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Location: oswego, il | What are some of the amusing things that you see musky fisherman do? One of my favorites is when you are aproaching an oncoming boat. You exchange hellos and notice everyone has their rod tip in the water hiding the bait they are throwing. One, thanks for letting me know you have either caught fish today or have caught fish there on the baits you are throwing. In 15 seconds I can look over and see what they are. Typically they are a mass produced bait in a stock color.
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| I havent seen that one too often Todd, but it would be hilarious if i did see it! Honestly, most of my experience has been super positive with the musky community. The most amusing stuff that I witness actually happens on this site. I really enjoy reading the posts from fisherman who are so confident that they are so "right" about a topic that they would rather die than concede that there is a possibility of them being wrong.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Them; I boated a 55 incher today.
Me; Cool..Any pics ?
Them; No.. they didn't turn out. plus we didn't have any way to measure it
Me; How did ya know it was 55"
Them; I've caught enough to know the difference between a 54 and a 55 incher.
Me; Where at ?
Them; Oh you know, Lake X.. and in less than 4.23 hrs, which is my avg.
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| I have seen this before, I witnessed a boat in GB doing this every time a boat went past. Funny thing is it was mid summer and they were hiding dbl 10 bucktails, the most used bait on GB at the time. It interesting in never dawned on them that they were a few eleventeen years behind the secrecy of that pattern. Best part here was later that day we stuck a fish on a glider next to them and then all proceeded to stick the rod tips down in the water very obviously when they inquired of size.
Another time, less amusing and slightly infuriating, but I have seen this on multiple waters where bumper boat fishing is common, is to try an cast as close to the back of someones boat. Again on GB a couple of guys were doing this to the stern of our boat, my buddy fishing out of the back made a few WTF jesters to them that were ignored. He finally reached his limit and ripped a large lure at their feet, causing one guy to step back. Then then unbelievable happened, a 47" smokes the lure at the feet of the other guys. We boat a 47 packed up and left! |
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| I drag my lure as a lazy way to relax waiting for my next cast not hiding the lure "normally " but I literally tell the truth at the boat ramp to what my plan is and people assume I'm b s ing them and do the opposite of me, and I have decent luck, couldn't imagine doing what they were doing while I was getting my results |
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| I like the guys who tell you they had a lot of action on this or that lure or color, but there's not one on any of their rods, or even visible in the boat. |
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Location: Vilas | I was fishing a Vilas county lake last July...working my way down a weed edge. I was about 75 yards from an inside turn in the weed edge,spot on the spot type deal.... a couple guys come easing by me, stop at that spot, make 15 cast and move off down the weed edge ahead of me... I still went through there and caught a 46 1/2".... they seen the whole thing and came back and chewed me for catching "their" fish...I just laughed and laughed, the more they got the louder I laughed...I never said a word, just laughed in their face......... |
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| How did their fish end up in your net/boat? Why wasn't it in their net? |
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| People take their hobbies far to seriously. Anybody wants to know where I fish, what I catch, what I catch 'em on is welcome in my boat any day. That way they can experience what I eat for lunch, how often I take a nap and if I got skunked that day. |
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| Had a guy yell at me once for climbing on shore to fish a lure out of a tree. "I don't think the guy who owns that property would appreciate you trespassing like that! You know that's private property, right?" To this day I don't know why I didn't bother telling him it was MY property.
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Location: oswego, il | Brian, i think i speak for all of us, we would all like to know your poop habits.
Once a bass guy tells me he has caught a 55 or 60" pike or musky(have been told both) from illinois water, i do not question it, i disengage pretty quick and move on.
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| esoxaddict - 1/18/2018 1:33 PM
Had a guy yell at me once for climbing on shore to fish a lure out of a tree. "I don't think the guy who owns that property would appreciate you trespassing like that! You know that's private property, right?" To this day I don't know why I didn't bother telling him it was MY property.
I guess that guy would have had a real issue when I came back with my tree trimmer and cut off the end of a branch to retrieve my weagle.
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Location: SE Wisc | Muskies don’t have “patterns” in regards to bait selection as much as we like to believe. This makes some of us out there look like idiots, by hiding lures, not sharing information, copying what others are doing, etc, etc, etc. Getting a fish to bite has more to do with depth or putting your lure in the “zone”, lure speed or lack of speed, and the way you presented that bait or cadence.
Oh, and the comment I hate most...”What you catch em on?” “Hooks.” Seriously, idiot.
Admin: Want to try that again without all the profanity? Don't try to get past the foul language filter here...you won't. |
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Location: MN | In Canada this year my dad thought he saw a big bear splashing on a shoreline. We drove over and it was just a tan fat guy swimming naked to retrieve a snagged lure.
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Location: SE Wisc | Woopsie, no words with stars in the middle, got it! |
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Location: Aurora | NathanH - 1/18/2018 9:24 PM
In Canada this year my dad thought he saw a big bear splashing on a shoreline. We drove over and it was just a tan fat guy swimming naked to retrieve a snagged lure.
Thanks for this one Nathan, i laffed out loud fer reals.
Can't make that one up. |
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Location: SE Wisc | Lake X, holding blade baits outside of moving vehicle to break in blades, contemplating over the 9’H and the 8’10” H, having the same color in bucktail, tinsel, and tinbuck; 10s or 9s, wood or plastic Suick?, prism or hologram?, dual clevis or 2 separate clevises, .51 wire or .62?,........checking Muskie forums daily to write this kind of stuff |
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Location: E. Tenn | I just go fishin'...
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Location: The desert | NathanH - 1/18/2018 9:24 PM
In Canada this year my dad thought he saw a big bear splashing on a shoreline. We drove over and it was just a tan fat guy swimming naked to retrieve a snagged lure.
If he was that tan, he likely fishes naked. |
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| Complaining about the price of lures using a $900 "smart" phone. |
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| I love this one and I'm as guilty as the next guy. Someone I know and or a club member drifts by... seeing any? "Nah, well one small lazy follow earlier today on the other side of the lake", giving them the poker face while squeezing your ass cheeks together... Meanwhile you're praying they don't start casting anywhere because you just had a good one one up once or twice in the last 10 minutes. I love this sport 
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| talmooner - 1/20/2018 1:11 PM
Complaining about the price of lures using a $900 "smart" phone.
I think we have a winner! |
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| My fav fat-guy swimming story, if you’ll bare with me (sorry) goes way back to the days of the Wisconsin Musky Tour (WMT) which for most(?) of the time was a pretty great way to spend a Wisconsin summer. It was a fairly cold water fall morning, still dark right before ease-out on Sand and Dam when my automatic bilge pump kept coming on. I quickly deduced the dummy running the boat had left the plug out, ten hours were ahead running the bow-mount, and I had my doubts on the battery life. Even if it held, I really couldn’t listen to the pump all day long and have sanity left. In my old Lund days I would have just reached down got a touch wet, but on a Ranger 620, you can’t reach the plug.
So, being as how I didn’t want to fish in cold wet clothes either, no time for going back to the ramp, I stripped naked and went over the side. Ten hours later, tournament director waiting at the ramp for me, said, “Marty, we have a problem!” He said he was very sorry but two fellow competitors had registered a complaint against me that could disqualify my catch. My good friends had told they witnessed me and my extremely fat rear end swimming naked under my boat just prior to the ease-out. As cold as it was, they figured I wasn’t trying to cool off, and must have had a secret live well under the boat. (Folks with long memories will recall that did happen many years ago) So, guess what saved my flawless reputation from being forever banned from tournaments? It’s my other reputation! So Tom?, I asked. How many fish did you measure for me today? Well, none Marty, I can’t recall the last time you caught a fish in a tournament! Now, fully realized that if I had brought a fish, I certainly would have measured it he apologized profusely but was curious about the naked swimming. I asked if he really needed to know with a sly look that suggested I may have been looking for a date. “Not really,” he replied.....and that is a 100% true story. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Mike D - 1/20/2018 7:18 PM
I love this one and I'm as guilty as the next guy. Someone I know and or a club member drifts by... seeing any? "Nah, well one small lazy follow earlier today on the other side of the lake", giving them the poker face while squeezing your ass cheeks together... Meanwhile you're praying they don't start casting anywhere because you just had a good one one up once or twice in the last 10 minutes. I love this sport
I once freespooled a fish while a passing boat asked if I had had any action. I lied off course. |
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Location: Ashland WI | Pointerpride102 - 1/19/2018 7:25 PM
NathanH - 1/18/2018 9:24 PM
In Canada this year my dad thought he saw a big bear splashing on a shoreline. We drove over and it was just a tan fat guy swimming naked to retrieve a snagged lure.
If he was that tan, he likely fishes naked.
It was Canada, maybe they thought it was a polar bear? |
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Location: MN | Call male fish, 'she', 'her', 'girl', etc. |
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| I have been guilty of hearing a boat coming, putting my musky rods down and sitting down and grabbing my walleye rod |
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| I have certainly been guilty of some of these, though I have to say when I land a fish or post a picture (yes bragging is fun too) and the first comment is "what on and where?" it really annoys me. I put a lot of time into finding good spots away from the crowd and there is nothing worse than going to your favorite quiet spot and having to put the bumpers on your boat bc "internet fishermen" found out where you were. This is why I my go to line when asked is sorry worked too hard for this not going to tell you, don't like to lie just like to keep secrets.
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Location: Waukee, IA | We narrate more than Morgan Freeman |
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Location: ontario | probably watching buddy backlash mid cast on a pounder with 50# braid.....bye bye |
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| Lucky hats, lucky shirts, have a buddy who dumps a shot of whiskey in the lake every now and then as a tribute to the musky gods...
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| they post vids of their big fish to feed their gigantic ego and once guys have seen enough of the background ,they invade the spot and the guy cry like babe.or i would add the famous 60'' plus fish without a single pict of the fish on the bumpboard,then some guys that have doubt get called jealous lol |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Amusing things muskie fishermen do? Pretty much...
Everything. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | esoxaddict - 3/10/2018 7:17 PM
Lucky hats, lucky shirts, have a buddy who dumps a shot of whiskey in the lake every now and then as a tribute to the musky gods...
We're all pretty nuts.
I completely understand this on a slow day I often throw a coin off the back of the boat. |
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| I over heard a conversation at the ramp one morning between two guys getting ready to launch. It went like this. You been doing any good? Ya got a good pattern going. What are you throwing? Why you asking? You know I'm going to lie! I still laugh when I remember the look on the one guys face after he got that answer. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | That most muskie guys pass the rod from one hand to the other all day long. |
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| NathanH - 1/18/2018 10:24 PM
In Canada this year my dad thought he saw a big bear splashing on a shoreline. We drove over and it was just a tan fat guy swimming naked to retrieve a snagged lure.
I am Canadian, and have been guilty of this. Many times.
I'd rather go for a nice swim, than give up $20-$80 That I know I can get if I go swimming.
Just sit back and enjoy the show ?? |
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Location: Niagara on the Lake, ON | Switchaxe - 3/10/2018 8:16 AM
I have been guilty of hearing a boat coming, putting my musky rods down and sitting down and grabbing my walleye rod :)
bravo, sir |
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Location: S. Wisconsin | I hesitate to share this, due to how low down and dirty this behavior is, but here goes...
The guy that got me into Muskie fishing got the biggest kick out of waiting until the action was slow and we were ready for a break, then reeling in his cast, beginning his figure 8, and then THRASHING HIS ROD TIP IN THE WATER and giving me a freaking HEART ATTACK...and he would LAUGH his a** off... And I fell for it...
Every.Single.Time.
He's a bastard. Can I say that? I'm saying it. Bastard. |
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| Talked to a few guys at the landing one day, just small talk - what are you fishing for, are you seeing any, etc. Then they proceeded to trail us for at least half the day, fishing all the same areas after we went through. Normally it would bother me, but all I could think was: "If these guys had any idea how little I know about this lake they'd be fishing ANYWHERE else but where I've been!!" |
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| Superstitions, the banana in the boat one is almost universal. Had a guide give me strict orders not to even eat one for breakfast before we left the dock. |
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Amusing things that musky fisherman do