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| Anyone have pictures, or even drawings of a muskie pushing a wake following a topwater bait? Just need a reference for an art project. Thanks to anyone who has something I might be able to use.
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Location: In a shack in the woods | pause a movie and take a picture. then you can draw your variation of it |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Try a few Google image searches. Here is "musky follow"
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=musky%20follow&um=1&ie=UTF-8&s...
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| James,
yeah, spent plenty of time google searching images. Not a single wake pushing fish that I could find. Barely, even a bait going across the surface.
The movie idea is good thanks, Bob.
Anyone else?
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | There's more, but this one I found easily.
http://upload.outdoorsfirst.com/watch.asp?id=1767 |
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Location: North Metro - Twin Cities | Haven't posted a picture in a while but here goes. From my Topwater Muskie DVD.
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| Chris Munchow - 1/30/2011 11:51 PM
Haven't posted a picture in a while but here goes. From my Topwater Muskie DVD.
Oooh man! I can feel the adrenalin on that one Chris!  |
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| Chris,
Any chance you could send me a high resolution version of that photo above, so I can zoom in on it for better detail?
I've been watching youtube topwater videos for several hours and just can't quite find exactly what I'm looking for. I guess I'll have to make up the details on my own. A lot of cool shots that are just too blurry or shaky to see the lines of the wake and such. I wish I had all my old In-fisherman videos on DVD, cause I don't even have a working VCR anymore. Might have to run out and see if I can find a cheap one at walmart.
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Location: In a shack in the woods | Watch go fish. |
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| Here are some good crisp shots from Jeff Andersen. I don't think there are any of fish following but good photos of topwater.
http://jeffandersenfishingphotography.blogspot.com/2010/09/fall-mus... |
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Location: North Metro - Twin Cities | Ryan, PM me your email and I'll see what I can dig up but everything I have handy right now are screen caps and not hi-res. Chris |
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Location: North Metro - Twin Cities | Ryan, PM me your email and I'll see what I can dig up but everything I have handy right now are screen caps and not hi-res. Chris |
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Location: North Metro - Twin Cities | These should help your project.
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| Thanks guys, those are great. Art project, or not, there isn't much cooler than seeing good topwater shots. I don't think that I could ever get tired of seeing a muskie push a wake. Hopefully I can capture a tiny bit of what it feels like to see it first hand.
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Location: Seymour, WI | I love that toilet flush image behind the lure. |
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| Cool shot I took of a creeper style (no fish behind it ... but you can almost feel it there!)
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Location: South East Wisconsin | Smeds, one cool photo you got there.
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| Thanks again for all the references guys. While it is one of the more amazing aspects of muskie fishing it is obviously quite difficult to capture in a photograph. Without the video stills, I don't know if I've yet to see some one actually capture a muskie wake in single shot. Anyways, here is the finished product of those inspirations. It is a 3ft x 2ft metal wall sculpture made of copper sheet and wire. It isn't as refined as I'd have liked it to have been, but only given three and a half weeks from coming up with the idea to hanging it on the wall for critique, I'm pretty happy with it. While it is a fairly abstract representation of those truly awesome muskie encounters, I tried to stay as close to physical reality as possible within the assignment guidelines. I'm definitely planning to do some more muskie sculptures in the near future. Enjoy.
Thanks,
Ryan
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Ryan, that is totally awesome! You have some real talent there. Very nice job. Let me know if you ever build another that you would be willing to sell. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Pretty coool |
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Location: North Metro - Twin Cities | Nice Job, I think you captured it well. |
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Location: WI | Awesome, looks great! |
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Location: KY | Nice job! You really captured the moment in your sculpture. That would look great under glass in a coffee table. |
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| Very nice. I like the coffee table idea too. |
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| Thanks guys. Like I said, this sculpture will definitely be the tip of the ice berg of future muskie related creations. It was really like a trial run as I've never tried to make something this scale before. It was easier than I'd expected. I'd like to make some side mount replicas out of copper, with maybe a muskie chasing a school of perch under lily pads or something. Definitely put some more effort into the details, as my primary focus on this was to just make it work visually.
I'll probably be posting a request on the "let's see your replicas" thread as to getting some specific measurements of some one's replica to get the proportions right. This one I just sort of winged it from memory and looking at a few photos.
Thanks,
Ryan
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