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Location: Lebanon,Mo | Im sitting here this morning at the office listening to the rain come down again.Lakes are flooded,rivers out of there banks,I dont think mother nature will let up on us this year.People are being evacuated out of there homes again due to the never stopping flooding down here.But what came to mind this morning was I remember fishing Pomme de Terre lake back in the flood of '93. The lake was clear,just 25ft above normal pool.We were fishing a flooded state park camground and my patrner was throwing a buzzbait up and around a picnic table and hooked and landed a 35". It is amazing what fish will adapt to.So do you have a unique location you have caught a fish that you thought wasnt even imageable??? |
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| It's not a muskie...but...back in the late 70s and early 80s when the neighborhood we lived in at the time would always flood due to heavy rains....I caught a 5lb bass in my friends back yard, standing on his back patio step, just outside of his parents sliding glass door. That bass found a way into their privacy fenced back yard. We'd catch all sorts of bullhead and catfish then too.
That was a blast back then for us young kids. Not so much for our parents, the home owners, with massively flooding basements.... |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Does Utah count? (Can't get much more bizarre than that)
S.
Edited by sorenson 4/10/2008 10:48 AM
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| The boat is tied to the dock and I am casting back at the launch in 6" of water when what do you know I have got a muskie on. Must like the cover of launching boats. |
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Location: Minneapolis | Hey DJS,
Was that the only 'ski you caught that night? |
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Location: Madison Wi. Chain | Didn't catch the fish, but i was standing on a pier in about two feet of water. The bottom is sand and there is no weeds nothing. I am running a top-water around the pier chekcing on the action when she charged out from under the pier and grabbed the bait. I was so shocked I just sat there watching and never did set the hook. One of my favorite quotes applied, "always keep your wits about you!" |
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| I've caught two Muskies in two different lakes that Muskies were not supposed to be in. The two lakes are connected, and the fish had to travel at least 17 miles through a river system to get there. I thought that was pretty cool. One was just over a foot long and the other fish was almost 32 inches long. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Cast over by that rock...there's always a muskie by that rock... |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | I got one in the back on a figure 8 and I'm not sure how that happened. |
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Location: Palm Coast, FL | Was sitting by the campfire at my house on the lake. It was in 2006 on Labor Day weekend. My parents were over and we were having a good time at the lake. Saw/heard a splash in the water about 40 feet from my pier. The wife says I should go throw at it since I thought it was a muskie going after something. After about the third time of her telling me to go ahead and try. I walked to the pier, grabbed my rod out of my boat and let one fly. 2/3 of the way in muskie comes completely out of the water with my lure in it's mouth. Landed a 40" in one cast! I set the rod back down after that knowing it wasn't getting any better than that! |
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Location: Lake Vermilion Tower, MN | Last July on a hot calm day after a not so successful day of fishing with my son and grandson.
We decided to call it a day and head back home. At this time of the summer water levels on the Big V were very low.
The water level at my dock had dropped to about 15 inches.
I could barely float my boat. When we got in my grandson Owen said to me,"Hey papa I'm going to make a couple cast off the dock before we eat".
He puts on an old #11 rapala I had given him and you guessed it, first cast he hooks into a 48 incher in 1.5 ft of water. It was his first Muskie.
Now we've seen some Muskies off the dock
in the spring during the spawn, but this was late July, high skies, 85 degrees in
weed choked, dirty brown water. I guess it just proves the old adage, Muskies are where you find them. 
"Ace"
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | I was fishing Vermillion with my brother and our buddy Tim. It was there first day ever on that lake. Tim puts on my Squirko in Herpes color (Ya Kieth really does make that color). He had never thrown one before. Casts about 15 minutes all the while I am trying to tell him the "right" way to work it. He wasn't getting it. My brother grabs the rod. He doesn't get it either. Tries about 10 minutes too. Then they give in and hand it to me. I am demonstrating the perfect side to side with the long pause and letting the tail work. About 20 feet into the retrieve a 44" nails it and that was on my first cast with it. They didn't let me throw it anymore that day. We call that rock bar Herpes Hump now. |
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Location: Washington, PA | In a stream that had turned orange from acid mine runoff. Second muskie I ever caught, 42" tiger, oh, and Wabigoon.....very strange place.
Edited by tomyv 4/12/2008 6:45 PM
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| The water was about 10 feet high on Cave Run a few years ago. Me and a friend were out throwing to all the new shallow cover. One piece of cover that happened to hold a musky that day was a nice mint green porta-potty at one of the ramps. True story. |
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Location: Cave Run Lake KY. | That's true what Triton1 said. We fished someone's deer stand back in the woods. |
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| On the Wisconsin River before some nasty weather..well during the beginning of it..we were coming through a spot that was really shallow that we usually just navigate through without casting mush, less than a foot deep all across. It was pouring rain and late season so tons of weeds and sticks were floating downstream...As soon as my bucktail bounced off a rock and hit the water(to this day we still aren't sure if it hit the water) in about 6 inches TOPs of water, about a 45" agressive musky took hold of the bucktail. Never would have expected that..the winds were picking up and there was a lot of thunder and lightning, you could feel the warm air blowing TOWARDS the storm coming and we were stuck up on rocks and a tree, literally. I got the fish up to the boat and my friend went to grab it (we will start bringing a net in that tiny boat sooner or later..lots of scars from Wisconsin River Skis) Fish came off but I thought I still had it on, turns out I was fighting the boat for the last 10 seconds..jeeze. Felt bad afterwards, many spilled rolling rocks, a buddy's cut hand, soaking wet....no picture, and remorse for the fish having to battle it through the rough stuff. We decided to head in and saw that same fish slowly making it's way upstream boatside and it wasn't banged up at all..that was a happy ending.
Either that or the time I was swimming when we were younger and someone hooked into a musky about 50 feet away from us...we've got the best beach on the lake but never saw many nice fish like this one while snorkling. To this day I will still not swim in certain lakes hahahaha |
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Location: Minnesota | In the hole of a shallow boat landing. We launched a boat, I walked the boat towards the end of the dock, tied it up, and was walking back towards shore when I looked down into the water and saw that we just launched the boat over a decent sized muskie laying there. This fish was less than 10 feet from shore in about 2 feet of water. I waited for my buddy who was parking the truck, told him to walk by quietly and we got into the boat as quiet as we could. We pushed off fromt he dock and each took turns casting topwaters to the shore and bringing them right by the fish. After about 5 or 6 casts I put on a spinnerbait and landed it within 4 inches of its nose mand instantly the fish inhaled the spinnerbait. That was the first of 3 fish caught in less than 2 feet of water that morning. Not a bad way to start the morning, with a 40 inch musky before even starting a motor. |
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Location: On my favorite lake! | My fish came out of a 55 gallon grey trash can that had fallen in the lake. It was sitting in about 2 ft of water and the fish just launched itself out of the can at my Cobb jerkbait. The fish was 38 in. |
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| Lightning, that's awesome! hehehe don't let anybody tell 'ya they ain't garbage fish!!! |
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| This is bizzare! I once caught a muskie in a tree on land. I casted a big game twitchbait that got stuck in a tree as my partner motored over to get the lure out of the tree low and behold a fat 46 incher came flying out of a squirrels nest with my big game t-boned it leaped back in the water and the fight was on! I'll never forget her! |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Fat Tom - 4/17/2008 7:08 AM
This is bizzare! I once caught a muskie in a tree on land. I casted a big game twitchbait that got stuck in a tree as my partner motored over to get the lure out of the tree low and behold a fat 46 incher came flying out of a squirrels nest with my big game t-boned it leaped back in the water and the fight was on! I'll never forget her!
hahahahaha!!!
Really Baldy, that is what I was going for at the Goon that time! See, I'm not crazy.
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| sorenson - 4/17/2008 8:14 AM
Fat Tom - 4/17/2008 7:08 AM
This is bizzare! I once caught a muskie in a tree on land. I casted a big game twitchbait that got stuck in a tree as my partner motored over to get the lure out of the tree low and behold a fat 46 incher came flying out of a squirrels nest with my big game t-boned it leaped back in the water and the fight was on! I'll never forget her!
hahahahaha!!!
Really Baldy, that is what I was going for at the Goon that time! See, I'm not crazy.
S.
suuuuuuuuure you were. On the first cast even... |
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| RE: Most bizarre spot you have caught a musky???........ In the tail - fish missed the bait and spun around hooking itself in the tail - a 41" fish can really pull when foul hooked in the tail! |
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| Caught one in the propwash of another boat that cruised in front of my while working a weedline, so i threw a cast at the boat and it landed in the propwash, i think the fish hit on the first or scend pull with a suick. In front of a boat launch, fishing suckers in the fall, rig one sucker drop in down grab another sucker rod to rig up and the clicker starts screaming, grabbed the rod and gave it a hell of a hookset and caught it actually, it was pretty cool releasing a musky 20 feet from the boat launch being on the water for all of one minute. |
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Location: WI | Off shore on a sand flat. At least I thought it was bizarre. |
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| In my dreams............I guess thats not to bizzare |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | Probably not a BIZZARE spot, but at the time it seemed odd. In the beginning of April during the early 80's I caught a 33"(est.) tiger out of Heidke Lake (Collin's cooling pond) from shore by the bridge. I hooked the fish about a foot from shore on a #7 countdown Rapala using 6# line. I "somewhat" rolled the fish due to the incredible backbone of my Sky-Line spinning rod! I exclaimed loudly amoungst the crowd immediately after hooking the fish "I caught a muskie!". It had to take me 3 minutes to get it close enough to do the perverbial Leech Lake Lip Lock! I offered $20 to anyone that had a Polaroid to take a shot, but that wasn't the crowd (plunking down the change to get a new welcome mat milk crate to step on to get into their home with the big "W" on the side...was about their speed). I picked the tiny lure from the extreme tip of it's yap, and immersed the striped beast back into the pristine waters of it's home (rip rap city). My friend exclaimed "Gee (he actually said GEEEEE) Clark, do you think the fish is going to be Okay!" I stated "Of course **** (name witheld to protect my stupidness), the fish was barely hooked". **** states "But look at all the BLOOD!". Due my expertise on landing the elusive, the cold weather, and adreneline rush of capturing an Illinois muskie, I must of knicked myself on the gill rakers/yap roof "O' teeth. I was splurting blood like it was from a Troma film (Blood Hook). The white rip rap along the shore looked as though it was the place for the special holiday slaughter! End of day for me, I run with dripping! I couldn't buy from the other shore anglers any sterile gauze for offering front row "Hee Haw" tickets I could falsely promise! I still have no feelng in the tip of that finger.
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Location: WESTERN WI | At the tavern!  |
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Most bizarre spot you have caught a musky???