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Location: Land of the Musky | In a debate with someone on email so this is the place that should have the facts....
What was the very first musky fishing show. When I say musky fishing, I mean musky was 80% of the species fished for on the show. Not a multi-species show that had 1 or 2 episodes a year on musky but 80%+ musky fishing on each show. Also, what year did it start and who hosted the show.
Thanks,
James
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | Not sure when it first aired. But the first one I can remember was Mehsikomer's Thunder on the Water, which is now Simply Fishing. Not sure I would go so far as to say 80% muskies though, because he's always had a lot of pike shows. But it was always more muskies than anything else.
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| I remember watching Bob M on Saturday mornings in the warly 80's when the jackpot was THE lure to have. Don't remember much else about the show, but I remember muskie fishing being a big part of of it. There were half a dozen other shows, too. There was an asian guy who was all about Muskies too, what was his name? I also remember being really puzzled as why anyone would catch a giant fish like that and then put it back instead of taking it home and eating it. How times change... |
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| Al linder had a nice show in the 70's where they caught like 20 plus muskies that day.
Bob Izumi in Canada (asian dude) would catch muskies sometimes.
Saw Jimmy Houston catch a muskie back in 1983. |
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Location: Michigan | 1983 Bob Mehsikomer's show "Thunder on the Water". I looked forward to it each week, just about every show was muskie or pike. I also remember him advertising the WPMA - World Pike & Muskie Association? something along those lines |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I was just talking with Bob about that production yesterday at the Minneapolis Boat Show. |
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Location: Liberty, IN (OKI Tri-State) | How is Bob doing Steve? What a polarizing character he has become over the years in the Musky Community... seems everyone is either "all in" or "all out" with him these days. Hope you found all to be well with him.
Seems a darn shame to, because in all my handful of dealings with the man over the past few years and at every engagement I have personally attended or helped with in which he was also involved, he is, and has been nothing if not gracious, personable, informative... and helped raise monies for a few good causes and organizations. He has done some darn good things and I like the guy quite a bit.
Bob, the Lindner Bros, Spence Petros... a few segments that are 'burned into my brain' with Pearson and Johnson. Then recently Bucher, Maina, Saric and even got to help get GT on some local stuff here in the Cincinnati area. Lots more now with cable but we still do not get most of the new stuff anymore because of the demographics or some such mumbo jumbo... Hmmmm. Did Gowdy, Gapen or Gad-a-Bout Gaddis get any on the air in the day?
ozzie
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| It's probably not one of the first, but the first movie for 'me' was the In-Fisherman, greatest muskie film ever made....
I wonder if it's still available, or available on DVD. It's dated, but entertaining. |
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| anybody remember The 'American Sportsman" that was on sunday afternoons in the 60'S
one episode had 'DOC' and "FESTUS" from the TV series 'Gunsmoke' fishing muskies in wisc |
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| Buchers been doing musky segments for 20 years. |
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| Slimeball - 1/22/2011 11:35 PM
1983 Bob Mehsikomer's show "Thunder on the Water". I looked forward to it each week, just about every show was muskie or pike. I also remember him advertising the WPMA - World Pike & Muskie Association? something along those lines
World Professional Muskie Association. A tournament circuit. They published a WPMA magazine too, but none of it lasted more than a year or two. |
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| I was on one of the show he did in Saskatchawen. I flew the Cessna 185. Dose any one know where I could get a copy of this show? Lost my photos in a divorce/move would love to have this time back.
Kindest Regards,
Al Mildon. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin | I remember Rolin Martin muskie fishing on Trout lake (WI) back in the late 70's or very early 80's. I remember him setting the hook so hard on a fish that the rod smacked him in the face and broke his sun glasses in half. "O son that was a big muskie"
I miss Vergil Ward! From the lakes of northern Canada to the gulf of Mexico...... |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Back in the late 50's early 60's Red Fisher would come on CBC television after the hockey game. His shows were silent movies which he would give running commentary and interview the guest in the film usually a hockey player or other celeb. |
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| "THUNDER" was an awesome show! Looked forward to it every week. They sure don't make 'em like that no mo'. Bob's stuff has been TOP RATE for a long time----IMHO---he's the man when it comes to musky production videos----AHAB |
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Very first/original musky fishing show