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| Just reminiscing about the old days and my first legal.I released my first legal in 1977(Sept. 25th) on Upper Post Lake in Langlade Cty.,Wi.The 31" monster ate a 7" perch Suick at boatside.Still have the bait, rod and reel too. Quite the muskie combo. 5'3" Fenwick Lunkerstik and a Zebco Cardinal 4.12lb stren and no leader. My how times have changed. Steve |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Officially, since '93. That's when I started buying equipment and stuff. I had tried to catch one here or there but just with Bass gear before that..'93 was when I caught this illness.lol...Thankfully I have yet to be cured. My first legal was my first fish also. Went up on a Musky trip to Wi. end of August '93, we left Chicago around ten at night on a friday, got up there between 4 and 5 in the morning, slept for about 1.5 hours and then got woke up by the resort owners... So on that little sleep we went out got breakfast then hit the water... Had our first legal by about 11AM..not a bad way to start the trip. Fish was only 32" on the nose..but at the time on that lake it was a legal. Released him and about 4 other fish that week... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | About 36 years I guess, counting the first couple times my Dad took me to Bone Lake. I remember my first as well, and still have the jig I caught her on. |
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Location: Davenport, IA | I just finished my 3rd year chasing muskies. It only took me a month or two after I started fishing to get hooked on muskies. |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | After chasing bass my whole life I developed a "curiosity" about musky around 6 years ago while on vacation in Wisconsin. I hadn't been to the northwoods in about 20 years and being in Spooner and Hayward really took me back to younger days on Big Winnie in Minnesota. So, the following year I bought my first Mepps Musky Killer and a steel leader. Little did I know that 6 years later I'd own 4 musky rods, 2 flippin sticks, and 40 some baits that are entirely too large for my bass tackle box! I'd say that for the last 3 years I've been "actively" seeking musky but only this past season have I been fortunate enough to spend any great quantity of time doing it. My, what a difference a boat makes! |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | I started in June of 1976 on the Niagara River trolling 2600 Series Pikie Minnows.My first fish a 35"er came on my first day on the water with a great teacher,my boss from work at DuPont,Musky Joe Nemeth.We use to use the heaviest solid glass stiff rods,Ted Williams Series from Sears & Roebuck Store,along with Penn 309 Reels loaded with 36 lb Ashway Leadcore Line and 50 lb K-mart cheap mono leaders.Funny thing I'm still using leadcore line with great success today!
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| 25 years and counting! I caught my first musky, a nice 37 incher from the Chippewa Flowage when I was 15 and I have been fishing for them ever since. Now I am after a 60 pounder (aren't we all!)
I have been fishing since I could walk, mostly bass and trout in the early days, and I still love to fish for both smallmouth and largemouth bass!
Edited by muskyboy 12/13/2003 4:44 PM
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Location: Brainerd Area | 9 Wonderfull years. My first ever was a 40 inch fattie in 94 and man was I hooked (still am).
Happy Hunting
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Location: DES MOINES, IOWA | As far as chasing, and exclusively, only 8 years.Fished Canada, and Minnesota border lakes since 1958 for Walleyes, and Northerns.Always wanted to just fish Muskys,after boating them fishing for Walleyes, but I was the only nut in the family who wanted to strictly Musky fish.Now, I have 2 sons, a grandson, and a daughter in law hooked into it, and none of them want to Walleye fish.Life is good.I,m not the only nut in the family tree anymore. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | It was 26 years since my first experience with a muskie, and 23 years that I have been devoting and seeking out 40# and 50+" of finned frustration!
I hope to catch a muskie this next summer that was a fry the year that I started muskie fishing!!
Edited by Steve Van Lieshout 12/15/2003 7:30 AM
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | OUCH---1st. one in June,1955. Last one, November,2003. A ton of fun in between! |
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| I had been trying since 94 but only a couple times a year. Four years ago I put some time into it and got my first one. The next year a few more. Last year was great with 14 and this year with 23 in the boat. Have learned alot in a short time. Getting that first one out of the way got things going. Love this sport.
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| One-third of my life, which equates to 8 years since I first saw that 40" follow back to the boat. I can see her like it was yesterday. I'll never stop fishing muskies. The more I catch, the more I want to fish them. |
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| I think the first time I targeted muskies I was 8 or 9. I have been pursing them as the primary species for the last 4 years. They became methodical to me when fishing in the hayward area as a kid and listening to stories, seeing mounted fish, and getting panfish snatched away.
there is definitely no better way to waste time!
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Location: Hartford, WI | I started chasing ski in 1985, doesnt seem like 18 years but I guess it has been.
Jim |
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Location: Eagle Grove, Iowa | I cpr'd a 30" my first one on white birch lake in vilas co. in aug. of 1983 caught on a homemade bucktail. I think i get addicted worse every year. I can't wait till spring. Tracy |
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Location: Iowa | I landed my first one in the early to mid 1980's. I have always had an itch for them since, expecially spending time on the "Chip" almost every year with my grandparents. The last 2-3 years have been really rough on me though, expecially this last year, I started getting the rod and tackle fever that is usually associated with a musky addict. I really don't see any reason to fish for any other species. |
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Location: God's Country......USA..... Western Wisconsin | Bone Lake, Summer of 1977, 31" legal at the time, caught on a JIG. Took the fish on the North end by the bouys at the landing. Still a great spot to this day.
Also caught several sub legals on Deer the same Spring and Summer. This was my first legal while actually fishing for Muskies however.
Edited by muskyone 12/14/2003 8:05 AM
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | I guess about 25 years now, my how time flies when you're having a blast! My first legal was a 35 out of Roberts lake back in the early eighties. To those of you who fished that lake back in those days need I say more?? |
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| nine years for muskies now. leech lake was where i got my first one. i've been fishing since i was knee high. i have to agree time flies, but the best years are still to come!
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Location: NeverNever Lake | I started fishing for muskies 25 years ago, off and on. Hard to fish for them while living on the Outer Banks of NC, so cobia and kings were a good substitute. When I lived in Australia I targeted barramundi. For the last 6 yrs it's been a muskie obsession. |
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Location: Eagan, MN | I started back in 1992 when I was at UW-Eau Claire. Very underrated muskie area. Moved back to the Twin Cities after graduation and have been chasing metro ski's ever since. |
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| Caught some musky`s over 25 years ago,but have been just pounding the ski`s for 10 years exclusively and hope my body holds out for another 25 years of plugg`in!
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | So far I seem to be the SENIOR Citizen of muskie fishing. I've been chasing them since 1953 when my dad took me to LOTW for a fishing trip. I been hooked on muskies ever since. Except for my years in the Corps and when I first started my business, I've been back every year. Now I get to spend 4 months each year in Nestor Falls fishing LOTW and Crow for my favorite fish. I pinch myself every morning to be sure I'm not dreaming. HOW ABOUT THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURE!!!!
Edited by rpieske 12/14/2003 2:11 PM
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| Started five years ago on Yellow lake - A year later Beaver put me on my first legal on Big Sand - needless to say I get bit HARD by the Muskie bug and have not been the same since. |
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Location: Alsip, Il | 31 or 32 years, my dad's coworker started us, and I was very, very, young at the time. Al |
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Location: Pulaski, WI | 4 Months |
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| I've been fishing since I was three. In 1984 I landed my first legal ski in the Hayward area on bass equipment throwing a spinner bait. I then upgraded to the heaviest bait casting bass rod I could find locally and used 25lb mono line with no liter....needless to say I lost around five for every one landed. I didn't have a clue what I was doing but had a blast fighting those huge fish in Namekagon when I was fourteen.
Bring on the snow, I have a sled to wreck!!!
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | I have been chasing these beasts for about 30 years, In those 30 years I have had many pigs(50+ inches)to the boat but they always seemed to elude capture until this year during the Sabaskong Outing when I finally boated a beast I will be picking up my replica mount from Fittante at the Chicago Show, Thanks again Tom Schramsky for the fine net job
Have a Safe and Happy Holiday Season
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Just finished my 2nd year. The first muskie for me was with a guide in late October 2001, a 41" on a sucker. It's been a run-a-way train ever since. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | 10 years! |
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Location: menasha wi 54952 | Caught my first ski on a suick when I was 5 way back in 1971. Its been a give and take relationship ever since. They keep giving me battles and I keep takin the memories :-P |
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Location: Washington, PA | 9 years, caught my first when I was 18 and took a trip to the kawarthas because I wanted a ski. Been a fishing nut since I was 3 or 4, so it's been a natural progression, lol. |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | I had off and on experiences with muskies while bass and walleye fishing early in my fishing career, but have been fishing almost exclusively for muskie now for about the last 16 years. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I caught my first musky 32 years ago. The musky would keep eating the bluegills we were catching and releasing from our pier on Pewaukee lake.
I grabbed a neighbors bass rod and caught it on a rapala.
That was the first and only muskie I have ever kept.
Now I have taken it to the guide and Pro level. Where it goes from here, time will only tell.
Thats 32 years and counting for me !!! |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | My first musky encounter was back in 81' on Pelican with my uncle when I was 15. I have been hardcore for 14 years. |
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| I think is has been 18 yrs since I caught my first from the Chip: 28". It fell to good old black and silver # 18 rapala, Diawa 5H Millionair, 17lb mono and a cheap fiberglass 2 piece 6'6" rod from Farm Fleet. I have held the illness in check until 18 months ago. It has been pretty crazy since the outbreak. |
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Location: Lake Vermilion Tower, MN | Hey All,
I caught my first muskie in 1959 and now, 44 years later, they have come to dominate my life. 
I guide for them, I fish for them as much as possible, I spend time on muskie sites talking about them and I am involved with MI and the MMA.
Hopefully, I'll get another decade or 2 to enjoy my obsession. I have to pass it on to my grandson so he
can enjoy catching his first.
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Location: Wauwatosa, WI | my father was a big musky fan and showed me how when I 15 years old, that would make it 36 years, but the last 10 have been an obsession.
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Location: Lake City,Pa. | Two by myself and three with Judy. 5 total and still rookies in anybodys books!! |
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| My dad and I have been at it for 15 years. Each year the fishing seems to get better and better. So far, 2 forty pounders. |
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Location: Appleton, Wi | About 45 years. My dad was a musky nut. When he had vacation we sat in the boat from morning till dark. I am about the only one of 4 kids that has been nuts enough to continue the hunt. Back in my younger days we used a rod about 5 feet long with as much flex as a 2x4. We also had to use reels with no drag, and sometimes no anti reverse (alot of sore knuckles). When I was a young boy the ski was a fish that many feared as people would shot them before putting them in a net or boat. Many a boats had bullet holes in the bottoms!! -- hopefully I can continue for another 30 years or so. |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | Started musky fishin in May of 2002 |
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Location: Presque Isle Wisconsin | I absolutely refuse to answer that Question; However Eisenhower was President when the serious Muskie chasing began. Before that it was just fun on occasion |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | Come on, Howie!!! If I can fess up to 50 years of muskie fishing, so can you. Know that part about "I like Ike!" Still have my button somewhere. |
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Location: oswego, il | I caught my first two muskies on shabbona the year it opened. I have been chasing them full time since the fall of 98. |
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Location: oswego, il | double post
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