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| My three buds and I were on the woods and fishing was good, mid-July. Anyway the friend in my boat to date had never boated a fish over 35", and he was being followed by a 50" fish. The fish struck a shallow raider on his figure 8 and the battle was on, our other boat was only 50 yards away so they came over. Just as I went to net the fish the hook pulled. The fisherman, without missing a beat thru his rod and darn near kicked a hole in his new boat. We could not help but snicker at this childish act. 20 minutes later the scene was repeated but only a 43 inch fish, and this time it went in the net. The other boat was with us so I grabbed the still camera, and someone else took the video. As Don Bomba, "not to mention any names" stood proudly with his fish I exlaimed to the video which would be seen by his son that, "this is your dad's first big fish." Don said like a pro, lets get her back in, and when he turned to release her he went a$$ over tea kettle into the drink, and it was all caught on tape. I had to grab him by the rear to get him in the boat, also on film. The fish survived, but if muskies can tell their friends stories I wouldn't go back were I Don.
MuskyDan
It was Don's camera so a Mpeg may be out of the question.[:((] |
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| I took a friend of mine up to Vilas in search of his first legal. He did get his first, a 36"er, but that's not the funny part.
Having never shared a boat before, he wasn't used to my routine nor me to his. One afternoon he asked where a tavern was on the lake. I told him that there weren't any. Any restaurants? Nope. Any place with a bathroom? Nope. I was starting to snicker all ready and told him that there was no way we were leaving the water.
Well right in the middle of the next cast, I turned to check out the look on his face, but was looking at his bare white a$$ instead. Now this guy is about 6'4" 230 lbs and the boat shook as he dove over the side to do whatever it was he had to do. When his head bobbed up to the surface, I already had the trolling motor in high gear and was getting out of there as fast as I could. I wish I would have had my video camera with me to capture the look on his mug. I just about wet my pants watching the great white whale floundering around and then trying to inconspiculously climb back in to my boat without getting noticed. Some things just can't be hidden no matter how hard you try....like a big naked guy.
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| Seeing my partner in the PMTT at Cave Run curled up like a little baby on the floor of my Tuffy. After the first day of the event he ate day old raw oysters at Shoneys.....Not a good thing. I think he casted only 20 times that whole second day... I really knew he was super sick when he saw a 48" and three minutes later was back sleeping again.. NOT Good.[:knockout:] [:blackeye:] |
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| A few weeks ago we launched at smokey's on pewaukee lake and were the first ones out there. About fifteen minutes I told pops I had to go. A minute later I started putting stuff up and said let's go back. I got a loud "why". I said because I am going to **** my pants! Smokey's was open and I christened the bathroom really good.
Another good one was at the pewaukee show Jason took me for a ride in his tuffy. I got to watch him make "friends" on the water as we cruised around.[;)] |
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| The list is sssssoooo long, but I'll try to think of some tid bits....
(pre-boating) January: Swap meet organized and hosted by yours truly (*takes a bow): only one person hooks themself, but was too drunk to feel it when taken out, spill a WHOLE beer on somebody, and get so drunk that I can barely help from laughing at Richard Collin's funky French Canadian accent. And get to laugh at Ben Remer while he tries to hustle the nastiest broad ALL NIGHT, I hope he's glad he didn't hook up with that fish, she was a fattie, in more ways than one. Oh, Ben, I was LYING, she was gross!!!
February: Driving alone to Kinkaid, a little tired and on some headache meds that made me a bit...dumb. Pulling into a gas station and the dam* pump just jumps in front of me....rig grinds to a halt, but looks fine. Then why can I see all the way down the side of the boat??? The trailer tongue is bent at a 30 degree angle to the left. $250 later and I have a re-inforced new tongue, and had to have the lower-end of the Merc fixed, not related to my little accident, but still stressful waiting for Merc to tell me whether or not still under warranty. Also watching C.Painter at the raunchiest "gentleman's club" was a sight, if not in the boat.
March: Fishing with Ben Rememr and Boro in Indiana, my second dink of the year in the boat... I say "eh, about 20", Remer says "thats barely a foot", sure enough it was just about an inch shorter than the size 12 Asics I'm wearing....
April: me and Running_Hot get to the Shell station near the lake....ugliest Indiana down-home, buck-toothed nasty, stripper tries to get a ride on the Brown Champion (R_H's boat): "you boys goin fishin?" and "my daddy used to take me fishin!" and "can we go fishin with you". Even I was speechless, which isn't often. Later that day, fishing is SLOW (wishing we had taken her up on the offer...), we pull up to a spot, a duck comes w/in 6" of my cast (yes I was aiming at it) only to save itself by doing a Maverick and hitting on the airbrakes, never have seen a duck stop in mid-air and go UP before. Boredom sets BACK in, we proceed to fling baits at sunbathing turtles, that is until R-H nails one square...moves the turtle five feet and destroys his favorite Reef Hawg. That was also the day Driveway took a wrong turn at the launch and spent 45 minutes going AWAY from the main body of the lake and into a swamp!!!
May: On Little Green with jm_03...pulling out, some IDIOT in a Tuffy Esox Mag not only cuts me off at the launch in line to get boats out, but then takes 20 minutes getting his trailer in the water.....his fat f***k kids are laughing at him, I direct him down, and he then winches the boat ALL THE WAY IN!!! Did he say thanks, what do you think??? Of course not!!!
Birthday weekend (end of May, beginning of June): Staying with Boro and the family, his daughter puking so hard (and all night) so hard her head is spinning and her skin turns inside out...no big deal right? Spent Monday and Tuesday on the toilet p***ing out my a**!!! Same weekend: jm_03s first day with me and Boro....has a mid to high 40s chase to the boat, first follow of the year, does a figure T, and the fish just stops.,...then sinks out of sight. Later the same day....clicker goes off on the sucker, JM_03 up to bat, looks at me, and says "dude, i think a fish took the sucker", does NOTHING, I hit it like a p***y and no fish. During that same day I do a twinkle toes Fred Flinston across the Starcraft, bash up my shin and miss going in headfirst by a hair!!!
July: have a gull make 3 aggressive strikes at a Magic Maker as I reel in like a mad man.
August: fishing with Ms. Slamr on the Indian Chain in Canada....she has a mid 30s eat the TR about 15 yards from the boat, does a Maina hookset....muskie opens mouth, out flies TR, up and over the boat, almost nailing me in the head!!
September: Me and Boro have to make not one, not 2 but 3 trips back to the launch so jm_03 can deal with a serious case of Hardees-Breakfast Induced MUDD-BUTT!!! Later that day, have a 38"er of Boro's bite me 3X before I give up and give duties to jm_03 on unhooking. Fish swims away fine, but I end up with a 1/2 long gash on my thumb and I lose so much blood it covers a goodly portion of Boros old boat that got sold the next week (his First Aid kit now actually has my name on it). Later that month, R_H yelling at me to "get the net, get the net" about 10 seconds after hooking into a whopper of a 37"er.
October: drive through wind storms and a blizzard to get to the PRIVATE muskie water....only to have to break into our accomidations, then shovel 100lbs of snow out of my rig the next day. JM_03 blanks on the booze, buddy Craig boots one of my favorite Dawgs and then ruins a spool of brand new Power Pro, and there is so much snow on the ground the moron partners make a snowbear (man+ears).
November was un-eventful (except for Boro missing a low 40s..."why is this reel not working, won't reel in???" because I loosened the star drag on the reel he had for a sucker, OOPS, forgot to tell him), but going out on Sunday with Jason S....hoping he'll still show after this post!!!
Slamr
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| Well I can recall a few memorable occasions. My buddy Jon and I were getting off the lake, middle September, after dark. He backed my truck in, and got on the trailer. Water was pretty low, so I couldn't really run the boat up, we had to crank her up. Well Jon was reaching for the bow to put the hook on, and he couldnt reach the bow, in fact, he pushed the boat away from himself, and fell onto the rollers. Picture a log rolling contest, that was what Jon was doing with his hands on each roller. And Jon lost. He ended up slowly slipping right in head-first. It was so dang funny to watch this guy struggle to stay dry for about 10secs, and then finally lose. I've laughed for many monthes straight.
The other, actually fishing, was by myself and animal related. I was counting out my depthraider for an openwater troll, and I was watching the spool, when line just started screaming off. I was like, "Holy ****, somethun ate it on the surface!" I still had the boat in gear, so I was towing it underwater, and i could feel it comin up for a jump. But it flew instead. I had snagged a seagull in the foot, and now it was flying around in the air with my depthraider firmly embedded. Well with 80lb test......I sent it the news! Splat! One water landing that bird will not forget. I shook her up a litte, had an interesting release, but all was well in the end.
Later
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| Not many unusual things but I did watch this dude standing on the back of his buddies boat,while his buddy his doing the Jeff Gordon thing on the water trying to impress myself ,Ted takasaki and Bob Izumi.He pulls a J uturn and dumps his buddy into a 42 degree drink.I must admit it was the best circus flip I have ever seen.The driver proceeds to pull the Bob Izumi signature rod out first of the water then tends to his buddy.He was pressed to show us the signature rod while his buddy is dripping about 10 gallons a minute.
Dont do the model thing on the backs of running boats.
You might make an ass of yourself!
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| Well Here it goes While prefishing Tonka for the P.M.T.T. that Friday which we weren't even going to fish because we already caught a 41" 35"& that nice 54" on Thursday within 6 hrs but just wanted to check one more spot. When we hit this spot I told my Partner we are not going to stick anymore fish so make sure you pull the bait away, well needless to say first cast he's got a fish on nice fish I said as I grabbed my proto type Frabill Big Kahuna Net. Now here it comes we netted her took a measurment which was 51" all while we are trying so hard to be discrete so other anglers didn't see us but as I layed the net in the back of my Champion along with the lure in the net connected to the rod I looked back from the front of the boat after taking a few pictures when I noticed the waves in the back of the boat had taken the net for a journey along with pulling the rod along with it. I went to grab the net handle as I placed my left hand on my Mercury motor which had pledge on it and my hand sliped right off and here I was in some cold water telling my partner that was releasing his fish to get my #SS out. Well if you think watching a musky being released looks cool it's awsome watching them swim past you while being released. I think I wanted to get out of the water quicker not because of the coldness but I did notice a good friend of mine Paul Hanson about 60 yards away trying so hard to get his camera out but to bad he's not fast enough. Well a least we didn't fish anymore that day or who no's how many more fish we would have stuck not to mention saved the net, rod reel and the lure. The price we pay for fishing sometimes. It's Priceless
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| I normally fish from the shoreline in Holland, mainly in small drains and ponds. Now, as some of you may know, there are a lot of cows in Holland, especially in the pastures next to these drains. I was fishing, minding my own business, taking an occasional pike or perch, until I passed that fence. A whole hoard of young cows came storming over and they all surrounded me. I guess just out of curiosity. After a while they wondered off again, but there was one lil'' bastard that started poking me in the back with his nose. So I moved over a little, in a bad mood perhaps? Again, that cow started to poke me in the back until one time she poked too hard and left me standing standing in the water with my boots filled to the edge with water. That damn cow! I swear the steak I ate for dinner never tasted better!! LOL
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| Looking at Jason during our trip to the Goon in 98 degree heat, pounding the water with the intensity of a madman, pouring water over his head every few minutes, saying "We gotta be crazy", and returning to pounding the water like a madman...[:knockout:] |
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| I should have some good storys to tell after fishing with Slamr this Sunday.. LOL[:bigsmile:] |
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| I watched a guy this year try to load up his ski boat. He kept putting it on the trailer, never quite making it up to the front. He was having great difficulty and it was not setting well with his buddy who was trying to hook it up. He then tried to ram it on, which he did, which wrecked his trailer. When I left, the boat was in the water and they were trying to rapair the trailer. |
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| While we where fishing a creek I casted and my lure witch ended up in a crab apple tree that was hanging over the bank (must of been a wind gust), so we moved on over to retrieve my lure and as I was standing in the front of are boat and gave it a yank, I started a apple downpour. The noise of them apples hitting the boat and water was to funny to Judy, witch I did not think it was, them dam apples hurt!! After 2 or 3 pulls and a boat full of apples I got my lure back. Oh the times you need a video camera!!!!
Stay turned for more of Punch and Judy's Muskie Adventure's!!
CPR
Matt and Judy |
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| This is a good topic for the Winter, so back to the front page!![:halo:] |
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| Fishing with Slaaaammmmmmmrrrrrr.
I left my home at 12:15am to meet him in chicago at 2am Sunday morning. We drove to lake X and got there around 5:30am. Picked up some bait and got to the landing to fish in Boro's(I think that is his site name) boat. We got to spot X on lake X and proceed to do pattern A, B and D(Crank, jerk and Sucker).
Slamr lost two fish right away on pattern B and then pattern D when off. I set the hook and around the boat she went a good fish 46" to 47", but two feet from the Boro's net she came off. A nasty case of the "death Gater roll". Oh well.
We continued to do pattern B because it was more productive on lake X. We found fish in spots G, F, W and P. We moved 18 fish total, and Slamr lost 5 of them on pattern B.
We laughed are heads off all day and of course not one of you were ever mentioned in the discusions.. LOL[;)]
I really cant say anything happend that was in itself super funny.. But the whole day was a blast and a great get away in December. I was back home in Wisconin by 9pm. A long day but worth it.[:bigsmile:] |
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| Well Jason, you are forgetting my little "accident" on the floor of the baitshop....if it hadnt been 4:45AM in the morning it would have been hilarious, me spraying 20gallons of water onto the floor of the shop instead of into the sucker bucket!!! But I did have a great time....my season finally appears over, and beyond the 2 of us losing 6 fish that day, it was a great one to end on.
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