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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Because it feels so good when I quit for the day! |
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| I love all kinds of fishing but there is just something different about muskie fishing. For one, Muskies are hard to catch. Learning to hunt and catch them has been a thrill and very rewarding for me. Anyone can go out and catch walleyes, pike, and crappies but not everyone can go out and catch muskies. It took me two years of learning and trying before I got my first one. Then there is the mystical dream of catching that 50 pound plus fish. I have seen a fish that would go 60 pounds plus that made my heart just pound. The follows are another very exciting part of muskie fishing. Really gets the adrenaline going when you see a big fish coming in just behind your lure and case after it when you go into your figure eight. To me, there is just no other fresh water fish that provides more excitement and pleasure then muskie fishing.
Regards
Cory Toker |
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Location: Wauwatosa, WI | it's the only fish that gets my heart racing with a follow up! The bend of the rod when you hook up with a really big one. The feeling I get with a good release; I got you today and I'll see you in a couple of years. It's everything.
Bob Ryan |
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Location: Maryland | Want to know how bad muskie fever gets. I fish most of the year but most of it is salt water. Many salt water fish are much bigger and many fight harder than a muskie. But-------there is something about trying to figure Muskies out and there are the follows. I have not yet caught (and released) that 50+ muskie yet but I just have to. So now the how bad is the fever. Last year I caught and relased an approximately 650 pound blue marlin at Cabo San Luca Mexico, we also caught and released Six striped marlin, a sail fish and tuna and giant squid. I will go back to Cabo this year and I will go to Canada to fish muskies and all I can think about is the muskie trip. Now that is bad. |
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| I get chills when I see them follow. They are like a stalking villian in horror movies, silently creeping behind their prey teasing your anticipation of the strike. What other freshwater fish will hit at the side of the boat when you only have a couple feet of line out and then give you a 10 minute fight before landing it?.....HOPEFULLY!!!!
I just have an enormous amount of respect for that fish. |
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Location: Wausau, WI | For me, it is the challenge. I grew up and lived most of my life in musky country, (north-central WI) but never tried for them until 2 years ago. Deer hunting became too easy, and I tried trout fishing. They were very easy to figure out too and I never went home skunked (not even when I was a total rookie.) Even trophy trout were relatively easy, just fish after dark with a minnow bait in a deep pool.
But I went my entire first season of musky fishing without a single strike and when I finally broke through with a 38" last June, it was an incredible rush. Even more so since I caught it on a smallmouth bass that had hit my musky bucktail. Catches came easier after that, but never too easy.
A friend of mine once said that musky fishing is the only fishing where you can fish all day, catch nothing and still feel good about it. I agree.
Paul Bunczak
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Location: Zelienople, Pa | I got my first taste of muskie fishing this fall, thanks to my friend Rich W who got me hooked. I landed two muskies on his equipment and missed two at the boat. Now he has me building my own rods and making bucktails. This has to be the most exciting fishing I every done. I don't now if its the fact of fishing for muskies or trying to sneak home more muskie lures, handled wrong, both can be dangerous. Thanks Rich W. |
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