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Location: Elkhart, IN | The picture probably speaks for itself, the young one gets a kick out of getting to touch a musky. LOL
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Location: East Troy, WI | i only muskie fish because of my grandpa. when i was 10 and younger he would take me out on the lakes in minocqua and i'd throw lazy ikes and spoons while he threw the big stuff, i loved it. fishing till after dark, boating a few it was great |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | Caught my first fish when I was two. My first word was "fish." Maybe not hereditary, but for sure a part of me. |
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Location: Elkhart, IN | I just wanted to post it because his enthusiasm when we get one in the boat is contagious. That fish came today and is my first Bulldawg musky. It made for a fun day. |
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Location: Minn. | Both smiles are the same, must be hereditary. We really need the young fisherman. Kids need something more than games to play and fishing keeps on giving and giving. My dad is 92 + and I wouldn't trade anything for the great time we've had fishing. Keep up the good work with your son. |
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Location: NYC (and many weeks in MN during summer) | I started fishing with my grandfather when I was 4. Progressively got more serious as I got older. Took our first trip from NY to Vermont when I was ten for big pike. Never fished a day with my father.
I'm 42 now with a 7 year old daughter. She's already caught pan fish, bass, walleye and a 4lb pike. Trouble is, my wife wontlet me take her Muskie fishing. She thinks its too dangerous. My wife is a little bit of a pampered princess, and truth is she turns hernose up at it. Ive had the wife out fishingany times, but as my daughter gets older, the wife resists more and more.
Any real suggestions? I know some of you will say things like "show her who's boss" etc, but try to be serious. LOL
Randy |
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| I believe it is....if you've got any old C.C. Roberts Mud Puppies around, check the pamphlet in their boxes, that's my great grandpa with the musky from the river. |
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Location: deep in the slop | im the first to my family. introduced by others and got my dad his first fish in no joke about 8 casts. he likes it too but thinks its too easy lolol. |
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Location: Not where I wanna be! | great pic!
Heredity??? well it is a disease! haha, no one and i mean no one that im related to ski fishes....!! so im the only one, im hoping my son gets into it, but i suppose itll be 18 years befoer that happens! |
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Location: Elkhart, IN | Thanks for the compliments and stories. I have a son that's 11 now that has caught several muskies starting at 6 and is completely addicted. I'd say I have a pretty good start with the boys. |
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| Question answered and post pulled? C'mon guys. Pull this one too.
Answer to the question is still, NO. |
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Location: Elkhart, IN | firstsixfeet - 7/28/2008 7:57 PM
Question answered and post pulled? C'mon guys. Pull this one too.
Answer to the question is still, NO.
UMMM, what did I do that you want to pull the post? |
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| If you met my dad, you would have never asked this question.
When I was a kid, we would rent a cabin on a lake in MN with another family. My dad is famous for driving the row boat with 10hp Johnson across the lake with the anchor down and grinding up fish 2x in the prop. One time they were on a stringer, so he was able to jump in and unwind his mess, the other time, we managed to get the prop caught up in one of the metal collapseable baskets. That one required a tow in.
Outside of charter boat fishing where we tell him to sit down and drink beer until we hand you the rod, he has no business ever handling fishing equipment. |
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| Rockin' SV - 7/28/2008 8:51 PM
firstsixfeet - 7/28/2008 7:57 PM
Question answered and post pulled? C'mon guys. Pull this one too.
Answer to the question is still, NO.
UMMM, what did I do that you want to pull the post?
Not a thing, I just answered your question with no as my answer to the question and my personal friend pulled it. I think it's cool when kids fish, but I don't think it follows at all in any kind of genetic way. I can remember being so excited by fishing that I was near having spells as a little kid. Isolated case in a big family.
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| My dad started me fishing back in 1974 at the ripe old age of 4, and I've been over the top about it ever since. It's only gotten worse in fact. Is it hereditary? Well, dadhates muskie fishing. Thinks its stupid to stand out there casting all day in nastyy weather to catch one or two fish that you can't even eat.
His idea of fishing involves live bait, a bucket, and a fillet knife and only happens if the weather is sunny and 80 degrees. Doesn't like to eat fish, has to keep his limit anyway. Still can't understand why we don't eat muskies.
Hey NY muskyhunter...
I'm no good with women, but maybe you ought to ask your wife why, if muskie fishing is too dangerous, does she not care if YOU do it? Then remind her that you always come home in one piece, and the day will come way too soon when your daughter doesn't want to do anything with either one of you. Wouldn't it be better off if she did something with dad that mom thinks is dangerous than not doing anything with dad?
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Location: NYC (and many weeks in MN during summer) | esoxaddict,
Thanks for the thoughtful response.
My wife thinks fishing for muskies in particular is dangerous, between the teeth and the large hooks that a 7 year old GIRL has no business pursuing them. She isn't crazy about me fishing either. I'm 42 and suffered a heart attack when I was 37. She worries every minute I'm gone. She especially worries about me getting bitten, and because of the blood thinners I'm on, bleeding out before I can even get to sure. I joke with her that I need a net and turniquet girl with me.
Wife don't mind us fishing for bass and sunnies. Although she knows they have teeth too, hasn't said no to walleye and pike.
For muskies, I don't think shell ever change her mind.
Good point about them becoming more independent as they get older. I hope it need happens!
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Location: syracuse indiana | dang firstsix feet. did your daddy not take you fishing . mark was just asking a simmple question he knows its not hereditary. its just him being a good dad. and his 11 yr old can probly out fish most of the guys on here....bill |
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| archerynut36 - 7/30/2008 5:14 PM
dang firstsix feet. did your daddy not take you fishing . mark was just asking a simmple question he knows its not hereditary. its just him being a good dad. and his 11 yr old can probly out fish most of the guys on here....bill
LOL, and I was just giving a simple answer.
Actually my father was nutty enough that he was a member of an archery club, go figure?  |
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Location: Ft. Wayne, Indiana | archerynut36 - 7/30/2008 6:14 PM
his 11 yr old can probly out fish most of the guys on here....bill
I'll agree with that one. Nick is a heck of a fisherman with many years of fishing ahead of him. |
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Location: So. Illinois | No, I think muskie fishing is an activity that can cause addition and OCD behavior causing the afflicted to purchase and hord massive amount ot fishing tackle and baits. |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, Musky Central, USA | Agreed with the antiswearmaster, I'm organizing my baits for the first time in a long time out in my garage right now..HOLY CRAP how could I fit so many baits into 1 box!!?! I have 2 more big boxes to go through and 3 smaller ones...this is going to take all day..I'm already out of room on my "tables" i made up with grabage cans and boards....now I'm going to need about 10 big pieces of cardboard to put on the ground and fill up...but I'm going to have a few for sale....I'm almost 23..and just realized why I can't afford a nice fast boat lol, or anything else for that matter. |
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Location: Elkhart, IN | Thanks for the compliments Bill and Billy. I put the picture on here because I loved Connor's expression and it gave me a bit of a chance to show off his contagious smile. The family is definately addicted to muskies, or at least my two boys are along, with me.
Andy, I feel your pain. I have to keep scratching my head an figure out where to put any new lures I get, because the tackle box is quite full. LOL It sounds like if you get that new fast boat you might sink it with lures! |
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Location: Black Creek, WI | I agree with FSF. Its certainly NOT hereditary.
My two boys are polar opposites when it comes to fishing. They each have their own personality and enjoy different things.
My youngest LOVES to fish and shares the same passion as Dad.
My oldest loves sports and video games... but could care less about fishing. However, they can change. I handed him one of my BIG musky poles last weekend and let him throw all my BIG baits... and he took some serious interest in fishing... to the point of asking to go out some more when back at camp. I'm guessing he enjoyed the feeling of being "older" by casting the big stuff moreso than the idea of catching a fish. But, he did a great job sliding the net under a 40 incher for me.... and the EXCITEMENT in his voice and the sense of pride he displayed gave me hope that he may just get the musky bug someday if I'm patient enough. |
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| No, musky fishing is not hereditary, in my opinion. My pops tooks me trout fishin as a kid and many years later I put him on his first musky, what a thrill! I took to musky fishing on my own acord, I heard of muskies in a river nearby and went down there and figured them out myself, caught and netted my first one solo. |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, Musky Central, USA | no fast boat necessary  big maybe, for the lures of course hahaha |
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Location: nappanee IN | hey mark , i hope being a nut like you isn't hereditary poor boys don't have a chance later guy..karol |
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Location: Browerville, Minnesota | Hereditery...................no. Is it an obsessive passion that one can not shake? YES!!! My father and his buddies got me into Muskie fishing when I was probably 7. Just love to sit and play with all the "big" lures. I remember one family vacation we went up to Eagle lake and dad hired a guide and took us out. Although I didn't catch any fish, I saw a couple of big ones (which were probably only 40"ers), but I knew I wanted to catch them. My best friends father was the same with him. He caught his first 50 when he was 10 up on LOTW. As we got older and more independent, we would hook up the old mans boat, make the 2 hour drive up to Leech, sleep at the landing and then fish all the next day before coming home. My father passed away 6 years ago now, and didn't muskie fish for the last two years of his life due to his physical shape. Now, my 7 year wants to Muskie fish everyday. When I do take him out, he is always asking my questions about how Grandpa Bucky would fish, and if he like this lure. Probably much the same way that I was at his age. I look back and think about those times and just say Thank You to my dad. As for your wife............women worry and that is just the way it is sometime. My thoughts is to just sit her down point out how exactly you do things while you are on the water that will ensure the safety of both you and your daughter. Perhaps get a pole out and let your daughter try her hand at casting out in the yard. I did this with my son. Take an old lure, cut the hooks off and you have a casting plug. Explain to her that you would like to take your daughter out and let her form her own opinion as to whether or not she even likes that style of fishing. Maybe she goes out once and dislikes it enough that she doesn't want to do it again. I just don't think you can take the opportunity of trying it away from her. I try to let my kids try just about everything they want, sometimes they like it, sometimes they dont............ Just my .02 |
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Location: Elkhart, IN | karol - 8/1/2008 9:51 PM
hey mark , i hope being a nut like you isn't hereditary poor boys don't have a chance later guy..karol
Are you kidding? The little one, Connor, is three times nuttier than I am! Now THAT is scary. LOLOL |
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Location: syracuse indiana | i second that.. conner is alot more of a handfull than nick and i think that colt dolson is just like conner also. hey mark we should put them both in a ring and see who goes nuts first....bill |
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Location: Oregon | I think hunting and fishing is in "our blood". Up until just the last century, our ancestors were hunting, fishing, and gathering to survive! It makes sense that once we get "on the trail" we are probably going to want to stay with it.
Jed V.
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