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Location: Ogden, Ut | There was a post a while back asking about the relative success of your year. I believe that I responded that it was better than ever  . It did get me thinking about how good it really was so I poured through my logs and came up with some numbers to support or refute my claims.
I managed to make it out 55 times this year; sounds like a lot, I know, but I only live 8 miles from the reservoir and I often make trips for a couple hours prior to work, etc. My average trip length was just under 4 hours. Many of those trips were alone or with one or both of my boys. Those 55 trips saw 68 tigers hooked by myself and my boat partners hit the net. Sizes ranged from 24" - 51.25". The breakdown of sizes reads as follows:
<30" - 47
30-34.5" - 11
35-39.5" - 5
40-49.5" - 4
50+" - 1
My 3 biggest days on the water were 14 and 10 fish (with partners) and 7 (alone).
My 3 biggest producing lures were: J-13 Rapala in Brown trout (18 fish), Baby Wabull in perch (13 fish - but about 20 additional follows), and a 6" Believer in copper sucker (7 fish). The J-13 fish were caught both trolling and casting, so it might be reasonable to figure it would get the most fish, the Wabull fish were all casting and the Believer fish were all trolling. Five or more fish were caught on each of Baby Depth Raider and a Cisco Kid Wrangler.
So barring the unusually high number of sub-30 inch fish and the one big girl, my year was in fact, incredibly average...an average year I'd happily take pretty much every time. But only because of the mountains! 
The next couple of years should prove pretty interesting out here.
S.
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| Sorno, if you call that average, I would love to see a GREAT year.............Congrats on an "average" year............. |
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Location: oswego, il | Sorno, that sounds like a good year to me. The future only looks good from there. Keep catching those purty fish and posting them here! |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | that is an awesome photo! ... i hadn't seen that one before ... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Great year for a great guy, can't see why that wouldn't repeat in the future! |
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| Mr. Sorenson:
I have read many of your posts; and respect your precision. I note your use of the Cisco Kid Wrangler. I have a couple of these, but have not used them much. I am thinking of using them in the spring for northeastern pike. What is your impression of this lure? Do you think it is too skinny to succeed with muskies? |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Beginner,
I think they're a fine lure. They function as a slightly up-sized version of the J-13 Rapala that works so well out here. They fish very similar to a jointed Baby Depth raider; but they seem to dive a bit deeper yet are slightly more buoyant (at least the specimens that I own). If you fish with heavy line and leader and have the drag locked down, you'll straighten the hooks, but I don't fish that way, so they work fine. Their bodies are durable (plastic), but the paint tends to get a lot of tooth scratches in it...
S.
I wouldn't mind having a couple more. |
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Location: Elkhart, IN | Hey Sorenson, got any pictures of a couple of the bigger ones? I am just amazed at how beautiful those fish are, along with that background. Would love to see them, especially the 50"+ if you're up to it! |
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Location: The desert | A great season for you buddy! Glad I could be apart of it, hopefully we can do it again this summer and up the average to 31! |
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Location: Waukesha, WI | Rockin' SV - 12/23/2007 9:22 AM
Hey Sorenson, got any pictures of a couple of the bigger ones? I am just amazed at how beautiful those fish are, along with that background. Would love to see them, especially the 50"+ if you're up to it!
"barring the largest fish"
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/cnr_images.asp?view=detail&photoid=...
can't ban this ski Sorno. It was part of your season. Congrats again.
Edited by ESfishOX 12/23/2007 5:35 PM
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Location: Elkhart, IN | Thanks for the link. OOHHHH MAN WHAT A FISH! |
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Location: minneapolis | That picture sure brings back memories
Like the fact that I got a phone call that all I needed was 52 inches of fish to win the match Before I even managed to get on the water!!!
Nice Cucumber too BTW
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Location: Oregon | Some good stats, the state fish and wildlife might be interested in that info.
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