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| For the rubber knees and increased heart rate! |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Because of stories like this one... I just want one chance!!
http://www.fenwickfishing.com/menu.cfm?p_content_id_key=45&cm=339
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Location: Fishing the weeds | Great Story! I'd love to see one like that before I check out. |
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Location: oswego, il | Bukes, we were talking about musky fishing.  |
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Location: Antigo, WI | I'd have to plead insanity! But I really like Norm's answer. I started chasing muskies about 15 years ago and I get the same rush seeing the water bulge up behind a topwater or a big shadow closing in on a bucktail as I do when a big whitetail comes in bow range. The best part of musky fishing is once you are lucky enough to bag a trophy, whatever that is to you personally, you can release her and return next week, next month or next year and have the hope of another encounter. With a trophy whitetail, once you win there will never be another encounter. |
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| Because when all the other kids were playing kickball i was trying to get some vitamin P in 6th grade
Because when all the other kids were chasing girls in 8th grade i was learning how to play guitar so i could have them chase me
Because i finally realized i was ugly and can't play the guitar for crap around the time i turned 29.
Because of this realization, i decided that i always loved fishing, why not fish for something with a catch ratio equal to the success rate of most bands getting signed, i mean, im used to the odds, right?
Because i'm stubborn, stupid, will spend anywhere from 10-130 on a lure and seriously try to justify it to ANYONE that will listen. i will pay for guided trips and catch bass....i will take 5 day trips to places such as kinzua, and although i MIGHT just get a BIG bitch, i'll probably only remember that years trip for the campfire and drunken comraderie that we all long for.
Because when i was a kid, my dad caught one in front of me and released it.
Because i was in a band that finally had lucrative offers, and i quit so i could be the father i want to be.........so i decided to treat myself to many fishless days, debt, a ton of GREAT friendships and a jumpstart on getting the knowledge i need to keep my daughter on the water with me, away from all the other horny 6th-10th graders, guitar players and dumb, ugly freaks that refuse to walk the beaten path like i did.
Or i could simply say because, and know that some people understand this one word answer, and others will not......ever. |
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Location: Holly, MI | Gotta do somthing when it is not bow hunting season.
I love the..
challenge
adrenilin
fish size
Power
cool lures
and on and on..
I eat salmon and walleye,
release carp and steelhead,
catch panfish with the boys,
Lose sleep the night before every time I'm headed Muskie fishing!
(yes I really release carp. Try 23 pounder on a home made ultralight with the river current. Off season toothless muskie)
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| That was what I was referring to Mr. Minor, not the man games you are into. |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | This will be my first year, and I'm doing it because I can't make a putt. I'm doing it because I can't hit a golf ball 300 hundred yards any more, and every one else can. I'm getting old, and I want to do something I can get better at. Where I'm starting you can only go forward. The science of it appeals to me. I've never been too involved with locating fish during my previous fishing experiences, and I'm really going to focus on that. Why? That's the question I'll be asking anyone I fish with. Why this bait, this structure, this depth, this time of day? I hope this doesn't scare off anybody that's made offers.
What started as a little research to learn a few things for a trip to Eagle Lake with some buddies from California, has become a quest for information and improvement. It's weird, but it's true. I like the feeling.
I'm also a sucker for all the shiny stuff you get to buy.
Kevin
I will wrestle my cumbersome plan into submission.
Edited by MuskyHopeful 3/8/2006 2:01 PM
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| Appreciation factor.
Beating on my body, hands while freezing my a$$ off, makes the return home for a strong cocktail, hot shower and couch extra special.
I might just start slamming my hand with a hammer for a faster appreciation process.
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| Because of the challenge. I also love being outdoors and on the water. I like all types of fishing, it just seems that other fish are somewhat easy to catch.
I mostly do it because I have a bad case of muskie fever. Looking for a 50+ in 2006! |
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| It's an atmosphere where I am not battling anyone but myself. I don't believe fish have thought processes and that it is up to me to identify the conditions and characteristics of the weather and time of year to determine what it will take to have success. The best part of that is I measure my success whether I catch a big fish, several in a day, or I blank it big time. What I expect out of musky fishing changes daily. Sometimes it's to grow closer bonds between loved ones and I, sometimes it for the excitement of the catch, to have solitude after a hard day's work, or to work on the ole' problem solving skills during a tournament. Whatever it is I seek from musky fishing, it usually produces for me and it isn't one single thing that causes me to musky fish but an colaberation of many things all at once that make this a truely special sport. |
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| cause I've got balls. and they smell good.  |
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| Ok, well my other response was vaporized (and I don't care) so I've thought it over and here's my close second...
It is one of the few activities that has the potential to totally consume my attention and consciouness for a sustained period of time. When I'm thrashing the water for hours and hours, well, I can forget about everything else. And for a person who manages serious depression, being able to forget about everything else, without the aid of drugs or alcohol, is a blessing.
Not that drugs and alcohol don't have practical value at times at times at times at times times timestimetimetimetime...racing around to come up behind you again. Things are the same in a relative way but...hey...Um, gotta go. There's a herd of angry vampire bats banging at my window. They're all wearing Enron 2004 Summer Picnic tee shirts! And they're chanting....something. It's....wait....they're...saying.... "Cheney and Satan in 2008"!? What the hell does that mean? Shep, please, a little help with the translation?
Seriously, for me, muskie fishing is exceptionally good medicine for depression. For real. |
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