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| Hey all,
New to the forum and wanted to share with you all.
My brother got his first muskie, and by days end we boated three of them. My brother got his first Tiger, and later that day I boated and released my 48 in/ 30+ pound tiger. It was a rough choice to let him go, and this was my first real trophy muskie. But I just could not take a beautiful creature like that from the lake. God smiled and on the next cast my buddy got this great 46 incher! We got the triple (later that trip my brother boated a 42 incher, so we all got 42+ inchers that trip)
The trip of a lifetime for a muskie fisherman 
http://youtu.be/nU7zVCEXHTU
BTW - if you want to get right to the live action and the muskies they start at 1:10
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Location: Naperville, IL | Good call on the release! |
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Location: Elk Grove Village, IL & Phillips, WI | Get a replica made! |
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Location: MN | That's a awesome tiger! One helpful tip I'll offer though is to unhook them in the net instead of bringing them into the boat. |
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Location: Minnetonka | First muskies and big fish are super cool. I took a few muskies aboard with my net before I knew it was cool to leave them in the water, so I'm not going to be a hypocrite AND I'm going to try to keep this post from getting nuked. So I'll just say that I eventually learned that an exhausted muskie probably likes to have water over its gills rather than not. Good trip and nice fish.
Peace and Love to the Moderators |
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| If you were in Ontario, the legal limit is 54 inches, so keeping a 48 wouldn't even be an option. |
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| MuskyMidget - 7/9/2014 10:25 AM
If you were in Ontario, the legal limit is 54 inches, so keeping a 48 wouldn't even be an option.
That's only in certain zones and certain bodies of water.
Many waters allow 36" and up, 40 and up, 48 and up. |
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| Gotcha! |
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| Looks like a awesome trip and some beautiful fish.
Im def not going to tell you how to handle fish but unhooking in the water is much better for the fish and vertical holds on large fish is really frowned upon. There is a good read on how to handle muskies in the New Muskies Inc mag and in the muskie bio section right here on the site. |
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| I agree, I just learned about that on this site actually, and it looks like a good technique to try next time. Anything that stress the fish less is better. We had to burp this one a couple of times, and finally he let out a big one. Spent a lot of time just making sure he was good and strong to swim off. |
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| Planning on a good replica. We didn't get the girth and the scale topped out at 30 lbs, so I'll have to estimate from a lot of the pictures and videos we have. Hopefully I can come up with something. If anyone on this site is good at that, I have all kids of info on the fish, but I think the replica taxidermist should also be able to help.
I've been reading through some of the post on good replicas
These too look great, the fins, eyes, and head and teeth are what I like.
http://www.stenzelfish.com/
http://aa-taxidermy.com.previewdns.com/
I've also seen a lot of people mention this guy on this site too:
http://www.fittantereplicas.com/muskie.shtml
Thanks again for the tips
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Location: NE PA | those are some really beautiful tigers! Congrats on such an awesome day guys! |
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Location: Twin Cities | Congrats |
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| Hammskie - 7/9/2014 9:48 AM
First muskies and big fish are super cool. I took a few muskies aboard with my net before I knew it was cool to leave them in the water, so I'm not going to be a hypocrite AND I'm going to try to keep this post from getting nuked. So I'll just say that I eventually learned that an exhausted muskie probably likes to have water over its gills rather than not. Good trip and nice fish.
Peace and Love to the Moderators
Andy, well said. This is the best way I've ever seen what should be a simple piece of advice get shared with someone new to the sport. |
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