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Location: Minnesota | I bought a chart blade/chart hair mepp's musky killer when I was about 13 at a bait shop/gas station near Kenora. My family all fished a fair amount, my dad was an occasional fisherman but my uncle and older cousin were my fishing idols. They fished all the time and caught the biggest fish I had ever seen. When we went on our annual family camping trip up on the Winnipeg River the fishing was mostly for northerns. I bought that musky killer to try and catch fish as big as my older cousin and uncle always seemed to find. I caught my first musky (42") on a red & white daredevil about 15 minutes after I took that musky killer off and put that spoon back on because my grandpa was telling me that I wouldn't catch anything on that big of a lure. The next year I placed an order (about 8 lures) through Musky Fever (Reed's) and bought a red/white suick, grandma, and a couple other lures that I can't remember the names of but still have all of them. Since that first musky, almost 20 years ago now, I haven't looked back.
Edited by brmusky 5/1/2009 3:13 PM
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| I bought $100.00 worth of Cobb baits in 1990. Back then I got 12 or 13 baits. Sounds like a lot for the money. But all of us baitmakers know how much everything has gone up. I still have all of the baits and all but one has caught a Musky |
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| dreamcatcher bucktail and a buchertail |
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Location: Chicago | Suick and a 6'' jake |
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| Reef Hawg, still can't get the thing to swim right. |
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Location: Wauwatosa, Wisconsin | TOPRAIDERRRRRR!!! havent caught one fish on it yet haha |
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| I bought a black 12" Suick when I was about 12 years old. I had no idea how to use it. I just was told it was a musky lure and I wanted to catch a musky. I still have it. I'm 53 yrs old now. I hope I catch at least one fish on it. I think I paid about $3 for it or something like that. I'd have to save up for about a month to buy something like that back then. Its' a special lure to me. It brings back lots of memories. |
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Location: On my favorite lake! | Bought two a Perch Suick and a Silver blade /Black Mepps muskie killer. |
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Location: On my favorite lake! | Bought two a Perch Suick and a Silver blade /Black Mepps muskie killer. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | An orange Suick with black spots. |
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Location: Stillwater | mepps musky killer |
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Location: Stillwater | mepps musky killer |
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Location: syracuse indiana | man i cant think back that far...lol no it was a solid black double bucktail with a nickle blade at a tackle shop right there on lake tommahawk in the year had to be sometime in the early 80's and the money my uncle made we work for. cuttin the grass at the cottage my family owned.. and i still have it today. dont use it much but i still got it....bill |
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Location: syracuse indiana | whoops i click twice sorry
Edited by archerynut36 5/13/2009 6:06 PM
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| I did'nt know #*#* about muskies except that I wanted to catch one. So I walked into Ed Shirly's off LaGrange and bought a Len Hartman dbl. skirted bucktail blk/org. |
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Location: Hartford, Iowa | The first bait I purchased was a Buchertail 500 which seemed big at the time LOL. Then a perch colored Depth Raider and a firetiger Shallow Raider. I should have stopped there because I was catching alot of fish. Sometimes it seems like the more you think you learn the less you really know!!!  |
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Location: FORT ATKINSON | Creeper and I still have the bait and still us it once and awhile. |
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| Black perch baby depthraider. |
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Location: Honor, MI | Back in the late 50's when I was a kid my uncle owned a bait/tackle shop in Lac Du Flambeau, WI. One summer when my family came up from Chicago on vacation he told me I could pick any lure in the shop as a gift. This was back when the Burmek brothers were tearing up the skis. I remember this big display ad in the store promoting the Tony Burmek Secret Bait. It claimed 200 musky in 10 days or something like that. I had to have it but when I took it out it snapped
my fiberglass buggy whip rod on the first cast.
Speaking of memories, anyone old enough to remember the Flame Musky Bar in Flambeau? Never saw so many 40 pound plus ski mounts in one place; most of them caught or guided by Louis St. Germain. Anyone remember Louis? He was
my first musky guide and legend has it that he guided four presidents. Louis' and my uncle are long gone now and the Flame burned down in the early 80's along with all the muskies. All that's left are the cherished memories of a young boy, a big lure and a great summer vacation.
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