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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Since 1993 |
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| 25 years and this coming season will be my 26th! |
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Location: oswego, il | I started musky fishing in the fall of 98. I have been fishing all my life but untill that point had only caught 2 small musky.
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Posts: 600
Location: West Bend, WI | About 1 season and 3months....this year was my first full season. 15 muskies this year 39" the biggest. |
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Posts: 14
Location: Moorhead, MN | Hey Guys,
I've been muskie fishing for the last two summers. The only thing that
I've cought are pike.
P.S. MN Esox. When is the next Fargo Muskies Inc. meeting thought
about checking you guys out. |
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Posts: 148
Location: DES MOINES, IOWA | I have been strictly fishing Muskies for 8 years.Converted Walleye, Nothern, Bass fisherman, who finally decided to quit fishing bait, and become a dedicated Musky fisherman. |
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Posts: 66
Location: Wales Wi. | 32 years of Muskie fishing and it just keeps getting better thanks to all of you guys who C.P.R. Its the only thing I want to do for the next 30 years,just the thought of how good it could be by then is hard to imagine. |
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Posts: 177
Location: Cohasset, MN | About half a season - just enough for them to have a hook in me. |
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Posts: 216
| 17 years WOW It sure dont seem like it. |
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Location: ashtabula ohio | only since '99... alas, at least i figured it out!!! been fishing 30 of my 41 years and loved it all.... the musky thing is a one of a kind passion though...thank you god. |
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Location: Menomonie, WI | This will be my 6th year hunting the damned things!! Why I love it so much I don't know. But I'm hoping I've got another 60 years to go after 'em. If they don't drive me insane before then!! |
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | This will be my third season. I am already looking forward to the upcoming season. I don't know how I am going to be able to wait another 4 or 5 months. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Over 35 years. Quite a few over 35 years if one counts the trips my Dad took me on when I was a teenager. |
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Location: Lake Vermilion Tower, MN | I caught my first muskie in 1959.
This will be my 45th season, so I guess I'm getting better at it.  |
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Location: Illinois-Indiana | I've been fishing for over 30 years and chasing Musky for the last 22 years.
The last 12 have been strictly Muskies except for the occasional panfish outing with my kids. |
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Location: Sheboygan Falls, WI | 24 years and counting |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | since may 2002 |
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Location: Alexandria, MN | 2004 will be my 22nd year of fishing for Muskies. It will also be my first year of fishing Muskies outside of MN. I am heading down to Illinois in April to shake of the rust and test out those new lures from the Expo's and Ebay.
Good luck to all in 2004.
Steve |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | 30 years of being a "multi species angler". For the last 16 years, other than the white-tailed carp outings in the spring before muskie season opens, it has been 100% muskies. |
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Location: Hartford, WI | Since 1985, seems just like yesterday.
Jim |
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| 13 years, thanks mainly to the drought that killed our brook trout. Many thousands of dollars in new gear, thousands of hours on the water, and wearing my marriage to the threads..... ain't it great!!!! "no sleep 'til 55"" |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | Been fishin' my whole life, walleyes mainly unitl I discovered the heart pumping thrill of Muskies . I first started fishing Musky 2 season's ago, and mainly fish only muskies except for a few times a year when the family gets together and we walleye fish. Oh yeah and I Ice Fish.
Esox23 |
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Location: Tomah, WI | Since 1996. My Father-in-law got me hooked. He has been fishing them for 45+ years. |
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Location: Alsip, Il | Trying for them around 32 years. Al |
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| Since October of 02, and I cant imagine how I got by so long without it. I guess for the fight I would prefer a 20lb king in the St. Joe, but for excitement and a challenge their is nothing like the ESOX!!
Hey Tomcat..you ready for some monster Gar???
R |
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Location: Rockford Il 61108 | 15 years with a five year gap between. I cant wait for this next season. Musky tourneys here i come. |
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Location: Wauwatosa, WI | starting with my father when i was 12, thats forty years! thats alot of muskies over the years, but the older I get the more I enjoy it. It's my favorite kind of fishing, nothing beats connecting with a 40"+ musky.
Bob Ryan |
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| I released my 1st legal (at the time) in 1977.Fished for them a few yrs before that, so I'd say 29 years. I'll be 36 next month. Steve |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | My dad got me hooked on muskies when i was just old enough to cast (8)...been fishing them since, so maybe 21 years?
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Location: lansing, il | bought my first bucktail and pool que musky rod about 26 years ago. took me probablly another 10 years to get my first legal fish, took another 13 to get my first 50incher. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | 15 years. |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | 50 years on LOTW. |
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Location: Lake City,Pa. | Two years myself and three with Judy. |
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Location: IL | 11 years. |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | mskyfin69,
Looks like your still in nursery school,let go of them and get back out fishing!
Capt. Larry |
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Location: Woodstock, IL | This will be my fourth season; however 2003 was the first year I really started spending more time on the water and that was only 8 trips out.
2004 will be my first year as a true nut case and my first trip is in February to Kinkaid. |
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | I caught my first musky in 1978, so I guess that means 25 years or so, wow time sure flies!! I have been in hard core pursuit the last 20 or so at least the folks didn't have to drive my brother and I to our various lakes of choice anymore!! |
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| Every free moment of time I had ever since my senior ear of high school, 4 long long years ago. Too bad this whole "graduating from college and getting a real job" will probably take out a lot of my free time. Oh well hopefully many years to come. |
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how long have you been muskie fishing?