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Location: Eagan, MN | So, Spencer gets three over 50" in one day. That's a pretty good day. Sorry if this has already been discussed, but this got me thinking: What's the most number of 50's that you know of having been caught in one day by a single boat?
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| I know of numerous 3- 50" days here in MN, but I bet those St. Clair guys could crush that! When you're boating 40, 50 and even 60 fish in a day the odds go way up! |
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| 9...twice! One included 8 over 40 pounds and one over 50 pounds!!! (wasn't me).
Wow'ed! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Huh ? really ? Nine fish over 50" in one day? TWICE???
We are talking about muskies, aren't we???
jerome
Edited by Top H2O 1/16/2011 6:44 PM
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| I've had a number of days with 3 over 50 and one with 4 over 50, but 9 over 50......wow thats amazing. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | when big fish are eating it can be crazy....I've had a couple 3 over 50 days.. and a couple 3 over 50 in the boat days..had chances at 4 and 5 over 50 days (got off)
oddly of my first 12 that I caught over 50, 6 came in 2 seperate 24 hour windows....best window was 6 over 50 in the boat in 30 hours on the water ...those are the days you don't want to miss...i've heard of days on st clair with 5+ over 50 days.
Edited by BNelson 1/16/2011 7:57 PM
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| I caught 3 over 50" in an hour once...and three more 49"-49 7/8" within two hours on the same trip. |
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| Agree with BNelson.... "when big fish are eating it can be crazy"
Netted 2, 50-53 for him in an hour... and..... we had beers for 45 minutes of it. |
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Location: Barrington, Il | Last September had 4 over 50" in one day. The next we had 2 more and lost a couple that probably went 50", the September before that had 3 over 50' in 20 minutes. |
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| Huh ? really ? Nine fish over 50" in one day? TWICE???
Am i missing something here? HUH? times 2 |
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| I know one old dude who put, 4 over 50" in the boat one morning casting by himself, all before 11am. Beyond remarkable. I believe he lost one other one that got hooked in the net and got off as well.
Ryan
Edited by Fishwizard 1/17/2011 12:24 PM
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| Aug 7 2008 4 over 50" .
Aug 5 2009 5 over 50" with a 50" and 50.5" double header (see poster in Spanky baits booth at Shows for picture)
Aug 4 2010 4 over 50" And net job was blown on 5th (won't mention name)
Had 5 3- 50" days
Thanks,
Jeff Hanson
Madisonmuskyguide.com
Edited by Jeff Hanson 1/17/2011 1:04 PM
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| Getting 3 or 4 over 50 casting is a lot different than trolling on St Clair like Jeff H has done. I've done both. Much harder to get em castin. My 2 cents. |
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Location: Antioch, IL | Have a friend that got two at the same time. Back of the boat has a big girl in the 8, front of the boat stops retrieving a top raider to watch the boat side action and then BAM! Top Raider gets smoked just as the fish in the 8 eats. The guy in the front has no clue how big his fish is so he just holds on tight with one hand and nets the 1st fish with one hand then passes the net to the back. He starts fighting his fish in and realizes they have a real situation. Luckily the fish was hooked real good and he was able to basically drag it over the hoop and into the net. 102 inches of fish in the net at one time. 50" & a 52". He has the pic with both fish in the net and with both guys holding them. I wish I could get it, but he's not one to brag or share. I'm actually not sure if he knows the internet comes on computers now a days (The dirty rat has actually had double 50's twice) |
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| Ryan, I think I know that Old Dude you speak of. That was last year, right?
The best I can do is 2 50's (my son's first and my first) 20 minutes apart on the same structure. What a day. I can't imagine more than that in a day. Wow!
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | In 2010 we had 9 days with multiple 50's.
Most of them were 3's had one 4-50 day.
BNelson's right, when they go, they go - Hard!!! |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | two for us , one 51 and one 55 ,20 minutes apart. That was this season. In 2006 we got three in two days with 51.5 one day and a pair of 52 inchers the next day. What was strange was they were the only fish we caught those two days. But two in one day twice Mike
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| Best Day: 5 over 50, all casting
Two 4 over 50 days, casting
Four 3 over 50 days, casting |
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| Mine was at night, 5 over 50 in one night! But then the Darn alarm clock went off and woke me up!
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Location: 31 | OK, I will relent.
I may know who the "9 guy" is, if so, I have fished that water many times and it is certainly something I would NOT have believed remotely possible earlier in my career.
I have had several "double 50" days, and one "triple 50". The most 50s" personally (casting) was 4 to 54" though, with a couple nice 40s" too boot. The almost insane part was bagging them all before noon and then having to leave due to travel arrangements... I was literally shaking my head the entire way home. Fortune smiled on me again the next time on that same water with 2 more to 53" on the first day casting. An incredibly lucky 1 1/2 day run of 6 over 50...
I think a friend summed it up best after he bagged a 55.5" and a 56" (bump board) there on a different trip, "how the other half lives". IMHO, these crazy catches are not because the anglers are any better than anyone else, it's a given that they have to know what they are doing to take advantage of these opportunitys. However, the water is always the main ingredient, and the anglers typically just extremely fortunate (lucky ) to have been in the right place at the right time.
It's pretty sad, (and really turns me off) but I've seen certain people get incredibly big headed over something that they should just graciously enjoy.
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Location: Appleton,WI | 3- in one day,50.5,51.5 and 53.5 casting
Had a day when the wind was really blowing(4 foot waves) raised 17 fish over 50" in 14 hours missed 2 that hit otherwise they just followed.If they wernt 50" then they were 48" and better. |
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| I have to say this thread is a little out of control. Any day you get a fish over 50 is an amazing day. Anyway the most 50's my boat has ever seen in a day is 4, 50, 50.5, 51.25, and 52.25. In the fall, all on pounders. |
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Location: 31 | Spencer, I totally agree that a 50 in the boat is a great day anywhere... this ain't my first rodeo.
I think the "9 guy" is Mike Lazarus (who else could it be?). Like I said; there is no way I would have believed something like that was possible earlier in my career. I can remember a phone conversation with Dick Pearson about 5 years ago regarding a crazy sounding number of 50s whispered coming out of Lazarus's boat the previous year... somewhere near 100. Dick could not get his mind around it, and I still shake my head at that number, even though I believe it.
My friend with the 55.5 and 56 was Rich Delaney about three or four years ago. He caught those two fish within the first hour on the water one morning, they are still the two longest fish ever in my boat. He ended up with four 50s that week, 50, 51, 55.5, 56 (bump board). He also caught his first 50 that trip... and yes, he had a silly grin tattooed to his face all the way home.
I would like to reiterate that anytime you run across a virtually untapped population of adult muskies, it is obviously the water, and not so much the anglers. If you were to magically drop any of Minnesota's young guns on that water back then I have no doubt there would be some crazy numbers in every direction. It is probably hard for most people who fish with other muskie boats bobbing around them to relate to fishing something this incredible and hardly seeing another muskie boat. It was like living in muskie heaven at times... and yes, of course some days you still found the skunk.
I actually started fishing out there over 15 years ago and the first three trips (my boat total), we averaged 40 fish a week and 4 50s (that was back when I still kept records). If we could go back in time (and any of today's young guns especially) those numbers could be totally crushed. LOL, we did not even use GPS and pulled our #10s with 40lb. Dacron line.
Here is something you people may find interesting. During those first three trips on that water, we (me and Kenny casting) only had one follow-up, basically there was no nipping and they would slam anything that moved once you found them. That is how untapped and weird it was back then... it is still an incredible fishery today, but certainly not untapped anymore.
Edited by Jerry Newman 1/20/2011 8:59 AM
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