North of 8 - 3/7/2021 11:34 AM

First really big lure for Musky I ever saw used was a hand carved Suick imitation, carved by a dentist who was a hard core musky fisherman. Carved from balsa, 13" long, 2" across the head, the biggest hooks I had ever seen at the time, in the late 1970s. My buddy had been given one by the dentist and he wanted to try it on a bay with a lot of stumps in the Three Lakes chain. When he started throwing it, I was convinced any musky in the area would high tail it out of there. But, it had a really good side to side as well as up/down motion (had a big metal tail). After maybe 10 minutes, just as he was taking it out of the water a huge musky hit it. A big head shake threw water everywhere. I was in the front of 16' boat, he was in the back and I got drenched. He was so startled he never set the hook. He said it was the biggest musky he had ever seen and he had netted a 52 for his brother in law the year before. Made a believer in big baits out of me.