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| What are some rare and common questions you get asked when it comes to Muskies and Muskie fishing?
Here are some common questions I get asked to get the discussion started...
- How does wind effect Muskie locations?
- What are the best water temperatures to fish for Muskies?
- When is the best time to catch a Muskie?
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Do you keep those things? |
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Location: On the O | What do they taste like? |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | You let that go? |
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | This is one that kills me. You pull up to the dock and someone says, "that's a big net. Whatcha fishin' for?" "Muskies." "Are there muskies in here?" It never fails. Once I hear the question about what we're fishing for and answer "muskies", I always know the next thing out of their mouth is gonna be "are there muskies in here?"
Edited by gtp888 1/10/2013 6:54 AM
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| gtp888 - 1/10/2013 6:53 AM
This is one that kills me. You pull up to the dock and someone says, "that's a big net. Whatcha fishin' for?" "Muskies." "Are there muskies in here?" It never fails. Once I hear the question about what we're fishing for and answer "muskies", I always know the next thing out of their mouth is gonna be "are there muskies in here?"
that's why I always answer with, "Crappie! And those are my crappie baits"  |
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| A couple of years ago on my favorite lake we came across a couple of teenagers in a jon boat (small lake). I was throwing my favorite twin 10 and one of the kids asked me "what is that supposed to be, some kind of squid or something". The most common question I get is what do they taste like and I always tell them chicken. |
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Location: 15 miles east of Lake Kinkaid | "I thought muskies only live in Canada". |
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| Funny!
I guess what I am looking for are more so serious questions such as......
How does barametric pressure effect Muskies?
What are the best times, what type of lures work best when, etc etc.
Thank you and keep the posts coming! |
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| "Where are they biting"
--insert index finger into corner of mouth like a hook and say "Usually right here". |
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Location: South Bend, Indiana | "How many people can you feed with just one?" |
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| "whats the best reel for double 10s" any variation of that question
Edited by anzomcik 1/10/2013 10:07 AM
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| My favorite questions i was asked this year by customers was:
1.will you be cleaning and packaging our fish for our trip back to chicago?
2. my son is in taxidermy school so if we catch one can he mount it?
3.Will you drive your boat over so we can take some pictures of those ducks?
4. Do muskys attack people?
5. So you really think we will only catch 2 muskys today? you have alot of fish pictures on your website, why only 2 fish? (woman from New Mexico never been fishing before) We did end up catching 2 on a half day trip. Then I got a nasty email from her saying how disapointed she was we did'nt catch more than 2 muskys
6.Do you think that 45" I just let go will eat again today? Id like to try and catch it again
Thanks,
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com
Edited by Jeff Hanson 1/10/2013 10:19 AM
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Jeff Hanson - 1/10/2013 10:09 AM
My favorite questions i was asked this year by customers was:
1.will you be cleaning and packaging our fish for our trip back to chicago?
2. my son is in taxidermy school so if we catch one can he mount it?
3.Will you drive your boat over so we can take some pictures of those ducks?
Thanks,
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com
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haha! Ignorance is bliss I guess |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | When I return to the dock there is generally someone who asks ANY LUCK .......My reply is .....DIDN`T DROWN CAN`T GET ANY LUCKIER THAN THAT
Edited by horsehunter 1/10/2013 10:43 AM
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Location: oswego, il | My job puts me in front of alot of faces of non fishing casual andnon musky anglers. The most often comment by far is if I keep and eat them. It is almost always asked. |
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Location: Maine Township, MN | Just the usual snickers and pointing at the "big" net in the bow. |
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Location: Smith Creek | "Did your mom drink a lot when she was pregnant with you?"
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Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | How many can we expect to catch today.then you know it's going to be a long day |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | How long does it take to real one in? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Why aren't we moving faster/more/over there, etc.
What other fish are in this lake?
How do you know where to fish?
Why are muskies released all the time?
How can you tell when the muskies are going to bite?
Is a storm bad or good for fishing?
What's the best time to fish for muskies?
What does this bait imitate?
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| "So where is this infamous Lake X??" |
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| Oh, and of course... "Why do you have such a long rod, and why so many of them?" |
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| Some years back, I made the mistake of putting some of my fish pictures on my desk in my office in downtown Chicago.
"Oh my GOD, what IS that?!"
"that's a muskie."
"Did you CATCH that?!"
"yeah" (I wanted to say "no. I was just standing there on the boat and the f-er flew up out of the water and landed in my hands!")
"Oh my GOD!! Wha... Do you eat them?"
"no"
"NO?! You caught a fish like THAT and you didn't eat it?"
"nope. We put them back."
"well, WHY?!"
*sigh*
Some of my other favorites:
"poor fishy!"
"why would you hurt an animal like that?"
"Oh, I bet you HUNT, too. I'm a vegetarian!"
"you put your hands in the water with THOSE swimming around?"
"Is that, like, the OCEAN?"
"I'd be afraid one of those would jump out of the water and eat me!"
"that's not a real fish!"
I finally decided to take the pictures home. It just wasn't worth trying to explain muskie fishing to people who have literally never been out of the city before.
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| lmao thats awesome...I usually get asked "What do those things eat??" My response is generally "Whatever the F they want!!" |
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| I tried some clever responses like "oh, they're fine as long as you stay away from the teeth. Give 'em a chance, though, and they'll rip your arm off!!" but people thought I was serious.
I had one guy look at my tackle and say "wow, what are all those decoys for?" |
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| When people are in my office, I have heard variations of this statement `My grandfather/father/brother has been fishing in Wisconsin for 10/20/30 years and never caught a musky.'
Rich |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | When folks stop by my office and see pics, I get a lot of "Where did you catch those?" I reply with, "Locally", and they usually follow up with, "Yeah, we get them all the time by accident... Pretty easy to catch, but boy can they get big."
I also get a lot of, "What are those?" I reply, "Those are muskies." They follow up with, "Except that one." as they point at a muskie in my hands. Then they point at another one, "And that one! Those are northern, but the other ones I can see as muskies." That's when I realize I'm wasting my time and change the subject.
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| The best one ever was a with a friend of mine who used to guide on the Yahara Chain. He was pulling his boat out of the Wingra launch one day as a woman was walking along the shoreline with her little white fluffy dog on a leash.
"Did you catch any?"
"Yeah, we got a couple!"
"What are you fishing for?"
"Muskies!"
"Wha.. There's MUSKIES in here??!"
"oh yeah, lots of them!"
"That's HORRIBLE! Somebody should DO SOMETHING!!"
With that she got all flustered, yanked her dog away from the shoreline and stomped off!
"Have a nice day!"
(hey can we borrow your dog?) lol
Edited by esoxaddict 1/10/2013 5:59 PM
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Location: Weyauwega Wi. | What size do you consider to be a trophy class fish.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Here's what I hear about 6-7 times a year in N.Mn.
"Muskies!,........ those dam *^%&$$@!*#@! are eating all MY walleye's"
Then in the same breath they brag on how many freezers they have full of walleye and the 15 or 18 they got yesterday........Sheeesh.......
Jerome
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| Yeah... Heard that too. I actually told one guy this:
"Okay, so a muskie eats once every few days, maybe one fish, and probably not a walleye. And you eat how many for your Friday night fish fry, every single week?"
Needless to say he was NOT happy. |
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| In green bay I was asked, "is this salt water or fresh water?"
I thought the guy was joking then he asked "are there sharks in here." I jokingly responded, "yah only nurse sharks though." Then I looked up only to see he was dead serious. |
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Location: Kansas City BBQ Capitol of the world | "Is that some sort of a Beaver?" |
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Location: NorthCentral WI | bbeaupre - 1/11/2013 9:16 AM
In green bay I was asked, "is this salt water or fresh water?"
I thought the guy was joking then he asked "are there sharks in here." I jokingly responded, "yah only nurse sharks though." Then I looked up only to see he was dead serious.
You must have been talking to Mr. Obvious from The Bob and Tom Show! That guy doesn't have a clue. 
Edited by MartinTD 1/11/2013 1:37 PM
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Location: Knoxville, TN | Ive been asked if I catch a fish with a buzzbait in his mouth to give it back to him.....and this guy was dead serious. I told him I would be on the lookout for that fish. He thanked me. Needless to say the search still continues..... |
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| What the biggest fish you have caught? Why do you have some lures and rods? |
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Location: Valpo IN | 1-That nets huge whats it for ? ( muskie fishing ) -- they respond 'I`ll never swim in this lake again' !! |
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| that is to #*^@ funny!!! |
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Location: Northern Illinois | I just had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. The search continues!...love it! |
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Location: Eau Claire,WI | I liked to ask guides what kind of knot they used and seemed like everyone had thier favorites. When I am fishing people ask me if I catch anything on large baits,I then either pull out a pounder or a # 13 tail and start tossing em and say nope I use em for the work out! I laugh when I get asked what do i need to start musky fishing.I tell them 1 million dollars, severe brain damage and willingness to forget everything else in your life! LOL |
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Location: McGuire AFB, NJ | "So you didn't catch any today?? But you saw a few and that's good?"
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| I was standing in the airport in Minneapolis with my Frabill Big Game and a guy with a Texas accent who was next to me in line asked out of the blue, "Do people consider you to be an overly optimistic person?" |
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Location: Maine Township, MN | Top H2O - 1/10/2013 7:45 PM
Here's what I hear about 6-7 times a year in N.Mn.
"Muskies!,........ those dam *^%&$$@!*#@! are eating all MY walleye's"
Then in the same breath they brag on how many freezers they have full of walleye and the 15 or 18 they got yesterday........Sheeesh.......
Jerome
Ditto!
Some even procede to tell me that every muskie caught should have their guts ripped out and thrown back in the lake...
Gotta love the walleye guys... |
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Location: Blaine, MN | I know there is 1 question I wish I would hear more of...
"Musky fishing? May I come with?"
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| AFchris - 1/14/2013 1:08 PM
"So you didn't catch any today?? But you saw a few and that's good?"
My wife to a "T"!!! Classic! |
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Location: SE, WI. | 20 minutes into our guide trip, and after 3 follows, One guy ask's me if these fish really eat at the boat? I proceeded to show the 2 how to figure 8 wide and deep. A 36" came out from under the boat and ate my crank bait. His next comment was, "You staged That" |
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| It's the same usual questions that I always seem to get. Most of the time it's 2 at a time like I don't understand what they are asking me the first go round. I don't even bother saying much to people anymore because it just isn't worth it. I tried at first because I thought I could make people understand or at the very least appreciate it. Yeah, I failed most of the time.
You mean you don't always catch them when you go out and fish? Why would you do that? What's the point? Well what do you do with them? You put them back?! Why?!!" Don't you eat them?
The last one is my favorite. Anytime I mention fishing I always get asked if I eat them. What is it? Grocery shopping for Pete's sake?! I mean c'mon my 5 year old nephew gets it why can't they??!
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Location: Minnesota | Chris78 - 1/10/2013 2:44 PM
lmao thats awesome...I usually get asked "What do those things eat??" My response is generally "Whatever the F they want!!"
Maybe we should start spreading the rumor that they like to target erratic, fast moving, bright colored objects, like kids on tubes and jet skis.
If there's going to be bad info out there, we might as well have a little bit of it work in our favor. |
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| WE need to guy the person that faked the golden eagle grabbing the baby and make one of a muskie hitting a *insert annoying watercraft/sport here.* But keep the fact that it is fake hush hush like its the spot you saw a 50"! |
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| how many muskies have you seen and how big are they?
being the son of a great musky taxidermist rocks.
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Location: Duluth, MN | Last spring my son and I fished a walleye tournament. I have my muskie guide service logo on my truck. While waiting in line to launch the boat a guy from another truck yells what do muskie taste like. I paused a few seconds and said like a limit of 30" walleye. He was speechless and than said oh I guess you got me. I almost fell out of the truck laughing. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | yooper - 1/16/2013 10:57 AM
Last spring my son and I fished a walleye tournament. I have my muskie guide service logo on my truck. While waiting in line to launch the boat a guy from another truck yells what do muskie taste like. I paused a few seconds and said like a limit of 30" walleye. He was speechless and than said oh I guess you got me. I almost fell out of the truck laughing.
I LIKE that one! That's a great response.
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| Dont they eat all the other fish??
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Location: Mallard Island Lake Vermilion MN | Guess I could play until I GET DA BOOT!
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I must look like a dude you can swear in front of? People sure drop a lot of ^%$# in my boat.
For fun anyway heres a taste of questions asked or staements I remember in 2012 in my big black boat.
How far up the lake can a guy fish with out hitting anything?
%$#^ that was a monster...why did someone invent %$# Catch & Release man..that was a monster an I have to let it go ^%$#.
How do you expect me to throw at structure I can't see in the day time to try an get a fish? &^%$ .....then expect me to go do it in the dark? ALONE! Carzy man.
Hey MT...what bar do I have best chance of scoring some ^%$# in round here. (He said while rubbing his wedding ring with guilt)
So do you ever use sunfish for lures? Man they have some pretty rad colors on em.
Where is the nearest strip club man?
You just gotta zoom over to that &^% island so I can take a dump RIGHT NOW! Pleasez will ya? ^%$#2 Pleasez!!
Have you @#$% ever met Ozzy man?
If that ^%$# bites me it is gonna die!
So we can't bring a case of beer in yer boat eh? ^%$# so when did you get all uppity an square an Godly an ^%$#$. (He woke up from his lil knuckel nap on the dock as I was leaving... Kept deposit! )
^%$# thats one hell of a storm.....don't the think we should head the ^%$#@ in SOON?
Someone at Thornes told me you use these colors all the time an your telling me you never even seen this lure? $%^# of a ^%$#2!!!
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I'm so ^%$#2 sore I can't even pee straight man! Whats yer secret? Being older an such?
Those &^%$#@ get any closer I'm going to call a cop! (Oh really!)
Do your dogs like to fish? (WHAT?)
I can not reel that fast....it hurts an I can't even wonder a fish can swim that fast...I just won't do it.
Have you ever heard of that one fishen guy has a tv show? Well on TV I heard him an pals says we should fish the weeds an rocks an wind an islands an shores and everything shallow an out deep to get bites on Vermilion.? What do you think?
Why do you have us using these topwater thingys out here in middle of nowwhere at night?
How many times have you fish this spot man? Its like the coolest place I ever ever seen...WOW! It is like just FISH ON BABY!
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We want to fish where that one guy on tv got that ^%$# big fish on that new ^%$# lure man. Do you know the place I talkn bout man?
Can we go to fish that one island in that bay by that one #%$# resort we stayed at one time when we fishen for walleyes an had a different ^%$# guide that one year we first me ya.? Can you help do that?
&^%$# you hooked me!! YOU &^%$#2 &^%$#! God ^%$# #$%^ &^%$3!!! What the ^%$# hell ^%$# were you ^%$# thinking??? (Man to wife after she nailed him with a 10 inch jake.)
You ever hook a ^%$# muskie then eat it? ^%$#@ I really would think that would be fun to feed the whole resort. I would really love to do that...I never get anything.
I so lost now. SO LOST! Where the ^%$#2 are we Musky T man?
Do you think we can have a %$#@ big fish caught an on film by noon as I really want to ^%$3 get a nap. Got so wasted this afternoon man my head is busting open.
&^%$# man...that was intense.....can we ^%$# do it #$%^ again!?
How many ^%$#@ dues do ya guide that can ^%$# do that man? I gotta be the best you ever seen!
LOL
Can the hounds come along?
All in a days work!
Keep on rocken!
Tommy
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| Tom, that was a treat; good stuff ! |
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| I had the fish dialed in and so I was bringing guys I grew up with out to catch their first musky. We didnt have access to a boat but could smash bull dogs all over a reef out infront of us from the end of a T dock. A ski boat pulls up to the dock next to us pulling a huge round floaty with 10 little girls between the ages of 8 and 12, and one little boy maybe 10.
The big raft floats infront of us and 5 or 6 little girls jump out and paddle it away from the dock. We thank them and my buddy shoots his heli dog out of the reef, He was new and was forgeting to figure 8 at the end of some of his casts and the last thing i wanted to do was be a drag and nag him. He lifts it clear of the water and a mid forties fish luanches from the water like a rocket grabs this dog maybe a full foot in the air. Since no hook set happened the fish shakes its head twice, teeth gleaming in all their glory and flops back in the lake. As this is happening screams of shear terror echo across the lake as the flock of little girls flee from the water like jaws just snatched one of them up. As they are sprinting down the dock like their hair is on fire my buddy is just standing there with his mouth open like he just witnessed the Lords return.
Bout the time ive got the tears wiped from my eyes and hes told me to shut up with a sullen look on his face I hear THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP as the little boy comes running down the dock with a 202 zebco combo in his hand. He has hes been running so long his line is wraped around the end in the worlds greatest birds nest.
He hits the end of the dock and says "Can I fish with you guys???" |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | classic |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Best thing I've read in some time!!! |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Guest - 1/14/2013 1:04 PM
I was standing in the airport in Minneapolis with my Frabill Big Game and a guy with a Texas accent who was next to me in line asked out of the blue, "Do people consider you to be an overly optimistic person?"
Thas' funny stuff raht there.... |
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| fishing a no-swimming reservoir was asked by three wading women about the 'fish in here'. Not intending to scare them, I said the Tiger Muskies wouldn't bite. All they needed to do was to keep an eye out for snapping turtles and water snakes. They didn't take it well.
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Questions you get asked as a guide and everyday fisherman.....