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Location: Lebanon,Mo | Sold the house last month, and purchased our new home last month as well in central Florida. All the musky gear & boat is gone. We will be making the move the end of the month. Thanks to all for the years on here and to the staff here at MuskieFIRST. I'll keep in touch,and likely be back up in musky country from time to time. Good luck this season....
Fred
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Wow...brings back memories! We moved to Titusville back in 2003 and lived there for 3 years, before moving back to Wisconsin. I wish you good luck, and can truly say that it's a VERY different experience living in Florida. If you are coming from the Midwest, be very careful down there--many people don't have the same philosophies that folks in the Midwest seem to. There are lots of good people in the area you moved to, but then again there are lots of "not so good" people there are well. They don't have the 'Stand Your Ground" law down there for nothing...so be careful!
The fishing is incredible though, and the fishing folks I met were generally very very nice people. I didn't get to do much offshore stuff though, which is one thing I've regretted since moving back.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Nice! ... Congrats ... |
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| Awesome! I lived in SE Florida for 5 years and loved it! You'll have some amazing fishing, awesome weather and embrace the "Salt Life". It's a great state and I miss it everyday from Sept-April living in Metro Detroit. The wife and I have plans to get back down there for good once the kiddos are all grown up and on to college. Get out on the water ASAP and you'll forget all about your beloved Muskie. That species will fade away quickly once you hook into a 150# Tarpon. |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | ...and then a 1500-pound Hammerhead shark eats it right in front of you!
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| Can't wait to join you--We are planning on making the move down there is 3 years when I retire----have been spending time down there every winter and we just love it. the fishing is fantastic----i will be having 2 heck of a tackle sale myself before I make the switch to saltwater. I still like the MUSKY--but AS SAID---A Tarpon makes you forget about any freshwater species quickly once you hook up !! |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | If you have any silver Shallow Raiders, take them with you. The Speckled Trout seem to love them! I can't tell you how many I caught on them down there. I was always worried about having a porpoise go after one, but those things are WAY smarter than I was...lol. Even when they were in the area, they always kept their distance and never even came within two cast lengths while we were fishing.
I tried several different colors, but the silver ones seemed to work the best by far. I did catch a couple on the trout pattern as well, but nowhere near the number as on the silver model. Most of my SRs were the straight variety, so I really didn't try the jointed ones--but I don't see why they wouldn't work fine. But working the straight one a bit like a jerk bait seemed to really turn the trout on some days.
TB
Edited by tcbetka 5/19/2013 9:04 PM
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| Oh yeah.... 40" Snook love Hellhounds and Sebile Stick Shadd's!! If ever fishing from shore on a dock loaded with Snook underneath then make sure to always figure 8!! Seriously! In December I think I hooked and landed 8 Snook on a figure 8 off the dock!
Start stocking up on DOA, Mirrolure, Yo-Zuri, Bomber and Rapala to name a few! You'll enjoy the price reduction in baits vs Muskie lures but you'll get fed up with the rust on stuff in the beginning but learn to live with it.
Enjoy you lucky dog you!!! |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Oh yeah, good point... I had to replace hooks a few times per season, lol. Lots of Rust after very little time--and I would even wash down the lures when I would wash the saltwater off the boat in my driveway. The 6500 reels did OK though, with a good washing. I never pulled them apart myself but I did send them to Chuck over in Mosinee after we moved back, and he never told me there was any corrosion inside.
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Location: Kansas City BBQ Capitol of the world | With a rig like that you need to call yourself Captain Fred. Congratulations!
Missouri hasn't just lost one of it's best Muskie hunters but I feel like I am losing one of my brothers.
I will miss the hunts, the time, the phone calls, the messages, the thoughts, ideas, conversations and dreams.
Have a safe move and enjoy the Salt.
Ron
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Other than possibly missing the scenery of northern muskie lakes and of course missing your regular fishing buddies, the incredible number of saltwater fish which fight exponentially harder and in greater numbers than muskies will make your relocation very easy from a fishing perspective.
I have been told that it is physically impossible to be more than 60 miles from saltwater anywhere in Florida. For many muskie nuts, that is barely getting started to get to their favorite muskie lake.
From my friend's perspective (who lives nearly on the water in Florida), your first purchase should be the best GPS/sonar unit that you can afford, as much of the saltwater fishing, especially on the Gulf side, is tied to the location of wrecks. A good GPS map of wrecks is priceless!
You can always make an annual trip back to muskie fish, but all that will likely do is reinforce how incredible saltwater fishing is!
Good Luck!
Edited by Steve Van Lieshout 5/20/2013 7:17 AM
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Location: Green Bay, WI | There are a couple places in Northern FL where you can be more than 60-80 miles from saltwater, but I am not sure why people would want to live there...lol. For the most part, I think that rule is pretty accurate. Florida is an amazing place for anglers, for the reasons you mentioned Steve. And indeed, many (most?) of the plentiful saltwater species make musky fishing look like a day on the panfish dock at the city park. I remember once near Titusville, when the "baby" tarpon were in the Intracostal Waterway (Indian River), and people were fishing for them. These "baby" fish were 40-60" in length, and would repeatedly leap a couple feet out of the water! Baby...heh.
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Location: oswego, il | you are going to have to change your screen name to themanformerlyknowsasmissourimuskyhunter. looks like a nice setup and your fishing opportunities have increases tremendously. |
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| Yeah, it's amazing how powerful the Salt really is. I too would wash my baits and gear down everyday, really good an still came home with rusted hooks, split rings, rusted shut pliers but my Shimano reels held up perfect. Last time I upgraded my hooks to Owner Saltwater Grade and the Hyperwire split rings and love them! The inshore fishing on both side of coast is amazing! Then you have the Everglades in the winter months and you have a good fishing paradise!! Have fun!! |
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Location: The desert | Congrats....could be looking at a relocation myself, in the next month or so. |
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Location: Lake Saint Louis, MO | Freddy:
We'll miss fishing the 'skis with you, but K and I would love to come down in a couple of years and have you teach us all the saltwater tricks you've learned. Sorry we missed your going away bash, but we'll catch up with you before long! See if you can train Tarpon to love Dawgs...
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Location: Dixon, IL | That's very nice! I love Florida and I go there 1 or 2 times a year during late winter. Giant bass and big 'gills! |
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