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| Theres going to be a public input meeting on this in that area there always is.
I say let's take the muskie diet survey print it on the back of T shirts and wear them there????
And to apease/ bribe the crowd we serve them a tilapia lunch outside,,that way we show that not just muskies but musky anglers won't eat walleyes. |
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Location: Bemidji | When the anti muskie group was quoted in the paper saying "that's a huge muskie" am I the only one that thought of Duece Bigalow? |
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Location: Minnesota | ToddM - 8/23/2015 12:22 PM
We are confusing things here folks. We have established that muskies eating certain colored baits is a bad thing. We have to come up with colors/patterns that will not be offensive to anyone. Was thinking orange with black dots but that is too close to someone with jaundice that has chicken pox. I am at a loss here, bare wood isn't an option, tree huggers.....
The only true solution to not offending anyone is to take your paddle board out to your favorite spot and begin to meditate. Once in a state of meditation, visualize yourself catching the fish not by rod and reel, but through a deep inner connection with the fish.
Once you've connected with the fish of a lifetime and held a silent but very real conversation with the fish, take a photograph with your mind and release it back to the water just as you release all of your guilt.
It's unoffensive to anyone and it costs a hell of a lot less. Here's a picture of the 84"er I caught last weekend.
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Location: Wisconsin | lmao this is the GOAT^ |
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Location: varies | lhprop1 - 8/25/2015 9:59 AM
ToddM - 8/23/2015 12:22 PM
We are confusing things here folks. We have established that muskies eating certain colored baits is a bad thing. We have to come up with colors/patterns that will not be offensive to anyone. Was thinking orange with black dots but that is too close to someone with jaundice that has chicken pox. I am at a loss here, bare wood isn't an option, tree huggers.....
The only true solution to not offending anyone is to take your paddle board out to your favorite spot and begin to meditate. Once in a state of meditation, visualize yourself catching the fish not by rod and reel, but through a deep inner connection with the fish.
Once you've connected with the fish of a lifetime and held a silent but very real conversation with the fish, take a photograph with your mind and release it back to the water just as you release all of your guilt.
It's unoffensive to anyone and it costs a hell of a lot less. Here's a picture of the 84"er I caught last weekend.
What's the going guide rate on such an outing? Does that include Colorado grown products? |
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Location: Minnesota | rodbender - 8/25/2015 10:33 AM
lhprop1 - 8/25/2015 9:59 AM
The only true solution to not offending anyone is to take your paddle board out to your favorite spot and begin to meditate. Once in a state of meditation, visualize yourself catching the fish not by rod and reel, but through a deep inner connection with the fish.
Once you've connected with the fish of a lifetime and held a silent but very real conversation with the fish, take a photograph with your mind and release it back to the water just as you release all of your guilt.
It's unoffensive to anyone and it costs a hell of a lot less. Here's a picture of the 84"er I caught last weekend.
What's the going guide rate on such an outing? Does that include Colorado grown products?
Can you put a price tag on inner peace and unlimited trophy fish? I can't. |
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Location: oswego, il | You will see me at the sport shows next year selling meditation balancing paddles that rest upon your out stretched palms. You know some of these guys are going out to their favorite late fall wind blown reefs. I have a feeling we may see as many as 10-15 meditators around places like comet island on lake vermillion. Make way for ToddM's Musky Meditation Guise Service. I guarantee a catch. I do seminars too!
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Location: Minnesota | ToddM - 8/25/2015 11:04 AM
You will see me at the sport shows next year selling meditation balancing paddles that rest upon your out stretched palms. You know some of these guys are going out to their favorite late fall wind blown reefs. I have a feeling we may see as many as 10-15 meditators around places like comet island on lake vermillion. Make way for ToddM's Musky Meditation Guise Service. I guarantee a catch. I do seminars too!
Best of all, the season never closes. |
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Location: varies | Just look for the guy sporting yoga pants and too tight tank top. |
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Location: West Chester, OH | rodbender - 8/25/2015 12:22 PM
Just look for the guy sporting yoga pants and too tight tank top.
Oh, he wears yoga pants?? I thought he stares at yoga pants....
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Location: Smith Creek | rodbender - 8/25/2015 11:22 AM
Just look for the guy sporting yoga pants and too tight tank top.
And blue rubber gloves. |
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Location: oswego, il | I just founded the PMMTT. The Professional Musky Meditation Tournament Trail. Working on the dates, locations and sponsors as we speak. |
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| And Crocs
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| cincinnati - 8/25/2015 1:00 PM
rodbender - 8/25/2015 12:22 PM
Just look for the guy sporting yoga pants and too tight tank top.
Oh, he wears yoga pants?? I thought he stares at yoga pants....
Yes, in the mirror. |
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| Lol. Even though the topic has gone to Mars it is hilarious. So... Has anyone had experience in a similar situation where stocking of muskies went through? Just wondering what went well and what is the best route to take in convincing others. West Battle is one of my favorite musky lakes but it would be nice to have a smaller lake as an option when the wind gets out of control in that area. Beers is kind of a hall from Battle Lake. So long as this meeting doesn't fall on a date I end up working the night shift I would like to head up there. Personally I would love to just stick to the research that has been done but based on the political climate of the past 15 years it will be ignored and he who cries the loudest will be heard. What works in these situatuions? |
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Location: oswego, il | Go where their voice is heard, social media, lake association meetings, post/bring the truth with you. It was touched on earlier in this thread but lure color seemed to gain the most traction. |
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Location: The desert | What is the best paddle board for envisioning throwing double 10s? |
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| Actually there should be a car pool organized when the meeting happens,,,the Anti"s show up if you have gone to these public input meetings the dnr and muskies need has much help has they can get. |
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Location: varies | happy hooker - 8/26/2015 6:26 PM
Actually there should be a car pool organized when the meeting happens,,,the Anti"s show up if you have gone to these public input meetings the dnr and muskies need has much help has they can get.
Road trip!
Bring the PMTT to Pelican. 100 boats on 4000 acres.  |
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Location: Ludington, MI | This uninformed attitude toward muskies is especially troublesome where spearing is legal. My only hope is that guys see the 50 speared locally here last year and decide to let the shorts grow so they, too, can get a mantle piece. I don't love the idea of people taking trophies with spears, but if it increases the population of 40+ fish, I guess it's a small step in the right direction or sideways and forward, anyway. |
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Location: Grand Marais, MN | I've worked in ottertail county off and on for the last 5 years, have gotten to know some of the ring leaders behind the anti muskie guys.
essentially, swimmers and skiers want lakes to be swimming pools with no life of any kind, walleye guys have been keeping limits for their limit for 50 years every time they are out or (as lots of em are north dakotans) comparing our lakes to lakes like devils lake.
they want someone to blame besides themselves for overfishing and overdeveloping those lakes.
Strangely enough, I've caught many a walleye and panfish in my last many years up there. I sure haven't seen any sort of decline. My guess is that they aren't great fishermen, either. |
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