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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Everyone vote (accurately) here, very interested in the curve of responses. |
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Location: tHe LaKe Of PrIoR, mN | my personal best is also my fishing buddys personal best we have both caught the same fish this year 3 weeks apart on the same spot with the same bait CPR dont work :D |
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Location: South East Wisconsin | 52.75 for me caught last year. |
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| I have 2 at 49.75" and a 49.5". 50"+ has to be coming soon...... right?....... |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Do we round up or down? Which makes the curve more accurate?
Kevin
Edited by MuskyHopeful 11/14/2010 5:49 PM
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Before we depress anyone, remember there will likely be what researchers call a 'response set'. Response set would say the guys who caught big fish will be more likely to respond than those who've not...I know, thats irritating stuff to think and talk about. |
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| By the current results, if you are a muskie fisherman who is a muskiefirst.com member then you are twice as likely to have a personal best of >58" versus one <39".
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Location: Brookfield, WI | I rounded down. It was caught on a sucker.
Kevin
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| Okay Pizza man........ |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | He talents are SOOO much more than just those of a pizza man, but his deep dish IS to die for. |
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| Its humiliating. |
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| Would have been interesting to have seen this poll 10 years ago! It would really open peoples eyes on just how well CPR works. |
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Location: Roscoe IL | 51"
LOTW
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Location: VA | 45" here for my vote, best I can do so far in VA.
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| 58" x 27" on the larry last year 56 " x 24" this year and still fishin wooHoo !!!! |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Trophyhunter1958 - 11/15/2010 1:21 PM
58" x 27" on the larry last year 56 " x 24" this year and still fishin wooHoo !!!!
Oh yeah? TI area or what? |
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| I busted my pb twice in the same year last year with a 50x24 in ky on a medussa, then a 51x24.5 in the Hayward area on a pounder. I'm not sure if I could ever top that liveing in Chicago only fishing on the weekends but I do no I get just as intense when I hook a short one, if u don't u might as well quit. I hate the dudes that reffer to 40 inchers as "Lil pukes" r watever dumb name they can come up with to disrespect the fish they supposeabley care so much about. I like the poll for statistical purpose but I feel the pb thing kinda cheapins the whole reason alot of us started to musky fish. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The personal best stat is one of many. How many in the boat each year, how many per trip, per hour fished, whatever anyone wants to look that closely too. None 'cheapen' anything; it's entirely up to each angler what to value personally. |
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| Yes it was in the Thousand Islands area , both fish have been posted on here before , I would tell you the exact spot but i would feel bad for putting you in a dangerous situation , as there are already a Kazillion boats flogging the area now ! from here on out it's LAKE X |
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| My PB is 54 1/2" caught trolling (54" PB casting). My boats PB is 56, but I guess this isn't part of this latest PB survey?
How about if we have two categories here, casting and trolling. Or maybe three categories because the boat PB should count too. Or maybe every bodies annual/all-time PB that includes categories for the kiddies and wife? Oh, wait a minute, I think I'm talking about the MI contest now?
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| try being stuck on 49 for 4 fish....
all so close, yet so far away. 
ive had a few chances at some beyond the 50 mark,
but for some odd reason they dont stay pinned.
or they miss the bait. go figure! |
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| After about a 40 year hiatus from musky fishing, I just picked it back up this fall and had to go with 39 or less for right now. Have only caught three so far with the biggest pushing 39 inches. |
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| Well the slight reduction in actual '50"ers' is somewhat interesting, otherwise the curve seems pretty normal. It would be interesting to take this poll every year, or so, and see how the numbers change. Especially over the past decade of the muskie boom.
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Wow the mean looks like about 50"s, that would be nice to see in the net before the end of the season. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The demographics from MuskieFIRST represent the entire Muskie range, so this should be a pretty accurate representation of the norm out there of people who fish muskies, visit muskie websites, and will post to a thread like this one. Interesting, and I bet WAY different from 10 years ago.
Big changes because of CPR, discovery, number of educated anglers and management out there.
A 50 used to be a big deal. I think I have 37 in my career over 50 about half from Wisconsin. Now Guides boat that number in a year from MN waters and waters like St. Clair. Look at Spencer and Dave's report...lifetime achievement that would have been absolutely stunning 10 years ago, but is recognized as very cool but not off the charts these days. It truly is the golden age of Muskie fishing, and with CPR, larger size limits on trophy waters and continued proactive management, it should be excellent into the future. |
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| I concur with Steve that this is the golden age! I have a similar 50" total, but have only? been muskie fishing since 1980. I'm confident the difference is that I've had the benefit of being on the front end of some incredible bites (and extra free time to take advantage) where catching multiple 50" in a week long trip was common, my best day was 4). This wasn't because I'm some fabulous fishermen, the fish were there and anyone worth their salt was catching them like that too.
I think it's an interesting stat that of these 50s", my longest one is only? 54 1/2". That puts the balance between 50 and 54", with nothing remotely approaching the 60" mark. As a matter of fact, the longest fish I've ever seen was 56", (I know this because we were fortunate enough to catch and measure it).
So, based on my 30 years, (even fishing the best water in the world), I think that catching one of these upper 50s" is as rare as hens teeth. However, this is the golden age, so some day soon I'll finally bag that elusive double nickel.
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| Dogboy,
I caught 3 fish in one season between 491/2 and 4915/16 (not 50"). The next season came and then bam 50 1/2" followed by a 51 1/2". My point is keep plugging along it will happen. Than it will happen again and again with any luck. I think its cool to watch fisherman work at their goals and then succeed. I kept thinking about all my friends who had popped that 50" cherry and I languished for decades in the upper 40's. That day finally came and I was thrilled beyond words. But not lost in all that time was the fact that I caught a lot of nice fish and had some wonderful memories. I hope you stick that fish your looking for.
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| thanks hunter 4, trust me ive been beside myself at times wondering why everyone else gets them, in my boat even, but i sit idle at my fav. number!
even spending 10yrs on Green Bay hasnt done it for me. ive come real close,
had some tanks on, seen some that were thought to be 55 or better,
its all a pipe dream for me. I know itll come when i least expect it, but i always expect it
had a big one staring a sucker down the other day, i made the sucker move and she lit up! gills flaring, mouth popping, and then my sucker took a dive into some cabbage, yeah, game over!
someday..... someday.... and yes, the state of wisconsin will hear me when it happens! prolly pee myself.  |
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| Interesting how few there are that are actually 50". Rounding up are we?
I remember once on another forum I said something along the lines of "53 is the new 50"... You'd have thought I insulted their mothers.
After 7 years, I'm up to 49.5". The first 4 years I spent fishing in places where there are so few fish of that caliber that you really can't expect to ever encounter a 50" fish, so it doesn't bother me. When I come home after a week on Eagle without a 50" fish? That hurts a bit, but it will happen. I've had hooks in a few that were in the low-mid 50" range, had a few up to around 54" swipe at baits, miss them in the turns... It's only a matter of time. When it happens, I'm sure it will be a great moment in my fishing career.
Here's something silly: I want to catch a 44" and a 46". I've got every other number from 30" up to 49", but no 44 or 46. It's like when you collected baseball cards as a kid, and you were missing two out of the set...
Edited by esoxaddict 11/17/2010 12:40 PM
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| 47" on a Canadian Crush Phantom from Chautauqua Lake, NY. Hit boatside on the Death Pause. It doesn't get much better than that! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Is the "Death Pause" when you stop reeling in your lure to take a bite of your peanut butter and jelly sandwich ????
Never heard of the "Death Pause" tactic before.
Is this something new, that an Old School guy like me could learn???
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Location: Brainerd, MN 56401 | I started targeting Muskies in mid august, been fishing since birth I think. Since then I've boated 7 fish with my PBR being a 51 x 22. I owe it all to my friend and fishing partner. Without his coaching and knowledge I would almost certianly still be stuck on zero. I have thanked him many times, but I can't thank him enough. Tusen takk!!! |
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| Not quite. It's actually Lee Tauchen's tip. In the last 10 to 15 feet of a retrieve with a jerkbait (generally a gliding jerkbait) you just pause it for a few seconds and let the lure slowly sink. Then you twitch it and let it pause again and again until you're lure is to the boat. I'm not sure how to put videos on here, so here are some links. He explains it much better, and it's easier to understand when you can see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3pZydyhrA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X6NO-7qCbU |
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Location: Duluth, MN | 48.75 |
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| more 58 and above than i thought hmmm |
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