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Magic8Ball |
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Posts: 90 Location: Ohio | Man, these are some #*^@ good stories, and better since no one was hurt. When I read the one about the little boy going in the Lake I cringed, but smiled from ear to ear when I knew the outcome. | ||
AFchris |
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Posts: 265 Location: McGuire AFB, NJ | Missing a few trips up north after joining the military I was excited to join my dad on one of our annual trips up North. It was a couple weeks after the opener in Wisconsin. I hadn't been on the boat in about a year and a half. Was in the back of the boat chucking away and decided to put my foot up on the bow. Well my father (a rather large man) decided to suddenly move at the front of the boat. Not really paying attention I lost my balance and went head first in the water with his brand new combo in my hand. He grabed me up and then asked me why in gods name I decided to do that. We spent an hour throwing crankbaits in the area before we finnaly snagged his rod and real. My grandfather who had brought us all into the great world of musky fishing had slowly lost his abitlty to fish. We would take him out on the boat which he was barely able to get on. He had a tendency to fall asleep in the back of the boat with his line in the water. Well on one of his last trips on the boat he had a 99 cent spinner bait tied on and decided to take a lil nap. All of a sudden we hear him mumbiling something in the back of the boat. His rod was doubled over and we was like umm boys I think I got something. He produced his last musky, a 45'' hog. | ||
AFChief |
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Posts: 550 Location: So. Illinois | I have two stories that both involve being hooked: 1) Took my son out with his best friend the first year I started to fish for Muskie. We had been casting all morning and decided to troll to give eveyone a chance to eat some lunch. Rounding the first point, we hooked into a very aggresive 42". After putting the fish in the net, I was instructing the boys on how to handle the fish and the related dangers of getting hooked. As I reached in to unhook the fish, it somehow lunged straight up and impaled the back of my hand on the front hook with the fish being pinned on the back hook. I was able to gill the fish with the same hand allowing me to subdue the fish and relieve the pressure on the hook that was buried up to the hilt. As I held the fish, I instructed my son on how to cut the hook. Before he could get the cutters up to the hook, he cautioned that he didn't feel well and promptly passed out. His buddy helped him to a seat, then I asked him to cut the hook. Same thing, as he was getting ready to cut the hook got light headed and had to sit down. I was then left with the duty of trying to cut the hook with the muskie/hook in one hand and the cutters in the other. I managed to get the job done and the fish returned to the water as I watched the two boys regain their senses. It took alot of ribbing before I could get them to crack a smile and get back to fishing. 2. Very next week I took my wife and daughter out for a little muskie instruction. We started out the morning with a little safety lesson regarding the do's and don't of casting (know your surroundings, know where you are casting, know where other people are, always check your casting space, etc...). After the sort lesson, I then introduced my wife to a baitcaster and gave her some instructions on how to use it. Within about 30 minutes she was casting like a pro and I turned her loose to do some fishing. Just as I was getting ready to step up to the bow, I was in mid sentance to tell my wife to wait until I got clear, she hit me with a double 10 bucktail on her backswing and proceeded to rip my arm off. She embedded that 7/0 hook through a jacket, two shirts and my upper arm to the hilt. She looked at my arm and casually said that my jacket should be OK, not ralizing that she had turned my arm into the equivalent of a pin cushion. I made her put the rod down and help me get the jacket and shirts off. She then cut the hook and bandaged over the remaining barb so that we could get back to fishing. While we ate lunch, I iced my arm down for about 30 minutes and had her push the hook through. She did OK but my daughter (watching all this as she is eating lunch) got light headed / sick ending our day on the water. That was 5 years ago, I have not been hooked since (thank god!!!) | ||
Johnny Coverall |
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I don't want to be one of those guys! But this has to be the worst day out on the water! Ever! This all happened in one day on the same trip to Rainy Lake. I went on a pike and smallie trip with a group of 10 guys. Did I tell you that it all happened on the first day of the trip. We decided to all go to different lakes on flyouts. Group one-2 guys go to a lake to catch bass and pike.My buddy O'c makes a cast and hooks my buddy mac in the forearm and decides to cast still.Burries all three barbs of a #5 mepps in him.They are stuck for 11 more hours until the pilot comes back.A few hours later my buddy o'c passed some gas that turned into lumps right in the boat.Made my buddy mac laugh. Group two-3 guys go to a smallmouth/muskie lake. Bring a cooler filled with 50 or so beers,no water or gatorade. My brother-in-law was in charge of stocking the cooler and left the case of water on the dock. Did i tell you that it was one of the hottest weeks ever in canada that year.Temps reached 100 that day no clouds,BLUEBIRD day! Like idiots they drank every beer in the cooler and 2 of the morons went to the hospital later that night and were admitted for heat stroke. Group three-3 guys went to a lake for pike and largemouth bass. My buddy don caught a small pike and went to grab the lure from its mouth as it shook and the lure got buried in his thumb past the barb! They couldn't get it out so they cut the hook and he fished the rest of the day with a hook in his thumb.He went to the hospital later that night with the other 3 morons. Group four-2 guys got dropped off at there lake for a shot at bigger pike! The pilot left and said see you guys in 11 hours.Good Luck! As he took off we motored across the lake in our 14' boat with our 6hp and started slayin pike. We go to start the boat up to make that same drift over and u guessed it,Motor didn't start! We fished the rest of the day by the power of our self made trolling motor! Two plastic oars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So that was our day from hell! 4 out of the 10 spent there first night in a hospital in minnesota......... | |||
lpmusky |
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I was fishing one of the mpls. lakes with a friend a couple years back. We were looking to get off the lake and thought we should try one more spot, this was next to a big beach. It was just after midnight when we saw what looks like a big fish eating in shallow waters, surfacing it's back out of the water. we started to through cast after cast at this fish. at one point a man on shore asked us what was in the water. we said maybe a big skie! after 10 cast each and the what we thought was a big fish moving along the beach with no hook up. We put down our rods and put a big light and drove the boat up to this thing in the water. at that time a man with a lighted sciba mask and in a black scuba suit gets up looking at us with a dumb look on his face. I guess he was try to find valuables from swimmers not knowing that there would be musky fisherman casting large top water lures with big hooks. My buddy said to me an the way to boat lunch that if hooked that guy it would be two more hours before we got off the lake after talking to park police. Thank god I did not hook this guy because I was thinking it was a big hog and ready to set the hook big time. Can't image a man comming out of the water if I hooked him. | |||
lpmusky |
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I was fishing one of the mpls. lakes with a friend a couple years back. We were looking to get off the lake and thought we should try one more spot, this was next to a big beach. It was just after midnight when we saw what looks like a big fish eating in shallow waters, surfacing it's back out of the water. we started to through cast after cast at this fish. at one point a man on shore asked us what was in the water. we said maybe a big skie! after 10 cast each and the what we thought was a big fish moving along the beach with no hook up. We put down our rods and put a big light and drove the boat up to this thing in the water. at that time a man with a lighted sciba mask and in a black scuba suit gets up looking at us with a dumb look on his face. I guess he was try to find valuables from swimmers not knowing that there would be musky fisherman casting large top water lures with big hooks. My buddy said to me an the way to boat lunch that if hooked that guy it would be two more hours before we got off the lake after talking to park police. Thank god I did not hook this guy because I was thinking it was a big hog and ready to set the hook big time. Can't image a man comming out of the water if I hooked him. | |||
dogboy |
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Posts: 723 | I have to tell this story 3rd party, but I got a great laught out of it. IN memory of Rick Meverden. He was fishing the fox with a buddy, who suddenly got the urge to drop a deuce, Rick had said, well, we'll troll to the landing, and I'll drop you off. His buddy, with a frantic urgentness about him said NO, I have to go now! they were mid-river near walnut st. bridge, so , his buddy takes his lunch out of his lunch box, I think it was one of those soft cases. and gets the job done on the spot. well, He decided it would be a good idea to toss the messy bag over the side of the boat, why I dont know. but, as luck would have it, another boat came along right behind them, saw the floating lunch box, and picked it up! that boat quickly dis-carded the lunchbox back into the river. I guess its one of those stories you had to hear directly from the mouth, but funny none-the-less | ||
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