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| Hello, I was trying to explain muskie fishing to some of my friends here in Israel and I had a hard time explaining the passion behind CPR. I told them most guys would rather give up a child than harm a muskie. Did you have other ideas how I can express the need to never harm a fish to my friends here who hale from all over the world. By the way it is in the 50's and getting warmer each day...BenR |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Sure, explain to them the hunt and capture is the fruit, and the muskie the tree from which it comes. Kill the tree, and one kills the hunt and capture, because the numbers and range of the Muskie are limited. |
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| RESPECT
We are on the top of our food chain, they are on the top of theirs. Top predators don't eat eachother.
They don't taste very good anyway. If I'm going to fish for fish to eat, there are many other species that are way better tasting.
Did I mention RESPECT?
Beaver
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | If we all kept just one, what size would you keep?....over 40" makes for a good size meal. If we all keep one over 40" how many will we catch in a few years with only 1 legal or less per acre on average? That one worked for me a while back when I was asked the same question. |
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| Its against our religion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | 1. I figure we work so damn hard just to catch ONE a day, if we kill it we're only making our work that much harder the next time.
2. From what I hear, they dont taste all that good anyways. Gotta agree with Beav that if I wanted to eat fish, there are much better options out there. Or in my case, I would just head to Dominick's or another grocery store for a pound of iced shrimp and some salmon (thusly why I plan on dragging Lake Michigan for salmon this season!).
3. Top predators are always bad spawners, as the muskie is, and if we take even a few a year out of the population, its bad bad bad.
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | Because they stink!!! |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | 1. We spend hours/days/months and years in search for that one fish that will make us crap our pants. We want the chance of that 30 pounder turn into a 40 pounder, then into a 50 pounder, then to a ????????
Some of us spend a lot time and money in the stocking programs, we don't want to slit our own throats by killing a fish that we planted into a lake that we as well as others fish.
If you do keep a fish, people will hound you till you die about how aweful it is.
Just a few thoughts.
Mike Hulbert
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Hey Ben,
Good to hear from you! Hope everything over in the Middle East is going well for you. When you headed back to the States? |
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| Hey steve, things are good overall although this morning there was an attack. I am coming back for the month of April and will hopefully get out on greedwood lake for a day or two and them will be back in Israel until july or sept. It is reallly nice here, except there is very little fishing opportunities. HOw are things there cold eh?Ben |
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Location: Wauwatosa, WI | What I tell all the people that ask me the same question; In the lake I have a cabin there are 2 muskies/acre and it takes 20 yrs to get really big, so why deplete the the stock. With the increase number of muskie fisherman all keeping their legal size fish, I would only be catching small fish. Thank God that with the increase muskie pressure there has been a large push for catch and release. I've been fishing for 30some yrs and I find that I'm catching larger and more fish than any time before.
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Location: Iowa | I don't go muskie fishing to kill. If I want to do that I go deer hunting. If I want to eat fish, I go to the store or the restaurant. Compared to catching a muskie to eat, these 2 options are less expensive, less time consuming, and usually much less frustrating. We put too much effort, time, and money into these amazing fish to just start harvesting them because we're hungry. You may never get the point across trying to explain it to other people. Just feel lucky that you are one of the ones that gets to land one, and watch as it sinks out of sight into the depths. There is no other feeling like that one. |
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Location: oswego, il | Because they don't taste as good as Bori do. |
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| Ben
Tell Him Muskies to us are like Cows to him, he should get it then.
How are the Sandskies doing? Any hoties under the drapes.
Hope all is with you well not much has changed with us we fish hungover.
later bud
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| Ben Remer. Keith Eldrup. Steve Worrall. What a blast from the past!
I think the last time we were posting on these boards there was something about me not being able to cast without getting a backlash and you not being able to back your trailer at the landing. Sound familiar?
Keith - Hotties under the drapes? Did you really write that? You got a laugh out of me, anyway.
By the way, it was -20 here this morning, but I'm still going ice fishing tomorrow. I'll take the cold if I can have the fish. 
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Location: Rhinelander | I wouldn't say they taste bad, the musky I tasted at Dave's (Musky Dr.) house this summer tasted pretty sweet!!! I believed he baked it. |
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| If you add up all the money we have in just one fish it would cost about $50 to $100 a lb. Thats just to expensive. I got some walleye at Meijer yesterday for 6.99 a pound and I guarantee its going to be much better eating than an old smelly musky.
This is my only release pic from last summer and its my favorite. ALWAYS CPR.
R
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| Keith and John hello. Great to hear from you guys. Yeah I remember the whole cannot cast without a backlash. Also still fishing hungover is one of the funniest things I have heard in some time. Things here are good. The women are beautiful, not much fishing though. Look forward to possibly hitting the water this spring in NJ, before heading back here....be good and nice to hear from you guys...Ben |
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