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| So today I launch my boat for a short trip, look down and see a musky in a little hole in the weeds in about 3' of water right at the launch. Seen it there a couple times, I'm beginning to think it just likes people watching. |
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| Fishing around boat launches is underrated - everyone thinks you have to go to the other side of the lake  |
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| I'd agree with you if I could ever get that fish to so much as look at a bait. That thing must have a tackle inventory on me. I'm telling you, they're watching us and taking notes  |
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| Two years ago I was backing my boat off the trailer at Forest Lake and saw a ski directly below the boat - I can't believe the prop didn't ding it. Anyway, I tie up the boat, park the trailer, snap on a Phantom, flip it out about 20' and within about three twitches the fish eats it! 43"er !
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| A few years back we were on Crescent coming up on a spot that looked awesome ... we get around the corner and there's like 10 teenagers crashing around in the water right on/next to our spot . Then 2 of them jump on the waverunners ans tear a$$ out of there ... in frustration I throw my bulldawg right at their dock where they just left on the waverunners and an absolute TANK comes up and t-bones the dawg !! Problem with the situation .... never checked my drag so I got no hookset !! Thumbed the reel and grabbed the line around the for grip and let her have it again !!! She spit it out and swam away like she forgot she even ate the #*^@ thing !! My bad !! We go back the next day and Muskie Mike throws a spinner bait in the same spot , fish smashes the bait and spits it on the hookset ... that spinnerbait looked like it got dragged from chicago and run over a few times on the way !! Needless to say neither one of us was very pleased about it , but it goes to show how used to people , boats and waverunners they really are !! |
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Location: oswego, il | Like a greeter at Walmart..... |
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| Quite a few years ago my wife and I had docked our boat at Greer's Pier on the Manitowish Chain. When we got back in the boat I looked down and there was a nice low 40's ski hanging out by our boat in 3 FOW in the middle of a hot sunny day.
I proceeded to go into stealth mode and whispered to my wife to slowly hand me my musky rod. Like a predator stalking it's prey, I moved ever so slowly to unhook my Mud Puppy (surface bait) from the rod and make a cast well beyond the fish so I didn't spook it. As already mentioned in other posts, it seems so rare to be able to entice a musky you just happen to see "just hanging out" that I was unbelievably surprised with what would happen next.
Sure enough as the Mud Puppy passed by the fish slightly off to the side, the musky's tail started to kick and it was coming up hot on my bait. As if that wasn't enough to get my heart going, at exactly that same time I started to hear yelling and a voice come running out of Greer's Pier..."Not the pet!!! ... Not the pet!!!" I'm still not sure how I heard that and reacted while in the zone, but I did the unthinkable and purposely pulled the bait away and out of the water when the aggressive fish was inches away from smashing the Mud Puppy.
This particular musky had become a regular at Greer's Pier. It seems it had an appetite for dead suckers and became trained to come back on a regular basis and therefore had become their pet! Although I am sure this may have happened somewhere at some point elsewhere, it is pretty rare I am sure (at least to consistently show up and eat in front of people during the day in shallow water). Many years later, there hasn't been another ski that has become a Greer's Pier pet since (rumor had it that someone caught and kept the fish that fall).
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Location: Greenfield, WI | To people on the other side of the lake, your side IS the other side of the lake!
Edited by Steve Van Lieshout 10/10/2011 12:29 PM
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| One blonde gal sees another across the river and yells, "How do you get to the other side of the river?!" The other looks left and then right and then yells back, "You ARE on the other side of the river!". |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | thats a crazy story jim, i can picture someone running down yelling "not the pet!" haha |
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| I heard a story of an older lady that had a pet Musky that lived under her house boat , she would feed it everyday and run off anyone who would come by her boat fishing . |
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