fish get hammered harder, or do they? Those 1955 guys sure slaughtered a lot too with ancient gear. In fact, low-tech gear in this case probably killed some muskies from spooled reels or broken line leaving musky swimming away with lure lockjaw. Not to mention the culture of the days.
Given that was 16 years ago, it ages pretty well. HUGE advancements in all technology since then. |
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Given that was 16 years ago, it ages pretty well. HUGE advancements in all technology since then.
It does age well and I thank for providing such a thoughtful forum over the years. |
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| Curdmugeon thanks for the Classics article.Best 'summary' I've ever seen.Most all of the well known characters included.Pence,Arnold(almost in diapers then),Ogle,Utke,Chuckie Neruerer,Bridge.A notable omission would be Roger Halvorson.
Good stuff. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | I concur with DickP on all counts! |
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| Larry was a great story of these fish in his Compendium book along with above mentioned Northern pike & Muskie book and Muskie mania book. My mom's family is from Deer River and my great uncle left there in the 40's to start a lumber company here in Colorado but he went back on vacation in 1955 and got a 36 pounder during the Rampage and lost a fish over 40# fishing on a launch when a lady reeled her lure over my uncle's line and the fish got off. I have not been up to there town in years but my uncle had a picture of all the Muskies in his office. Next time I'm up there maybe if it's still around I could get my relatives to give it up. |
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