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Location: oswego, il | Definitley my dad and my grandfather. They caught the musky bug on our last couple of trips to eagle lake when I was a kid. After my divorce I bought a new boat ans we started musky fishing. |
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Location: DES MOINES, IOWA | Wow,had to think about that one.Gramps really got me into fishing,dad into Pike fishing.but none of the places in Minnesota we fished had Muskies or at least we never caught one.On my first Sabaskong trip around 1960 fishing with Duane Lund we caught 3 Muskies on jigs fishing for Walleyes at Whitefish.I was so impressed with the experience of landing these fish with 10# test line,I made up my mind that this is what I wanted to do,when I a became an adult.Family all were big Walleye fishermen,but it never did really turn me on like Pike fishing did.Since then have ruined 2 sons,and working on a grandson,teaching them to Musky fish.The rest of the family think we are nuts.None of them really understand working that hard fishing for something you don't eat. |
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| I used to be a multi-species kid....around the age of ten, I already had already caught 30 pound stripers, bass, cats, bluegills, crappies, etc. I seen a few muskie fishing shows and saw some big fish in magazines, so I had to talk dad into trying it. I can remember casting a 10" rapala minnow with a ugly stick....
Our first guide was a guy named Alan Watts on Cave Run. This was before the Cave Run guide service, Crash's Landing, or Battle the Beast. Im 26 now, so this was 16 years ago. I really didnt learn much about muskies until I start getting involved with muskies inc. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | My Dad. He had me fishing muskies when I was in my early teens, but our trips to Bone and Deer Lake really started in earnest when I was about 16. That makes it about 36 years, give or take a month. I haven't been normal since. I've spent nearly every spare moment during my entire life either fishing or hunting.
Here are a couple shots from back then. The shot on Moccasin Lake in Elcho was in late October. Mocassin was a pretty good Muskie lake back then. The Tuffy shot was actually at the landing on Muskie Bay on Pelican back in '78.
(Steve, Moccasin Lake, Wi.-1975.JPG 2.jpg)
(Steve & his Toughy, Bone Lake-78.JPG Small.jpg)
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| ME!
We used to go up to Phelps for 2 weeks every summer when I was a kid.
All my family ever fished for was walleyes. I'd take a rowboat out and fish for perch
and I remember seeing some muskies while out fishing and seeing other people
catch them, so I got myself an outfit, a handful of lures, and started chasing them
on my own.
Caught my first legal, a 38"er on a Radtke Pikie, and never looked back.
Probably over 30 years ago.
Beav
Edited by Beaver 12/18/2004 10:33 PM
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