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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | How did you do chasing muskies this weekend?
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Location: Rhinelander | As the years quickly tick by our son is gaining interest in other activities rather than my number one outdoor focus, musky fishing.
School and outside school sports, other game fish, hanging more with kids his own age, shooting his bow, tracking down and shooting chippys, new found love of slingshot zinging rocks and can't believe it girls. My son would pick a girl over fishing musky with the old man.....
Austin caught his first musky when he was six years old, a few weeks shy of turning seven. Great moment I won't ever forget. Through out the years he has caught about a dozen and a half more with the majority me hooking the fish and then handing him the rod.
He has always enjoyed panfishing and still does but now has a focus with bhinder fishing. Nothing wrong with that, just not my thing, but we fish for them because he wants to. I think he likes it because of more consistant action.
Well anyway, this weekend he says, "dad I don't think I caught a musky yet this year, can we go get one?" Big smile on my face "h$ll yeah". Little background, since his first, he hasn't missed a year without landing one and he had none for the year so far.
Long story short we pounded water most of the day Saturday in the rain and he finally hooked his own at last light. It got pretty cold but he didn't want to leave, had all his clothes on along with his rain jacket over them; then put my sweatshirt on over all of it to hack out the last hour of the day. By far not his biggest, but this fish meant a lot to both of us.
He was jacked.....so jacked he jumped in the boat with a buddy of mine and I all day today (Sunday) just to try again for another.....wasn't in the cards for him today. But he had fun watching Mark catch a few real nice pike and my son got to unhook and release the "monster pike" as he put it.
Good times......good times.
I missed the release shot as the fish squirted away before we could get it.......his expression was great.
Edited by Hodag Hunter 9/26/2011 11:29 AM
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Location: Lockport, IL | Nice work! I went out with my dad Saturday, moved 5, he lost 1 and caught 4 largemouths on a glider including a 4 and 5 pounder. Threw everything in the box. Topwater moved one, crankbait moved one, Jerkbait moved one and gliders moved 2 and hooked one. No action on the bucktails this time. I can't wait to get back out and try again.
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| Tried a new to me SW WI lake on Saturday. Hit the shoreline structure with dbl 10's and dbl 8's - nothing. Hit the fish cribs with a dawg - nothing. Trolled a Believer while I ate lunch - nothing. Downsized to a white X-rap 14 and nabbed the smallest musky I have ever boated - 21". It was the only fish I saw all day. Didn't see any walleye or LM fishermen doing much catching either. Water temps were around 63 and visibility around 1'.
Great pics and story Hodag!
Edited by Makintrax73 9/26/2011 1:10 PM
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| The expression on his face for the release shot says it all!! He won't forget that trip for quite some time. Very cool. |
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| We fished vilas county. Lousy weather 45-55 degrees and rainy. Water temps dropped from 63 to 58 degrees from Wed to Sunday. Caught a few muskies on weedlines in 10-15 of water. |
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| No chasing muskies for me this past weekend ... ran a few slugs through the gun and had a blast shooting the .22 with my kids !! My 9 yr. old can shoot as good if not better then me !! Although he's been shooting since he was like 5 !! He did VERY well with the .45 auto to boot , impressive !! My 6 yr. old daughter has some work ahead of her , but she loves to pull the trigger as FAST as she can ... at least she can hit something that way !!! Did find a few new spots to chase smallies but we didn't have much time to figure it out YET !! |
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| Fished for about 5 hours Friday night through the rain showers. Got a 36" on topwater and missed on a couple of other opportunities, no action on suckers. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Pewaukee has been on fire this month. Boated over 40 ski's this month. Here is pic's of two of 3 I stuck Sunday Mourn in less than 4 hours fished. Guiding pewaukee musky!
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Location: Hayward, WI | Didn't fish a lot. Mix of scouting (archery) and a little fishing. Had a follow on Saturday and that was all. Sunday had a musky nail a quickstrike sucker and apparently knock it clean off the rig. As I was standing there dumbfounded, it came back and took off with a dead sucker I also had out (all I had left). Gave the rod to my wife. She set the hook and got it within a few feet of the boat before it popped free. Never saw the fish, but funny scenario!
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Location: WI | Fished 11 hours friday and didn't move a fish until almost 5pm after I picked up a friend. That one nipped at a cowgirl and then darted off. Shortly after had a low 30's go around on the 8 four or five times. During our final minutes my friend stuck one just shy of 40" on a dawg. Sat fished 10 hours and we boated 2 (38 & 39) trolling. Cast a lot, and had the same nipper fish up and do it to me again..nip at a manta and then dart off. Stupid fish. Sun fished 5 hours and got a low 30's trolling.
Water temps are 54-58. I hate to see this month end, we've put around 20 fish in the net with a few big ones. |
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Location: Utah | Fished close to 14 hours combined on Friday and Saturday casted (nothing on the troll) and 3 found the offerings 37", 43", 49.50"...oh for 1/2 inch and that last one my personal best thus far for the year. Here's pics of the 43 release and the 49.50 Tiger with the release shot not the best release shot as she was ready to go once back in the water.
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| complete toad...wow. |
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Location: Smith Creek | WOW IS RIGHT!!! |
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| Went up on our Deer Lake/Polk County trip. Partner and I had a great trip with (8) in the boat from 31 - 41 inches. (5) on Suckers and (3) on a spinnerbait and Phantoms. Water temps were 55 - 58. Other (2) boats released (7) more fish from 31 - 43.
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| Great job you guys,
That tiger is not a fish. Its a pig. Thank you for sharing that with us. Awesome. |
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Location: LENA IL | Spent a couple days in Vilas and got two with one that hit 40 with a belly to match |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | Fished six different lakes and one river from Friday through last night. My friend is a rookie so I did a lot of teaching and in turn we were both seeking action. Saw 17 fish with a handful over 40" that were just lookers and not hookers. Caught 6 (him with 4, me with 2), and I lost 3.
One lake produced well (smaller 200 acres) and had active fish while the others were duds. Temps 54 to 58 degrees all over. Turnover already happening on these smaller places we fished. Couldn't have asked for better weather though. Dark, overcast, windy, with some rain on the side. I like.
40", 38", 36", 35, and 2 dinks. All caught on Bulldawgs, Curly Sues & Suzy Suckers.
Tried suckers all four days and had no action on them except for one feisty river fish that decided to play with it instead of eat it. Don't know how much sucker fishing I'll do this fall with the price I paid for four of them. $25 for 4. I wish I can catch my own from some of the local streams. TJ gave me some grief for this over Facebook haha.
I'll be fishing for 8 straight days beginning on Saturday. Trophy time!
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| Went to holcombe for the weekend with dad and got out saturday for a while in the morning and a little while in the evening each cought a muskie in the mid 30's. Its always fun to get dad on a muskie. He had a great time. |
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Location: WI | That tiger is awesome. Congrats! |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI |
Beautiful tiger !!!
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