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Location: Franklin, WI | I turned 70 last Fall and I'm still fishing tournaments. You have to want it bad enough. No 'pounders' or 'double 13's!' With a Revo Toro Winch I can still pull double 10's. Just change your mind set to 'finesse' fishing. I'll be musky fishing until they put me in a box!  |
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| I am 55 years old. I used to be in great shape, in my 30's. I ran and worked out. For 20 years, I shed hunted. I would walk all day. I shed hunted almost every day, from the end of December until April.I have OCD. When I retired at 50, I gave up that obsession, and now I fish. I always fished, but not like I do now.
For seven months, during the winter, I live in Florida. I golf once a week, and fish once of twice a week. The rest of the time I sit in the recliner, all day long.
When I get to Minnesota, in May, I fish almost every day, for at least 8 hours.
By the time muskie season starts, my arms and shoulders, are somewhat prepared for casting all day. I fish by myself, but I don't get bored. I always fish hard. I barely take time to drink anything, which is stupid, I know. I eat snacks, when I'm running from spot to spot.
I've had both shoulders operated on. I've had numerous steroid shots, in my back, and both shoulders, over the years.
If I was smart, I would find another obsession, but who said I was smart.
I hope I have a few more years left, in this body, to fish for muskie. |
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| Nothing wrong with being proud of yourself for cleaning up your act and getting in shape. However to tell a guy with replacement knees and 8 surgeries to get his lazy butt on the tread mill or to just suck it up is a bit much. You don`t know until you have walked in another mans shoes. Kinda hard to lift weights and work out with bad joints. If your not working with a certified PT you could make things worse. Also agree with the notion that just because you can buy painkillers over the counter does not make them harmless. You can buy cigarettes over the counter too. |
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Location: WI | Muskie_Mike II - 6/3/2014 7:50 PM
I turned 70 last Fall and I'm still fishing tournaments. You have to want it bad enough. No 'pounders' or 'double 13's!' With a Revo Toro Winch I can still pull double 10's. Just change your mind set to 'finesse' fishing. I'll be musky fishing until they put me in a box! :)
Freaking awesome ! My worst fear is bein that guy that stopped musky fishing because he couldn't handle casting all day. I hope to be like Mike. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | I guess Johnsonville isn't one of the sponsors aye, boys. One brat away
from a grabber!! Hilarious. I probably will choke on the next one I try to wolf
down thinking about it. |
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| Just a suggestion for those wanting to improve their overall conditioning. Swimming is good exercise for throwing lures all day. It works the entire upper body, in particular shoulders, back and traps. And it does it without putting the stress on your joints some forms of exercise do. I starting swimming regularly year round when my knees gave me problems. Before that, I just swam when the roads were too crappy to run in winter. I am 63 and casting lures really does not give me a problem. I do weight training a couple times a week to keep bones strong, etc., but I really think the swimming is key. It has the added bonus of being a great stress reliever. For another six months I will be sitting at my desk, taking care of problems and then I retire. But I will keep going to the pool, just going to the one in Rhinelander instead of SE Wis. |
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| I'm 68 love Muskie fishing and make 2 or 3 week long trips to Canada a year . I really slowed down the last several years but still enjoy getting out with my son who is 46 and not slowing up at all and besides someone has to be the net man and good at taking pictures |
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Location: Minnesota. | I just turned 64 and am fairly fit for my misfortunes of youth. That, despite 8 elbow tendonitis ops (yup 8, the last 4 from the Mayo to fix the first 4 from the Twin Cities docs) a bad back from some heavy building projects and new rt knee (total) which isn't anything like it was before deteriorating.
I was warned a tad too late about the meds (IB's etc.) and have enough of them in me to have constant loud ringing in my ears but you put up with it. Have to! I also wish I'd been smarter in my youth. Your health is everything. Everything!
I fish 3-5 max. hr spurts now, mainly towards evening/nights and mostly on the fam. vac. on Vermilion. I'm on and off during the season in the Twin Cities. I can't complain really but... |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Snowmobiles and dirt bikes in the 60's and early 70's didn't have the suspensions that they do today. The back gets a little sore and the rough water ride has a tendency to compress the spine. I don't take much in pain killers, I just do more stretching for the back not much you can do for the spine, just sit like a catcher on the boat cushion and hang on.
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Location: New Hope MN | I hope to be half as musky tough as Tom Gelb when I'm his age. |
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Location: Smith Creek | I'm in outstanding shape for a 66 year old.
Unfortunately I'm 36.
12 hour days are all right if I get a nap and am in bed before 10PM. And don't throw double tail Pounders. |
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| Anyone use those Dr. Scholl's inserts in their shoes? A friend of mine who played sports in college and has a bad back, multiple knee surgeries, etc got some for $50. You go stand on the machine at the drug store (Walgreens or CVS) and it measures your feet and the pressure points. It tells you which model inserts to buy.
He was in WI musky fishing for 5 days last week with these inserts...he had zero back pain and zero knee pain. He has scheduled a therapy appointment figuring he'd come home hurting...but he canceled cause he felt fine.
I may try these.
Edited by MstrMusky 6/6/2014 9:37 PM
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| Closing in on 60, some days I feel much older, I believe I'm in good shape for my age. Truck driving with poor road conditions and bouncing all the time hasn't done me very well. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis since I was diagnosed at age 14, I will only take Ibuprofen for it due to adverse side effect from prescription drugs. I can do anything practically, I just pay afterwards. So keeping active really helps a lot, driving a truck does not. Two seventeen year olds girls are sometimes very hard to keep up with, however it keeps me young and active. I try hard to put good feed and liquid in myself and don't abuse myself if possible. Once I soon retire I will test the body....FISHING !! :-)))) |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | I have that six pack ab... it's just in a small cooler.
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