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| I recall a small muskie that came following from a stump and I was on the opposite side of the boat, so I jumped over the driver's seat to the other side as it hit and set the hook on one foot.
Also had a fish hit, then there was slack, then I thought I had a monster. It got gut hooked and was swimming away from me.
Had a fouled bulldawg and was pulling it up, reeling in the slack. About halfway it was moving, and I pulled up a nice 42"er without a hookset. |
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Location: oswego, il | I caught a musky on sucker with no hook in it. Fish fish were neutral would grab the sucker and sit there, forever! I reeled ever so slow, click, click, click for what seemed to be 5 minutes and we just scooped it.
Had one hit a glidebait once like it was a blue catfish. Thought my line was broke kept reeling slack and the fish was 25ft behind the boat still had the bait in its mouth. |
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Location: On the O | Late fall trolling and a buddy gets "snagged", starts reeling as I reverse towards the snag and the handle comes off his reel. Sit there for a couple minutes as he reattaches the handle. (cold hands, gloves, etc) Boat is now in neutral sitting on top of the snag, he gives a couple reels and says "I think I have a fish", well reel it in! Fish gets about 10 feet from the boat and the entire reel pops off the rod and falls to the bottom of the boat, fish just sits there no fight no movement, buddy reels the fish in the rest of the way by holding the reel in both hands as the rod floats around in mid air over the side of the boat. "Fight" lasted well over 5 mins and he only had about 40' of line out, fish was barely hooked with the lure popping out in the net.
That fish wanted to get caught, if it had done anything at all it was gone. I think it was just as confused as my buddy as to what was really going on.
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Location: S.W. WI | I feel like sometimes I am just snakebit with bad luck, but....If you go a lot like I do it all evens out.
--One day, 3 fish:
Fish 1= snap came open and dang near straightened out- but not quite. Good thing I took it easy cuz it was sooo close to gone.
Fish 2= fish wraps line around prop, thrashing like crazy and I somehow net him as line breaks.
Fish 3= fish comes un hooked near boat and I scoop him up.
Although I still whine about bad luck- that day I told myself never whine again you lucky ***turd. |
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Location: oswego, il | I have also had several fish that ate the bait, hooked in the mouth but during the fight the bait walked it's way out of their mouth and down the body hooking and unhooking itself. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | we have caught lots of muskies on suckers that never let go, and were never hooked... sometimes if the fish are under 40 we don't even set the hook and just reel them into the net...they don't want to let go!  quite a few fish come off but then get re-hooked...."the MN backscratcher" as Lee T termed it... not sure how they do it but it happens quite a bit...
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Location: Eagan, MN | Caught a very nice 46" fish on the shallow mid-lake weed bar on Lake Owasso here in the Twin Cities metro. When I was fighting her - and she fought well - we were noticing lots of blood flowing off her body and some odd markings. The problem became apparent after netting her. Turns out she had just been struck by a prop and had a series of deep, fresh gashes down one side of her body that were still bleeding! Did I say the wounds were really, really deep? It was gruesome actually. Surprised that fish was even alive and more surprised that she was eating and gave a very good account of herself on the line. Chuck Norris of the musky world if you ask me. Brian
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| Fishing solo and slow rolling a supermodel shortly before dark. Big blonde blob shows up and smokes it in the 2nd turn boatside. I set the hook and "crack!" my rod breaks just behind the reel about where I had one of my hands. Naturally the rod and reel falls in the drink and I have 15 or so inches of syncork handle in my hands. I chuck the handle and swipe at the barely visible ripples in the water where I thought the rod fell in. Somehow manage to grab the rod about 3 guides from the tip. Spin it around loosen the drag and struggle to reel the fish that is still attached by some miracle. A tiny stub behind the reel doesn't offer much for leverage. But shortly after I slide the net under what turns out to be a 49" pb for that particular little lake. Got the handle fixed and still catching fish on that rod. |
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Location: Metro | NickD - 10/14/2015 1:41 PM
Fishing solo and slow rolling a supermodel shortly before dark. Big blonde blob shows up and smokes it in the 2nd turn boatside. I set the hook and "crack!" my rod breaks just behind the reel about where I had one of my hands. Naturally the rod and reel falls in the drink and I have 15 or so inches of syncork handle in my hands. I chuck the handle and swipe at the barely visible ripples in the water where I thought the rod fell in. Somehow manage to grab the rod about 3 guides from the tip. Spin it around loosen the drag and struggle to reel the fish that is still attached by some miracle. A tiny stub behind the reel doesn't offer much for leverage. But shortly after I slide the net under what turns out to be a 49" pb for that particular little lake. Got the handle fixed and still catching fish on that rod.
I bet that one made you laugh after the net job. |
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| Had a fish eat out on a cast after 3 turns of the handle. Set the hook, started reeling, and the fish didn't move. At all...
"crap. I'm snagged." So I lowered the rod tip and gave it a few quick pops to see if I could knock the hooks loose. Still snagged. Tried it again. Nothing. So I decided to use force. Thumb on the spool, rod pointed at the snag, took a step back. Hmph. Won't budge. Now I'm mad. Put my weight into it and start yanking. I'm gonna straighten the hooks if I have to. Finally it breaks loose. So I'm reeling expecting a branch or a lawn chair or something, and when I get it close enough to the boat I see this shape. Looks like... a fish?! Yeah, that's a fish. It's a musky! And it appears to be dead. Holy crap, did I really just snag a dead musky? That will be good and ripe. My buddy is laughing at me because he can't believe it either. So I put my rod down and get my pliers, hoping I can just pull the hooks out without having to bring it in the boat or touch it... Pick up the rod and the #*^@ thing starts swimming. Netted the fish, hooks came out in the net. 43"er. Not sure what was wrong with it, it took forever to swim off. #*^@ near dead best I could tell. |
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| Musky952 - 10/14/2015 2:26 PM
I bet that one made you laugh after the net job.
I did chuckle a bit but since I nearly lost a custom predator, 400D, and my favorite homemade D13 I didn't laugh quite as hard! Just glad I didn't end up swimming in 55 degree water after the lightning fast ninja grab. |
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Location: Watersmeet, Michigan | I can think of four fish. The first three are large pike, 37-40 inches that I caught on light gear - 1/16 and 1/8 oz. jigs on 6 pound line - while fishing for walleye and crappies. The second fish is my first musky. I was floating a sucker and every time I went to set the hook, the bait fish would pull right out of her mouth because she had it either by the tail or the belly. When she came back and took the sucker a third time, I finally got the he hooks in her.
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| Ha - Yooper made me think of a 48.5" I caught this spring on Light walleye rod and 6lb mono from shore.. I only had 80 yards of line and on the hookset the fish took about 75 yards before it stopped!! ...I wasn't going to stop it, I was expecting to get spooled!... Took about 8-10 minutes to land (long time fighting a muskie!) When it got close to shore I could see the lure was "gone".. so the last two minute of the battle was simply because I knew I couldn't put any pressure on the fish (as it turned out it had the 4" Rapala 6" down its throat)... I hand landed it... After a quick measurement and release I grabbed my line and felt how "beat up" it was .. took about a 1/2 pound of pressure with thumbs and index fingers to break the line! Prespawn giant on 6lb mono, probably never do that again!
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| Trolling this year had a big one go under big motor and line peel off against the kicker motors prop. Zero clue how that 80 pound power pro didn't cut. |
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Location: La Crosse, WI | Last year I had a sucker minnow get hit and when I set the hook my rod broke along with the line. I grabbed the line as it was sinking in the water and hand landed a 38 incher. Filmed it all on the gopro too. |
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| Chuckin Baits - 10/15/2015 1:04 PM
Last year I had a sucker minnow get hit and when I set the hook my rod broke along with the line. I grabbed the line as it was sinking in the water and hand landed a 38 incher. Filmed it all on the gopro too.
I wanna see it! |
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Location: Eagan, MN | Wasn't me, but watched my boat partner lose a nice fish at boat side on a Pounder. The fish ripped the tail off in the process, then started shaking it's open mouth trying to expel the tail section. In an instant, my quick-thinking partner swam what remained of his Pounder into the fish's open, shaking mouth - and set the hook again. Caught fish.
Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't have seen it. Being a life-long hockey player probably didn't hurt in how this all played out. |
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| Had a 46 inch go under the boat and than up looping me around the trolling motor. Had to completely slack the line to unhook it from the motor and by some miracle he stayed on. |
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| I fish by myself 95% of the time because I fish every evening after work, and just go....I'll tell you what...sometimes solo net jobs are a piece of cake, and I've had big fish that just come in really easy, and you scoop them. This particular fish hit about 1/2 way back to the boat, and nailed a dbl 10 bucktail from the side. Saw the whole body of the fish like it was in slow motion, and thought to myself low 40's....just didn't look that big. Fish fought good stayed down, and Im thinking is this fish bigger than I think?.... came up next to the boat, and it's big. At this point I rushed the net job more than I would've even if I knew it was big from the beginning....just a mix of being excited and unprepared thinking it wasn't a big fish.... fish is coming in, and I get the front treble of the bucktail caught on front of the net....fish is thrashing, and going crazy....I finally get about half the fish in the net, and just leverage the net handle against my gunnel as hard as I can, and I get her in the bag.... 51.5 inches, and I had no business boating that fish once it got caught on that net..
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| Didnt engage the net balanced fish perfectly on the net ,and lifted fish thrashing right in the boat..0723 |
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Location: New Hope MN | Nuff said
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