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| Weird having to believe you need a fresh start after so long...
I am interested to know if anybody is interested in sharing any stories about how they first came across MuskieFIRST... I would love to read some of the positive things that went on - early on.
I wish I had an interesting story to write...
I just found it in 2001. Just happened to come across it. Happy I did - and more than happy the website is still around.
Have a great day everyone.
Anyone remember this look? 
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| Either 99,2000, or 01, I know it was the second month of operation.
Muskiefirst,Muskyhunter,and Muskies101 back and forth with the mouse clicking, on company time. |
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| Oh man happy hooker... I hear ya on all the loading, clicking, loading... reloading... reloading... checking to see how many people are chatting... reloading... chat with Pointerpride... reload...
Reminds me of the lamb chops play along song a little for some reason.
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Location: oswego, il | Before muskiefirst there was muskiecentral which was a part of walleyecentral. We were all there and around 1998 steve started this site and we all followed it over. |
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Location: The desert | 2005. Early in my college life. Lots of time in the chat when I should have been studying. Some great, great late night chats back then. Thousands of deleted posts later, I'm still around. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Zach and I had this idea once.
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Location: central Wisconsin | Started at Walleye Central, went over to Muskie Central which morphed into Muskiefirst.
You can still find archives of Muskie Central. |
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| Funny you posted this I was curious about this...I found the site because I was fishing up on alleghany river and another boat was fishing musky as well and saw the muskyfirst logo on their truck so I checked the site out just happened 2 weeks ago...
This is why I was wondering about these logos for your trucks because I would have not found site if I didnt see that logo on his truck....
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| I was invited to go on a trip to Lake of the Woods in 2008. I had fished my whole life, but being from Texas, this was a whole different animal. I began to research Muskie fishing, and this site proved to be the best in my opinion. It was able to get me started, and has helped me better pursue this dang fish each year since. After the 2008 trip, I knew this was something that I couldn't get out of my system. I became a a member in 2009. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Jeff78 - 10/15/2016 7:50 AM
Started at Walleye Central, went over to Muskie Central which morphed into Muskiefirst.
You can still find archives of Muskie Central.
Zach built WC, and talked me into taking on editor duties of MC. That's where we were until the owner sort of created a 'situation' that made staying there less than attractive. Started our own media company and never looked back. Doesn't seem possible 15 years has gone by....
We are delighted everyone found the place. Good crew on board these days, I even had a nice visit with Ranger over the weekend. He's doing well, and caught a 15" crappie on Vermilion, too.
Stand by for the long awaited changes we've been working on for a couple years. Should be coming this Winter.
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| Steve, you have no idea how much I think about the last post you made about the changes coming. I keep imagining what those changes could be. Looking forward to the upgrade! We do appreciate your time. |
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Location: Elgin, IL | 2007.
Thanks to everyone at OutdoorsFIRST. Great work here Steve and Slamr, it's always interesting here. Looking forward to the changes. Thanks. |
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Location: Livin on a Prayer. | Northwind Mark - 10/17/2016 8:08 AM
2007.
Thanks to everyone at OutdoorsFIRST. Great work here Steve and Slamr, it's always interesting here. Looking forward to the changes. Thanks.
Yes, what Northwind said. Actually the same guy. Changed the name due to a career change and eventual attitude adjustment. Found this site and found alot of good information here involving the Outdoors...and Muskies too. Learning to separate the BS from the good is the key.
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| I was thinking it was around 2003 that I found this place. But...looking up my user name in the User List...seems I registered in October of 2004. So...I can't recall if I actually signed up and created a user name the very first time I found this place in Oct of 04 or of I had been lurking prior to that?
Yes...was looking at Muskie Hunter and Muskie101 back then too.
Seems back then I was trying to follow a lot of different muskie fishing sites as well as sites for other species of fish. Once I got married and started a family and had kids...I could no longer keep up with "making the rounds" to check in on all of those various different sites. Realized back then I was seeing a lot of the same user names and a lot of the same topics on all of those boards and realized I was spending too much time trying to keep up with all of them...and...thus...I told myself it was time to downsize and simplify on the number of forum boards I tried to keep up with. I bailed from all the others and stuck with this one. It seemed to be the one I kept coming back to and it's worked out just fine for me.
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Just found this site a couple of weeks ago! Seems like a nice place, hope its around a while longer! |
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Location: Richland Center, WI. | My boys and I were at a musky show in West Salem WI back in 2006.
I bought a couple lures from Shane West. He asked if I knew about the
Muskiefirst website. That is how I found my way here.
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Location: oswego, il | That lacrosse show was a nice litfle show. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | nwild - 10/19/2016 9:59 AM
Slamr told me about it ;-)
This is my fault?? |
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Location: Illinois | Just found this site a few months ago. Never really looked into fishing websites/forums until a year ago or so. |
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Location: Smith Creek | I was googling a sex position and google brought up one of ToddM's posts about CPR. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I actually believe that is true. No doubt at all. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | there was a time when MH was relevant and had a lot of traffic ... big group of guys who were curious and some who loved to talk football and there was always a clash of a group bashing the other group with some form of implied identity that you were a MHer, Nut, M1er or any form of other upstarts. this one lasted and thankfully steve let me open up the basement where guys could chew the fat like we used to back in the day.
i think originally it was in the late 90's early 00's ...
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| I used to bounce back and forth between Lake Link, The Nut, 101, and MH back in the day. Not sure when I found MuskieFIRST. I'd say 2004 or 2005 if I had to guess. Made some good friends. Probably made a few enemies along the way too. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | jonnysled - 10/20/2016 2:20 PM
there was a time when MH was relevant and had a lot of traffic ... big group of guys who were curious and some who loved to talk football and there was always a clash of a group bashing the other group with some form of implied identity that you were a MHer, Nut, M1er or any form of other upstarts. this one lasted and thankfully steve let me open up the basement where guys could chew the fat like we used to back in the day.
i think originally it was in the late 90's early 00's ...
lots of good friends and enemies along the way ...
Oh the days of forum battles... |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | my favorites were the ones who were too smart and too serious to be held back by the normal people ... we had a true aristocracy in our sport. |
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Location: The desert | esoxaddict - 10/20/2016 2:54 PM
I used to bounce back and forth between Lake Link, The Nut, 101, and MH back in the day. Not sure when I found MuskieFIRST. I'd say 2004 or 2005 if I had to guess. Made some good friends. Probably made a few enemies along the way too.
This may come as a shock to some, but I'm quite literally banned from Lake Link. |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | 09/19/2001. Yikes, time sure does fly! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Pointerpride102 - 10/20/2016 5:29 PM
esoxaddict - 10/20/2016 2:54 PM
I used to bounce back and forth between Lake Link, The Nut, 101, and MH back in the day. Not sure when I found MuskieFIRST. I'd say 2004 or 2005 if I had to guess. Made some good friends. Probably made a few enemies along the way too.
This may come as a shock to some, but I'm quite literally banned from Lake Link.[/QUOTE
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| Pointerpride102 - 10/20/2016 5:29 PM
esoxaddict - 10/20/2016 2:54 PM
I used to bounce back and forth between Lake Link, The Nut, 101, and MH back in the day. Not sure when I found MuskieFIRST. I'd say 2004 or 2005 if I had to guess. Made some good friends. Probably made a few enemies along the way too.
This may come as a shock to some, but I'm quite literally banned from Lake Link.
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Location: The desert | esoxaddict - 10/21/2016 5:37 PM
Pointerpride102 - 10/20/2016 5:29 PM
esoxaddict - 10/20/2016 2:54 PM
I used to bounce back and forth between Lake Link, The Nut, 101, and MH back in the day. Not sure when I found MuskieFIRST. I'd say 2004 or 2005 if I had to guess. Made some good friends. Probably made a few enemies along the way too.
This may come as a shock to some, but I'm quite literally banned from Lake Link.
You have to share that story!
That's a basement type story. |
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| So put it down in the basement... Might it have something to do with the guys posting pictures of 28" muskies and calling them 42"? Or the guys who shared the fact that they caught an undersized out of season musky and how good it tasted?
From what I remember, Cletus and his cousin Cletus were the big players on that site... |
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| It's been a long run for this show,,surprised Slamr hasent broken away for his own series in prime time. |
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Location: Florida | I found out about Muskie.outdoorfirst.com since I was doing research for Muskie fishing. I am glad I found this forum since I learned a good amount of information that helped me catch my first Muskie. The Muskie was 43 inches long and she swam off strong when I released her.
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Location: Florida | I just sent PM's to those who helped me in my quest of catching my first Muskie. I had a great time fishing in Illinois. Illinois is blessed with great fishing and I will never forget my first Muskie.
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| travelingfisherman - 10/31/2016 8:03 PM I just sent PM's to those who helped me in my quest of catching my first Muskie. I had a great time fishing in Illinois. Illinois is blessed with great fishing and I will never forget my first Muskie. -Travelingfisherman
That is very cool of you! I bet they appreciated that very much. You must be proud of yourself, too. I wish you the best of luck moving forward. |
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| I asked my buddy while we were out fishing one day where he bought so much s***. He said musky first. Now with the amount of time ive spent at work searching the archives of information on here I could probably be the CEO of my company if I had spent that much time productively. Probably 90% of what I think I know about muskies is regurgitated M1 posts from years back. Im young in the musky game still and sometimes I still struggle to catch fish despite living on Lake St Clair, but I catch more fish than I did when I moved here 5 years ago, so that's a plus. Ive also made a couple fishing buddies from the site and They've taught me a lot, which is the best part. Thanks to all who contributed for so many years, those old posts still get looked at today by noobs like me trying to figure out how to get his next bite.
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| Pointerpride102 - 10/20/2016 5:29 PM
esoxaddict - 10/20/2016 2:54 PM
I used to bounce back and forth between Lake Link, The Nut, 101, and MH back in the day. Not sure when I found MuskieFIRST. I'd say 2004 or 2005 if I had to guess. Made some good friends. Probably made a few enemies along the way too.
This may come as a shock to some, but I'm quite literally banned from Lake Link.
McCain vs Obama thread? just a guess |
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Location: oswego, il | tackleaddict - 11/1/2016 7:06 AM
Pointerpride102 - 10/20/2016 5:29 PM
esoxaddict - 10/20/2016 2:54 PM
I used to bounce back and forth between Lake Link, The Nut, 101, and MH back in the day. Not sure when I found MuskieFIRST. I'd say 2004 or 2005 if I had to guess. Made some good friends. Probably made a few enemies along the way too.
This may come as a shock to some, but I'm quite literally banned from Lake Link.
McCain vs Obama thread? just a guess
You could ot avoid politics back in the day on any thread until they banned it. |
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Location: Florida | Reelwise - 10/31/2016 8:48 PM
travelingfisherman - 10/31/2016 8:03 PM I just sent PM's to those who helped me in my quest of catching my first Muskie. I had a great time fishing in Illinois. Illinois is blessed with great fishing and I will never forget my first Muskie. -Travelingfisherman That is very cool of you! I bet they appreciated that very much. You must be proud of yourself, too. I wish you the best of luck moving forward.
Thank you! Yes I am very happy since I caught my first Muskie. I spent over 2 months researching Muskie biology,locations, and tactics to catch Muskies. Muskies have been a bucket list fish of mines since I was 10-11 years old( I use to read books about Muskies and other North American game fish as a child and still do). I will invite those who helped me earlier, lots of good guys in this forum. I plan to continue fishing for Snook, Tarpon, Permit, Peacock Bass, Sharks ( Bulls, Tigers, and Hammers) and other Florida game fish in the meantime before my next Muskie Trip! |
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