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Location: Brighton CO. | So you off on a fishing trip, Who comes along?, do you go to the same place? how long? |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | Usually my dad (70), maybe my friend Brad, 4 days if dad is coming, 7-10 if he’s not.
My votes are Green Bay, LOTW, Eagle, Vermillion, or some WI lakes. |
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Posts: 398
| Two trips. Trip one continues a 25-year tradition of opening musky trip to Northern Mn with my 3 brothers. Hard core fishing every day regardless of weather. Late morning beers, afternoon naps but focus on musky's from morning to night. Trip two is a Canadian fly-in trip with my wife. |
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| New place most of the time. My home waters are around Otter Tail, but I am trying to get to Sunset Country more as well as random MN spots. Company is whatever friend is available and interested. |
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| For me fishing trips are generally 7-10 days and should be 5 days minimum in my book. Friends, family or a combination of both.. Muskies - I rotate my 20 favorite lakes  Haven't fish a "new" muskie lake in a long time but I may do Rowan one of these years?...saltwater a new destination every year...did some new atolls in Belize this year - absolute riot!!! |
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Location: PA Angler | Usually just go to the camp. Mostly family sometimes I can get a friend to go. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | I'm going to be 65 in October and my last grandparent died in 1996 and my dad died in 2016 so who I fish has changed over the years. I live in Colorado been here since 1991 and from 1963 - 1991 I lived in California and few other places as a infant and preschool age. Living in California we would take our camper to the beach and fish in the surf or would take our camper and Canoe to the mountains and catch Trout (these were family trips) One fishing trip I regret was in the 60's My dad a Wisconsin native took us fishing off a pier in the ocean and he was listening to a football game on the radio (as it turns out it was Super Bowl I being played 35 miles up the freeway) The game was blacked out and it didn't sell out and tickets were 12 and six dollars ??? I am a life time Packer fan and scared for life over that one. WHAT WAS HE THINKING???
In the 70's and eighty's my grandparents had a house on a lake in the Eagle River area, In 1987 after my grandpa died I was up doing work on the home and fishing two of the next generations (cousins and fishing partners) came up to fish with me.
Both my future fishing partners died young 44 and 56. In the 90's my grandma moved to town and we could come north and fish and leave the boat at my dad's cousins home on the same lake as my grandparents. From the years 1996-2006 my dad his childhood friend my nephew and I would fish two to a boat and those years we caught most our fish from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Canada. We lost our friend John in 2007 and my dad 2016 my nephew got married and never fishes anymore (he did fish with me at Vermillion 2016,2017) I had a lot of friends from our Muskies INC fish with me too but most have pasted on too. One of my bother in laws fishes with me here in Colorado. I have one dear friend who was odd man out when the four of us would fish, now we fish together here and there here in Colorado and every other fall we take a trip to fish the Flowage and the surrounding water. My friend Bill is from Wisconsin and the year I don't fish with him he's fishing ex co worker also a ex Wisconsin guy. It's my turn to fish this year. We will do this as long as our health and money holds up.
I don't get out as much as I take care of my soon to be 91 year mom. In a couple of mouths one of my sisters is going to retire and she can help with my mom some too. (this makes it possible for me to go to Wisconsin.) My sister works at the local super market and she has a older customer who looks like our dad and when he wears a hat it's the same as our dad and walks the same. The customer ? It's me, I wear his shirts and jacket and drive his car.
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| Try my best to do 4 or 5 day trips if on deeper rocky water fishing for musky. On “meso” water can do two or three days if need be. Try to stick to the same places once I have success and learn them really well. Most of the time dragging a friend or family member along but the odd solo trip or with my four legged sidekick. |
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| We (2 brothers, a brother-in-law, and 4 nephews) take an annual trip to LOTW and we have been going there for at least 30 years. We like the area and usually get quite a number of good fish each year. There are usually 8 of us, but about half the time a couple of other guys join us as well. This year a different brother-in-law and a buddy will be going! We arrive to our destination on Thursday night - usually before 4th of July - and drive straight through from Southern Wisconsin so we can get the last few hours of daylight and magic hour in on our arrival. It can be a long day as it takes us about 12 hours to get there. We then have the next 7 days to muskie fish full 12-hour days. It is my best trip of the year! The toughest decisions are what time I get up? What lure do I throw? Where do we fish? When do I crack open my first beer? We have an annual contest with a trophy and have engraved names on it for those anglers lucky enough to have won. It almost always takes a rather substantial fish to win it. We do that for the muskie, and it usually takes a 48+ inch fish at min. The pike has to be 40" to qualify. Some years no one wins that! We each take turns making dinners (lasagna, tacos, homemade pizza, steaks, burgers, brats, etc...) and have cocktail hour from like 4:00-5:30 and never go hungry. We head back out on the water for evening fishing after dinner. We work hard and I look forward to it every year! We start planning for next year's trip when we drive back home the following Saturday. We have a notebook full of information that we talk about on the way up and then fill out on the drive home. It is a fun way to relive the memories as no two trips are ever the same! |
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The Trip!