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Location: Palm Coast, FL | Mine was a 12" Fred Arbogast AC plug...fish was 38.5" and hit 4' from the boat. Scared the hell out of me as it flew through the air over the corner of the boat! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Jig and a plastic worm. Yes, I was fishing muskies. It was a good one, don't remember exactly how long but I had biggest in camp for a week of fishing. I think I was in my teens, 16 maybe. Fishing with my Dad, Tony Portincaso, Jimmy Cairnes, and the Rockford/Chicago contingent on a Fall outing on Bone Lake. What a rush.
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| Homemade SUPER UGLY multi color bucktail 34" |
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| First musky was on little green and chartreuse Rapala DT-6 while bass fishing. It was a whopper at 17" long. Two weeks later I caught it's twin on a different lake, same little crankbait. First musky while musky fishing was a 28" caught on a custom painted Crane bait. Orange tiger. My wife caught a fish on the same spot the very next day with that little bait. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | Chartreuse Hi-Fin bucktail. Sported a #7 blade and it was the biggest bucktail my Dad had at the time! |
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| Summer of 1982 up on a lake in Michigan. Annual Family Reunion, same lake for 12 years through the years of 1980 through 1992. I knew Muskie and Pike were in the lake, I had seen the pictures and heard the stories. I immediately knew I wanted in on the action. After two years of that week-long family reunion trips in a row, finally, cut my teeth on Pike and Muskie fishing all in that same week that year in '82. Got my first Pike, a 29 incher casting a traditional red/white Daredevil spoon. Later that week, got a low 30s Muskie on a chart/silver J-13 Rapala. Have had the infectious illness ever since... |
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| Jointed Rebel Minnow... silver and black |
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Location: WI | 9" Smity Bait. 18" musky. |
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Location: Richland Center, WI. | First musky was caught on a white Rizzo Wiz using a Tony Rizzo rod by South Bend loaded with an Abu Garcia 6500 C3. Caught it on Lake Wingra in Madison,WI. on May 5th with my two boys acting as guides/coaches/camera men. Don't remember the year or the length of the fish.
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Location: Ohio | Pearson Plugs 6" shallow minnow crank bait that Jack Cobb had help me with when I was making my first baits 25 years ago it was 33" and it came from the Elk River in WV |
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| Night crawler harness trolling for walleyes on Rice Lake in Ontario sometime in the early 90's, 34". |
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| My first musky was 33" and came on a 10" Red October Tube. |
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Location: Palm Coast, FL | Ja Rule - 3/8/2013 5:50 AM
Night crawler harness trolling for walleyes on Rice Lake in Ontario sometime in the early 90's, 34".
Been there and won't go back. I actually went there with my dad and some of his friends going for bluegill. We slaughtered them to the point I wished I would never see one again. Had blisters from cleaning fish! If I ever do go back it will be to go after muskie! |
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| storm thunderbeast...still one of my favorite rubber baits! |
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Location: MN | Black/green inhaler bucktail 45" Cass lake! I was maybe 11-12? Mom dad and my little brother were all in the boat watching me cast and run the boat. Lol |
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| Mine was on a clown J 13. My first entry in Muskies INC was on silver and black Harasser. 35.5 incher |
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| Vince Weirick - 3/8/2013 5:00 AM
Ja Rule - 3/8/2013 5:50 AM
Night crawler harness trolling for walleyes on Rice Lake in Ontario sometime in the early 90's, 34".
Been there and won't go back. I actually went there with my dad and some of his friends going for bluegill. We slaughtered them to the point I wished I would never see one again. Had blisters from cleaning fish! If I ever do go back it will be to go after muskie!
That's how I felt. It was fun catching unlimited panfish but the 3-4 hrs a day of scaling and filleting was miserable for a kid! I haven't been in about 13 years but if I went back I would target muskies. |
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Location: NorthCentral WI | Banging a jailbird Shallow Invader across a shallow rock bar during a full on algae bloom. 42". |
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| All of a sudden I feel really old.
1958. Mudpuppy. Pfleuger skillcast. We were anchored and eating lunch. My Dad had just said,
"Put that #*^@ thing back in the boat and eat a sandwich, there ain't enough water here to hold a fish" , when a 42 incher hung itself on the lure as I attempted to lift it out of the water.
I remember it like it was yesterday! I had experienced dozens of bites prior to that one, but this was my first hook up!
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Location: On the O | Carp Believer, fish won me 2nd in a friendly little derby...came to find out a couple years later it's actually a Golden Sucker pattern or something but since it also caught my PB it is and always will be referred to as the Carp Believer in my boat.
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| trolling 10 inch reef hawg, , 34 in, i did my happy dance for a wk. it was not 1958, more like 2000, so i'm still considered a newby |
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| A 34 incher on a black and orange Bucher 700 |
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Location: minnesota | low 20" fish on a crappie minnow... while fishing crappies. First fish while actually fishing muskie 47" on a jointed firetiger shallow raider |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Firetiger Suick still my favourite jerkbait and I have wornout many. |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | July 4th sunrise 40" on a bullfrog topraider on a super long 6'6" pool cue rod with an Abu 6500, hit 3 cranks in. Been addicted ever since. |
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Location: WV | 22" on a Mepps #5 Black Fury out of Cedar Creek WV. |
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| i was 16, caught it on a 1 1/2" lil cleo, it was a 43" fish |
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Location: Florence, Wisconsin | Perch-colored Super Shad Rap fishing from shore. |
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Location: West of the metro, MN | She was 36". I was trolling a black Hawg Wobbler at 11:00 pm on Labor Day. I was on baby lake with my dad neither of us had ever caught one and I had chased skis all summer out there with no success until that last night out. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | 33" hybrid on a all chartreuse baby Buchertail (June 1985) |
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| Tiger on a 1 ounce spinnerbait. Pure on a DCG. |
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Location: indiana | 1990 trolling j 18 rapala, silver/black on lake of the woods right at dark. 40 incher |
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| Eagle River Chain, Mepps Musky Killer. 3rd and final morning of my first attempt at musky fishing. Last spot caught two on back to back casts in the same weed bed. Had I not caught those fish my addiction may have never happened. Once I got home all my bass/walleye tackle hit ebay and its been muskies ever since.
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Location: Maine Township, MN | Firetiger Suick |
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| 35" muskie on Kinkaid with Chad Cain. White SS Shad with the squirrelly tail. |
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Location: Twin Cities | 40"er on a 6" orange reef hawg, lotw. |
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Location: menasha wi 54952 | Now this brings back an old memory. Summer of 1972. I was 5 years old. Camping with the family on the Three Lakes Chain. Out fishing with the old man. Tossing my one and only lure. 9" black top white belly Suick!! I remember a fish jumping out of the water and start swimming away with "MY" lure in its mouth. I didnt have a clue. 42". |
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | A 28" on a homemade bucktail. Larry that's awesome the kids have had several blow up next to the boat as they were lifting their bait. So far they haven't caught any of those fish yet just jaws dropped and soaked a couple times. Our 16 year old caught his first 35and a half" on homeade bucktail when he was 12. His younger brother got a 41" on a homeade plastic last oct for his first and he's still bragging about his being the biggest first so far. See what the girls do one is 6 and the other is almost 11 months. |
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Location: Oconomowoc, WI | First one I remember, was on a tally-wacker. I know I caught a few when I was a kid, but I don't remember what they were caught on. Probably a piece of crawler. |
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Location: MN | First one caught while I was fishing for them - 51" on Tallywhacker
Second one caught 2 weeks later - 51" on Tallywhacker
I was awfully lucky, and hooked. Second fish destroyed that bait and I never caught another on its replacement. |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | floating orange rapala on the Chippewa Flowage during a driving rain. about 30". i was maybe 10 or 11 years old. caught off the pier at Indian Trails resort. |
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Location: The Yahara Chain | 33" Hawg Woobler fish. On some non trolling water in Sawyer County.The HW was brand new and the fish had never seen anything like it. It was the next big thing. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | 38" on a Giant Jack Pot |
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Location: Kansas City BBQ Capitol of the world | I think it was 1974. My pops took me out trolling on the Niagra River. We used Pike Creek Chubs. He took mine, bent the metal lip with some pliers, took off the back hook and replaced it with another of a different size. I asked what he was doing and he said he was changing the action. A few hours. later *POW* I caught my first Muskie.
One of my favorite childhood memories.
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| 7" green/white unweighted Suick. 36" can't remember anything else but I can remember musky catches... |
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| First fish was a 45 inch tiger on a little white buzz bait, and my first ski was a 50 inches on an orange and yellow rad dog spinner bait. He jump 2 feet vertically out of the water needless to say I was an addict by the time he landed back in the water. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | 36 incher on a gold 6" Rapala husky jerk. |
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Location: Minnesota | First musky was on Winnipeg River with my dad, grandpa, and grandma in the boat. I had stopped throwing my only suick about 10 minutes before and went back to throwing a red & white spoon for pike. It was 42" long and it took a while for me to convince my dad and grandpa that I had a real big one on - they didn't believe me. I saw the fish hit the spoon and knew it was big from the moment I saw it. I was about 12 or 13. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | 32 on yellow/gold bluefox vibrax in the 8. Must have been in 2004 |
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| Chartreuse spinnerbait - 34" tiger on Cisco Chain. |
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Location: Sussex, NJ | Mine came on a Buck Perry's Spoonplug. Trolling with a friend and my old man. I was 6 years old and the fish ended up being 46". I remember before that trip standing in my yard with a rod in my hand and my dad puling on the other end to see if I would be able to handle catching a muskie. Addicted ever since |
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Location: West Metro, MN | 41"er on a brown Buchertail 700 on LOTW in 1998. Only took 5 years to get the 1st one to actually hook up... |
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| 32" 1984 Fishtrap lake Sawyer County WI Yellow- baby Buchertail
Jeff Hanson
madisonmuskyguide.com
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Location: Waconia, MN | Sneaky Pete bucktail by Pete Mania, 47.5. |
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| 36" on a 14" squirrelly jake |
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| White twister, caught it in a bay out of a paddle boat at the cottage in northern ontario! |
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| 1991, 17 years old...Day Lake, WI Bigger size Buchertail blk/nickle, still have the bait -whopper 30"  Unforgettable though..its just girls were even more important then- lol Didn't really get crazy about muskies until 1997. |
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| 9/9/2001 Northland Bionic Bucktail (orange) - 36". After spending over $1K on a trip to LOTW, we drove with a friend to a lake about 1.5 hrs from home, spent maybe $25 on donuts, snacks, soda, and a little gas for the boat. Drizzly heavily overcast day, bunch of laydowns. Still remember it like it was yesterday. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | muddymusky - 3/7/2013 11:50 PM Mepps musky killer
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| September, 2005 Rad Dog Tandem Spinner black with orange and gold blades. 45" Minneapolis city lake. Thought it was a bass. |
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Location: MN | 30" tiger. Spinnerbait trolling for whatever on Clear lake in my new jon boat probably 20 years ago.
Caught a few more on Waconia using the 2" shadling trolling for walleyes in the early 90's
The fish that got me started muskie fishing was caught on waconia casting to shore while my friends boat had stalled. Hooked it in about 1' of water using the shadling and 6# test, 38" muskie begining of November.
The first muskie I caught on purpose was while trolling a Bionic bucktail, it was a 48" giant and I did not have a camera with me. I released it. Took me two more years to catch another as big and get a photo so I could get a replica made. |
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| 33" when I was eight years old on an old Strike King 5/8 oz. spinnerbait, thought I was snagged! Caught a 30" a few years later on an 8" Jake, raised/hooked/lost and caught many fish since then! |
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Location: SE Wisc and Vilas County | trying to remember but im pretty sure my fish musky was caught on a black and silver spinnerbait while fishing for bass. she was 35 inches and that started my passion for muskys. pretty much threw down the bass gear and spent most of my time musky fishing after that. |
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| First hooked? Or first brought to the boat? My first hooked struck a 5" jointed, knock off minnow lure in loud firetiger. It hit--to my complete surprise--while I was casting from the bank of a creek near where it joins the Allegheny River. It broke the line after a ten minute tussle. First boated came a long time thereafter on a jointed 8" Depthraider in, of all things, chart. pikie. Never was I so glad to see a fish. At least it confirmed that they existed--I was starting to wonder, though the first hooked had shown itself on a rocket-like leap out of the water as soon as it felt the hooks. The second fish was a long time coming too. |
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Location: Sycamore, IL | Creek Chub Pikie jointed minnow: Early 80's, I was maybe 8 or 9 years old, my dad took me up to Century Lodge on Eagle Lake. We got an "indian" guide, (Stanley Gardener) to take us around and after catching what seemed like hundreds of hammer handle pike we asked him if he knew where to catch a muskie. He took us to the first spot and handed my dad a globe and said "cast" while pointing at a submerged boulder. The water exploded as a "huge" muskie jumped clear out of the water, but missed the bait. After a few more casts we motored across the bay to another submerged boulder in a bit deeper water. The guide handed my dad a Creek Chub and told him where to cast. On the second cast my dad hooked into his first musky, a 42". We kept that fish and had it mounted- makes me smile every time I see that mount. After that fish my dad asked me if I wanted to cast the Creek Chub. I casted that bait for the next three days and caught my first muskie (a 28"? tiger) on the last day of our trip. I've had the fever ever since...
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Location: South East Wisconsin | Chartreuse Copper Wilderness Bucktail.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | 1994 On a Spinner Bait. It was a Tiger, and I was suckered into this Madness ! |
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Location: Eau Claire,WI | Silver and black Rapala,late 80's one of 5 for the day,had 3 others on.The fish was 32" biggest of the day was 38". I have NEVER been the same since!
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| A 36 incher on a Perch Super Shad Rap fishing with a 6 foot Rhino rod with a huge spincast reel...I still remember buying a few baits after that and telling my Dad "I'm just getting a few...I won't get too crazy into this" HA! |
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Location: Plymouth, MN | On a white buzz bait while fishing for bass. Had been fishing for muskies earlier that day, nothing was moving, so decided to give bucketmouth a try, and after a few nice ones a 40+ 'skie decided to show itself. Was my first real follow. Shortly after that she decided to eat it as I burned the buzz bait back to the boat. Never forget the feeling of landing my first one. |
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| Stopped in Antigo at Mepps as a kid, had them make a black/red killer, caught my first on that lure on 3 lakes chain, casting:) BR |
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| Early 60's in Michigan. Trolling a flatfish. Don't remember the length but remember it wasn't long enough to be a keeper. |
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Location: Wisconsin | A 700 series Buchertail Char blade/Blk skirt. Many Moons have passed since that day! |
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| Split shot and half a night crawler. Twelve or thirteen years ago fishing near a dam for smallies. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Growing up watching Bob Mehsikomer, I thought the only two lures to throw were the awaker and jackpot. Caught my first on the awaker...best friend got his first on a jackpot. Both were hi-30inchers. |
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Location: Not far enough north! | First fish for me was a real challange. Was the summer of 96. Worked for the IDNR and fished some strip mine lakes every night after work with my cousin. First we'd get some gills for catfish bait then bass fish till dark and cat fish till about midnight. Well one evening while throwing a Manns deep diver for bass I had a big fish grab the lure right at boatside turn its head cut the 10lb mono and swin into the depths. I instantly started shaking and hit my knees on the floor of the boat. Cousin says what happened? I said musky, Big Musky! We sat there for a few minutes and believe it or not the fish shook the lure and it came floating up... Got her two weeks later (August 11 only fish date I remember to this day) fifty yards from original sighting on the same rod, line, lure but after that first time we both had leaders on everynight whenever we hit that area of shoreline. We hand landed her actually got good measurements and had a poloroid camera in the boat then released her. It was a 48" Tiger. We had no idea what we had and never thought about keeping her but with good measurements it creamed the state record and would still have it today... Took me 13 Years to beat that fish for length (Pure) but I doubt I will ever get a bigger tiger that that one. Been Cursed ever since... |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Good thread.
First musky came while crappie fishing and attached itself to my crappie.
First targeted musky I caught was on the infamous Black Skirt, Nickle blade Double cow girl. In fact a little more than half of my fish have come on that bait or a similar one of the same color combo. Best color combo out there, well for blades anyway
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| Caught my first musky on a black and silver Bill Norman DR3 that a friend gave to me and said, "here, you'll catch your first musky on this thing."
It was 48.75 inches long and I caught it on February 5th 2009 at 3:30 on a snowy afternoon while fishing by myself. Man! I can still see that big silver flash when she hit...
Catching that fish has had a big impact on how I have spent most of my free time since.
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | At the time a 2nd hand Reef Hawg it's kinda brown aka brownie. With a magnafying glass you might even find some paint still on her! She rests retired on the wall above my chair at the cabin with many fish to her credit. I thought all Reef Hawgs were sent from heaven back then, now I know only SOME are!! |
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| 1975 Leech Lake 5 Mile Point on a lindy rig. 25 lbs . My dad gave it to the resort . It was eaten by someone. |
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| Mepps Muskie Killer, gold blade, squirrel skirt. (31")
My wife's first was at the same resort (Fireside Lodge) the year before on a #5 Mepps, yellow body, gold blade, squirrel skirt. Her's was 35". She also caught a 37" northern on the same lure, same day, same spot. That started the lure's nickname "magic". That day pretty much hooked us.
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Location: Auburn Indiana | Caught my first muskie on a sucker fishing with a guide. When I set the hook I thought it was a shark! I must have made a ton of commotion because after that 36" ski was in the net, the guide said to me that from this day forward I will always call this spot on the lake orgasm point. |
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Location: Madison, WI | My first grabbed a bluegill in minoqua when i was 8 yrs old. Got it to the boat and when my dad tried to grab it let go. Did get the bluegill though. The first one i landed was on a rattlebait fishing a river from shore. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | White bass sized spinnerbait on Grindstone Lake. 32 incher, think I was 12. I'll never forget it. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | 40" on a black orange Mepps musky killer in 1990. |
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Location: Bemidji, Lake Vermilion | Windels Harrasser, yellow, Vermilion, 42 inches. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Walleye Suick on Baby Lake in Northern MN....38"....this is where I grew up learning how to toss baits. Would have to throw the 14 ft. lund and 10 hp johnson in the back of the truck....unload it in the deep sand....get unstuck...go fish...load it back up...get unstuck....head home. Life was GREAT back then! Would have been in the 80's BTW. |
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| Was 14yrs old, 1961....Minnesota, trolled red& white bass-oreno. Never forget it. Probably only 32" jumped twice....with my dad. |
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Location: north metro, MN | I got my first when I was five years old on a silver cisco kid. 48.5 inches long. I caught a handful more between then and the time I was twelve. My dad started hunting more then fishing after that so I bass fished around home until I was 15 and then it was back to muskies ever sense. |
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Location: Windy City | Mepps musky killer nickel/white. |
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| Fishing for panfish with my 9 year old daughter on her birthday. Hooked a low 20's musky on a jig/leech that was soaking off the back of the boat. As a kid, first reel I ever bought with my own money was a Mitchell 300. I found an old Mitchell 300 at a rummage sale last summer (along with a $2 whippy old rod) and the fish put up quite a fight on that rig. My daughter was hollering and whooping it up. It's twin was swimming along with it checking out the action.
I caught more fish on that rod/reel last summer than all my other gear combined.
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| 40 incher using a firetiger super rattletrap! |
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| Blue muskie boss. 43". I hooked one within the first 30 minutes of that trip on a grandma. It went skyward after i set the hook head shaking like crazy. I thought for sure that grandma was going come unbuttoned and hit me in the face! I just ducked down and watched my bait go one way and fish the other. |
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Location: SE, WI. | 33"ER, on a #3 mepps... once I first got my drivers license, I got in my dads Chevy, grabbed my waders , my ugly stick,10lb test, and walked the east shores of Pewaukee. Think I landed one the first 3 openers, 1975,76,77....crazy stuff. |
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Location: WI | 1st musky ever was on an orange 1/4 oz jig & twistertail, 22" fish
1st musky while musky fishing was on a crappie jounted shallow raider, 32" |
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| 6in firetiger Jake and it was 32" |
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| 41" Winnipeg river on a grinder. Only other musky on that bait was my sister's BF`s 1st Musky. A 50 1/8 from Tonka. |
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| My brother brought me on my first muskie trip to Vilas Country. I hooked my first skie on LVD. I fought her for maybe five minutes and she came unhooked when buried in a weedbed. I was hooked! Bought a new boat the next week. My bro and I went to Eagle Lake the day I got my boat because he had heard that the lake had muskies. Twenty minutes in to the trip I hooked up and landed a 46" on a silver/black muskie killer. Back in June of 03'. My life has never been the same since! |
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Location: Marshfield, WI | First was on a walleye minnow and was 15". First on a musky bait was a black and silver Mepps. It followed another guys bait in, we all figure-eighted and it went under the boat. The other two kept casting and I kept figure-8ing. Fish came back and grabbed it. Fish was maybe 30". |
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| 1976 Vilas County, Black and Silver Smitty, 42.5 inches, laid in the case at then Bennets Sport across from Island that's still there and earned a photo in the Lakeland Times. Only one I ever killed on purpose. |
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| Mid 80s on Shingwak lake Ont. on a cisco kid low 30s |
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Location: New Jersey | Chart/gold bass size spinnerbait....... $0.99 from sports authority. She was about a 40"er. I was bass fishing with the old man and we were not prepared. One of the coolest memories i have with "Pop." |
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | I was 8 years old and caught a 29"er on a 3" black and silver floating rapala. Still have the lure with a tooth hole. First legal one 36" when i was 10 on 7" bomber long A jointed model.
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| my first muskie was a 38" that i got on a rizzo tail.she followed as soon as it it the water and before i could figure out what it was (panic)she exploded on it 15 feet or so away.that picture makes me laugh because of the what the hell just happened look i had on my face. |
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| 24" Tiger caught on a 3" Black/Silver Floating Rapala Minnow. Caught at age 14 while smallie fishing in a local river in 1977
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| IAJustin - 3/8/2013 10:14 AM
1991, 17 years old...Day Lake, WI Bigger size Buchertail blk/nickle, still have the bait -whopper 30" Unforgettable though..its just girls were even more important then- lol Didn't really get crazy about muskies until 1997.
My first was also at age 17 on Day Lake. Summer of '93. I was twitching a straight Rapala minnowbait (red/gold belly) by the nearest the bog edge from the campground. 34" drilled it. It really was an awesome, amazing experience and I don't think a day has gone by ever since that I haven't spent some time daydreaming about muskie fishing! |
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| My first Muskie was a 43 in. caught down by Steelton, Pa. in the Susquehanna River early morning , first light, fishing with a friend for Muskies, I made the first cast while he was getting a lure on, shortly after lure hit the water the J-13 Rapala perch color was hit. At first I thought I was stuck then the line went up river and then I knew what I had |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Red and white daredevil 1978 |
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| 1980 something, maybe 11 or 12 years old. 28" on a blk/silver 7" Rapala on the Chipewa Flowage. |
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Location: IL | Orange firetiger hell pup. 35.5 |
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Location: Hudson,WI | Spoon Plug |
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| June 2009 41 1/2" perch MF shad |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Like Mr. Dahlberg, I feel "old"! Got my first "legal" muskie my 3rd year muskie fishing in September of 1957. Was starting to rain; I was using a yellow globe (yellow bird) and got the fish on a figure 8. Was 33 inches and 10 pounds...ya never forget!! |
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| A 40"er on a 1/8th ounce jig and minnow fishing for walleyes.
My first one when I was actually fishing for muskies was a 36 1/2"er on a Cisco Black n Blue jointed Radtke Pikie Minnow. |
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| 39" on Teal in Hayward on Labor Day morning...blew up surface hitting a red/black bucktail...adrenaline rush hooked me |
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| A 41" night fishing on little St. Germain, black/siver depth raider. |
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Location: Grand Marais, MN | Rapala 11cm gold original floater. Caught it casting for walleyes closed to dusk over a shallow rockpile. still my favorite lure of all time for all the other action i got on it when i was a kid. My granddad gave it to me when i was six and i just recently got around to retiring it. |
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| Leech Lake, summer 1996. 38 inchers. Purple mepps giant killer with an orange blade. Fishing with my dad and a guide. You never forget the first. |
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| First muskie was 34" on Canyon Lake in Ontario, on a brown/white Tek-Neek in I think 1997. I remember it swung and missed the Tek-Neek halfway back on a cast and being so pist the fish missed it and my buddy said, "throw it back over there it might hit again." I thought, no way, but did it anyway and twitched it for maybe three feet and the fish crushed it. Ended up catching 16 muskies that week and I've been screwed ever since.
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Location: tHe LaKe Of PrIoR, mN | First muskie was on a lindy rig with a jumbo leech it was 50" I caught and released her on lake winnibigoshish still haven't forgot watching her swim away... That was 15 years ago and I was ruined just didn't really want to walleye or bass fish after that anymore
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Location: Dixon, IL | My first musky was 33 inch on a large Roostertail spinner below Illinois lake's dam in 1983. |
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| First Muskie was a 34" on a BOBBIE BAIT !! Caught 3 legals that weekend --all on that same bait--and have been hooked ever since |
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | June 1990 lake winter i was 7yrs old fishing with my dad. i had my blue/char 3/8 oz spinnerbait over the side of the boat, two feet of line out, 5hp johnson going about as fast as it could on our way back to the cabin we were renting for the weekend. 25'' musky. i remember EVERY detail of that catch. my mom caught her first that day too on a blk/org 1/2 oz spinnerbait 39'' |
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Location: B;acksburg Virginia | my first was 50 inches on a home made bucktail with orange skirt and nickel blade in 2006 |
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Location: Indiana | F18 magnum rapala in silver trolled at a 10' weed line. |
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Location: Ludington, MI | Jointed 8-inch Believer trolled downstream at 4.5 mph, last day of the trip, fishing alone, half hour left until we were leaving town. It was the brown-yellow jointed model. Banging off the rocks in 9 fow and all of a sudden a rock pulled back hard. |
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Location: Missouri | My first was caught on a Suick (Nighthawk color pattern). It was 47" long and one of the most memorable moments i've had. Been a muskie addict ever since. |
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Location: NE Wisconsin | First was 33.25", Aug. 3, 1961 on an orange 1.5 oz ABU Reflex. A5'6" Hedon Pal Musky Special rod with a Pfluger Rocket reel, loaded with 45# braided. I was 11 yrs old, fishing alone in a 14 ft Alumina craft Model A boat with 1957 3hp Johnson outboard. That one event has cost my much throughout my life. All of it well worth it. |
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| Around 1986 got my first musky with my brother. It was a 27'' tiger I got on a castmaster spoon fishing for trout! It fought like crazy and ran through our legs as I fought it! I was yelling so loud my dad came down from the van because he thought I was hurt! I still have the bent treble hook from the lure! My next musky and first pure, was about 1993 when I was 15. It was a beautiful 31.5'' PA musky that crushed a homemade silver/white bucktail! |
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Location: Maplewood, MN | Shallow Invader. Burning that baby. |
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| 34.5" on Lac Viuex Desert. Caught on a pink Mepp's Cyclops spoon first turn into the figure 8. Funny thing was the fish came from under the boat the complete opposite way of my retrieve. I was 13 and was shaking so much that my dad said he could feel the boat moving in the back by him. |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | #2 silver mepps... about 10 years old haha
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| 6 lb. mono, hook, sinker, and a fathead minnow. Mine was an incidental catch while fishing for walleyes on opening weekend of walleye season on the Mississippi River. I was reeling in a rock bass that got absolutely crushed and luckily I managed to land the fish. Didn't get a measurement on the fish but easily 45"+. It took me another 4 years until I actually started targeting muskies. |
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Location: oswego, il | I caught two hybrids on lake shabbona the year it opened. caught them 10min apart neither were very big. caught them on a 3" gold floating rpala 4lb berkely trilene xl, zebco cardinal 3 with matching prostaff fiberglass rod. was back in the no motor zine north shoreline. remember it like yesterday. still have that rod and reel. lots of good memories with it. |
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Location: West Bend, WI | Little cleo about 28" on the eagle river chain |
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| A red and white hula popper from a small aluminum boat with my brother and father and six-horse motor. It was 32 inches and took many minutes to land with the spincast reel and 10-pound line. Bass fishing on Wildcat Lake near Boulder Junction.
That musky changed my life, leading me to a new passion, eventually leading to a book, and a new home near musky waters.
If I hadn't caught that fish, my life would have gone some other direction.
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| reefhawg 11 years old on LOTW it was 43in |
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| Maybe a 30" on a 1/4 oz. white spinnerbait while fishing a bass tourney 35 years ago. |
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Location: Black Creek, WI | 34 incher on a silver/black jointed rapala while bass fishing. Way back in 1979. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | 39" on a squirly jake in the figure 8! I was hooked for life!!! |
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| ugg...a horrible memory
34" hit a all black 10" suick a couple feet from the boat and proceded to jump in the boat (old aluminum lund) and completely freakout with that 10" suick whipping all around totally tangling everything in sight until the fish was totally wrapped up.
when i finally got everything settled down the fish was as dead as a nail. tossed it back and sat in awe. then a bald eagle came down and scooped it right out of the water and flew away with it.
i still carry that 10" suick with me but have never thrown it again. |
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Location: Lockport, IL | 32 incher on a #3 Mepps Aglia fishing on LVD using a medium bass pole with 10 pound mono and no leader. I became obsessed after catching that fish and thankfully learned quite a bit more about muskie fishing since then. I'm still not that good at catching them, but I'm great at releasing them. |
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Location: Wakefield, MI | 1/4 oz Beetle Spin on 8 lb Stren with a 7' ML St Croix, 36" Muskie. Actually have caught a few on the same setup, my dad had one about 48" on, had it up to the boat but we couldn't land it. |
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Location: West Chester, OH | I'd been casting all morning, when my wife finally put down her book & iced tea & proceeded to catch 3 northerns on almost as many casts w/a #3 Mepps.
Not a complete fool, I put on a #3 Mepps & promptly boated 16" of romping, stomping musky....smaller than any of her northerns! |
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Location: Waconia, MN | Hot n Tot lure, 27" muskie. Not muskie fishing |
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| Trolling with a Little Cleo silver on Yellow for pike, when I was 10, and my brother who was 16. It was just us two in the boat. I had the fish to the boat a couple of times and didn't have a net. There was a Walleye fishermen near by watching the whole thing happen. My brother shouted out if they had a net. They did, and a came over to help.
They came over and older gentlemen jumped into our 12 ft boat and landed the fish. I wish I had a picture of that fish, but it was the early 80's and we were kids.
I will remember my first fish, and the kindness of older gentlemen helping me out!
Just remember when you see a couple of kids out in smaller boat, and they are having trouble with a fish, don't stand by and watch, shout out if they need any help. Who knows, that kid you helped, could be the next Bucher, Gelb or Heiting. |
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| Over 60 years ago when I was 10 and fishing by myself on Lower Gresham lake i Vilas Co. Casted a Heddons Crazy Crawler next to a reed and caught a 30" fish. Still rates as my biggest fishing thrill. |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | I caught my first muskie a 35"er trolling a 2600 series Pikie Minnow in HornedAce color in the Upper Niagara River in July of 1977.Larry Ramsell,I was 8 years old when you caught yours,see muskie fishing is good for your well being! |
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| In April of 1963, I caught a 34 incher on a Heddon Torpedo, in the South Fork of the Hughes River, Ritchie Co., WV., using a Pflueger Supreme direct drive reel, on a 5 ft. Shakespeare glass rod. In April of 2013 I am going to try to recreate the event as I have all of the original equipment..may need a new muskie.. |
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| Odyssey pig jr. jerbait. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Tallywacker. |
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Location: Minnesota | Mine was a fatty 38" on a blue & silver showgirl and she hit as soon as it hit the water. |
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| 17" on Black/Yellow Crane Bait Middle Island Creek, WV 1989. Lost count how many fish and expoy repair jobs on that bait, I still throw it. |
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| Baby loon top raider |
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| Caught a small one, maybe 16-20"s on a Rapala minnow. |
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Location: E. Tenn | 41" on a 1/2 oz. spinnerbait, back in the early 80's. |
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| 1997 on a suick fishing from shore, musky was only 3" longer than the bait |
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Location: Plymouth IA | It was from the old mans tackle fishing 3rd river from the old wooden bridge. Old man is gone, guess that makes me the old man now. I still have the lure, here is a picture. It had a hook on the end that has rusted away. Sorry about the piece of wire in the picture.
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Location: Canada | My first was a 38" fish caught trolling a jointed black sucker Super Stalker. |
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Location: Bloomington, IL | My first was a 35" on a 6" Hi-Fin Trophy Minnow...Orange Tiger pattern. I wound up catching 3 on it the first day I went musky fishing. |
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| Double 10 bucktail with silver blades and black skirt. Not a shock for color but just one that has worked so well. Hard to forget the ones that seem to catch fish during both good and bad weeks on the water. |
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| Dead sticking a Suick after 6 hours of fishing 34" 1989. |
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Location: Morgantown, WV | I caught my first muskie recently on a baby cowgirl!
This was probably my fourth time out fishing for muskie. I was fishing a local river early, casting with a storm flat stick. I saw a big fin protrude from some shallow water behind where I was fishing. I thought it might have been a carp, but I made a cast in that direction and got my first follow from a nice muskie. I tried to do a figure eight but in hind sight it was probably terrible. I'll need to practice that for sure.
I made many more casts in the vicinity of the follow. Since my lure was getting fouled with weeds I switched lures--baby cow girl in black and nickel.
I made many more casts and was about to move on. I said "One more cast." Casting farther than I wanted put me in a very shallow area. I thought I'd get snagged in the weeds so I started reeling as fast as I could as soon as the lure hit the water.
About halfway back to the canoe, this fish blew my baby cowgirl up! When I set the hook, the fish immediately went air born! The fish seemed enormous! After a short but intense fight, I managed to net it myself without incident. Luckily there was another fisherman nearby who was able to take a photo for me before I released the fish. I'll never forget this experience--I'm definitely hooked on muskie fishing!
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Location: Minnesota | Trolling Rapala super shad rap, 36 inches and super girthy for a July, was 12 years old. Hooked ever since. |
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| 34 Incher on a Buzzbait during a bass tournament when I was 23ish.
I have never actually caught a musky on a musky bait. This is my second year trying. |
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Location: Oconomowc, WI | 7.5" jointed Grandma bait (white belly perch) on a figure 8. Little spud at 27.5" but being that I was in middle school, it was pretty awesome at the time! |
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| small purple Rizzo Wiz, 38" -- hooked for life!
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Location: Minnesota | 2000 32 inch Haden lucky 13 |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | 44.5" on a yellow Marabou jig and a fathead walleye fishing in the spring on the Wi river. Had quite a few incidental catches fishing for other species, now I fish them only from opener till ice. |
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| First tiger musky was on a single hook sucker rig years ago(wouldn't even think about doing that now) 36 incher from crystal lake n robbinsdale. First real musky was also a 36 incher on a salmo fatso crank on forest lake, still love that lure. |
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| 6-7" perch, single hook on a bobber off my uncles dock. Many years ago. I plan on retiring that way also. |
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| Small Ghost Tail. Lake Independence. |
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Location: Minneconia | Sam Ubl - 3/8/2013 10:37 AM
muddymusky - 3/7/2013 11:50 PM Mepps musky killer
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| Caught my first this summer, 48" on a TrueGlide Rumor. Followed it up with a 49.5" three weeks later on a hardhead. Now what? Fifty baby! And it will probably take the rest of my life... |
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Location: Bloomington, IL | Both tiger and real by accident. 36" tiger on a pounded copper spoon. The spoon was tiny, too. Maybe 2-2 1/2" long. First real was 39" on a mepps aglia 5, brown skirt, red and white on gold blade. Stock number B5ST G/RW-BR. Lol
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Location: Kansas City BBQ Capitol of the world | The Summer of 75 on the Niagara River. The old man took a Pike Chub and put a bigger hook on the back, bent the lip on each side with pliers and said try this, it will give it a different action. It worked. Priceless!
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Location: Waukee, IA | 7 INCH WALLEYE-LIKE SUICK ON BABY LAKE IN MN. Caught a 34 incher out suspended off a sunken island. |
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Location: MN | 43" black/green inhaler bucktail on Cass lake like 15 years ago. |
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| 47" leech lake bobby bait.. caught solo |
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Location: B;acksburg Virginia | my first was 50 inches even and 38 pounds. caught her on a bucktail my brother makes |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Bagley's B-Flat Shiner glide bait in a green perch pattern on Mille Lacs 1995 or 96? About 36 inches. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | My first purchase and hookup came on a single hook, black on black beast teaser with double 8's. 33" Wisconsin River musky. |
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| Black and orange blade Buchertail 500. 37" Thousand Island Lake on the Cisco Chain. |
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| 40 incher ate a copper back dussa |
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| 43 incher on a Perch colored J-13 Rapala on the mornings first cast, partner was still rigging a lure on |
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| 44" fatty on a 3/4oz black/red spinnerbait on my 7'2" medium action bass rod on Vermillion |
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| First musky ever was a 18 inch baby caught on a super rooster tail on Big Vermillion lake Hudson ontario. (good to know natural reproduction is strong on Vermillion!)
First musky actually targeting musky was a 38 incher on a mepps musky maribu gold with black skirt. |
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| First one was a 25"er that hit a chart. pikie Depthraider in a federal reservoir. On the cast. At the time I was wondering if these fish really existed. |
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| 43" River Muskie
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Location: Mapleton Mn | 43incher on a X-rap fishin smallies on Mille Lacs. That fish started this whole new obsession.
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| I find it funny we all know the bait,shirt,hat,spot, weather condition,lake size of our first musky 20+ years ago but somehow forget our wife's birthday and our anniversary that happens every year at the same time... |
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| 37" on a #0 red/white gold Mepps on a Smurf combo August 1984 about a month before i turned 10.. |
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Location: Poynette WI. | A 5-6in floating perch rapala back in 1995 on Park Lake Pardeeville wis. below the dam in a small pond size spill way. 36in. there was a 3ft rock sticking out of the water about 15ft off shore and I was just about to rip my lure over so I wouldnt get hung up and WHAM!!!!
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Location: Seymour, WI | Late 80's, N. Twin Lake, Vilas, Co. 34" muskie followed a silver mepps muskie killer. I didn't do a figure 8 and the fish started to swim away. I made a bad panicked cast back out in front of the fish and it followed in again and hit on the first turn of the figure 8. I can remember the whole thing very clearly. Wish I had a picture of the fish. |
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Location: Southern W.Va. | 32" on a 5"Rapala on Middle Island Creek here in W.Va. Bass fishing with dad. I thought it was a monster at the time. Mauser |
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| 30" on a sucker Evergreen Lake. 13 or 14 yrs old in between duck hunting |
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Location: Northern Illinois | 36" Tiger...Sand Lake: Orange Blade/Black Hair and Tail Bucher Mogambo. |
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Location: Lake St. Clair | 42"er on a black/orange double cowgirl. Fish hit after one crank. Very acrobatic fish and actually jumped over the trolling motor once it got to the boat. Been addicted ever since! |
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| 32" on a Creek Chub Pikie minnow back in 1982...
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| 32 incher on an orange on orange Rizzo Whiz on Lake Wingwa. Told my partner that it was the stupidest looking bait I have ever seen. After a backlash every 5th cast, she ate out and I screamed " I can't fight this thing"!! After a quick net job, I shook for 10 minutes and I knew then that this was the fish for me. |
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Location: Lincoln, NE | 37"er on a walleye colored pro pounder. |
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| 38 incher on a white Magic Maker! remember it like it was yesterday! |
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| 40" Pelican Lake on Bobby Bait. |
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| yesterday in Tennessee. 35" on a Musky Innovations Shallow Invader |
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| Jig head and a minnow while fishing out of the back of the boat on Cedar while my buddy was casting for Musky out the front of the boat. My first Musky might have been 17" max. I did not fish for Musky at the time but he has since gotten me hooked. i initially refused to Musky fish and would always target other species out the back of the boat while he targeted musky. however, it all changed when saw him pull up an absolute silverback gorrilla on a hawg wobbler. After seeing that fish I started buying musky gear as soon as we got home from that trip and have not stopped since..... |
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| First muskie I caught was on a small floating rapala going for trout. I remember thinking it was an odd looking pickerel then I figured it out. It was about 16" long. The first one I caught targeting them was 33" on a Mepps musky killer. |
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| 6" rapala husky jerk trolling for walleyes...life would never be the same again. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | My first was a 34" on a Wisconsin Lake, caught on a 9" bulldawg in the old perch color. |
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| First musky was caught on a 12" walleye fishing with dad
First musky when targeting them was on a 6 1/2" Woodie |
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Location: B;acksburg Virginia | I caught my first muskie on a orange skirt brass blade bucktail that my brother made for me. She was 50 inches even and weighed 38 pounds it got me hooked for life. |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | My first muskie was caught on a Pikie Minnow 2600 Series in Horned-Ace color with lip wing and tip bends,trolled behind leadcore line,near Strawberry Island on the Upper Niagara River back in 1975,it was 35"! No depthsounder,no net,hand landed!
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Location: St Paul, Minnesota | 36 Incher caught shore fishing (because my fishing partner with the boat didn't want to go out that day) with an Original Shad color Hawg Wobbler. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Around 1965 I caught one sub 20 inch while bass fishing in a canoe #2 mepps . The first one while targeting them was 42 inches casting swim wiz strawberry colour (I'm guessing around 1978).
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| All of 28", Lake Wingra, 9/2/2004, trolling (yes, I said trolling, on a 300 acre lake...) in someone else's boat. Don't know the lure. Least memorable fish to date. I reeled it in. Whoopdee#*#*. (I'll never forget the first one I hooked in about 1985) |
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| Black and silver Hi-Finn. Few streaks of silver in the black hair. The good days of a small black and silver single blade Bucktail. 39 1/2" @ 8 years old with my dad. |
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| 1993 on Indian Lake in Ontario. Throwing a fire tiger Bill Lewis rattle trap. My dad and Grandpa had anchored and we're slip bobber fishing walleyes. This muskie follows to the boat and I had no clue what a figure 8 was so I just let the lure sit there and the fish takes off. Make another cast, fish comes in and I just leave the bait hang in the water while the Muskie stares at it. Give it a couple jigs and POW, game on. Think I was using a 6'6" Quantum Snapshot rod with a Shimano FX 200 and 8 lb test. Probably was a low 30" fish. Never got a measure or a pic, wish I would have, just popped it off at the side of the boat. I'll never forget it! |
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Location: Walker, MN | During a downpour in 1993 on Sugar lake in Wright county Mn a 38incher brunched boatside on a Blue Fox Spinner. After literally a hundred follows it was total redemption. |
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Location: Walker, MN | ckhawkeye51 - 1/20/2014 9:24 PM
Black and silver Hi-Finn. Few streaks of silver in the black hair. The good days of a small black and silver single blade Bucktail. 39 1/2" @ 8 years old with my dad. 8 Yrs old...very cool!
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| It was a jointed, hard plastic bait called a Bulldog in a smallmouth pattern. I was trolling Lake St Clair in Anchor Bay and running the bait on a down rod with 6 feet of line out at the back of the boat. She was 42". In 12 hours fishing over 2 days, we had 11 strikes and landed 7 muskies ranging from 35" to 48". We all thought catching muskies was easy.......... |
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| Black and Orange B-Flat. 39". But, that wasn't the one that changed my fishing life, it was my first "encounter" using a Johnson Silver Minnow in perch color. I think I was 13. My second encounter was with a Jimmy Houston Helicopter lure on a bright blue-bird day after I'd just took a swim in the bay. |
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Location: Aurora | Jig & pig during bass opener on Minnetonka late 80's.
Saw it turn completely on it's side to pick it up. |
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| April, 1963, Pflueger Supreme Direct drive reel, 5 ft True Temper rod, on a Heddon Torpedo....34 incher from the South Fork of the Hughes River, Fonzo, WV... |
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| 34 incher on a sherbert super d |
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| #3 Blue Fox fishing for smallies during a light afternoon rain. All of 18" or so. First real one on a gold/black Mepps Musky Killer. That one was right around 40" Seems like a long time ago. |
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Location: Walker, MN | Edit:maybe it was a Buchertail....yes a Buchertail! |
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| 51''x20 or 22 don't remember on a Krisco not a bad start eh?
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Location: Money, PA | Yellow Mepps bucktail spinner. Early 80s - 36" Kawartha Lakes
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| about a 20" muskie a 5" or so Pike chub. We were fishing for anything that would bite. |
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| I caught my first muskie, on a purple Mepps muskie killer. I was in high school, back in 1977. Vilas County, Wisconsin. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | First one ever....A 52".... on a Pink Rapala Xrap 3 7/8", 10 lb mono.
That was the day I came to the dark side. Told my dad who was in the boat " that was way too much fun. We gotta learn how to do this on a regular basis!!!" |
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Location: ON | Manns Baby 1 Minus - 32" |
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| 37" on a walleye colored rapala super shad rap.
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| low 40"s on a bulldawg figure 8 at the boat |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Blue chrome shallow raider....straight cranking. Hadn't learned to actually twitch
anything yet. Still catches fish that way though. |
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| Red head creek chub, 41" spotted musky. |
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Location: Tomahawk, WI | Green Mepps Muskie killer with a silver Blade. The fish came right out from underneath the boat. I never know it was there. Great fight, it was 36" long. Best part was my grandfather catching one the same day. We kept them to eat back then, so I have a great picture of me and my grandfather holding the fish in his front yard. Defiantly my most memorable day muskie fishing. And I still have the muskie Killer!!!!!
Bone Lake, back in the 80's
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| I think my first was a 25"er on a prototype hi-fin, boatside....it was one of those cranks where the lips always broke off. I was 5. I think.
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| Heddon Torpedo, 1964, |
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| My first Muskie was on rattlin rap while bass fishing. Caught two that day both in the low thirties. My first musky when targeting them was a 42 inch on a magnum double bulldawg with walleye pattern. |
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Location: Stanley, WI | Firetiger DT-4, wade fishing a river, 28" |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Cobb … perch colored on Trout Lake … Wisconsin. |
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Location: Metro , Mille Lacs, and G. Rapids | 38 1/2 on a 8inch straight believer at indy |
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Location: B;acksburg Virginia | I caught my first on a bucktail my brother makes she was 50 inches and 38 pounds. I do have a replica of her from Joe Fittante. I did catch a 491/2 incher on the same spinner last weekend. |
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Location: Madison, WI | First accidental musky was on a floating rapala in perch while bass fishing 28". After I figured out what it was from another angler I scratched my head and thought "why do I search for big bass when I could go after the biggest fish in the lake??". First musky caught intentionally was on a sucker @ 40". First on a lure was a prism shallow raider @ 30". |
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Location: Pennsylvania | 37 inch on a mepps musky killer. Gold blade yellow bucktail! |
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| Kitchi lake MN 40 incher on a bronze colored spoon. |
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Location: Schofield, Wisconsin | Chartreuse and silver blade Roland Martin Big Bass spinner! 32 " |
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| 5" Rapala 54 years ago while I was fishing for Bass 39" and it scared me looking at this fish with all those teeth . Never forget my first one . |
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Location: Fonda IA | A 30 incher caught on a casted jointed swim wizz in 1999 in West Okoboji. |
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| 37" on walleye rapala super shad rap on stonewall jackson lake in wv. |
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| I think it was 1987. My first boat, a tiny 12 ft. row boat with a 6hp Johnson. A med-hvy. spinning rod and reel with 14 lb. Trilene. Michigan still had there tiger stocking program going and a small lake near where I lived was known for putting out some big fish. The lake was actually an old mine pit about 90 acres in size but probably 200 feet deep. I was trolling an orange and black Salmon Slammer spoon and caught a 28 and 34 incher. Michigans size limit was 30 inches and I killed and ate that 34 incher. I have a couple of blurry photos of that fish. I was new to the area and later found out that it was illegal to use gas motors on that lake. |
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| First one was 1975 off the dock, casting a small Gapen bait that looked like a Beetle Spin with a black rubber skirt at the head. A beast at 25". Two years later got serious with a 31" on a 7" yellow Suick. Still have the rod, reel and bait. Ahh, the memories. |
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| She was a stout 39" on a blue and silver double cow girl, from a canoe. With the wife on our honeymoon.
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| 34 inch shoepack on a 3" curly tail. Came out of a river draining into Crescent. We slid a 12 foot aluminum over a beaver dam to get there. |
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Location: tamahawk,wi-elmwood pk,il | The Johnson silver minnow was what I got my first musky on over 40 years ago and i was fishing for muskies. The Johnson Silver Minnow with a pork frog or a twister tail is a much over looked bait. You can work this bait in just about the thickest weeds or timber you can find. I still use it when I need it today. I would have to put this bait in the top 10 for many species for the test of time. The Old School still pays off ! |
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| 40"er trolling Loon Lake in Antioch IL. In dense fog. It was Great!! |
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| 37" boatside strike on a firetiger cisco kid shallow crank. Been hooked ever since. |
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Location: Germantown, WI | My first musky was caught on a wooden Creek Chub Pikie Minnow using 12lb line and spinning gear. The lure had been passed down from my grandfather and was probably purchased in the late 1940s. It was probably 28-30" which was a legal musky in that part of Ontario at the time. It was the one and only musky I have ever kept and I vowed then that I would never keep another one barring a true trophy. Now that there are reproduction mounts, I don't see myself ever keeping one unless I have a true hawg that dies after all attempts to release are made. Sad to say, but sometimes it happens even to the best musky fishers out there, |
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Location: Naperville, IL | Gold super shad |
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| muddymusky - 3/7/2013 11:50 PM
Mepps musky killer
mine too...... a pink one |
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| 1987 up on Sweeney Lake in Oneida Cty, WI. It was our first "full year" of fishing Musky. Was with my Dad and Grandpa, and hadn't seen anything. I got frustrated and said "Im going bass fishing." I took off my Mepps Musky Killer, and put on a Foxy Jig. Remember those old commercials where the little Foxy Jig used to tease "neener, neener neener, you caaaaan't get me!"...and then the largemouth bass would come unglued and engulf it. Well, my Dad and Grandpa started making fun of me with that Foxy Jig, and you of course know what happened. A handful of casts after putting the little jig on and working the jig around some deadfall and thick weeds...and BOOM...I get a "big hit". My Dad thought I was messing with him, until he saw my rod (which was merely a heavy "bass rod" I bought with my paper route money) bent almost in half. A few minutes later we netted a 36" musky.
Catch and release was really just starting around the time, but my grandpa was obviously old school. My Dad handed me the fish, snapped a few polaroids, and then i gave the fish back to him. My Dad put the fish back in the water, and it swam off...and my grandpa goes, "what are you guys doing?" My Dad says back, "Letting it go." And my Grandpa says, "I can't believe you did that! I wanted to mount his first musky for him!" And my Dad goes, "Well, then why the h*ll didn't you say something before I let it go?" My grandpa says, "I never would have thought you'd toss it back, so I didn't think I needed to say anything."
I'm glad my Dad let it go. He was an In-Fisherman subscriber the day he bought our cabin in WI in 1984, and really started the C&R concept (via In-fisherman) for our whole family back in 1987. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Big girl on a what at the time amounted to a home made Squirm N' Jig.
Bet most of you have no idea what that is. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Probably some kind of squirrelly tail worm on a power/or pyramid head!!! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Was the first jig and worm available to us. Weird jig head, and a seriously crappy rubber like worm. Caught the heck out of the fish on my Dad's version. |
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Location: Delavan, WI | back in the mid 90's i got my first on The Eagle River chain on a water melon colored jointed thunderstick bass rod and spinning reel- i was however actually targeting musky though & got 2 that day- both in the 24"-26" size range, needless to say i was ectstatic!
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| 37" on Mille Lacs using a Orange Hair, Gold Blade Billy Fin bucktail with single hooks. After that fish it was destroyed. I desperately wanted to find more of those lures, but never could. That day was epic, between me and my buddy we had over 40 follows, but only one hookup. I saw the fish surface and I cast right to where I saw it joking about how I was going to catch it and it unloaded on it the second it hit the water. |
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| top water |
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| Finally got my brother his first a 47 to boot on a dbl 8 TI dominatrix |
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Location: Cave Run Lake KY. | Medinah13 - 3/8/2013 12:54 AM
Homemade SUPER UGLY multi color bucktail 34" XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Mine was a SUPER UGLY REBULT MULTI COLOR BILLY FINN bucktail, caught a bunch of muskie on it. Left it hanging in the boat one night and the next day it was gone. I only hope a Racoon didn't hook himself and run off with it. Also had a black South Bend SURF-ORENO WOOD LURE THAT CAUGHT A LOT OF FISH , that one day on the Chippewa Flowage I made a big long cast and the leader broke and it keep right on going always talk about it landing up in a Eagles nest. |
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| Suick ...43 "er |
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Location: Eagan, MN | 37"er on a musky pattern 6" Bagley crankbait on Long Lake, Price Co Wisconsin in 1987. Was a monumental battle on bass gear and stretchy mono line though I was intentionally fishing for musky at the time. It was pure joy when the net was finally slipped under that monster.
Brian
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