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Location: north west wisconsin | How bad does it suck to catch your personal best only to find out your wife took your camera out of town???
Man I am sick to my stomach.
48.5 pics when I catch her again |
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Location: Smith Creek | Man that's tough! Did you know you were camera-less when you went out or did you find out after you caught it? The latter happened to me and it was pretty quiet in the house for a while after that. You'll get another (fish) |
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Location: north west wisconsin | I knew the good camera was gone but I thought I had a backup in the drybox, the good thing is that the fish is in a 100 acre lake that no one musky fishs but me |
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Location: Smith Creek | Get her in November! |
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| been there, felt that pain.
but hey, thanks for triggering my PTSD.
back to therapy i go...
congrats on the fish, though!
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Location: WI | Congrats on the small pond monster! Two years ago I released a 50" without a picture. Many, many winter nights I thought about that. |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | I know what your feeling like, I had caught a 46"r (PB) in my friends boat with no camera. A boat ahead of us saw the fish and came back to take a look, since they had just left the spot, and took a picture on his cell phone. He sent it to my wifes phone and her service wasn't allowing pictures, frigging bummer. No picture of a nice fat girl to put on my wall, just a vision on the back of my eye lids.
Bruce |
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| I'm almost always fishing alone but I think my approach about missing pics may be changing - a little. It doesn't bother me as much as it used to.
This spring I caught two nice muskie (nice for New Jersey), a chunky 44" and a nice 47". The 47" is a personal best and was caught about a month after the 44".
Thanks to a nearby kayaker I have a great series of photos of the 44" fish.
When I caught the 47" it was on a figure 8 in very clear water and I saw everything unfold right before my eyes. That memory is burned deep. I didn't get mad about no photo, because I feel confident I will have the opportunity to get to 48" in the waters I fish AND the great photos of the earlier 44" are mine.
On a side note: There was also something very relaxing about measuring and releasing the 47" without the extra pressure of getting a photo while flying solo. |
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Location: Kenora, Ont | My biggest fish yet is a 51 1/2 " fish. I think my buddy in the boat was a little more excited than even I was. Three shots of this fish, the first two I am decapatated, the third I see only half the fish. Tres brutal! |
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| Well, floydss...YOU know you cought her, and YOU saw it. That's what matters most. |
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Location: oswego, il | That does suck but it could have been worse, you could have been hooked to the fish only to find out she took your release tools out of the boat, been there...... |
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| I had that happen a couple times, not with a muskie, but other times when she had the camera......went out and bought my own that is MINE....problem solved.  |
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Location: ROckford IL | I hear ya, the day we got that 47 out of a local honey hole, I had my head camera on board, the batteries crapped out on me when I went to run it, would have had the whole thing on film which would have been cool to have, luckly I had my digital in the boat that day. |
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Location: New Hope MN | Here's a personal fav of mine. Batteries were shot and this was the only pic i managed.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Just happened to me the other night, I went out on my local muskie lake, and will ALL the cameras I have at my disposal...didn't bring one. Had my hat camera...but no batteries.
Wow. |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | same happened to me. was staying at a cottage on a small lake. i went out early in the morning by my self. realized i didnt bring the camera so i went back to the cottage to grab it. As soon as i walked in the door all the donuts and chocolate milk caught my attention and distracted me. well i finished eating and went back out to fish, only to forget the camera. i didnt realize i forgot it until i hooked and landed my personal best 46 inch musky. it bothered me the rest of the year and all winter because i didnt get to fish much that year |
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Location: indiana | almost a guarantee to catch fish.... forget the camera |
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Location: NW WI | If left the camera at home......that would be the time I caught a 50"+ fish. |
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| I have left the camera home most of the summer.....has not helped very much though  |
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