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| I really don't miss muskie fishing during the off season, as I snowboard about 2-4 days a week...keeps me in shape and don't dwell on the lack of fishing...We have gotten sooooo much snow here in Colorado the last couple of weeks the season has been great...What do you all do? |
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Location: oswego, il | Ben do you live in colorado now? Cool.
I goto sprt shows, I still do some fishing too. My back told me excersize is something you will have to do if you want to do what you want so that is part of my every day plan and on days I have off when I don't have plans I work out alot. |
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Location: The desert | Actually make it to class and put an attempt into studying......wait, I can ice fish, guess that idea is shot down too. Ice fish and drink, thats how I pass the off season. Ice fished today, tonight I drink, but tomorrow I work, boy that throws a wrench in things! |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Work and ice fishing are a few things, but mostly hanging out with my 2 little girls. Man do they take up a lot of time. I was actually looking forward to the season ending this year so I would have some time free to rest for once. This year flewwwww by. My fishing time wasn't reduced too much, but my free time was limited. So now that 'ski season is over, it's work, play with the kids, sleep (sometimes). Then repeat.  Fun times indeed. |
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| My two boys have hockey four times a week, so that takes up most of my time.........Snowmobiling in the U.P. a few times a year..........Icefishing of course............Sportshows............and muskie websites.................. |
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| i build baits and custom paint. in the shop folks stop by and we whine together till season starts again. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | sled riding, ice fishing, hockey and downhill skiing keep my kids and i pretty active and busy during the winter ... toughest thing is to pick which one to do ... i prefer winter to summer personally ... |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | I usually get into some "project" of some kind...usually some add-ons to the boat. I also spend a little time on the ice going after northerns on tip-ups.
Been thinking of getting into building some baits...just have not pulled the rigger yet.
Then...I spend a fair share of time here perusing the board.
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| I'm a winter idiot too. Obviously with a family you keep plenty busy. But when the control tower is black I enjoy playing hockey, poker, sleds, ice fishing, good dark beers and Call of Duty 4 at night.
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Ice Fish: When your busy fishing every weekend the winter fly's by. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | FInd some fix it up projects inside the house, go to sport shows, watch a lot of videos, and read a lot of muskie magazines. The occassional ice fishing outing puts a fix on the fishing bug. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion |
I'm going in Monday to have a heart valve replaced that should have been replaced last winter, but I have been way to busy to commit to being sliced open and to be out of comission for 4-5 weeks.
You guys that have a conection to the Big Guy upstairs say a little prayer for me to get through this bump in the road so I can end up meeting and fishing with some of you "Characters".
So after I heal up I'll be headed back down to Kentucky at the end of Jan. for work 'but more importantly some open water muskie fishing at Cave Run and Melton Hill TN.
Every one have a Blessed Christmas Season, Jerome |
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Location: lansing, il | building leaders, doing shows and maybe some local ice fishing if we get enough cold around here. usally a trip or 2 up north to fish but i dont think that will happen this year. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | I'll say one for ya Jerome, best of luck! |
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Location: Central Wi. | Good Luck with that "valve job", Jerome. |
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| Jerome,
Good luck my friend. Me and my family praying for a safe and speedy recovery for you.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | best of everything to you Jerome ... here's to everything going as scheduled! |
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Just got off the ice here in the land of Lincoln. Some nice crappie and a 3 pound largemouth to show for my bravery. There was barely enough in one cove of the lake I fished. The rest of the lake is open water.
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| Doing shows, making baits, tweeking baits, tying leaders, rodbuilding. |
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Location: KY | Jerome
I will say a prayer for you. Take care of yourself and your family during the Christmas Season. Heal up quick and get back down to Kentucky. I have a couple lures I made with your name on them.
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Location: Land of the Musky | I make a crap load of baits and have a crap load manufactured. Will be selling a crap load on eBay too. My goal is to sell 15,000 lures by musky opener 2008. That should keep me busy. Also designing a few new baits over this winter. Should be a fun winter for me. Just got an ice auger for $20 and got it running too. Will be nice to go out on some local lakes this year and ice fish. My 3yr old needs to go out a few times to get him up to speed!
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Location: WI | I read a lot, snowboard, drink beer, showshoe, do bait mods, wait for the sport shows, go to college hockey games, cross country ski. If we have enough snow I can easily stay busy, when we don't it's pure torture. |
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Location: ne53 | Great time to sharpen/replace hooks, doctor lures, clean and lube reels. Ice fish and a little wood working from time to time. The only bad part about getting your lures and reels in prime condition is it just makes you want to get back out on the water even more. |
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| Working my butt off so i can get my own boat in a few months!! Otherwise Second what Jpine said! Going south in March so i can bare a few months!
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| Well, I brought my boat down to my house in AZ after my 2 LOTW trips this summer.
Going to be getting out on the lakes down here chasing a 10 lb largemouth.
Lake within 20 minutes of my house produces fish in the 10-12 lb range each year.
Having the patience to fish muskies will help me chase the BIG largemouth. You can keep the 3-5 lbers. I'm going after the fish of a lifetime.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | You are looking it it.... |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | Shows first,then Guyana South America--Peacock Bass on Topwaters,Costa Rica for Rooster Fish on Fly Rod,followed by Chinook Salmon Spring Run on the Skagit River,with my brother in the drift boat out in Washington State.Lots of overtime hours at the land job to pay for it all.Start the Walleye night trolling in early May. |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | I try to get out for some Ice fishing and Bunny hunting. This year however its Building lures. I need several thousand baits to get me thru next year. If I build them now I will have time to Fish this spring and summer. I would sure like to deer hunt next fall. Kingfisher |
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| Ice fishing, tearing down and rebuilding all my reels, replacing hooks, sharpening ALL the hook points of ALL the baits plus painting the fresh metal with a red perm marker, target shooting out the window with a pellet gun and inside the house with a CO2 BB pistol, reading, music, pool and kids.
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Location: Collegeville Pa | No off season in Eastern Pa.
Here is one from New Year Eve and another from New Years Day!!!
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Location: WESTERN WI | PACKERS!!!!
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Location: Minnetonka | I punch holes to molest the lesser, but tastier species.
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| I'm with Will Shultz. Steelheading is where I try to spend my time. I fish from either a drift boat on smaller rivers, or a jet-sled on the St. Joes and Manistee. |
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| Jerome,
I had open heart surgery for a valve repair over a year ago. Not the best thing I have ever had done, but not that bad either. All I can tell you is to take your time getting back from the procedure. When they tell you it will be 6 to 8 weeks till your
back, believe it, don't rush it. Use the breathing device as much as you can. Get a good Lazy Boy chair or a ton of pillows, as you cant sleep on your stomach or side for a good period.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Flint,
Thanks for the advice.
It's been 30 days now and I feel better today than I have for the last 2 years.
The Doc already took me off of blood thiner, so thats good.
I started back traveling (sales & estimating) so im in Hibbing Mn. untill Fri. than next week I go to Indiana and Ohio than back to N.Mn untill Feb.5.
After that I'm headed to Cave Run for a week or so, but I really am taking it easy compaired to what I usually do.
Later, Jerome |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Love cooking & fixing up the house in the winter. I'm giving a shot at baking pastries & cakes, but having some difficulties. Had to chuck the last batch of pastry dough. Too much butter & it just melted into a puck. Need to stay at it & get my moms recipies down pat before she's gone. At 74 she is still one of the best cooks on the planet & I have been fortunate to dine in some of the worlds best restaurants. She should have followed her passion & opened her own.
Homemade Pizzas tonight & the kids love to help. Watching a 4 year old spin the dough in the air with a smile on his face from ear to ear is priceless.. He's getting better at it & it keeps him busy.
Had to join the local YMCA so I don't get fat. Great idea & love playing basketball with my sons. What a great place for the whole family to get out of the house & run around. Fun to watch the wife on the tred mill too... I keep telling her to take off her sports bra & she keeps telling me I'm a perve... Nothing's changed!
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Ice fishing, spring Steelies, XBOX360, playing with my gf and working on my Buell. I do a few seminars for Gander as well. |
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Location: Ontario, California | I fish for these.... they may "just be a bass" to most of you but they crush big baits.
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Location: East Troy, WI | xbox360, watching badfish dvds, watching pearson dvd, shows... thats about it |
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Location: Apple Valley | I go to the gym 5 days to stay in shape. Work extra hours to support my muskie sickness. Some nintendo wii with my daughter. I also have a choclate lab and golden retriever that take alot of my time.
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I have never gone Ice fishing, would like to try it out though. My winter consists of basketball, basketball, xbox360 and watching college basketball. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Never gone ice fishing and you live in pewaukee? Dude, hit it. |
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Location: Burlington, WI | The muskie off season is a great time to do some ice fishing, rabbit hunting, coyote hunting, spend way too much money at the shows, and do a few wood burning projects. The wood burning is kind of nice when its in the negatives outside and the fire inside is nice and warm!
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Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | school, work, making lures and leaders, basketball and dunk contests, and lots of musky videos and some musky books. |
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Location: Wausau, Wisconsin | Ice fishing has been fantastic this year but my ice time has been limited. Jason and I have been editing away and we're almost done with season 1. Sarah has had a lengthy to do list in our new house seeing that I was on the water everyday since we bought it. Almost done cleaning the basement. Boat will be in the water in 4 weeks. |
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| try to make bucktails,but not for this winter  i forgot to mail my order to mr moore
so i will play more game of css or bf2 and a little pike fishing |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | This is what I got started doing...
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Location: Land of the Musky | sell lots of lures |
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Location: Cudahy, Wisconsin | Fish SE WI's world class trout fishery.
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| What off season? Fish from March to December and inbetween work sports shows, do sponsorship items, book guide trips, basicly make sure that the ducks are in a row for the season so I can attempt to make 200 days on the water. |
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Location: Bemidji/Cass Lake | I play raquetball at least 3 times a week for about 2hrs+ a shot. Also a dart player. I won about $2500 playing at tournaments last year. |
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Location: Not where I wanna be! | This keeps me pretty busy, October through April
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Outside of M1st stuff (shows, contests, chat season that I still need to set up), I'm actually excited to be playing volleyball again. I played in highschool, then a little in college and a ton out on the beach. Picked it up again about 4 years ago, hurt my leg really badly and finally forced myself to get back into it now (before I'm just too #*^@ old) and not worry about another injury. So, 3 league teams and Sunday morning open gyms, I'm a little IN to it again. BUT, I'm still 34 years old, still not in shape, and still 20+lbs from my "fighting weight". SO, I am again in the gym, lifting weights, riding the bike, skipping rope (I actually DO have the dexterity of a Ninja, just not at 240lbs) and trying to get back into running.
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Location: Warroad, Mn | I fix stuff, ice fish, and surf the web till mid February. We go to Tennesse for two months from mid February till mid April. Great state! Nice folks and great fishing. Doug Johnson |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | What do i do in the "off season"? I muskie fish. Gotta love ky in the winter time!! |
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Location: Iowa | Ice fishing and snagging bighead carp...try to shoot some coyotes in there somewhere too...
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Location: Black Creek, WI | Hockey, hockey, and then a little more hockey.
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Location: Chicago | I was going to start this project last year and I finally started it last month, my first attempt to create a 58" muskie out of wood. Finally got the paint should start painting next week.
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Location: lansing, il | rob, ya comin to the hammond show? be sure to stop by and say hi if ya are! nice work! |
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Location: Chicago | I'll be there sat. |
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Location: lansing, il | cool see ya there. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | I prowl the muskie forums and get into senseless bickering contests over mostly irrelevant nonsensical details. Actually, there's been surprisingly few pi@#ing matches this winter...
Really...travel to basketball tourneys for my 10 y/o daughter, build some bucktails, rework others, sharpen hooks, build new leaders, ice fish up at the cabin, browse lake maps on my computer and write down waypoints and load them into my garmin, mostly do a bunch of stuff to improve my odds of boating fish come summer...I'm really tired of winter. |
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