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Location: Verona, WI | One year I had hooked more turtles in May (3) than I had muskies. Otherwise 5-gallon pail, underwear, christmas tree, anchors, 68" sturgeon..... |
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Location: Algonac, MI | LarryO - 1/23/2014 7:25 PM
I'm wondering what brand of rod holder you were using? Should settle that ever popular thread debate topic once and for all.
Rod holder was a flush mount Lee's rocket launcher, in the gunnel. (fishing a larger boat) Drag was set right, so it did most the work.
For trolling...saltys for boat rods, and rocket lauchers for boards (clamp on tube or flush gunnel). I have broken the plastic holders on fish, so we don't use anything made from plastic.
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| 20lb +/- a few carp, and a basket of still living perch in indiana |
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| Contender - 1/24/2014 2:07 PM
LarryO - 1/23/2014 7:25 PM
I'm wondering what brand of rod holder you were using? Should settle that ever popular thread debate topic once and for all.
Rod holder was a flush mount Lee's rocket launcher, in the gunnel. (fishing a larger boat ) Drag was set right, so it did most the work.
For trolling...saltys for boat rods, and rocket lauchers for boards (clamp on tube or flush gunnel ). I have broken the plastic holders on fish, so we don't use anything made from plastic.
I use the Down-east holders also, after a bad experience with one of the plastic brands. I've had several close calls with the jet skiers. One of the reasons I really only like to troll in the late fall season. |
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Location: Wisconsin River | Osprey, Hit the bait twice. Both times I didnt see him coming. Missed it the first try, as he was flying away with the bait the second try I was able to slowly pull the bait away without hooking up. Not sure how that would have went if I hooked him. |
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| I got free gear off ropes, free anchors, all kinds of stuff. Loons, Snapping turtles, Sturgen and one Turkey buzzard (Netted him off the surface because I felt bad) Always hate when people go missing in the lake. Thank god I never hooked a body. |
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| caught a 30-06 with the serial numbers filed off , it went back , best laugh was Horsehunter's lake Trout he caught on my boat , i too would have sworn it was the Muskie of all Muskies , we laughed so hard could hardly get it in the boat ! |
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| Slow Rollin - 1/23/2014 12:47 PM
Contender - 1/23/2014 12:44 PM
I have a list like Jeff, but most interesting hands down: A waverunner operator.
He came blasting out of Metro Beach, and ran between the boat and a fixed planer board. Going under the planer board line, but somehow DIDN'T clothes line himself. Guessing the "speed tuck position" he was sitting in, saved him. We were trolling West at 4kts and he was going East at about 40kts.
BUT......he was NOT lucky enough to miss the inside board line. Inside board rod took off screaming like never heard before. A 6" Bright Green Scale jointed Wiley King Jr firmly hooked in his shoulder, it ripped him right off the PWC!!!
He ended up going to the ER, to get 3 trebles removed. Sheriff wouldn't let us Knipex the hooks off the lure, and we never got the lure back, either.
This is the best one...WOW..
The revenge we have ALL wanted against jet skiers lol!!! |
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| Caught a drift sock in a tourney once. Still use it. |
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| It's a muskie but a funky one. We assume this was injured during stocking efforts. |
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Location: Planet Meltdown | Haven't caught too many odd things while Muskie fishing...... But did catch my PB 28" Walleye on a 5" Baker Shad bait. Also caught two of my biggest Smallies (20" and 21") on back to back casts on opposite sides of a rock pile on Nippising while Muskie fishing.
The craziest thing I ever hooked was while surf fishing for Stripers on Montauk's North End. It was the fall run and the shoreline was packed. Everyone was into fish one cast after another. We were casting surface poppers into the blitz..... I launched a cast and right before my bait hit the water a Northern Gannet flew right into my line about half way out and did about three somersault's wrapping it's wing up in my braid. I thought to myself oh just GREAT!! Then it tried to fly away. So here I am fighting this big bird trying my best not to harm it and I got anglers on both sides casting and fighting fish and this bird is going ape S#%^! I finally managed to get the bird under control and the guy next to me helped me capture it. We threw a towel over its head and went to work untangling it. Thank god we both had surf gloves on. That bird obviously was not happy but it flew away unharmed. Some of the comments I heard echoing down the shore were hilarious. I was back to fishing and thankfully caught no more birds that day.
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | Its a long read, but fairly entertaining.
http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/articles/10.28.2008/1794/My.Forty.P... |
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Location: oswego, il | Nice beaver! |
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| Fishing line with fish and rig attached (Pike), Beer cans, bait bucket, mushroom anchor, and thought I had my first musky and it turned out to be a life jacket bag. That last one sucked...
Had an owl follow a pacemaker at night once. I yelled at it and it flew away.
Perhaps the funniest was Sturgeon Fishing with my H Predator. Caught a Burbot. My friend Mojo insists I am the only person alive to stick an Eelpout with Predator. Not sure if it is true or not, but still funny.
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| An anchor and a giant bra. Anchor was normal size. The bra was disturbing. |
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| My brother and I were grinding spinnerbaits one time in about 20ft of water. He reared back and set the hook hard on what for a short period of time we thought was the biggest muskie in the lake. What it was in actuality was a 20lb anchor that someone thought was a good idea to put on a bungy rope. As you can imagine the pulling back and forth of the bungy coupled with the weight of the anchor was pretty realistic for a good 20 seconds. We had a pretty good laugh, and a nice anchor when all was said and done. |
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| My buddy caught me. LUCKY the hooks didnt dig, but the leader and bait wrapped around my neck with the bait at my throat with the hooks barely sticking. I was on the other end of a 12ft boat. Still not sure exactly how he managed that. lol |
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| Caught a long very skinny muskie w/ a rusted cowbell on the side of its face. I never hooked the fish, my lure got tangled with the cowbell that stuck on the side of its face.
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| Brad P - 1/29/2014 10:56 AM
Perhaps the funniest was Sturgeon Fishing with my H Predator. Caught a Burbot. My friend Mojo insists I am the only person alive to stick an Eelpout with Predator. Not sure if it is true or not, but still funny.
Which is why you shall be known as the Burbot King.... Sturgeon on the left/ Burbot on the right...
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| A muskie that must have broke it's back being removed from the hatchery and or during stocking. I've seen some hunch back muskies before but this was an extreme. It went into a death spiral almost immediately after hooking it so the fight was a little weak. The amazing thing is this fish has be able for successfully forage for bait and grow. It was a healthy fish and swam off/downward quickly.
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| Saw thousands of these in the water at Lake Kinkaid. Did not pay much attention to them until my lure dragged one in. They are all over the trees in this one bay. Jelly like and very heavy! I was afraid to touch it. It fell off my lure when I tried to take it off the hook with a wet towel. Broke into a bunch of pieces. I had to Google it when I got home. Never knew they even existed!!!
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/bryozoa.html |
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| They are kind of scary looking when you drag them into the boat!
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| One night while trolling, at about 2:00 am, the line goes off. Because we had nothing the whole trip, we get excited, only to find out, we're reeling in an elastic band from some fat dude's undies...! Gross! We start laughing ... Crazy!
Got to love those night trolling trips! |
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| Pulled a bicycle off the bottom last fall. |
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