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Location: Clintonville, WI | So I call up the bait shop this past weekend to order suckers for my upcoming annual trip 10/4 - 10/7. Aside from laughing at the sheer # of muskie food I'm buying, I got to thinking about how much fun I have had over the 10 years we have been doing this.
Here is the scoop: six high school buddies, staying at one's home on a remote lake setting, lots o' beer, good eats (one of the guys is a firefighter aka good cook) and crazy stories (some new, some rehashed for the 100th time). The events during our trips have ranged from using IV hookups to relieve a hangover (there's the firefighter/paramedic connection again), to inadvertent swims, to personal best scores for Galaga, to personal best muskies.
The BONUS to us is...........good fishing results. Last year I ordered the same amount of suckers and came home with five. About 10 die off without getting bit, but the rest are ripped up catching/missing fish. Great sucker bite system. But even the bad fishing years were a ton of fun.
I am soooooo not going to accomplish anything at work this week  I'll be fishing solo Thursday a.m. and already envision a double up before the rest of the those working stiffs get up there on Thursday p.m.!! hahahahahahahaha
The M1st outings seem to me to be reaching this revered annual status already. Whether a M1st outing or a trip with long time friends, how many of you take the time to do something like this every year? I'd like to hear others' stories of trips like this because to me, this is what it is all about.
**P.S. A hydrating IV doesn't work as well as we thought it would.
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Location: Chicago | Yep. I have at least 3 annual trips each year. This year I have been very lucky about vacations, Puerto Rico, N Wis, N Wis, N Wis, Door county (with wife and another couple that will become an annual event), and the PI M1st trip to cap my season in N Wis. |
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Location: Chicago | Ohh, get vitamin B in liquid form to help with your hangover. Your FF buddy should be able to get his hands on some. |
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| WE have just started a couple weekends a year now that our family has a place up near mercer. 2 guys play video games for 36 hours drinking the whole time the other two come in about meal times to tell them about the monstrers that were tangled with and at night we go to hurley |
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Location: Racine, Wi | We've been going up on our annual trip now since I was 18. The first year, we all piled into my buddies Celica and headed up from school for the weekend. Well, a bunch of years later (I can't count that high without taking my shoes off) we're still doing it. A few guys stopped going since they got sandy (or lost their pants to their wives), and a few of the originals are still going. I had to miss last year (which hurt baaaad) but I got a beautiful daughter out of it. This year, back at it.
We always enjoy toooo many libations, from rooster poops to pea water, and everything in between. (It's very easy to finish a case of the Beast even if you're a tall skinny dude). We've only had one trip to the ER and that was due to a rock vs. finger vs. boulder. I never knew that a finger could look like a hot dog that was grilled too long.  Glad it wasn't mine. Along the way we've had people catch their first muskies, biggest muskies, played redhorse baseball amongst other things.
Mo, thanks for bringing this up. Still brings back great memories. Are you heading to that pond we fished a few years back with Chuck and the boys? Have fun and good luck! |
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| Mo I have heard a lot of strange things go on during that trip. Make sure you have plenty of Snickers bars for old Charlie especially if he is drinking Bud Lite
I need more cowbell!! |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | TTurn..............why would anyone go to Hurley while on a fishing trip?!?!? 
T1 - we are going to that very pond. I wish the trolling motor would have cooperated when we went there. It is usually well worth the time. And, yes, memories are what it is all about.
Chris - Chas and snickers...........a must combo (along with his dry roasted peanuts). With the Bud Light priming the pump, we gotta keep him "comfortable" until we get back to the house in the evening. We don't worry about a couple other guys. I swear they cinch up like a drum for three days because outhouses and other people's houses are a "no go" |
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Location: searchin for 50 | My son and i have been going up to the cabin the last 3 years the last full weekend in October. Sighting in rifles for the gun deer season and then trying to find that big fall fattie. Last year we came close with a Boulder Jct. area 43". Hopefully this year we can tie into a bigger one. It is a fun weekend .  |
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36 suckers + 6 friends + beer = 1 heckuva annual trip