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| They sure do! I hate releasing muskies in the cold. They rarely have to deal with that interruption to a perfectly good day. |
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Location: Smith Creek | My fingers get cold when I rerig after catching one, makes it hard to open my beer. And when I finally get it open it tastes faintly of sucker. |
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Location: Menomonee Falls, WI | Vegas492-
They sure do! I hate releasing muskies in the cold. They rarely have to deal with that interruption to a perfectly good day.
DITTO! LMAO! THAT'S FUNNY GEOFF!!! |
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| fly fishing = #24 no hackle baetis 8X 1.1 lb everything else is barbaric |
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| OMG, I forgot about the re-rig in the cold and the effect it has on coffee/beer...etc.
It got so bad this year that my coffee actually tasted funny if there wasn't a little sucker odor/slime in it. Wife thought I was crazy when I made coffee at home by using a little baitwell water.
In your case Abe, it is much worse than in my case. You were constantly harassed by big musky bullies last year. I heard that one of them had your cousin cornered in the boat with a gaff until you took the hooks out and promised to leave the lake.
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Location: Menomonee Falls, WI | You heard that hey??? LOL! That might be a "slight" exaggeration. Hope to see you at Smokey's on Saturday. I'll tell you what REALLY happened.  |
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| The warden has me washing windows on Saturday, but hopefully I'll get a few minutes off for good behavior to come on down and enjoy a cold one. |
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| firstsixfeet - 4/22/2012 8:10 PM
Trolling and live bait are both cheating, and should be legally prohibitted. Hopefully we can get laws passed in the future to ban both methods for muskies.
Get a good job and you too can afford to troll. Beats sitting like a stump!
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Location: Blaine, MN | Some of the best trollers I've seen are on this site... They get bites all winter long. The target species never seems to get conditioned to the lures either
Edited by short STRIKE 4/24/2012 8:04 PM
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| There are alot of people in Vilas county (where you are not allowed to troll) who will swear up and down that trolling is cheating. I'd bet you most of them fish live bait in the fall. |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | This thread is kind of sad. Sad because my rating system for muskies caught using different techniques has been mentioned a number of times, and no credit given.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | MuskyHopeful - 4/24/2012 8:08 PM
This thread is kind of sad. Sad because my rating system for muskies caught using different techniques has been mentioned a number of times, and no credit given.
Kevin
not many are able or willing to put the time and effort in to score from the black tees anymore Kevin ... |
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Location: Illinois | WHy they gotta be black tees, Sled?
Hopeful if it's any consolation, you are so famously known for musky rating system, the guys in my neighborhood call it the Kev equation. It should have been noted, but is kind of universally assumed your brilliant mind spawned that rating system. |
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Location: Smith Creek | I apologize, Kevin. I edited the post for grammar and couldn't edit a second time. I also assumed everyone knew about the Kevin equation. You should have trademarked it.
My 3 game suspension from M1st begins immediately. |
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Location: Manitowish Waters WI | Is ther actually a rating system for catching muskies? Wow I could swear a fish in the net is a fish in the net. Maybe it is only .7658242 of a fish.
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Location: Minnesota | Just because you are fishing with live bait doesnt mean it'll be a guaranteed fish in the net... It really depends on being on the right spot when the fish wants it...
One day, ZERO fish from 6am til finally boated a 46" except for a "follow" at midday by a high 40's... except for two Northerns the day before and a failed hookset...
Week before, 2 in the net... couple failed hookset...
Week before, 3 in the net... 3 failed hook set...
In honesty... As long you are doing everything to reduce the chance of mortality... including quick-strike rigs, theres nothing wrong with using live bait... Its also nice because all summer thru, you're abusing your body and equipment with all those cowgirls and bulldawgs that you throw, then the fall comes and you can just sit and relax, enjoy the day and the nature, at least til hell breaks through when the bobber goes down... I think that Im anticipating the fall-time fishing more than the June 2nd opener... but I believe its because that I know how bad I will be hurting (shoulder, back, and elbow) at the end of the summer... Doing livebait fishing is very addictive... |
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Location: WI | Rebel9921, I feel the same way about trolling. After casting DCG's, twitching gliders, rubber, etc all season, it's a nice break to sit down and troll. It's a great way to wind down my season. I used to hate trolling but it's a lot of fun to fish areas I don't like to cast and cover a lot of water. It's also fun to run multiple lines and find a hot lure/pattern. Sometimes we're running 4 lines and only one lure gets chomped repeatedly. |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | ITS ALL GOOD !!! Fishing Muskies is fun and Michelle and I use all the methods. We cast till we are sore then we troll till we are bored. I enjoy soaking a few suckers as well. What is really a riot is bringing a musky in with an artificial lure and watching them chomp the sucker at boat side. How can this not be exciting? All three ways are productive and exciting. To diminish any one of the methods of hook and line fishing is to take a part of it away. I think we can all agree that Spearing is the only bad method here in the musky world. Mike
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| If you catch a fish trolling or on a sucker maybe the picture should have an asterisk on it like the Barry Bonds home run record ball ;).
I am a rookie and planning on making my first dedicated musky trip with my buddy next weekend for the sourthern opener. We will both be casting and will have a sucker rig dragging too. I will make sure to bring a cardboard asterisk to hold up if I catch one on the sucker and post it. |
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Location: Minnesota | JKahler... exactly... I dont mind doing trolling myself... after all, my first muskie was caught while trolling... Mille Lacs was having 3-4ft waves... too choppy to be able to cast... so we decided to troll cowgirls and bam... 43" in the net on a Pink/Pink Cowgirl!!! Plus, with trolling you'll learn about a spot quickly, if not more than what a Lowrance/Humingbird can tell you too!!! |
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