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| My son and I went river fishing and we boated and released these two chunky females.
I had one on for about 10 seconds, didn't have a good hook set, and lost it.
My son landed three fish in three days on his homemade fox-squirrel tail in-line spinner lure. Unfortunately, after three fish, it was fairly mutilated. Anyone else use fox squirrel tails and have good results?
I haven't squirrel hunted much in the last several years, but now I have a renewed interest...
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/bigbuck39/BMKT.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/bigbuck39/BKTM2.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/bigbuck39/retiredlure.jpg
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Why block out the Pic???????????????
It looks like Crap!
good for your son, but show the entire pic or not at all.
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| Secret spot and we're going to be fishing there all week. No one else fishing there right now.
I guess I'll post the picture in whatever form I want, unless there is some kind of forum rule preventing it. |
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Location: Bowling Green, Kentucky | Top H2O - 3/5/2012 8:17 PM
Why block out the Pic???????????????
It looks like Crap!
good for your son, but show the entire pic or not at all.
Jerome
Top H2O - 3/5/2012 8:17 PM
Why block out the Pic???????????????
It looks like Crap!
good for your son, but show the entire pic or not at all.
Jerome
We are strictly catch and release Muskie fishermen (I am the one in the pic). We altered the pictures to post them on a local forum as well. Here, where we live, muskie are hard to come by. Any place that holds them in any significant numbers will soon be overrun by anglers who often keep every fish they catch. I can't hop on over to any old lake and find fish SOMEWHERE on said lake. They are just not that common. I am lucky to live within driving distance of three Muskie streams. I have fished one of those streams hundreds of times to land only one muskie. The other stream we average about one fish every three times out (between two people). And the other, about an hours ride, is not much better. I would not be very happy fishing this spot that is holding fish if I were to watch five muskies killed out of it every day.
If as many fisherman were catch and release in this area as there is up north I would not care at all. And about no pics at all, well, bragging about catching fish is part of the fun! With pics I just can't exaggerate…. Good luck
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Location: MN | Sorry Jerome, but I see their point. And since it was not entirely for personal reasons (just to protect their spot so they can catch more) but rather to keep muskies from getting killed, I'm all for it. Unless of course there is some sort of forum rule preventing it. |
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| Here in Ohio/Kentucky lurkers for years have hounded sites such as this one trying to see pics of locations where fish are being caught. It happens with Muskie, Smallmout, Blues and Flatheads. It's s shame but it happens, a lot! |
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| Now this spot, where we boated and released 4 muskies two weeks ago, is not a secret spot. I can show the entire pictures:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/bigbuck39/TTM1.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/bigbuck39/TTM3.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/bigbuck39/TTM2.jpg
It is sad, however, for me to hear the number of fish that are being kept out of this popular fishing hole.
My original post was mostly just to find out if using natural colored fox-squirrel tails on in-line spinners works well for everyone. I thought maybe they were just producing right now because they mimic the color of the red horse suckers that we are seeing in our fishing spots.
If I hadn't cropped out portions of those original pictures, anyone that fishes this area could have glanced sideways at them and recognized the surroundings of a spot that isn't being fished under pressure right now. And, it would have resulted in dead muskies. Sorry if the pictures don't look good enought to suit everyone and I'll simply refrain from posting any "secret spot" pictures in the future. |
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| Nice job on the fish. I wish I was down there right now catching fish like that. Thank you for sharing this with us.
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| "My original post was mostly just to find out if using natural colored fox-squirrel tails on in-line spinners works well for everyone."
You may want to create a topic under "tackle and equipment".
Thanks for sharing info. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | I'm not into dead fish either, I just think it's a bit tacky to post pics that has half of it blocked out. I do understand why you blocked the backround out though.
If I didn't want others to see my secrete spots, I just wouldn't post. But that's just me.
Jerome
Edited by Top H2O 3/6/2012 9:59 AM
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Location: Bowling Green, Kentucky | Caught four more this morning on the same lures. The first one was my personal best, a forty five incher. The second was 32. The other two were caught by a good friend and he landed his 8th and 9th fish. His personal best, a 38 incher.
Hope y'all get slimed,
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| Keep posting the pics, always good to see someone being successful and putting the fish back. Despite the criticism, I think you're doing the right thing. |
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| Here is a picture of my son's personal best fish from this morning:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/bigbuck39/BMusk030612.jpg
It was a 45 incher, caught on another old squirrel tail lure. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Nice fish! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion |
Oh Ya, nice pic and Fish. |
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Couple'a river muskies