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| Hey guys what was the ONE moment of the 07 season you will never forget?????
Mine is most definately catching my PB with Steve Jonesi, I still get weak knees just thinking about it...................  |
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Location: Chicagoland | My brother got a 35'' in the boat and right as I was about to snap to photo, the fish starting shooting crap on his coat. He was holding it properly. Didn't get a photo cause he freaked out and released it! |
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| Multiple memories on Lake of the Woods with two of the coolest guys I know. From hand landing to catching a fish from shore on a tiny island in the middle of the lake...it was a blast!
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Location: On your favorite spot | Missing my personal best on Cass (again) due to my own bad fishing - do I hate that lake or love it? Love it.
How can a fish that could swallow a football have such a hard time getting my bait in her mouth?
7 boatside fish - it don't matter how big they are it's always awesome.
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| Catching my first 50 was one of many highlights. See a tail swim by the front of the boat, cast a DCG in front of it and bulg it in. The tail dissapears and right when the lure gets to where I last seen the tail the fish crushes the bait and instantly goes completely airborn... I'll never forget it. |
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Location: Port Washington, WI | Catching two fish on back to back casts on the Mani Chain this July. It was the first time that i really targeted suspendos and thought I was really on to something. Went the rest of the weekend without seeing another fish but it was worth it. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | The ONE moment? How can I do that? There are a series that are indelibly engraved in my gray matter...
I guess if catching it wasn't the most memorable, the sight of seeing that fish for the second time (this time as a replica mount) at Presque Isle will have to go down as number one. Talk about being blindsided; but definitely in a good way!
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Smokin Joe - 12/10/2007 4:29 PM
Hey guys what was the ONE moment of the 07 season you will never forget?????
Mine is most definately catching my PB with Steve Jonesi, I still get weak knees just thinking about it................... ;)
Pretty cool that you're willing to admit Jonesi has that effect on you, Joe. Most guys would be afraid to put that on an internet forum. 
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| Having a low to mid 50 inch fish follow on my 2nd cast of the season. Never saw a bigger fish the rest of the year. |
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| watching my grandson at 2 years old battle a rockbass. |
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| LOL Hopeful, Rick Lax and I were fishing with Jonesi that day and SJ kept asking me all day "Hey Joe, catch a fish yet?"
Well, after all the excitement and a BAND-AID (she took a little nip of my finger) I yelled and said "YES I DID"
I gained a friendship that day and learned alot about muskie fishing which imo is better than catching a fish.............. |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Smokin Joe - 12/10/2007 5:33 PM
I gained a friendship that day and learned alot about muskie fishing which imo is better than catching a fish..............
I hear you on that one.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | HMMM, too many to pick just one. Probably the 4 footer that swam around wearing my Weagle like a hat for a few minutes while Keith and I tried to figure out what the heck to do next. The fish SLAMMED the lure; no idea how it ended up like that. She finally turned toward me, the line unwrapped from around her noggin, and the lure slipped off without even a slight hook up. Got two that night, and lost a couple more.
Close second would be the evening of topwater action Merckid and I had on a local lake... |
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Location: Belleville, WI | Encountering my first knee shaking pig on LOTW. Hope to catch one like that next year. |
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| Pulling the Krook away from three different fish while fishing with Mike and Tom Hulbert in Minnesota.
Last time was on a big fish spot where he had seen the fish several times. Fish charged behind the bait and when it decided to eat I pulled the lure away. Basic topwater mistake three times in one night.
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Location: Bloomington, Illinois | Catching my first figure 8 musky...going airborne with 3 feet of line and ending up in the trolling motor before coming to the net... :0 |
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Location: Waukesha, WI | too many positive most memorable to honestly pick one. I can pick the worst most memorable. Fishing Pewaukee when a pontoon boat was getting closer, and closer, and closer.......finally veered off as I was getting desperate to flee. Luckily, the parent got up to help his maybe 5 year old steer the boat off the collision course at the last moment. |
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Location: Wheeling, IL. | Breaking my hand trying to hook a pig with while fishing with Tuffy1 in PI!
One more week and I should be out of the splint!!!! |
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| I think my most enjoyable was floating a portion of river, and nailing three 40"+ fish in a section less than a mile long. |
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Location: Des Moines IA | Had to be the whole Presque Isle weekend .. missing lots o fish with
Capt. Fuzzy, and missing a wall hanger on a small Rhinelander puddle, wouldn't change it for anything though...... well Ok I would change it if I could, but it was still a great weekend with lots of great people ........... |
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Location: Illinois | Catching my personal best (47.5"), on the figure 8 (first ever on the eight) right out of the gate on day 2 of an IMTT tourney at Lake Shelbyville.
This year was spectacular in that I caught some fish and met some stellar people who happen to fish muskies!
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| Too many to list. Notables include: Some phenomenal topwater strikes in Canada; the first fish on a homemade bucktail; pulling in, hand over fist, a fish my dad hooked with the line wrapped 20 times around the rod tip and a massive bird's nest buried in his reel; my first experience on gin-clear water; EVERY figure 8 fish; and last but not least Reelwise's mid-air scoop to bag a solid 39" and put our 3rd of 4 fish in the boat for the day. |
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Location: oswego, il | I had alot of good memories this year as it was my best year ever in the water. Over 100 fish in the boat. We had a double header casting but my best meories of this year is my august trip to vermillion with the family. My oldest son has been wanting another musky really bad. Been a couple years since he got his first and the musky gods finally answered with a 45.5"er which ended up being the biggest fish in the boat for the year. We had a few that size and bigger hooked a few other times of the year but he beat me by 1/2". I could not have been more proud. Another great memory from the trip was my youngest son's biggest fish a 38.5" pike. My grandfather had the most action from muskies and some decent ones too. He had several hits and lost one, some follows but he did manage a 32"er. I do his casting so that means strictly topwaters for ease of use and it's fun to watch
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Location: The desert | Way too many to list! This season was an unbelievable season! Got a new PB one week, only to beat it two weeks later. Got to meet tcbetka and become pretty good friends with him and shared some good times in the boat, with likely many more to come. Got to land some trophy tiger muskies with Sorno out in Utah, well future trophies maybe. Got to take some rookies out on the water this season. Got my first, first cast fish, while taking one of the rookies out....made it look like I knew what I was doing! HA! Got my manager from Cousins subs out a couple of times and got him into his first ever musky which ate a sucker about 20 seconds after I tossed the thing overboard.
Who could forget my most memorable moment at PI?? Coming into the bar sunday morning and hardly being able to hold my head up! Great time!
The fish were just a bonus this season, friendships forged are much more valuable! Looking forward to doing a Lax Replica to finish off the season! |
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| Seeing the biggest fish in my life swimming besides the boat with a 5# carp t-boned. Later that year, having an even bigger fish eat at the boat and do a passable imitation of a polaris missile as she spit the bait. |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Best "moments":
Bruce calling Lori and I "Musky Crazy" on the PI outing
Making so many new friends this year through this addiction we call Musky fishining (Joe, Rick, Paul, everybody else...)
Taking my brother, my nephews, the father of my up-coming grandbaby, musky fishing for the first time
Sharing a day on the water with ESOXMANIAC, Pete and Kevin for the first time
Guiding Johnny D on his first Musky (and big honking Flathead), as well as time spent with others I have guided
Sharing Wisers and brew with K-bob, Rick, Smoking Joe, Bob, Bruce, Rusty, Paul, ShaneW in our room every night at the PI outing. favorite trip of the year AGAIN! |
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| Todd...that is just awesome! Hope you can be on the water by the end of February!
Sean...how could I forget your fish that shoulda got away? That was awesome and probably the funnest day I had on the water all year! And watching the tail of a kickin minnow go flying 30 yards out of a huge fish's mouth thinking it got off...I would have cried if it did! LOL
I love muskie fishing I bet you all do too.
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| this whole year was about firsts for me, first fish on a figure eight (at night) scared the crap out of me! first tiger! first 50 incher at the end of a very long cast! and ended the season with a 55x27 supertanker, not sure if muskie fishing will ever be the same for me. what a year, cant wait to try to top it next year! |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | Didn't fish muskies this year as much as in the past, getting back into the multi-species thing due to my young nephews and nieces. Many great moments this year in regards to muskies, however.
Finally hit a killer rowtrolling bite in late June and put 17 in the boat in five days on a lake that had been a go-to, but had soured over the last few years. During that time I guided a 13 year old from Montana and his father to their first legals. They wanted to keep one to get mounted, but after my explanation of my 100% release policy (barring a world record, of course :)), they agreed. When the father boated his, a heavily barred 39", he said he wouldn't have been able to kill it anyway, "most beautiful thing I've ever seen" was what he said.
Putting the cap on the new muskie dvd has also been a distinct pleasure. Segments with Dennis Lappen and Brad Hoppe were the epitome of fun, and kinder people you will not find. Capturing a series of moments on film, weaving them together, and thereby documenting those moments in time is...well, can't really explain it.
Trading the muskie gear for the duck and deer hunting equipment becomes easier and more welcomed every year. Going through a tranformation, I think, and lovin' every minute of it. Montana becomes more intriguing and beautiful every year and is my addiction.
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Location: Madtown, WI | Hooking and loosing my first legit WI 50  and NOT on GBAY
Stillllllll stings....
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | 1) In one week losing 2, 50" fish.
2) Getting into my 1st tournament.
3) Having my daughter catch her 1st muskie.
4) Opening day with all the boy's, you got to love "The Cutting edge" on 1250 Sat. morning on Pewaukee Lake.
5) Meeting new muskie anglers who are as crazy about the sport as I am.
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Location: Twin Cities | Twice this summer I hit a "window" of muskie frenzy that I wont forget. First on Mille lacs getting 4 fish in the boat, lost another in about 2 hours (50,47,47,42) and then again on Tonka in about 1.5 hrs getting 4 again all within a 50 yard stretch of weedline (51.5, 48,47,42). Great times, if I ever beat that next year I hope someone is in the boat with me again to beleive it. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | 1) Losing 2 50+ fish a week a part (not happy memories)
2) Fishing the MMTT
3) Finally getting up to Lake Vermillion
4) Showing my wife her first muskie |
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| id have to say the competition during rhinelander musky league our "doghouse" team had with TJ and Genes Team.
it went down to the wire and they beat us fair and square.
in the process during league hours we caught muskys at
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the 46 was fast freddies personal best and 48 was foinze's personal best also the 1st and tied for second in big fish of league. way to go boys....................
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| Definitely, seeing my Niece catch her first muskie- off the dock at Potato Lake- right before a torrential downpour- it was the only muskie caught during the week of our camping trip for July 4th-not a monster - but she was a celebrity when we went back to the tavern to stay dry!
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| For me it was spending any time on the boat with my kids !! No muskies for the little guy but caught lots of other species to keep his interest !! Other than that it would have to be getting my brother and a buddy their first on the same trip , both fish came within about an hour of eachother and losing 1 other fish , they both call it the hi-light of their summer so that makes it 1 of mine too !! I looked like I knew what I was doing until it took me 2 hours to find the launch in the dark !!! Plenty of other great memories , P.I. outing was definitely a blast , fishing with Slamr the many times we got out ( always a blast ) , and fishing with Muskie Mike is always a blast ... we make it fun for ourselves every time !! |
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| Long time lurker... this thread finally got me to register. I'm sorry in advance but this is going to be long...
This year was a great year even though we only put one musky in the boat. After two years of fishing muskies and watching my wife catch two before I caught one I finally got my first fish and boy was it worth the wait! After working on Saturday of labor day weekend I decided to try the night bite for the first time since I could be worthless on Monday. So we headed up to the pond on Sunday afternoon and started fishing at 5:00 p.m. On the first cast I had a mid-30's follow. The dang fish scared the crap out of me as I was not expecting it. Forty-five minutes later we had drifted over another weed bed and I had a high-40's fish chasing the figure-8. I really thought that it would be my first muskie. But the fish after chasing several turns never opened its mouth and swam away.
After about two hours of no action all of a sudden my line just stopped. I set the hook and felt the "fish" move and boy was it a lunker! However, we quickly realized that something funny was going on and either this fish was huge or it wasn't a fish. After a bit of fighting we got on top of the line and I grabbed a pair of gloves and started pulling on the line. The "fish" ended up being a 25lb anchor full of walleye rigs. But atleast I saved my lure and got a free anchor! At midnight all of the other boats in the area gave up and left the lake. We kept on fishing.
About 45 minutes later we moved to a small patch of weeds. I had a strike and set the hook as hard as I could. It was pretty dark and we couldn't see the fish but I knew it was a musky and I knew it was big. My Dad grabbed the net captured the beast. I still to this day have no idea how he netted that fish given the darkness of the night and the small light on the boat. All I remember him yelling before he netted the fish was "I see the leader!" With the fish in the net, we grabbed our hook removal gear and got the lure free. Our boat is pretty small so we decided it would be safer to put the fish in the boat rather than trying to grab it out of the net in the water. I went to grab the net and it weighed a "ton". So I had my Dad grab the other side to help me get the fish into the boat safely. This was the first time we got a good luck at the fish.
We got the fish out of the net and it just kept getting longer! We quick put down the tape and my Dad says 51.5 inches and I looked at him in disbelief and said "measure it again". Another quick measurement and the fish was 51.5 inches again (my Dad swears it was more like 51.75). I quickly picked up the fish and my Dad took a couple of pictures and measured the girth (24.5/25). The fish was put in the water and it swam away. We enjoyed the moment for the next hour as I was finally no longer "the guy who fishes for muskies all of the time but never caught one", but more importantly, I was suddenly a member of the 50 inch club and the catch and release club.
The best part of the night was that my Dad was there with me. He has still not put his first musky in the boat even though he had several chances in September and October including a fish that jumped out of the water and spit the hook and a mid-high 40's fish missed his lure boat side and swam away embarrased. (I still don't know how we didn't catch that fish) 2008 will be his year.
2007 will always be the year of my first musky, but perhaps more memorable because it was a year that was spent fishing with my wife, my parents and friends. It's not necessarily how many fish you put in the boat that makes a year great, but fact that that you had a great time chasing them.
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Location: Minnetonka | Moving back from California... arriving in MN June 2nd!!!
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| probably 2 stand out...many more come to mind though..
Watching a young guy get his first 50"er in the net and his reaction...
Watching a 52.5" half in, half out of the Beckman for what seemed like an eternity...The MN buds were right when they told me "you're gonna need a bigger net"
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| PB, 47" on the 8. I guess there were a few memorable moments on that fish. Watching it eat, by far the coolest. Watching it thrash around with its head out of the water and thinking "f$^%& I'm gonna lose her!" was the scariest. One I'll never forget though is afterwards, having to sit down because I was shakin' so bad. I felt kinda stupid until Herbie said "holy $^%& lookit, my knees are are shakin, man!"
A moment worth mentioning for sure:
Seeing Sorno's face at the PI outing when they walked in with his replica. I had the fortune of being at the table next to him when it happened, and He went from "What is going on" to "Hey that looks like the fish I caught", to "oh my God you guys didn't, is that for ME?" to sheer disbelief all in about 3 seconds!!
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| While waiting for my bro to get to the lake near the launch, castin the DC in 3-4 feet of water, inside edge, I see the beast charge, brace myself, set the bone crushing hook set, BAM, the rod snaps in half, panic and confusion ensues , the beast is still hooked and I net her solo. She is my PB at fifty one, one week to the day after my first fifty. My brother shows up five minutes later, I'm still shaking like a leaf, I show him the pics and the busted rod and he asks how the heck I got her in? I then realize I don't even remember a thing of the fight, I was so freaked to have the beast hooked up on half a rod, I can't remember a thing, yet somehow I'll never forget it! |
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Location: Warrenville,IL | Landing an unhooked muskie on a smallie. |
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| Going toe to toe with a 51"er on a boatside 8 that had an attitude that wouldn't quit...while solo in the boat.
Joe...nice job on the repro by the way. |
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| The most memorable moment for me this year, was 1 night my two kids, Ella 5 and Hadyn 4, went out for a evening of musky fishing with me. The third cast my daughter made, a mid forty fish comes up and creams her Top Raider about ten feet from the boat and thrashes violently for about 20 second without much resistance. After losing the fish, the look on her face was priceless. I will forever remember that moment.
Second, On a trip to Mille Lacs with my brother and brother in law. In one hour of fishing, we caught 3 fifties. Bro's 50 1/2", Bro in law 53", mine 54 1/2"
After that I lost one about 52. I should of just quit musky fishing that night, because the odds of ever doing that again are slim to none. But I will try next year
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Location: Bloomington,MN | catching a 51"er on thanksgiving morning.Biggest fish of my life. |
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| You would think that it was catching my first 50, but it wasn't. It was when I took my buddy Pete muskyfishing for the first time. He had a 45 plus blow up on a hawg wobbler and come completely out of the water. The look on his face was priceless. None the less he is now hooked. The other was when my buddy Aaron called me telling me that he had caught his first 50. He had been waiting a long time for that fish. |
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| 1. I guided my friend Andrew to his first Musky, a 46 incher that creamed a bucktail in a figure 8.
2. Fishing a Musky tournament with my Dad and winning for the second year in a row.
3. Watching a Fish close to 50 inches explode on a Jackpot twice but missing it each time. It sure gets your heart pumping. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | sitting on that chair on that patio at that cabin on the rock without cell phone service and although having a good trip .... not really caring either way cause i was on vacation. the andy myers lodge experience ... for me it's the highlight and for more than just the fish ... the bonus is the folks there to share the experience with ... |
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| That's an easy one. Fishing with my 80 yr. old father who has complained
for years that he is bad luck once it comes to muskie fishing. He had previously
only caught one 32 inch muskie in his life. He always said he has thrown 100,000 thousand casts with no fish. Well it finally happened this fall on a cold rainy day where this 48" decided to take Dad's sucker and make him the happiest person in Wisconsin that day (as you can tell on the picture). He has shown the picture to everybody he knows at every chance he gets. For Christmas I am going to get a picture blown up and framed for him since we were able to release the fish with no problem.
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Location: Bemidji | Catching the same 49in fish three times this year.
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| This one was the best! Fish was caught on a quick strike rig and was real scrappy on a short leash. Not a huge fish but any time you can put one in the net while you are fishign with your kids is priceless.
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| I've been lurking for awhile too - but this monent really stood out so I had to tell it.
I was fishing along a wild rice bed with a buzzbait and I had a couple of nice wakes come to the bait, follow for awhile, but then veer off close to the boat. So I put on a old floating husky rap so I could twitch it out away from the boat. A few casts later I get another wake to the lure. But no hit. I twitch it a few times but don't see any more movement. Then I briefly see a faint flash of white/yellow. At first I think the fish has a big gash on it's back. But then I see it again and am able to make out what's happening. The fish is immediately below the rap - opening it's mouth trying to suck the lure down - like a trout gently sipping a dry fly. But he isn't generating enough suction to get the lure. He opens his mouth a few more times, finally with enough force to take the lure off the surface. Nothing huge - 35" - but I'm not sure I could handle that from a really big fish. |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Putting my friend on his first-ever Ski. Both of these were on the same day.
First was like 32" and the second was around 28-29", but it was a HUGE deal for him. This was also my first outing of '07 as well, so it made my day. This catch coming from a complete NOOB gave me some confidence that I kinda knew what I was doing out there.. hahaha. As for me, I had a rough day but still fun.
June '07 on a Vilas lake.
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| i figured its time to register-
lots and lots of great memories, getting to fish with some great muskie sticks and getting to listen/observe them was the highlight of my summer, you guys know who you are! a few memories that stick out-
-netting a very well deserved 53 incher for a great friend
-fishing with a certain wisconsonite - trying to sqeeze out an extra 1/4 inch on a girthy girl
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| Wow, lots of great highlights! One of the cooler posts in a while.
My highlight is when I took my musky partner Jimmy Grasz out on the Big Chip and got him a fat 32incher, which was his first musky ever!!! Congrats Jimmy, I think you will end up being a pretty good musky fisherman... Keep it up kid.
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | Like most others I can only narrow it down to a couple, 1st was have the 55x 27 that hammernicks client caught follow and strike at and miss my cremecicle pounder at sunset about a week before he caught it. And defintelty catching my first 50" and having it be in my home state of WI, Having a 9 fish day all legals too 7 of them on the 8. Ok thats good enough but could go on and on. Great year! |
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Location: WI | Stopping to do a weed check while fall trolling and having a 50 incher almost take the rod out of my hands after turning one crank on the reel handle. Beating my PB by 10 inches (the above fish). Fishing with family and my old neighbor who used to take me fishing, it felt great to return the favor. |
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| I had more than one, but didn't we all. Some great stories here! Not enough to help make it through the long WI winter though.
Here's a few of mine.
1. My son getting his first fish, on opening weekend. 32.5 inches.
2. My first bucktail fish. (I don't throw them often)
3. Catching 3x the fish I caught last year.
4. My first fig 8 fish.
5. 2 times, on seperate weekends, I caught 2 fish back-to-back.
6. Putting 4 fish in the boat in 2 hours, and loosing 2 others.
Now someone has to make a post with the worst memories from this last year. Oh how many of these fish we loose.
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Location: Lino Lakes, MN | My most memorable moments for 2007 came as the netman for my brother on LOTW this summer. My bro had 2 fish to his name in over 3 years and was desperate to get out of his slump. Being in the boat to net his 7 fish for the week, including 3 PBs was definitely a highlight for me. Seeing his face light up when he broke it the first time with a 41" was great but seeing him melt down when a 46" Weagle fish went into the bag was priceless. He worked really hard for those fish and never gave up so it which made his week even more special. Ending the year as a witness to a last cast fish was also up there as far as memorable moments as well. |
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| Taking my 12 year old nephew in law musky fishing for the first time and him landing his first river musky(2nd fish ever besides a bluegill) 40incher and him learning how to use a baitcaster, all with in the first hour of him getting into the river for the first time. We gained one more Musky Hunter!! He had a smile from ear to ear all week!! 07 is still not over yet, so hoping to have more memories!! thanks |
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Location: Tomahawk, Wisconsin | I have lots of memories from last year, musky league was a blast as usual, got to fish at least one day with my bro, took my daughter out on a local lake in the fall and she had her first follow about 40", she's 2 and a half years old people, tossing a crazy crawler that I've had since I was a little tyke thanks for the Barbie pole Jason! Catching a 40" in league and watching it hurdle out of the net on Troy, a half hour later I had a fathead of a 40 something inch tiger get out of the net for good, blew up my powerhead on my opti, that was the suck moment of the year hmmmm nah losing that tiger was the suck moment. Brother in law catches his first musky with me no net required a 36" hits at boatside and lands right on the rear deck........ good times bad times another year in the books!! |
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| Coming in third at the madison chain pmtt.Coming home that night bringing my trophy in the house my triplets went crazy like it was Christmas.I had some hardware in the past,but none since they have been born.Then to top things off I move up to second only to miss first by a half inch,but if I had to lose, Scott and Choppie are the ones I would pick.To see those kids jumping around when they saw that trophy was priceless,even the dog peed himself when I walked in.bill |
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| Mike Gumiela,everyone says that you'll never forget your first muskie,sorta like you'll never forget your first kiss! I can't tell you how happy you made me that day! I've been out with many muskie guides and have never caught a muskie before that unbelieveable day on the Big Chip! My knees are still knocking!I can't believe the strength of them fish,and to top it off, it was a smashing boatside hit! I have a picture of that fish in a frame on my desk at work and everybody wants to know where I caught it at but I told them I got her on Lake X just like you told me.I can't even imagine catching a 40 incher! If you come through with your promise and put me on a 40 incher this year you will be a GOD in my eyes! Thanks once again for my personal best! Your the best partner a guy could ever have......... |
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| On LOTW in July, my partner and I went guided one day with Perry from Youngs Camp. I was up front, my partner Bill in the middle and Perry in back.
Fishing was tuff and I was not buying into Perry telling me how small I needed to go. My parnter and I basically met him in the middle and were throwing smaller baits. We were basically bass fishing. We came up to a small pocket and I threw first, nothing, my partner hit the spot, nothing, then Perry threw his little bass lure to the same spot and we saw a fat 48 come out of no where and smoke his bait 10' from the boat.
So I guess learning to do what a guide says at all times makes it a memorable.
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| Mike Gumiela - 12/13/2007 3:40 PM
Wow, lots of great highlights! One of the cooler posts in a while.
My highlight is when I took my musky partner Jimmy Grasz out on the Big Chip and got him a fat 32incher, which was his first musky ever!!! Congrats Jimmy, I think you will end up being a pretty good musky fisherman... Keep it up kid.
Mike
Mike,
Did you get a girth on that fatty for Rocketmans replica? |
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| Fishboy,
I wanted to girth Jimmy's fat 32" but he was too worried about a safe release. That kid is all about the fish. If I had to estimate I would probably say the girth was right around 14".
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| Mike,I just went on Musky Hunters web site and went to there weight calculator and my 32 X 14 was estimated at 7.84 lbs! Who should I go with for a replica? Lax or Fittante? |
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| Out on the local waters I ran into two different strangers who knew who I was because of a MuskieFirst sticker plus 6 or so Grateful Dead stickers on my boat. "Hey, are you Ranger?!" Always nice to be recognized and associated with M1. |
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| Netting my partner's (Kevin Rand) 48"er in the Cass Lake PMTT. That fish came 5 feet out of the water after it hit. Epic battle.
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| 1) Putting the net under a nice metro fish for my Dad that matched his PB
2) skipping a work function and catching 2 in one night with the girlfriends step dad (good friend also).
3) Catching my biggest of the year 49.5 out of the back of Lax's boat
4) two very successful weekends on Vermillion with my brother and Tanner Wildes
5) Hitting Pull tabs with Smokin' Joe
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| Fishing 5 weeks after my third back operation in two years in NJ's Muskies inc Spring Fling tournament with my best friend.
15 minutes into the tournament working a Weagle from deep to shallow and having my PB 4 footer come up like air jaws with my Weagle in his mouth.
My friend and I won the tournament and big fish
Gr8 day for me, Jeff
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