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| What does everyone consider a successful day muskie fishing?
I have been thinking on the subject, and decided the only thing that really matters is FOLLOWS!
THINK ABOUT IT!
When you catch a fish, you just get it to make some instantaneous decision to attack. When you get a fish to follow, it has to expend so much more energy to track that lure all the way into the boat. Plus, you don't have to mess with the hassle of unhooking the fish, touching the thing (gross!), and everything that goes with it. My favorite follows are the ones where the fish goes into the figure 8, but I always make sure to pull the lure away if I think the fish might strike.
My best follow is a solid 52.75" x 24.5" B-E-A-UTY! Got a replica of her and everything!
Edited by Stine Ball 9/22/2011 10:32 AM
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Location: oswego, il | For me it's all about the incidental catches while musky fishing. Could care less about the actual musky but fooling that bass, small pike, walleye or even a crappie to eat a big musky bait, now there is something to brag about! | |
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Location: North Metro - Twin Cities | Bikini sightings | |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | Just being out on the water, solo or with good company - everything else is just a bonus... | |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I got a couple follows on Twitter. | |
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| NOT falling out of the boat, is always a big part of a successful day. | |
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Location: Michigan | For me it's trying to figure out what the fish are doing. Some of the best times I have had on the water are when the fish aren't doing their predictable thing and I have to change up to an odd tactic. | |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | i consider it a good day of muskie fishing when I start seeing fish follw, and then let my wife start talking to the fish while they are next to the boat....they just give up and let me net them...
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Location: Aurora IL | As long as I put in a hard day and never quit thinking I was one cast away it is a success. | |
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Location: Smith Creek | Avoiding losing lures, breaking reels, destroying the lower unit, getting frosbite, sinking the boat, getting cuts deep enough to require stitches, blowing a trailer tire, draining the car battery at the landing, 2nd degree sunburns, fistfights with partner/other boaters, head on collisions with deer, drinking warm beer, sudden and explosive diarhea, tendonitis, running out of tobacco, running out of gas, running out of juice for any or all batteries, and finally, getting a long drawn out scolding by the wife for staying out late fishing when the kids are being psycho all contribute to a successful day on the water. | |
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | Flambeauski - 9/22/2011 12:48 PM
Avoiding losing lures, breaking reels, destroying the lower unit, getting frosbite, sinking the boat, getting cuts deep enough to require stitches, blowing a trailer tire, draining the car battery at the landing, 2nd degree sunburns, fistfights with partner/other boaters, head on collisions with deer, drinking warm beer, sudden and explosive diarhea, tendonitis, running out of tobacco, running out of gas, running out of juice for any or all batteries, and finally, getting a long drawn out scolding by the wife for staying out late fishing when the kids are being psycho all contribute to a successful day on the water.
This should be framed... | |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | Stine Ball - 9/22/2011 10:31 AM
What does everyone consider a successful day muskie fishing?
I have been thinking on the subject, and decided the only thing that really matters is FOLLOWS!
THINK ABOUT IT!
When you catch a fish, you just get it to make some instantaneous decision to attack. When you get a fish to follow, it has to expend so much more energy to track that lure all the way into the boat. Plus, you don't have to mess with the hassle of unhooking the fish, touching the thing (gross!), and everything that goes with it. My favorite follows are the ones where the fish goes into the figure 8, but I always make sure to pull the lure away if I think the fish might strike.
My best follow is a solid 52.75" x 24.5" B-E-A-UTY! Got a replica of her and everything!
are you an Eagle Lake musky guide by chance?  | |
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Location: Michigan | If I learn something new it's a successful day. | |
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Location: northern indiana | Flambeauski - 9/22/2011 12:48 PM
Avoiding losing lures, breaking reels, destroying the lower unit, getting frosbite, sinking the boat, getting cuts deep enough to require stitches, blowing a trailer tire, draining the car battery at the landing, 2nd degree sunburns, fistfights with partner/other boaters, head on collisions with deer, drinking warm beer, sudden and explosive diarhea, tendonitis, running out of tobacco, running out of gas, running out of juice for any or all batteries, and finally, getting a long drawn out scolding by the wife for staying out late fishing when the kids are being psycho all contribute to a successful day on the water. Well I think that pretty much sums this whole thread up. Goodnight | |
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Location: NorthCentral WI | Flambeauski - 9/22/2011 12:48 PM
Avoiding losing lures, breaking reels, destroying the lower unit, getting frosbite, sinking the boat, getting cuts deep enough to require stitches, blowing a trailer tire, draining the car battery at the landing, 2nd degree sunburns, fistfights with partner/other boaters, head on collisions with deer, drinking warm beer, sudden and explosive diarhea, tendonitis, running out of tobacco, running out of gas, running out of juice for any or all batteries, and finally, getting a long drawn out scolding by the wife for staying out late fishing when the kids are being psycho all contribute to a successful day on the water.
LOVE IT! | |
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Location: Perryville, MO | Only problem with Flambeauski's response...I have never had (nor will I likely ever have) a successful outing! | |
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Location: VA | Driving home happy. Planning the next trip. Thinking about calling in @ work so I can go again tomorrow. | |
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Location: South East Wisconsin | "Just being out on the water, solo or with good company - everything else is just a bonus..." Exactly! | |
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Location: Ontario | Hahaha...no kidding...there are guys out there who can class any day a success provided nobody ended up in the hospital, nothing got broken/lost and nothing caught on fire or needed stitches lol.
For me: Seeing/catching fish off a new spot is a really big one. Even without a fish on it, founding a new spot really gets the excitement up, and makes it hard to want to work on Monday. Spend all week thinking about getting back to it, how to work it, etc etc.
I also really love getting people a good fish (of any kind), their first of a species, their first on a particular bait/technique or their first on a particular section of water. I will never stop getting 3x as much fun out of seeing someone in my boat catch a fish I do. My wife started off this spring with three pike in the 40" range, all casting. Last wknd she landed a smallmouth over four pounds jigging in deep water right at dusk. if I can net a good fish for someone in my boat while I'm running it, that's really nice. I'm happy that I handled the boat well enough and picked a good enough spot for it it happen, and double as happy that they're happy, total team mentality.
I detest fishing alone for muskies, guess my idea of a successful day is someone enthusiastic, appreciative all day. | |
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Location: oswego, il | Probably my best day on the water was when a large full grown shad befriended my kickin minnow. I just think of how great it was that I worked the bait so well that a fish did not seek the bait for a meal but for companionship. It was pretty dam special. They are still bff's on facebook and have a spawning date this spring. I will take the hooks off for that. | |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Having fun.
(*If you can't catch musky to save your life this is what you say...) | |
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| Good day: Nobody got injured, nothing got broken or lost, and I don't hurt too bad
Great day: Nobody got injured, nothing got broken or lost, I don't hurt too bad, and there was not one point where I felt the need to swear at jet skiers, other boaters, being cut off, fouled leaders, barking dogs, backlashes, snags, stuff I forgot, missed fish, driving rain, 35 mph winds, cold fronts, high skies, ot the other people in the boat.
Successful day: A muskie in the net over 40"
That said? Some of the most fun days I've had were days where nobody caught anything. Not necessarily what I'd call "success", but if I am laughing and having a good time, it's better than anywhere else that I'd be at the time. Sure beats work!
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| Flambeauski - 9/22/2011 12:48 PM
Avoiding losing lures, breaking reels, destroying the lower unit, getting frosbite, sinking the boat, getting cuts deep enough to require stitches, blowing a trailer tire, draining the car battery at the landing, 2nd degree sunburns, fistfights with partner/other boaters, head on collisions with deer, drinking warm beer, sudden and explosive diarhea, tendonitis, running out of tobacco, running out of gas, running out of juice for any or all batteries, and finally, getting a long drawn out scolding by the wife for staying out late fishing when the kids are being psycho all contribute to a successful day on the water.
Good One but you forgot one thing running out of TP and here's a warning stay away from the campsite on the UPFF talk about explosive diarhea thankfully somone left an old pair of socks near the fire pit  | |
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | If the thought of work never once crosses my mind, and some bikini sightings
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Location: South-Central PA | A successful day on the water is about the friends I fish with, not the fish caught. Every day fishing is a blessing.
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| Just getting on the water, life's good. Watching the sun come up or go down is epic! | |
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| Spring opener water on a perfect day and waiting till a flock of seagulls are just (way) above the boat then WHISTLING so loud that every single seagull $hit$. Bet is $1 to the closest of many loads hit the boat, including people and the dog.
That's as good as it gets. | |
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Location: Lake of the Woods, Morson, Ontario | Success is making it back to the dock and not having to pull the boat to put on your spare prop and send your primary to the prop doctor for repair.
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Location: Okoboji | the boat not breaking...lol....
na probally getting a good hot follow that means your doing something right and can improve on the next run | |
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Location: Contrarian Island | some days just getting a single follows feels like an accomplishment... !
every day is different... i think any day a musky is put in the net is a successful day on the water....
Edited by BNelson 9/23/2011 11:52 AM
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I'm sure the term "success" varies for everyone. For me, any day that I can cast without to much shoulder pain is a good one. Some days my shoulder hurts so bad that not having to fight a big fish is almost a bonus.
My kids think any day we go fishing and get ice cream or pie is a success. For them catching fish is good, but taking a break for dessert rocks! Every ten minutes its "Daddy, when are we going to get ice cream?", "Daddy, can we get pie today?", "Daddy,...". Every...ten...minutes.
Edited by Herb_b 9/23/2011 4:51 PM
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How do you definie a successful day muskie fishing?