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| What is the single biggest reason you fish muskies instead of other fish? I am a newbie, and am bitten badly by the muskie bug. What makes you a muskie fisherman instead of a bass, walleye, or other specie guy? |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | The ferocious fight of a musky. Nothing I have ever caught compares to a Musky. |
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| Let's see, where to start.
There's something about catching a fish that is one step below you on the food chain. Beating the top predator? I have a severe interest in coyote hunting lately. My guess is it's for the same reasons. I guess I've always told people in the past that if you've ever really looked at a musky that would explain it. There's just something about a fish that would just as soon eat a bucktail as they would rip your arm off. Attitude is everything. Besides, I'm one of those guys who the more I fail, the harder I try. Just try not to get pissed off the next time you get 40 follows without a hit.
It's one of the only sports where you can spend days without catching something and others won't look at you stupid. When the wife asks what you caught you can say "Nothing, but had 3 follows." and she'll never question it. And, when you do catch them you put them back anyways = no cleaning required.
"The baits themselves are worth it. Way cool."
That's just the start for me. I'm sure everyone will have a different reason.
Scott
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | It’s all about the myth and mystique, we are out there after the ultimate predator of fresh water fish, a fish that can grow to be as much a 70 pounds and 5 feet long, maybe even bigger. Matt |
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Location: DES MOINES, IOWA | The Rush.I have fished Walleyes,Crappies, Bass,and Northerns in Minn./Canada with nothing giving me the excitement a Musky does.I would rather fish all day, and not catch anything, than catch 50 Walleyes.Everything else is just bait.I do get excited about a big Pike, but I don,t get The Rush a big Musky gives me.I once saw a world record class of Musky slowly go by the boat after following my son,s bucktail, and I absolutely froze in awe,I totally forgot I had a rod in my hand, and couldn,t even talk till it was long gone.NO other kind of fish could have done that to me. |
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| Always remember and never forget, The very best fisherman are multi-species! Its always good to remember where you came from, as it helps in your musky fishing! |
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| My normal answer to thet would be "if you have to ask you wouldnt understand" |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | A fish I named "Jesus Christ" the first time I saw her on my first Muskie trip to Canada. Not to offend anyone, It was the only words that went through my mind at that moment. I can still see her bulging the water as she followed the bait and her magnificant body as she slid under my feet when she got to the boat. No video camera needed. Al Warner "All Water is Zalt Water" http://www.zaltnad.com |
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Location: Holly, MI | Look in her eyes before slipping her back in the water..You will see...
no fear
all attitude
raw mean
"I'll get you back for this"
etc.
You will enjoy watching them swim off as much as watching them come in.
All the above posts combined I found myself nodding to. Enjoy |
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Location: oswego, il | The thrill of the hunt, the anticipation of a strike. If it involves muskies, I am into it. From the internet, to musky shows, muskies inc, ebay, finding new stuff, researching, you name it. It'a all good. |
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| Cause they aren't easy.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Muskie fishing to me is the attempt to figure out the what, where, when and why. All but the why have been a challenge, but possible to figure out. The why continues to be a mystery, and keeps me hooked up. I am an addict. |
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Location: mount prospect illinois | ToddM and Worrall put it very well. |
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| The SIZE and the follows! It is also the only fishing that is actually hunting. The thing that truely matters is muskies are the only fish that can make my heart pound and my knees knock uncontrollably.
Ryan
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Location: Alexandria, MN | I would agree with all of the above -- My personal reason would be the ultimate challenge. I used to Deer hunt with a Rifle, then a shotgun then a bow & arrow -- now I don't hunt anymore, because I figured out what makes the deer do what they do, when they do it. I was out there for the hunt, not the kill. Now I fish (hunt) for Muskies! Everytime I think I have figured them out, they prove me wrong. The hunt is the thrill, you are trying to prey on another top predator. Muskies are my ultimate hunt, and spending a day trying to figure them out, is never a day wasted. If you are not learning something new everyday on the water, you are doing it right.
I love the challenge it gives me and the friends I have made because I fish for Muskies. Some of my best friends have come from the Muskie world.
Steve
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Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland | I like fishing for a fish that basically can kick butt! It's kind of cool catching fish that scare the devil out of a lot of people. Kind of a man-thing!!!
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| The challenge and difficulty of catching muskies (each year you figure out more and more, but there is always so much more to learn) and the powerful fighting ability of really big muskies (headshakes, jumps, deep dives, tail walks)! |
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Location: Downers Grove, IL | Because I don't do drugs and searching for, collecting and buying baits is like cocaine! Oh - hooking one now and again is pretty cool, too!
fhm |
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Location: Minnetonka , MN. | Because they are easy to catch and they tast good. |
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| Without a doubt, its the hunt to get one that excites me, especially a trophy sized gal. |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | i fish for L. and SM bass, walleye, pike, even cats and carp sometimes, but the excitement you get when a musky hits or the feeling of your heart pounding through your chest when you see a fish following your lure is unbeatable. you cant beat the shakes lol |
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| Because I am Captain Ahab and muskies are white whales.
Beaver
Edited by Beaver 1/15/2004 11:23 AM
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Location: MPLS, MN | Because humans are competitive beings and muskies are a tough, challenging fish. They'll test you will, patience and always make you think. |
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Location: winnipeg manitoba | what else is there? We hunt we catch we release. we are the top of the chain just as muskies are to fresh water. |
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Location: Lake St. Clair | The smell of them !! Nothing like sliming your boat.
Bob/Chartertalk |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Ooooooo that smell, can't you smell that smell!!!!
That has to be one of the best reasons!
It is also the mystery of the fish, and just seeing them crusing in the water behind your bait, either following, or just swimming.
It's also cool to see someone in your boat get a fish, that has never caught one before.
good lungen,
Joel |
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Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland | Yeah and the feel of that giant rod, reel and lures makes me feel manly, too.  That's why they call us "Musky Men" (and women too). |
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Location: WI | Read Moby Dick by Melvile. Substitute me for Capt Ahab. Musky for Moby. |
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| I'm in it to meet women.
Oh, and the duckpin bowling,
See ya,
papa joe
minneapolis |
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Location: Passaic, NJ - Upper French River, ON | It allows me some kind of transcendence from some of the most beautiful places on earth, into an underwater world where I can briefly connect with a part of nature that is doing only what it should.
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Because it feels so good when I quit for the day! |
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| I love all kinds of fishing but there is just something different about muskie fishing. For one, Muskies are hard to catch. Learning to hunt and catch them has been a thrill and very rewarding for me. Anyone can go out and catch walleyes, pike, and crappies but not everyone can go out and catch muskies. It took me two years of learning and trying before I got my first one. Then there is the mystical dream of catching that 50 pound plus fish. I have seen a fish that would go 60 pounds plus that made my heart just pound. The follows are another very exciting part of muskie fishing. Really gets the adrenaline going when you see a big fish coming in just behind your lure and case after it when you go into your figure eight. To me, there is just no other fresh water fish that provides more excitement and pleasure then muskie fishing.
Regards
Cory Toker |
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Location: Wauwatosa, WI | it's the only fish that gets my heart racing with a follow up! The bend of the rod when you hook up with a really big one. The feeling I get with a good release; I got you today and I'll see you in a couple of years. It's everything.
Bob Ryan |
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Location: Maryland | Want to know how bad muskie fever gets. I fish most of the year but most of it is salt water. Many salt water fish are much bigger and many fight harder than a muskie. But-------there is something about trying to figure Muskies out and there are the follows. I have not yet caught (and released) that 50+ muskie yet but I just have to. So now the how bad is the fever. Last year I caught and relased an approximately 650 pound blue marlin at Cabo San Luca Mexico, we also caught and released Six striped marlin, a sail fish and tuna and giant squid. I will go back to Cabo this year and I will go to Canada to fish muskies and all I can think about is the muskie trip. Now that is bad. |
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| I get chills when I see them follow. They are like a stalking villian in horror movies, silently creeping behind their prey teasing your anticipation of the strike. What other freshwater fish will hit at the side of the boat when you only have a couple feet of line out and then give you a 10 minute fight before landing it?.....HOPEFULLY!!!!
I just have an enormous amount of respect for that fish. |
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Location: Wausau, WI | For me, it is the challenge. I grew up and lived most of my life in musky country, (north-central WI) but never tried for them until 2 years ago. Deer hunting became too easy, and I tried trout fishing. They were very easy to figure out too and I never went home skunked (not even when I was a total rookie.) Even trophy trout were relatively easy, just fish after dark with a minnow bait in a deep pool.
But I went my entire first season of musky fishing without a single strike and when I finally broke through with a 38" last June, it was an incredible rush. Even more so since I caught it on a smallmouth bass that had hit my musky bucktail. Catches came easier after that, but never too easy.
A friend of mine once said that musky fishing is the only fishing where you can fish all day, catch nothing and still feel good about it. I agree.
Paul Bunczak
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Location: Zelienople, Pa | I got my first taste of muskie fishing this fall, thanks to my friend Rich W who got me hooked. I landed two muskies on his equipment and missed two at the boat. Now he has me building my own rods and making bucktails. This has to be the most exciting fishing I every done. I don't now if its the fact of fishing for muskies or trying to sneak home more muskie lures, handled wrong, both can be dangerous. Thanks Rich W. |
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