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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | I know we all have had to explain this to our co-workers many times, but why do YOU fish for muskies? |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Greg M's prolly has the best answer:
"Because the voices in my head tell me too!"
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Edited by mikie 12/27/2004 8:27 AM
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| Thrill of the hunt.
I've always said you don't "fish" for muskies; you "hunt" for muskies....
I like the brutal force that they hit with, I like the thrill of the fight, I like being able to skillfully trick the beast into eating something they "shouldn't" be eating, I like hearing the drag screaming, I like looking at the bend in the rod and the huge tug on the line. They're truely a beast, the barracuda/shark of freshwater fishing. |
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| If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand. 
That's my standard answer. |
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Because I can |
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| Because I can't.
(or at least it seems that way most times when I try!) |
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| Because of the rush of adrenaline I get every time I see one of those big %$#&^@$ behind my lure or hopefully on the end of my line!! The challenge of just catching one wether its big or small. BECAUSE IT'S THE KING OF THE FRESHWATER!! FISH OF 10,000 CASTS!!!!!  |
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| I love their smell If I could get calogne that smelled like that, ladeez watch out!haha
It boggles me why something that pisses you off so much at times could be so addicting.
I have gone weeks without any action and then all of a sudden one day you catch 3 and it was all worth it.
They're my drugs!
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Posts: 32886
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I fish Muskies because if I fished bass and walleyes I'd be expected to catch some.
Actually, I'm not too sure why. If I ever was, it would probably not be as much fun. |
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| Because I like torture and people who don't just don't UNDERSTAND! |
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Location: Washington, PA | For a reason to get out of bed in the morning. |
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Location: The Yahara Chain | I am addicted to the high I get from boating a muskie.
Being outdoors without a phone(sometimes) |
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| Because it is the pinnacle of freshwater fishing. It is the best when you set the hook on a big slobbosaurus and the drag starts to scream. I guess it's all about adrenaline. I love the shakes you get after boating a monster. |
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| Because I am partly RETARDED! and my wife does not really know how much cash I spend! If she did I would be knocked down to carp fish`in! |
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Location: minneapolis | The Rush. All of it. Everywhere. Everytime. Fish or not. Every cast. Every trip. Every cell. Every nerve. My entire body and soul. The Rush............. |
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Location: oswego, il | Becuase it's fun. The people who do it are fun. Everything about it is fun! FUN! |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | The Adrenillen Rush of hunting the hunter. Similar to hunting fox and coyotes, but you can't treat an animal for a gun shot wound. |
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| Big Game hunting ON THE WATER where the quarry is hunted ,captured and RELEASED.Of course in some of the most beautiful places in the world.Eat, sleep,Muskies.Not necessarily in that order. Steve |
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| Because I am obsessive-compulsive and I am addicted to fishing for muskies since I caught my first one 26 years ago on the Chippewa Flowage. I have seen world record class fish in my travels and those visions haunt me!  |
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| I guess for the same reasons that I hunt trophy whitetails.
The thrill of the hunt, along with the excitement of just seeing one.
You don't have to have one in the net or on the ground for the day to be a success.
Of course one makes it to the grill, and the other doesn't.
Beav |
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| It's good for my soul.
The hunt reminds me of my relationship to the majic and power of our natural world. I love the feeling of being totally in the groove, casting and doing 8's. I feel balanced, content. Seeing or hooking a fish is a bonus.
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | How could I explain it to you? I can't even explain it to myself. Probably has something to do with the absolute rush of adrenaline I get on each and every follow. The shakes I get when one is in the net, the way every topwater strike is forever etched in my mind. You just don't get that from perch, bluegills or even walleye!!
Plus I don't like to eat fish, how perfect a match is this???? |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Because without muskies to hunt, I would be quite normal....and probably boring.
K. |
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Location: Wausau | Because Golf is to frustrating for me. |
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Location: Wayzata, MN | I like the look on the "non-believers" faces when I tell'em... but I'm kind'a sick that way.
It's a NFOW day for me... I've been checking Leech Lake Resort opportunities all morning [grin]....
[ie: Not Focused On Work]... Hey, I think I'll name my boat that this year [yee-ah baby!] |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Because I love the feel of a 5/0 hook SLAMMED into my hand with 4 feet of green smelly striped fish still attached to it!!!!!! |
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| The challenge. Being outdoors on the water. Knowing at any moment a giant may visit.
Happy New Year! musky39 |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | One more reason:
Sue likes Muskie Fishing. Therefore, I MUST fish them!! |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Because I've seen the "God of Muskies" and she inspires me. Actually because my best friend "Mike Hofmann" got me hooked by conning me to join a group of 5 friends going on a 1 week smallie & lake trout fly-in in beautiful western Ontario with "Al they say there are Muskies in there, they should be as good as northern pike." I was the "black sheep" the only one fishing for muskies. So I was always partnered with a bass or laker partner (Mike). "Holy Jesus" revealed herself to me and I haven't been sane about muskie fishing since. I still love northern pike fishing. But when muskie season is open, it's my passion. Believe it or not "Ranger" is worse than me for extreme. ( Although, I have slept on the ice on the Mississippi at -20 F to be there at sunrise (for the first light tip-up bite!)
Why do I fish muskies? Because, I wouldn't feel whole if I didn't.
Happy 2005!
Al
Edited by ESOX Maniac 12/30/2004 2:47 PM
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| I am sure we all have the same feeling at times, you work your tail off all day and don't hit a fish. You have changed lures and fished every pattern you can think of. On the way home you feel like you have a downrigger cannonball in your gut, then the next day you are at it again. Why? Becouse when you feel that hevy headshake and have that fish thrashing at the boat it makes your legs shake and your voice go up two octaves! You know you are hooked when you catch a six pound bass and you feel like you waisted a cast. There is fishing and there is catching, this is fishing. Later |
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Location: indiana | even though i have yet to boat a legal musky anywhere, the personal thrill of my uncle, on his second musky fishing trip ever landing a 35 and 41, good friend stephendawg and other friend double with a 38 and 39, a bonus 35 pike by stephendawg, and a missed opportunity on a 45 myself. to have friends and family have that good of a time together, it does not get better than that. todd |
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Location: Lake St. Clair | Smell and slime keep me hooked. Only one other thing that potent. |
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Why Do YOU Fish Muskies?