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| How many of these can you guys come up with? I have afew so far. You know you're a Muskie fisherman when:
1- you get annoyed by a smallmouth/largemouth angler asks you how the bass are biting because clearly a Muskie rod, reel, figure 8's, and 7.5-10 inch lures really resemble bass tackle.
2- You grow a distaste for people who pose in photos with Muskie by holding them vertically.
3- You get used to getting started at by bass anglers who are fishing in the same area of the river/lake as you |
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| You tell the shrink your wife is forcing you to visit, “Every time a musky turns away half into the first eight, I relive the time my high school sweetheart pushed my hand away when I thought she wanted it,” and the therapist says, “And how did that make you feel?” And, you say, “A proper figure eight sometimes requires a longer rod.” |
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Location: oswego, il | You are always glancing at other boats within eyesite to figure out where there next spot is making sure it's not yours.
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Location: Athens, Ohio | A re-make of the Cady 'Musky Nut' lists? I still have my t-shirt (framed) if you wish me to transcribe the list of ten we did back in the day. m |
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| You've said the words "I'm done with this" after 11 hours of getting skunked and then ordered new custom-colors of baits that you see on your phone during the ride home.
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| when you first said, "this is my last cast" about 3 hours ago, with no more success than the previous 1000 casts. Because, there just might be a hit coming!
when the sighting of a swirl, a tap of your lure keeps the adrenaline and boat chatter going another hour. Because, it must have been a musky, and it could have been big!
when you discuss lure colors and retrieve speeds all the way home, like it would have really mattered. |
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| When you feel guilty on a vacation for taking it easy for a half hour, because you know in the back of your mind that the fish are going right now. |
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| When you catch yourself doing figure 8's when fishing for other species. |
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| esoxaddict - 9/24/2018 9:43 AM
When you catch yourself doing figure 8's when fishing for other species. They work too.lol
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Location: oswego, il | 0723 - 9/24/2018 10:39 AM
esoxaddict - 9/24/2018 9:43 AM
When you catch yourself doing figure 8's when fishing for other species. They work too.lol
Largmouth, bowfin, drum, white bass and stripers have all ate in the eight for me. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | When you set the hook in a dream during a figure 8 really on a really nice fish and it wakes you up because your body actually reacted by setting the hook!! |
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| VMS - 9/24/2018 12:44 PM
When you set the hook in a dream during a figure 8 really on a really nice fish and it wakes you up because your body actually reacted by setting the hook!!
Woke up to this in Canada some years back:
SAMANTHA: "OWWWW!! GOD &$*&%IT!!! WHAT THE %&$* did you do that for?!??!"
ME: (baffled) "Wha? Whadeye do?!? You must have been dreaming."
SAMANTHA: "You were talking in your sleep and then you smacked me with your elbow!!"
ME: "I was?? I did?"
SAMANTHA: You said: "Oh, oh... there's one! GOT 'EM!!"
ME: "Ohhh yeahhhh. If it's any consolation, it was a BIG S.O.B.!!"
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| When your license plate reads XLMUSKY. |
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Location: Minnetonka | When someone on Saturday says, "wow, look at that full moon" and you reply, "technically, it's not full until Monday at 9:24." Awkward silence follows... |
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| weighing the pros and cons of taking up piracy whenever someone pulls up 100 yards from you and starts working your same break line |
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| Your rain suit is the most expensive suit of clothes you own. |
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Location: WV | get the list out mikie. sounds good. |
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Location: NE Ohio | when you schedule ANYTHING ahead of time to off moon phase weeks then look at the days majors and minors so you aren't at an appointment when you could be on the water.................. |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | everybody at the funeral is in muskie fishing attire.. RIP D2 |
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| MuskyMatt71 - 9/24/2018 3:09 PM
When someone on Saturday says, "wow, look at that full moon" and you reply, "technically, it's not full until Monday at 9:24." Awkward silence follows...
Laughing so hard at this right now. Cause I seriously just had this conversation with my co-worker yesterday. And most my co-workers know me well enough when a full moon phase comes up they dont see me for a couple days. So right now I am at work and my co-worker just asked me why are you at work during a full moon. Unfortunately the Vacation hours are pretty low so thats why im here. |
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Location: Appleton, WI | From TIME ON THE WATER by Bill Gardner
“October 1st
Let’s try to make some sense of all this. I’ve now gone 52 days without a musky and caught only two in the past 100 days. And I was blanked in September, one of the best months. Or is it? We know the three-day period of the Musky Classic in early September wasn’t too great. One musky was caught each day for every 50 fishermen in the Classic. Which is exactly what I’ve been averaging over the past 100 days—one fish per 50 days.”
One of my favorites not for the stats but he just kept going out just like every one of us “nuts” would do!
Edited by Esox chaser 9/24/2018 9:45 PM
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| You can look at a dozen photos of fish all caught over 5 years ago and immediately regurgitated every detail about the fish, location , lure, time of day and month the fish was caught, but can’t remember what you did last weekend if you weren’t fishing. |
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| You snicker deep down each cast when Muskie fishing at night because you know there are cat fisherman nearby and you know you are absolutely driving them crazy because they're weird about things like that |
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| And when you get excited after a slow day because you see bass fisherman or walleye fisherman absolutely crushing fish in a certain hollow and decide you're going to fish there too because they are catching bait like crazy
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| Your thrilled that the season has come to an end for water skiers, jet skiers, and tubers! And, as the season progresses, u have to break ice to launch ur boat with a foot of snow in the forecast. kdawg |
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| When you're mowing the lawn and you notice the wind direction and you think "Man today would be a great day to fish the West end of _____ Island!"
Or when you look at the weather the day before a trip and think "38 and rain... That's not TOO bad!' |
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| You know you are a Muskie fisherman... when you know Todd Minor. |
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| When it's late fall/early winter and in the high 30's low 40's and you're the only boat at the landing then another truck pulls in with a boat and you both know you're fishing for muskie |
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| When your net is practically longer than your boat. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | when a creeper is the guys who have a better understanding and count for what you do or don't do than you do yourself ... |
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Location: oswego, il | jonnysled - 9/26/2018 10:04 AM
when a creeper is the guys who have a better understanding and count for what you do or don't do than you do yourself ...
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| jonnysled - 9/26/2018 10:04 AM
when a creeper is the guys who have a better understanding and count for what you do or don't do than you do yourself ...
Jon, you're going to have to accept your irrelevance in the sport of muskie fishing now that you enjoy fishing for other species. Didn't anybody tell you that in order to be a "real" muskie fisherman you need to forego the smallies, pannies, and such? And you're not supposed to intentionally target pike or even throw them in the livewell when you catch one. You're supposed to shake them off boatside and curse at them for wasting your time. |
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Location: oswego, il | esoxaddict - 9/26/2018 11:05 AM
jonnysled - 9/26/2018 10:04 AM
when a creeper is the guys who have a better understanding and count for what you do or don't do than you do yourself ...
Jon, you're going to have to accept your irrelevance in the sport of muskie fishing now that you enjoy fishing for other species. Didn't anybody tell you that in order to be a "real" muskie fisherman you need to forego the smallies, pannies, and such? And you're not supposed to intentionally target pike or even throw them in the livewell when you catch one. You're supposed to shake them off boatside and curse at them for wasting your time.
Relevance is catching and fishing for 50" muskies. If not you are inconsequential and your opinion does nor matter. |
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| When you are so ticked off because you drove all night through a warm rainstorm to your favorite Muskie whole only to get on the water and watch the sun come up to a bright blue cold fall day. |
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Location: E. Tenn | tenthousandand1 - 9/29/2018 9:15 AM
When you are so ticked off because you drove all night through a warm rainstorm to your favorite Muskie whole only to get on the water and watch the sun come up to a bright blue cold fall day.
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| When you are at the boat ramp on your secret spot with 5 muskie rod/reel combos, a giant net, giant tackle box with lures still thrown all over the deck, and no other gear for other species and a guy walks up looks at all the stuff in you boat and goes, are you fishing for musky? No I'm here for big bass. |
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| If you’re still reading this stuff |
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| It’s October and you get to the ramp before sunrise and you’re the first one there. Your bow line somehow unsnaps itself from the bow while launching. The sun is coming up and your boat is now 30 yards out in the lake. Instead of waiting an hour or more for someone to come along you decide to strip naked and swim out to get the boat so you don’t miss a possible sunrise bite. |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | fishhawk50 - 9/24/2018 8:18 PM
everybody at the funeral is in muskie fishing attire.. RIP D2
Yeah, have been to a few of those. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | When you are a regular contributor to an online forum, debating over mostly meaningless things that don’t matter, with people you will mostly never even know. |
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Location: oswego, il | JakeStCroixSkis - 10/6/2018 4:38 AM
When you are a regular contributor to an online forum, debating over mostly meaningless things that don’t matter, with people you will mostly never even know.
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Location: St. Lawrence River | ToddM - 10/6/2018 9:12 AM
JakeStCroixSkis - 10/6/2018 4:38 AM
When you are a regular contributor to an online forum, debating over mostly meaningless things that don’t matter, with people you will mostly never even know.
At leash you got that right! : )
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, reTodd!! |
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| muskidiem - 9/24/2018 8:09 AM
when you first said, "this is my last cast" about 3 hours ago, with no more success than the previous 1000 casts. Because, there just might be a hit coming!
after three more hours they should be biting any minute... |
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Location: Florida | You know you are a muskie fisherman when you are willing to spend your money and vacation time to travel to catch muskies.
You know you are muskie fisherman if you fish for days to catch a muskie and you end up catching a memorable one.
Edited by travelingfisherman 10/12/2018 8:32 PM
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| Here are some I'm not entirely proud of...
If you've ever looked out the window to see snow blowing sideways and said "It doesn't look THAT bad..." and decided to fish anyway.
If you've ever had to put your reel in the inside pocket of your coat to thaw it out
You've ever asked someone "hey, is there anything I can put on my guides to keep them from icing up?"
If you've ever resorted to trying to cast while kneeling on the front deck because it's too rough to stand
You've ever had to dunk your rod/reel in the water to wash the (your) blood off of it so you don't throw it in the lake
If you've ever said: "Man, this sucks. What the hell are we doing out here?!" and "Oop, there's one! This is awesome!!" in the same hour.
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Location: oswego, il | When the drive back and forth is as long as the time you will be fishing. |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | I believe that's how we met, Todd. Back when the chat room was cool. Sure miss Sponge. |
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| you know you're a muskie fisherman when your wife tells you, "our friends aren't as interested in muskies as you think they are..." |
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Location: On the O | Get home and your wife is sour because she had to spend another 10-15 mins talking to the electrician or a plumber or the furnace guy about muskie just because they saw some of the lures hanging in the basement. "What the heck are those for?"
Or she's sour because Steve at work came over to her desk to ask if I've caught any big fish recently, then talks about the big one I caught last month for 20 minutes.
If your wife or kids are the ones who remind you it's a full moon by asking. "why aren't you fishing today, isn't it a full moon?". Umm yep, gotta go...
Everyone thinks you're done fishing for the year and are surprised when you tell them there's actually 2 months left in the season.
Fishing around ice flows is photo opportunity not a navigation concern.
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| You make fun of guys that go sit in tree stands for playing in tree forts like little kids, but you actually love that they do because they aren't on the lakes! |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | ... if you think that thing in the middle of your boat is called a council.
... when you help you're friend's by telling them where you seen one. Then get mad when their fishing they're the next day. |
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| Guys, needed this coming from an awful October bite that the weather was impossible. Have to set my mind right that fish just don't jump into your lap and that this addiction is a strong and will rule my life. Take a breath, reset, and try for the next 50"fish your going after. It's nice to know we have a strong brotherhood. |
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| When it's the middle of June and your throwing a downsized safety pin spinner bait see another boat and switch to a pounder cause your not being confused for a gay ass bass fisherman.
When you second guess everything you have thrown spots you have fished only to not even get a bump. Sit down rethink that your just burnt out and the fish are there. So you stand up and do the exact same run of spots with the same baits and get the same results
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| Will Schultz - 10/16/2018 12:58 PM
... if you think that thing in the middle of your boat is called a council.
Well, it kind of is the closest thing to a council that you've got.
Tells you where you are, where you've been, where you're going, and where you should be, if you listen. |
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| dmorgan173 - 10/25/2018 8:16 AM
When it's the middle of June and your throwing a downsized safety pin spinner bait see another boat and switch to a pounder cause your not being confused for a gay ass bass fisherman.
When you second guess everything you have thrown spots you have fished only to not even get a bump. Sit down rethink that your just burnt out and the fish are there. So you stand up and do the exact same run of spots with the same baits and get the same results
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| Cold themed.....
When you store your wet Lindy release gloves with a hand warmer in a gallon zip lock bag to keep them from freezing solid.
When you ask the boatside fish to be patient while you dunk your frozen net a few times to open the basket.
When a cut on your hand doesn't bleed because you've been hypodermic for hours but still out because you want that third fish. (This doesn't apply to Al Warner.)
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| When you live in Ky and everyone has quit for the year and I'm just now breaking out my gear ? |
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Location: oswego, il | When you wake up in Vilas county(sunday) it's snowing and a blizzard is coming. You hooked up 5 times in 30min in the major the day before, your partner wants no part of the day and wants to drive home. He is in his early 70's and while I completely understand where he was coming from all i could think was ****, ****, goddammit, **** goddammit, ****!
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| Your truck and boat and gear are worth more than your house. |
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| When you vote against your affiliated party for the better of the fish. |
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | When you can't fish due to high water temps in the summer and you practice your figure 8 on the zero turn mower |
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Location: oswego, il | When you go into Mike's tackle world which is a trip through the past and present. Walk out 178 dollars later. They have baits and colors not seen in years some the packaging is yellow! |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Sudszee - 11/6/2018 9:12 AM
When you vote against your affiliated party for the better of the fish.
Haha yup! |
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Location: oswego, il | Ice has been made the last two days at all the launches but you are still driving 8hrs to see if you can get out. |
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you know you're a muskie fisherman when