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| Muskies were number 1 for me for a long time. Now it's bowhunting. So I don't fish much after bow season opens. |
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Location: West Central WI | First of all, never hire that guide. Secondly, I get what all the other people in this string said. There are those who are obsessed about whatever sport they do, but never look back on other options that give you joy. The fall in the midwest gives us so many opportunities and all are compatible and provide some great diversity in the outdoors. For me, muskie fishing is my first love, but I don't give it a second thought when an opportunity comes to hunt grouse, or go scout for deer. I don't bow hunt, but love rifle and muzzle loader hunting. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Muskie fishing in the Fall is the best for me... So is the opener.... I don't hunt, but Big Booty Women would get my eye if it were a season.
Winter time I have been working on and Painting Cycles the past 2 yrs.
Next winter I'm going to build a Bobber from a 60'S/70'S era type bike.
Muskie fishing still Rocks as far as I'm concerned.
My Brisket is almost as good as Franklin's in Tx. Haaa... I do enjoy smoking any type of Meats. |
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Location: Downers Grove, IL | H2O if you're brisket is anywhere close to Franklin's in Austin, then that's a pretty good hunk of meat. That stuff is just ridiculous . |
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| Howdy,
I love fall fishing and fall fishing trips, but I schedule them around Browns games (seriously).
Take care,
Ruddiger |
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Location: 31 | SummerSchool - 4/10/2017 3:01 PM happy hooker - 4/10/2017 1:45 PM Jerry I always thought it would be cool to combine a muskies Inc tournament during the day with a poker tournament that nite,,most casinos get a 10% rake on pots,,MI could get a 10% rake from buy in for stocking. That would be sweet. Mille Lacs has a casino on the lake...
After a day on the water I'd probably be a bit too tired to play in any reasonably structured poker tournament. However, I've combined muskie/poker trips before and use to hit the local casino for some 1-2 cash when I got blown off of the water. One of my fondest memories was taking a day off from muskie fishing in August of 2009 (before everyone and their brother knew about Green Bay) and with a little luck took down the local casino's special anniversary tournament. The whole trip is a bit of a blur now but I'll never forget the conversation I had with my wife while waiting at the payout cage because she thought I was just messing with her about winning. I had the cage attendant tell her how much I was cashing out for and she said "cashing out for $14,500" to which my wife replied "you said it was $15,000". I laughingly explained that I left a $500 dealers tip and she said " what??? $500, that's kind of a big tip don't you think" LOL.
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| Plan to muskie fish all my life
Plan to hunt all my life
Plans change upon the legalization of recreational use of marijuana!!
Edited by happy hooker 4/11/2017 2:44 PM
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| happy hooker - 4/11/2017 2:42 PM
Plan to muskie fish all my life
Plan to hunt all my life
Plans change upon the legalization of recreational use of marijuana!!
Plans then change to:
1. "Wooooaaaah. Did you see that fish, maaan?! I should have set the hook. Wowww that was cool. What have we got to eat??"
2. "Nice buck!! If I shoot him, I'll have to climb out of this tree stand, dress him and drag 'em out of the woods. Then I'll have to clean him. Hey. I wonder if they like cheetos? They're made from corn, right? Hey deer! Yeah, up here. I got cheetos. You hungry? I'm sure hungry." |
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Location: 31 | happy hooker - 4/10/2017 3:06 PM So does the Frank Schneider tournament on leech,,northern lights casino which just happens to be a tournament sponsor,,,hmmmm?
That's along the lines of what we wanted to do with the shell of the WRMA after we finished with authenticating the world record (I honestly thought it was going to be a clean sweep and O'Brien would hold the WR). We actually started the redirect toward conservation with a name change to World Muskie Alliance, but lost almost all of our momentum with the way things were mis-handled by the shady record keepers. The poker part of it was to help raise funds from outside of the muskie community, in IL you can legally have up to 4 one-day poker/gambling fundraisers per year, and with multiple chapters and an approximate $2500 net per event, things could have been very interesting. We really liked the idea of raising money this way and each chapter being in control of the lions share of it. However, I got burned out and nobody else was willing to take the reins so it just died on the vine. Poker fundraisers would not work with Muskies Inc. though because each chapter would need to be its own 501(c)(3) organization, and I doubt that International would want to endanger their tax exempt status for an individual chapter, but it's something to think about. |
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Location: Watersmeet, Michigan | In some ways fall is the toughest time of year because I love to fish and I love to hunt. Which will I do? The decision usually depends on whether I have a hunting partner or a fishing partner. (If only I could be cloned so I could do both every day.)
Fr. K |
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| I've gone hard core into a number of things over the years...
Playing guitar in rock and roll bands
Building hot rods + anything to do with cars
Classical voice training
Playing jazz piano
Archery
Firearms
Anything that goes "bang" (things that go BOOM are better)
Anything you can do in the woods
Gambling
Partying like a rock star
Fine dining
Wine
Single Malt Scotch
Travelling
Exotic food
Gardening
Many things have come and gone. Still sing with a local symphony. Been fishing since 1974, doubt that will change. I do miss being out there 100 days a year, but at some point you need to start being an adult. These days? Priorities are making a living, paying for a house, keeping my wife happy, fishing when I can, and preparing for retirement because (holy crap) it's not that far off...
It's all good. We're running the rat race like everyone else, but we're getting tired of of it. 10 year plan is to leave IL forever, build the lake house up North, buy a little beach house in FL and spend our time between the Northwoods and South FL. Captains license for me, nail salon for her. Figure I can guide up North during the summer and run charters down in FL for my retirement job(s). I will die an old man in my boat. Samantha will die when she runs out of my money!  |
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Location: Illinois | Same plan here. No more Illinois and build/buy my northwoods house in next 10 years. Spend winters in warmer climate(not sure on the Florida part though lol).
My other passions/obsessions are golf/poker/children-family(about to be first time grandfather this year) and sports(watching and attending). Don't hunt and don't desire to start. I'm glad many do though. I can start spending more time in the fall chasing ski with less boat traffic.  |
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| Turkey hunting, Golf, Cooking and Smoking, Deer hunting. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | After just living muskies for years, my daughters both took a liking to shooting bows. So of course, I had to buy a bow, and learn to hunt deer. I haven't shot a deer in my 2 years of doing it, but have learned a TON and am having a blast doing it. I did shoot a tree this year though. That buck was lucky. #*^@ buck fever.
Do a TON of salmon fishing during the summer, coyotes in the winter, and in a few weeks, turkey season.
Since having kids, my priorities have changed a bit, for the better. Both kids love getting out in the woods, and my older daughter will get to go on her first turkey hunt in a few weeks (the other likes to shoot bows and guns, but doesn't like getting up early for hunting). Ellwood is definitely my hunting partner, and we've seen some pretty cool things in the woods. When we finally harvest a deer (or turkey), that will be the icing on the cake. Until then, I'll enjoy the camo facepaint jobs she does on both of us, and stalking whatever our quarry is. |
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Location: Vilas | from mid Dec-mid April its Florida and my collection of shells |
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| Muskie fishing is my number 1 love-hate relationship. Come Oct 1st though, I try to spend my weekends walking the woods for Ruff's.
Fall in MN is all about burning the candle at both ends so you have enough memories to last till ice-out |
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| Deer hunting with bow, rifle and muzzleloader. I can't believe no one else said spring walleyes on the rivers, that's a blast too |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Really, really big open water crappies and bull bluegills, followed by whitetails.
Ice fishing doesn't get in the way of Muskie fishing, and that's good because muskie fishing would lose. |
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