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Medford Fisher

Posted 11/4/2008 1:10 AM (#343678)
Subject: Jake and Jerome's Amazing Adventure

Posts: 1059

Location: Medford, WI

Not even sure where to start on this one. Last Thursday rolled around and rather than go to my two classes on Friday, I decided to head up to the Big ....Lake X and meet Jerome. We had the best 24-hour fishing period that either of us have ever had (and probably will ever have).

Friday, we only got on the water for a few hours and had no muskie action. We each caught a pike and that was it.

Saturday, we tried a bunch of spots, caught a ton of pike, but just couldn't get anything going...UNTIL...about an hour before dark, we noticed ciscoes breaking the surface out a little deeper. We both looked at eachother and I said to him "I really like the looks of this; this is where we want to be." Pretty soon the ciscoes were in a little shallower and the sun had just set when I was throwing the 2-pounder and thought a fish bumped the bait. Five minutes later, I could just barely see my bait right at the boat, noticed a brown back behind it, and instantly I saw a flash of white and my bait was gone. I slammed the hooks and yelled to Jerome (I'm sure he could give you a better idea of what I said as I have no clue.). Chased the fish around the motor and Jerome, with a very fine net job, slid the net under her fairly quickly. This was followed by some more yelling/celebrating by me. As you can see in the picture below, the fish inhaled the entire bait (which I just measured at about 27" long). While picking the fish up, I knew it was going to be 50"+...put her on the bump board and she was 52.5"!!! My personal best, and add to that a 24.5" girth! Just an unreal fish that I am very, very thankful for. After a successful release, which to me was the best part of the big fish experience, I was retying and Jerome yells "There's one!". I grabbed the net, almost botched the netjob, but somehow managed to get the fish in the net. Jerome followed my catch up with a beautiful 46" ski.

Sunday, within the first hour of fishing we had 5 follows at different spots Jerome took me to on our way to the area where we caught the fish the previous night. We got to The Spot and I had a mid-40" follow; about two casts later, Jerome hooks up with the fish and we got it in the net after a very nice fight. Measured in at 45". A few hours later, I noticed lots of muskies/big fish showing up on the sonar and no more than 5 minutes later Jerome watches a monster eat his dawg. A quick fight and I slid the net under Jerome's personal best...an awesome 52"er. We ended up with several more follows, but no hits.

Just an awesome weekend and probably the greatest experience musky-fishing I've had so far! Getting my personal best and netting a good friend's personal best...I can't think of a better weekend than that!

Just want to take a second to congratulate and thank Jerome for everything. Without your help Jerome, I wouldn't have been able to make the trip and land the fish of my lifetime. You're a great guy and I really appreciate everything. Congrats on your personal best, hopefully next summer or fall we can get that 55" musky you're after!!!

Sorry for going on and on for those of you who actually read all of this. It was just an amazing experience and words can't even start to describe it!
I hope everyone is able to get out this fall and have a chance at a piggy.
Good luck to everyone...be safe and have fun.

-Jake Bucki

P.S. Jerome, feel free to add in any details that I'm missing.

Note regarding the pics: Just wanted to clear any questions about why the baits are still in the fishes mouths in 2 of the pics. In my case, the fish ate the entire bait and we could not get to the hooks safely in the net. I picked the fish up, took pictures, put her on the bumpboard and opened the gill plate to cut the back hooks. The back treble was inbetween the gills, but very thankfully it was not hooked in any of them. Kind of the same situation with Jerome's 46" fish. Both fish were released immediately and swam off strongly.