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Location: Stevens Point, WI | 10 years! |
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Location: menasha wi 54952 | Caught my first ski on a suick when I was 5 way back in 1971. Its been a give and take relationship ever since. They keep giving me battles and I keep takin the memories :-P |
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Location: Washington, PA | 9 years, caught my first when I was 18 and took a trip to the kawarthas because I wanted a ski. Been a fishing nut since I was 3 or 4, so it's been a natural progression, lol. |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | I had off and on experiences with muskies while bass and walleye fishing early in my fishing career, but have been fishing almost exclusively for muskie now for about the last 16 years. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I caught my first musky 32 years ago. The musky would keep eating the bluegills we were catching and releasing from our pier on Pewaukee lake.
I grabbed a neighbors bass rod and caught it on a rapala.
That was the first and only muskie I have ever kept.
Now I have taken it to the guide and Pro level. Where it goes from here, time will only tell.
Thats 32 years and counting for me !!! |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | My first musky encounter was back in 81' on Pelican with my uncle when I was 15. I have been hardcore for 14 years. |
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| I think is has been 18 yrs since I caught my first from the Chip: 28". It fell to good old black and silver # 18 rapala, Diawa 5H Millionair, 17lb mono and a cheap fiberglass 2 piece 6'6" rod from Farm Fleet. I have held the illness in check until 18 months ago. It has been pretty crazy since the outbreak. |
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Location: Lake Vermilion Tower, MN | Hey All,
I caught my first muskie in 1959 and now, 44 years later, they have come to dominate my life. 
I guide for them, I fish for them as much as possible, I spend time on muskie sites talking about them and I am involved with MI and the MMA.
Hopefully, I'll get another decade or 2 to enjoy my obsession. I have to pass it on to my grandson so he
can enjoy catching his first.
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Location: Wauwatosa, WI | my father was a big musky fan and showed me how when I 15 years old, that would make it 36 years, but the last 10 have been an obsession.
Bob Ryan |
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Location: Lake City,Pa. | Two by myself and three with Judy. 5 total and still rookies in anybodys books!! |
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| My dad and I have been at it for 15 years. Each year the fishing seems to get better and better. So far, 2 forty pounders. |
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Location: Appleton, Wi | About 45 years. My dad was a musky nut. When he had vacation we sat in the boat from morning till dark. I am about the only one of 4 kids that has been nuts enough to continue the hunt. Back in my younger days we used a rod about 5 feet long with as much flex as a 2x4. We also had to use reels with no drag, and sometimes no anti reverse (alot of sore knuckles). When I was a young boy the ski was a fish that many feared as people would shot them before putting them in a net or boat. Many a boats had bullet holes in the bottoms!! -- hopefully I can continue for another 30 years or so. |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | Started musky fishin in May of 2002 |
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Posts: 389
Location: Presque Isle Wisconsin | I absolutely refuse to answer that Question; However Eisenhower was President when the serious Muskie chasing began. Before that it was just fun on occasion |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | Come on, Howie!!! If I can fess up to 50 years of muskie fishing, so can you. Know that part about "I like Ike!" Still have my button somewhere. |
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Location: oswego, il | I caught my first two muskies on shabbona the year it opened. I have been chasing them full time since the fall of 98. |
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Location: oswego, il | double post
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