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Location: Holly, MI | Anyone else out there have to putz around with your Musky gear on a weekly basis during the off season. I have the reels cleaned an re-lubed. The lures get touched up with the file, shuffled around in the box in a "new" order. Adding tails or teaser blades to bucktails and spinnerbaits. Repaints and rehooks on some old lures. Even grabbing a rod ocassionally to give it the old wiggle test. I get caught by my wife out in the garage once in a while too. She understands the obsession at least. Fess up you guys..who else goes thru this nonsense? |
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Location: Woodstock, IL | I'm with you Lobi. I've even been known to stand on the casting deck of the boat surveying the 'structure' in my garage. |
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Location: St. Cloud, MN | I got a new reel for Christmas and just had to try it out. Sawed off the end of an old hockey stick to get a weight comparable to a jerk bait. My wife wondered abit as I was standing in the snow trying to hit the wood pile from various distances. Then my son came out and we had a competition on who could get closest. I think the neighbors are worried about me |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I have all my gear in reach most of the time. That is how I get past the end of hunting season, until the opener for Muskies. |
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Location: Belgium | weekly? You wussy!  How about daily?! Taking care of my preciousssss lures requires a fulltime job. LOL! |
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Location: Holly, MI | ok ok stop the heat divani..I monkey around almost daily. It just sounded obsessive, but isn't that what the giant Esox does to us?
Speaking of neighbors, mine caught me "fighting" one of my kids last summer while testing out the action on a new rod and reel out in the yard. |
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| Play with musky stuff! No way, no time for that to many fish to ice and clean and lube reels, No way, just send them to Abu to get cleaned and a complete re-build! I can`t tell a lie though, I been doing my lure mod`s for a month now! Ya, I know! |
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Try "DOG FISHING", Just tie your dogs favorite chew toy to the end of your line and have a great tug of war
My Family thinks I'm nut's
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | Ok is it just me or does Divani sound a bit like Smeagol...... |
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Location: MPLS, MN | Nothing like playing whith your lures, Rearranging your box while watching videos and dreaming of summer.... Can't wait for the show in MN this weekend. I'll really be geeked then...... |
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Location: Syracuse, Indiana | Since middle school basketball (I coach) ended last Monday, I've rearranged lures in two tackle boxes, started to clean and lube my reels, rearranged the rods in their holders, and arranged with a buddy to make leaders this week end. Me? Obsessive? No way. |
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Location: Belgium | LOL kevin, could be ... 
Lobi, I meant no harm. It's kind of hard to believe that someone only tinkers and fondles his lures on a weekly basis when he is a musky angler |
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| I will daily check to see if the baits I have are in tune in my pool in the back yard,I also here, "hows the fishing" from the neighbors. Also tune my home made baits there as well.Have been know to ice fish trout out of there as well when it freezes over. My son put up his tent and bangs rainbow when we can't get out for a few days.
Strange but true on the fish in the pool.
RonP
Madd Dogg Lures Inc.
http://my.core.com/~caveman |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Let's see.....
I cleaned and lubed 5 reels so far
Fixed a couple eyelets on the rods
Respooled all of the reels this year
vaccuumed the boat
installed a new stereo in it
installed an aft casting deck
fixed a boat pedestal
sold and bought some lures
bought a muskie video
changed out hooks on about 20 baits
Straightened the head on my bowmount (had a longer shaft put in..they didn't get it on straight, and for an autopilot....not good)
fixed the rod holders in the rod compartment
made about 30 new leaders...both solid wire and sevenstrand
Still planning to do:
Move the on-board charger and set it up to charge back and front batteries
Create parallel circuitry with battery in back and front (they are both stowaways)
Make a net storage bag for my Beckman
Water pump impeller in the 6 horse kicker
clean and lube bowmount
And finally,
Revaccuum the boat
wash the rig top to bottom
polish the rig top to bottom
sea foam the heck out of the 6 horse
degrease the 6 horse and the big motor (done before polishing)
ding maintenance on the trailer
keel roller replacement to poly rollers (maybe a modification to accept larger keel rollers
And then September will be here and I will have missed the main portion of the season.... I better get busy....
Naw...I don't have it THAT BAD do I?
Steve |
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| I have 43 original old grandma baits,,,on Mothers day I take them out and sharpen all the hooks |
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| HH, Thats far out! I mean far out there! |
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Location: Sheboygan Falls, WI | I'm sorry guys, but you're all a little sick! I have made a few new lures this winter, but I don't sit there and play with my lures on a daily basis, I guess I'm just never going to be a master baiter like some of you! |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | If I see one of my fellow Muskiefirst members coming into the ER complaining of blindness.....then I know they have been fondling them too much!! |
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Location: Holly, MI | snow blindness count? (honestly) This post got me motivated and I was casting a spinnerbait in the yard today but there is a foot of snow on the ground and it was mighty bright. The oil in the reels is a little thicker I'd say at 5 degrees. Didn't have the normal casting distance. My wife caught me. |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | I've completely disassembled 16 of my reels and done the "clean/relube" job. 4 or 5 to go! Waiting on a replacement rod from Berkley. All spinnerbaits are neatly hanging on the wall in front of my workbench with a fresh Flitz polishing job. Minor repair work and some modifications. All wood baits are laid out on a table and had repairs and modifications done to them. The boat work will wait til warmer weather. Work will include modifying the rod locker lid making it larger. Beefing up the boxed in area at the bow. I don't think Tracker intended for me to stand on it while casting! I hope to build some additional storage into the floor of my removable casting deck at the rear. A cooler would be nice. My vice is casting a junk bucktail into tall grass and setting the hook to test for equipment weakness. I'm a stickler for maintainence and so far no failures. I guess I'm not catching enough fish, eh? Sickness?...no. Just enjoying a wonderful hobby with friends and family! |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | Divani I get it!!!!!!
I also have been known to fondle my lures on a daily basis. I'ver got about 50 in my office right now that I'm in the process of hook sharpening and "T"ing. Not much else to do except work, and that sucks! |
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Posts: 358
| Lobi, you are not alone my friend!
Ever since I contracted this disease (musky fishing) I have done just about everything that has been posted so far, plus some! Yes, I also stood in the front of my new boat when I got it. Knocking my head numerous times on the garage door opener track, and I as I glanced at the garden tools I imagined my self on a weed edge, twitching a bait, and waiting to see this toothy critter appear from nowhere devouring my offering! Yep, I have sat in front of my TV with a musky video playing, as I sharpended hooks to the point of insanity.
To JohnMD, I almost, say almost, did the dog bone trick with my two Brittany Spaniels, but I was afraid my wife would have me committed. I am already treading on thin ice!
Since I am now doing custom painting lures as my full time job, my head is just filled with visions of baits being twitched, gliding, jerked, falling, rising, and just plain getting crunched by muskies!
For those interested, I have added a number of new patterns to my catalog, with the "Atomic Perch" and "Fireball" being the latest additions.
COME ON SPRING TIME!!!!!!! |
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Location: Minnetonka , MN. | It call inventory how else will I know what to buy . new lures next year that will go to the swap meet the year after |
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fondling your lures