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| I was just reading a post about someone having their gear stolen and several replies of the same thing happening to others. I would like to believe that these are not other fisherman, and by the things I have seen I can stand firm in my beliefs. Reading that post I was inspired to post this story, about the muskie family. We were fishing the PMTT tourney in Eagle River this weekend when a storm blew in Friday morning. While laying in bed watching the rain fall, I saw a group of guys get in their truck and head off to breakfast. Well not 20 minutes later the wind picked up, blowing straight into our docks, the waves came over the back of their boat and pretty much sunk it. Luckily the water was only a couple feet deep, but the entire boat was swamped. As soon as it stopped raining everyone at the hotel, all competitors, and the hotel owner and his sons were bailing, setting up pumps, draining bait boxes, and doing everything they could to save the boat. By the time they got back from breakfast the boat was back afloat pumped out and as it turns out running just fine for the rest of the weekend. The stunned looks on their faces when they got back was priceless, they didn't know who to thank first and everyone there thought they did nothing special, just helping a brother in need. Tournament or not, I definitely have a lot more positive stories tell about our muskie brotherhood than negative. We get a bad wrap sometimes, but that's just because people don't know us. Keep up the good work | |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Great story and one I can relate to. Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm cursed when it comes to boats taking on water. First trip to LOTW we launch my Crestliner, fill it up with all of our gear and food for the week. We have a 30 min ride to Bay store Camp from the launch and the ride was rough to say the least. On the way in the bilge pump broke off witch left a 1-1/2" hole in the back. Of couse I didn't notice it until all the gear was unloaded and water didn't start flowing until the boat came to a stop. Frank Walsh scrambled and had my boat on a hoist just in time. A simple wine cork saved our trip along with Frank's quick thinking. Everyone in camp was helping and willing to take us on-board if we couldn't come up with a solution. This is only one of several boat sinking stories I have, that I was responsible for.
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Location: Merrill, Wisconsin | I will attest to the wonderful "Musky Family". I'm just about 16 and always loved to fish and until last year late musky season, never went musky fishing. My mom knew a lady from work that her husband was a big musky hunter and long story short, he took me out on his new tuffy boat and I was instantly hooked. There was no better feeling than just lobbing that big bait out into the water knowing at any second a fish of a lifetime could grab it. He's been teaching me all about the sport and helping me with equipment and supplying me with baits and spending his time to take me fishing. I owe him all the thanks in the world. Men like him are why one day I wanna try to pass this sport on to another person and introduce them to the family.
I'm probably 30 hours of fishing in, mixed between dam fishing and off the boat, still have yet to land a musky. But I wouldn't have spent any of those 30 hours any different if given a second chance. I'm glad to be apart of the musky world.
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | It's goes back to beginning too. You could see a musky fisherman for years and not share a word, but once the mutual subject comes up....When I was a pup at this crazy game I had an oldtimer reach into his tackle and give me his favorite bucktail still wet with slime. This was on the Chip Flowage at the landing!! We were friends for years after that meeting. I had passed the tradition along several times over. | |
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