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| Ok, need your help! Wife is ready to have me institutionalized. Another musky hunter from down here in St. Louis MO and I are headed to North Twin this Friday. Problem is we need to head back the following Monday. We've travel the route (622 miles) from my driveway to the lake many, many times in the past 15 years, but the wife is telling us that "we're too old" to keep doing such silly antics. Get this, she wants us to take up trout fishing! Get real..
Please share with us other similar antics and at same time help me to prove to her that it's just the love of this fish that truly keeps us young..
Thanks
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| Muskie trips are something very special....and makes for lifetimes of memorys. Distance is nothing for muskies and North Twin is a great lake to fish.
Maybe you should take your wife and then she will understand how much fun it is.[;)] |
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| Trout fishing? Next thing she'll be telling you how comfortable women's underwear is, and how you should drive a Mazda Miata. [:bigsmile:] |
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| St. Louis, MO? I grew up in Wester Groves. Tell your wife you're traveling even further for even longer to trout fish in MI's beautiful Upper Peninsula. Bring your musky gear, of course. |
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| Dude...explain to her that the trips keep you young...having made many road trips over the yrs. for a variety of reasons, I can vouch for the fact that getting away in such fashion does wonders for a person + helps one mentally also!
Once many yrs ago 4 of us took a road trip to D.C. to find a party on a Friday night....about 275+ miles from the dorm...got up there around 9:00...rode around for 2 hrs + never did find the party but did manage to hit every Jack In The Box + most of the fast food paces w/in a 15 mile radius...by 2:00a.m. we were heading back, another 275 or so miles...freezing cold + the passenger vent window was now missing....we lost 3 pair of scubbies before we realized we couldn't plug the cold blast + just froze the rest of the way back....at least you have a purpose + goal in mind! |
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| My husband and i were going to a local musky spot yesterday when i wanted to relax and catch some crappies on another lake.
He pouted and wined this man is sick he would not bring the camara while bait fishing and caught a 2 pound + crappie.
Well we had one on the stringer and he does the strangest thing he released the crappie boatside reviving it grabbing the little tail pushing it back and forth and says said he feels bad this could be a state record then he lets the one on the stringer go. There went my dinner i had the mac n chees ready. I share his sickness but i think he hes lost it when he figure 8's a beetle spin at the boat and there is no muskies in the water.
It gets worse before it gets better. Thanks for listening Guys! [:bigsmile:] |
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| Mo-Muskies, look at her and look down and say:
"You got all the trout you need right here baby!"
If that does not work just don't come back from your trip. It is St. Louis after all.[:knockout:] |
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| Tell her about all of our awesome trout streams up here in Wisconsin, and to save money you will use your muskie gear to catch them. |
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| Tell her how important muskie fishing is to you, then have her listen to Brad Paislys new song "I'm going to miss her". Best fishing song ever.
Brian |
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| If she want's you to take up trout fishing, come up here and fish Lake Michigan for some trout. I got hooked last year! It's no musky, but than again- a musky can't rip out 100 yards of line in a few seconds! Either way you can't lose![:)] |
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| I have the perfect solution, tell her that you are getting too old to travel that far so you both will move closer to muskie country. [:p] |
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| For a number of years, I worked 213.6 miles from the beautiful North Country where I have my home. I drove 427.2 miles a week at LEAST once a month so I could muskie fish. I am not 'old', but I also am no longer a kid. Driving with anticipation of catching a muskie shortens the trip by 2/3.[:bigsmile:] |
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| Stop at every Muskie pond on the way up, and the way back. That way you only have a one or two hour drive. It's only an hour or so to Kinkaid. Then a couple of hours to Shelbyville, then a couple of hours to Shabbona, then the fox chain, then the Madison Chain, then Lake Dubay, and so on and so on. Eventually you will get there, and your longest drive was 2.5 hours. Your not too old for a 2.5 hour drive.[:p] |
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| Hey Mo,
I have done the same thing myself......
I will drive up from the Chicago area to fish for the day. July 17th has always been a hot day on the water and I will make the trip (360 miles each way) to fish that one day(It's also my Birthday!).
If she's not in to Muskies like we are, she will never understand why we are willing to do this. And as for trout fishing........
[:bigsmile:] Yeah Right!!
Karen
P.S. You're NEVER too old!! |
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Help prove my case to the wife!