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Location: varies | Ok. Share it! What's your new plan for next year's muskie season?
Maybe get out more? Get out less. Get your kids involved or their first musky?
Maybe a simple one like rat nest the reel a little less.
Get the world record fish.
try a new tactic(S)
Learn how to use those electronics.
beat last year's total?
catch my first fitty?
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Location: On the O | Don't treat a lost fish like it's the end of the world.
Sometimes they get off, there will be other ones....
No point in stewing over something you can't always control.
Be ready for the next one. |
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| Drink more
And catch a fitty
Edited by burningdubs 12/23/2015 11:12 AM
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I wanna shake off a 4 footer on purpose  |
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| 1. Try trolling.
2. boat 15 fish.
3. Going back to Vermilion in hopes to not get skunked.
4. Try go get pops on the water more this year.
5. Going to try and keep the musky season budget under $5,000.00 this year. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | Fish a river for muskies
Catch a 50
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Location: SE WISCONSIN | Catch one |
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Location: Lincoln, NE | Get my Dad and Uncle on more muskies. I know my cousin, my sister, and myself will do fine, but my dad and uncle only catch like 1 a year. I'd like them to get more action or beat their PB's.
Introduce 1 or 2 new people to the sport to blow their mind. It's hard being in a state where musky fishing isn't a common thing. Most people just want to get in a boat and drink themselves stupid while a nightcrawler is casted out in a rod holder.
Fish with more out of state musky nuts and meet more cool people and learn new lakes. This year was awesome and want to expand that even more.
Double Nickel. |
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| Catch one vertical jigging and catch one on a sucker..
Learn my home lake better and put my kids on more fish.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Fish the Goon and out of AML a couple times next year.
Fish the NW Angle.
Cast more, type less. |
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Posts: 441
| Try different areas.
Fish early mornings, more.
Try different baits.
Take care of my body, better.
Stop, and smell the roses, more.
Make new "muskie fishing" friends.
Appreciate my wife more, for never giving me grief, for fishing everyday!
Enjoy every minute, of my dream, because it won't last forever.
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Posts: 383
| In 2015 I traded jobs and moved across two states. Somewhere between the job change and selling/buying houses and moving and getting the family settled the boat got sold too. Long story short: I got out twice. In 2016, I'm going fishing! |
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Location: MN | Get better at remembering to hold my farts until my fishing partner is down wind.
Wait until at least noon to start drinking, or at least until I lose one. |
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Location: oswego, il | Try to be funny.
Try to be serious.
Be more critical of others.
Let big fish get under my skin.
Be overly competitive with anyone I fish with.
Dislike fibs.
Learn a new language and mostly speak it.
Be closed off to other points of view.
Cosplay in the boat.
Swear more.
Edited by ToddM 12/23/2015 5:43 PM
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| I will begin my transition from small lakes to Fishing the GREAT LAKES .. I have wanted to do this for a few years but due to the cost of getting a larger boat I have put it off---this is my year---I am looking at boats and will be purchasing A Larger Rig to handle the conditions---- So come MAY--I should be on the BIG LAKES !! Can't WAIT.. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | After fishing muskies almost exclusively for over 25 years I'm going to fish them less until after Labour Day. My goal for the coming year is to catch 25 different species of fish with rod and reel within 50 miles of my front door. I've compiled a list of 30 possibles but there may be one or two others.
Edit: After further consideration I may have to give myself a 100 mile range not because the fish aren't within 50 miles but because of where I will be.
Edited by horsehunter 12/23/2015 7:10 PM
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Location: Sycamore, IL | horsehunter - 12/23/2015 6:09 PM
After fishing muskies almost exclusively for over 25 years I'm going to fish them less until after Labour Day. My goal for the coming year is to catch 25 different species of fish with rod and reel within 50 miles of my front door. I've compiled a list of 30 possibles but there may be one or two others.
I like this goal! Good luck, should be fun. |
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| Have never made a resolution I didn't wind up breaking. So this year? I just wanna fish as much as I can, have some fun, and end up in one piece at the end of the season. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Get back into shape
Sight fish Muskies over the basin on late ice
Expand Smallie Range to include Sturgeon Bay
More Salmon Fishing
Get back to Canada eh ...
Boat gets a new kicker and glass redone
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | I suppose these are more anti-musky fishing resolutions, but balance is everything.
Cast off the dock more at dusk, even when the mosquitoes are terrible
Focus on more multi-species fishing
Spend more time working on the house/property
Spend more time with my wife
Life is short, savor every precious moment
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | Retain the Nestor Cup! |
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| Troll more and simply fish smarter. And enjoy my time on the water. We all lose fish and sometimes that makes us lose sight of other awesome experiences we may have on a given day. Yeah losing fish sucks. Losing big fish really sucks but it's all part of the game and it's the reason why we play it |
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| Crack the double-nickel or longer.
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Location: Thief River Falls MN | Legal on Eagle... |
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Location: Brampton Ontario Canada | Land my first 50+ and fish Lake St. Clair
Edited by Aceboogie 12/24/2015 2:35 AM
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Location: oswego, il | I forgot to add a biggie:
Embroider logos on all my clothing. |
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Location: Wisconsin | catch more fish than I did this year, and have my average size improve from lastt year. Catch a fish on opening day, and catch one on the last day of the season on my home water!
Edited by WiscoMusky 12/24/2015 7:32 AM
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Location: Scandia MN | Fish more and talk about it less - - - - |
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| Muskie resolution: Make the best out of time on the water. Having a 1 year old and another on the way is probably going to limit free time even more than this year. That said, I caught more fish this year than any other year, and I got my PB....soooo....maybe less time makes me more focused/productive?
Off the water resolution: be the best dad and husband I can be...happy wife = understanding wife = I get to go fishing when I want! |
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| pturk - 12/23/2015 9:14 PM
Crack the double-nickel or longer.
Yes. This!!!
I also hear, when you become a 55 and over member, that you get a 10% discount on M1 BS.
Merry Christmas!
Edited by mnmusky 12/24/2015 9:11 AM
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| Catch one close to 50, not post a bumpboard pic, and sit back and watch the debate on whether it's 50 or not. And, try that new fish batter recipe on it...
Kirby and Sled, those were good... |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Start dragging my boat to work so I can fish a lot more in the evenings. Fish at night a lot more. Catch one on a pounder. |
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Posts: 192
| Glide baits that is all |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Mine is same as last year's.....go after the ACB fish, a.k.a., The Beast. I trust she's still lurking under the ice, and waiting for me, so we can dance again!
What ToddM said too!
Al |
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| Take time to appreciate my time on the water and enjoy the "chase" regardless of the weather. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Work less,Fish more, Catch more...Boat 5 over 50" next season. |
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| Master side imaging
Get a shoepack strain on the fly rod
Spend at least 10 hours trolling
Fish from the back of the boat more
Convert another angler to the dark side |
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Location: oswego, il | Other than my previous smart ass answers I really do not ha e any other than fishing with some people I did not get a chance to fish with last year. |
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| Become nocturnal.
Learn my waters and land more fish. |
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Location: Aurora | Buy more Ghost Tails. |
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Location: Detroit River | My New Year's muskie resolution is to NOT buy any new baits. I might make a few dozen but I don't plan to buy any new baits.  |
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| Zib that is blasphemy! |
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Location: Detroit River | Bondy - 12/30/2015 6:31 AMZib that is blasphemy! Yep and so is me telling my wife that I'm going to lose weight this year. |
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Location: Okauchee, WI | I am going to get historical and spend a day on Pelican Lake with a retro Suick. Now I just have to find me one of those old school camo fedoras. |
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| Leave the casting rods at home and focus on the fly. |
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new year's muskie resolution.