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| Curious how everyone rates their success in the maddening addiction of muskie fishing. I offer a few of my own.
1. A 50.5 tiger from WI- Lax replica
2. Buddy and I got 3 20#ers in 45 minutes
3. Helping get friends PB- 46.5 last year
4. Taking 3rd in Nat. Champ. in Eagle R. one year
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| 1. Released every fish ive caught.
2. Never gotten a hook stuck in any part of my body.
3. Never lost a lower unit or prop. |
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| 1. Three 6 fish days over the past 2 years
2. PB 49.5" last year
3. Caught 3 fish in a row on back to back to back casts
4. A few other things would be tied here
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| 1. First 50 in my own boat, caught my by wife trolling this past June.
2. Netting my brother-in-laws 53.5" - His first muskie ever, 15 minutes into trolling on my bachelor party.
3. Hooking a smallmouth, watching a river giant eat it then finally let go. Went back and caught same fish 3 days later. |
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Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | Being chosen to fish for these great fish my whole life
And to see the Greatest fish I will ever see that's it !!! |
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| My Son's First, My Daughter's first and her PB of 48".
Just wish my father could have been around to see 'em.
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Location: Chisholm, MN | 1. First 50 - Obviously
2. Guiding a young man to his first 50 on his fourth cast of the day. See pic!
3. First time muskie fishing when I was 12
4. Every other 50 incher that has graced my boat with its presence.
5. Buying my first boat.
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| 1. When asked what she wanted to do for her 4th birthday this summer, my daughter said she wanted me to take her muskie fishing.
2. four-fish day, solo.
3. Lots of equally-pleasing team accomplishments: a few 4-fish days, several first-muskies for newbies, some heroic net jobs,
Any big success on a first attempt is really rewarding. Like a big fish on a new body of water, or doing well the first time you try a new technique. On the opposite end of the spectrum, it's also really rewarding to FINALLY hit the jackpot doing something on which you've long persisted, unsuccessfully.
tretsven6's #3 would easily make top 3 if I ever accomplish that.
EDIT - how fitting that my post lands immediately after Kirby's... HA!
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Location: Chisholm, MN | EDIT - how fitting that my post lands immediately after Kirby's... HA!
Very fitting! Some of the heartbreakers also fit into this thread. Like the one you lost idling out of the landing that day. They just make you want to try harder! |
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| Putting my Brother on his first musky with a lure I bought him for Christmas. Ive never seen him so happy and excited.
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Location: Duluth, MN | My son getting our first 50+ {53} in the boat after 6 years of trying. Nothing else will ever top that so that's all i have.
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| How I rate my success muskie fishing?
-- Did we try our best to catch em? Did we have a good time doing it? If yes to both questions, then this outing was a success for me. I have many more fishless days than not, so I know that I better love the chase and not just the catch. Often a boat can do everything correct and still not get bit...or at least that is what I tell myself haha!
Greatest muskie accomplishments?
--Balancing my muskie addiction with being the best father and husband I can be.
--Whenever the other person in the boat catches one, esp. if it's a first or biggest muskie.
--Avoiding muskie drama. I just don't care who is doing what and where. I'll make my own reports.
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| If I had to be a bit of a "contrarian" here, I have to say I'm a bit sad at the focus on "fifties" that seems to overtake all things musky. And, it's not the first time I've see this sort of thing play out. My first love was rodeo and wanting to make it to the big time circuits as a bronc rider and bull dogger. In the late sixties, bull riding was just "one" single event...and not the most difficult and clearly not the most dangerous. Nowadays, rodeo is all about bull riding. That's all you see! There's hardly a TV event you'll ever see where a rope is thrown, a horse is rode, a steer is brought to the dirt or any of the other really rich history and traditions that became rodeo. Some butt hole decided that only the bull riding was worthy, and that's all you see.
I'll tell you what 50 is....it's a number, just a number. I actually caught one last week just five or six minutes after my boat mate got a 47 1/2 and.....the difference is......there is no difference. Both fish fought about the same, looked just as incredible in the water and photos and I'm not sure very many of you could tell the difference between the pictures. A nice fish, a really nice fish...even the fish of your lifetime, should have no need of any particular number. And where you fish makes all the difference in the world about fish size too. after just returning from LOTW, most of what I was asked was about how many "fifties" were caught in our group. I think were heading up the wrong shoreline with all this. |
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| Concerning the rodeo comments - I was just at one last Friday and bull riding was by far the most boring part.
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Junkman - 7/30/2015 2:44 PM
If I had to be a bit of a "contrarian" here, I have to say I'm a bit sad at the focus on "fifties" that seems to overtake all things musky. And, it's not the first time I've see this sort of thing play out. My first love was rodeo and wanting to make it to the big time circuits as a bronc rider and bull dogger. In the late sixties, bull riding was just "one" single event...and not the most difficult and clearly not the most dangerous. Nowadays, rodeo is all about bull riding. That's all you see! There's hardly a TV event you'll ever see where a rope is thrown, a horse is rode, a steer is brought to the dirt or any of the other really rich history and traditions that became rodeo. Some butt hole decided that only the bull riding was worthy, and that's all you see.
I'll tell you what 50 is....it's a number, just a number. I actually caught one last week just five or six minutes after my boat mate got a 47 1/2 and.....the difference is......there is no difference. Both fish fought about the same, looked just as incredible in the water and photos and I'm not sure very many of you could tell the difference between the pictures. A nice fish, a really nice fish...even the fish of your lifetime, should have no need of any particular number. And where you fish makes all the difference in the world about fish size too. after just returning from LOTW, most of what I was asked was about how many "fifties" were caught in our group. I think were heading up the wrong shoreline with all this.
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| teddy b - 7/30/2015 2:28 PM
--Balancing my muskie addiction with being the best father and husband I can be.
TB
I was trying to think of a good way to put something like that to words. I'm happy with myself that muskie fishing only has a minimal impact on my home life. My wife knows I'm obsessed, but doesn't have to tell me when not to go. Spent more time catching panfish and walleyes, riding trails on horses and wheelers with my kids this year than chasing muskies, and I feel good about that.
But there is a great satisfaction that comes from conquering the fish - aside from just having fun on the chase. |
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| Junkman - 7/30/2015 3:44 PM
If I had to be a bit of a "contrarian" here, I have to say I'm a bit sad at the focus on "fifties" that seems to overtake all things musky. And, it's not the first time I've see this sort of thing play out. My first love was rodeo and wanting to make it to the big time circuits as a bronc rider and bull dogger. In the late sixties, bull riding was just "one" single event...and not the most difficult and clearly not the most dangerous. Nowadays, rodeo is all about bull riding. That's all you see! There's hardly a TV event you'll ever see where a rope is thrown, a horse is rode, a steer is brought to the dirt or any of the other really rich history and traditions that became rodeo. Some butt hole decided that only the bull riding was worthy, and that's all you see.
I'll tell you what 50 is....it's a number, just a number. I actually caught one last week just five or six minutes after my boat mate got a 47 1/2 and.....the difference is......there is no difference. Both fish fought about the same, looked just as incredible in the water and photos and I'm not sure very many of you could tell the difference between the pictures. A nice fish, a really nice fish...even the fish of your lifetime, should have no need of any particular number. And where you fish makes all the difference in the world about fish size too. after just returning from LOTW, most of what I was asked was about how many "fifties" were caught in our group. I think were heading up the wrong shoreline with all this.
I can see your point a little.......BUT who can honestly say they don't want to catch a TRUE GIANT TROPHY? I'm going for a fifty and I'm not ashamed! |
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| I also get tired of hearing all the 50 talk. Same goes for the guys that put a name on a deer and than add them to a "Hit List" and the obsession of how many inches of antler a deer has. I think it all comes down to how one was brought up. I was lucky enough to be taught by two grandfathers that hunted and fished, success was never based on inches or quantity it was about fun, family, friendships. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Kirby Budrow - 7/30/2015 2:52 PM
Junkman - 7/30/2015 2:44 PM
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The difference is 2.5 inches and the rarity of it : )
So you fish where 50's are rare, right?
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| 1. Last September, my 4.5 yr old (at the time) son netting a low 30s I hooked. The look on his face when it hit the net and him yelling "We got him!! We got him!! I netted him!!" will forever be etched into my memory.
2. 2 October's ago in Vilas County, son wanted to fish off dock. I took a musky rod down. Got him situated, then put bucktail in water to make sure it was running true, and a 45.5" starts chasing it. Drag wasn't even locked down yet, so I kept the fish chasing it while I tighted the drag, and it hit after going around about 6 times. Son watched the entire thing at 3.5 yrs old, and spent the next hour doing figure 8s off the end of the dock with his bobber and worm.
3. Couple weeks ago...my now 5.5 yr old son is casting small musky baits. He had a mid-40s come charging in on his Slammer 5" Shad (best lure ever according to my son btw) and he had perfect boatside technique, but she just wouldn't eat. His boatside technique was better than half the guys that have been in my boat. No fish landed, but watching him handle that was a proud moment for me.
4. Getting a few buddies their first fish.
5. Every time I get to spend a day in the boat with my dad these days. He's still pounding the water hard in his mid 60s, but I know that things are going to slow down in the coming years, and I know there's more years behind us in the boat than ahead of us, so I just enjoy each outing a little more these days. |
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| Can't put a 1,2,3 on it. My best day was hooking 8 in just under 3 hours and lost em all. One of my best memories was hooking a 55+ 3 times over 3 weeks and never landed. Seeing my son cast and fish, coaching him as he reeled in his first few muskies (priceless). My best fighting fish was a 41 that threw my bait the first time and got it exactly 24 hours later. Hit my glider so hard it broke it's jaw and fought like no other to date. I can't even remember my first 50 and there hasn't been a ton of those. I seem to remember the big ones lost more so. They don't haunt me but keep me goin With a smile. |
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Location: oswego, il | 10,875 completely useless posts on this website
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Location: Waukee, IA | 1. Self planned and executed trip to LOTW for the first time. In 5 days of mixed fishing I landed 7 Muskies, 48" being the biggest and a 45" pike. Made some mistakes that cost me a couple more, but I had a blast.
2. 44" Iowa Muskie
3. 45.5" Pike (cheating, I know) |
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Location: Mound, MN | In 20+ years of muskie fishing I still haven't lost a rod and reel over the side of the boat that I wasn't able to retrieve. |
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| Putting a kid whom I've been a "big brother" to, since he was ten years old, on the biggest muskie in my boat, to date. A 55 incher.
Also, catching several 50+ inch muskies, fishing solo. |
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Location: Lockport, IL | ToddM - 7/30/2015 4:01 PM
10,875 completely useless posts on this website
Lol! It never gets old. Have you broken down the numbers from the MI Lunge log? I once read on here that a 49-49 3/4 fish seems much more rare than a "50". |
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Location: Minnesota. | mnmusky - 7/30/2015 3:34 PM
I seem to remember the big ones lost more so. They don't haunt me but keep me goin With a smile.
Exactly!! It's "that feeling" that just never leaves every time you think about it!
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Location: Minnesota. | bucknuts - 7/30/2015 4:44 PM
Putting a kid whom I've been a "big brother" to, since he was ten years old, on the biggest muskie in my boat, to date. A 55 incher.
Also, catching several 50+ inch muskies, fishing solo.
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| I went out fishing with the my father and my uncle, who had just underwent what could be considered the worst thing that a father could have happen and we finally got him to go out fishing with us again(opening day 2013). Out 20 min and a huge hail storm came through went through and on the first pass through I brought in a nice fish which turned at the boat and bolted at my uncles lure and smashed it. Not more than 10 casts later i brought in another fish that went under the boat on my 8 and smacked my fathers lure. My uncle had to depart so we headed to the launch, all the way making fun of me for bringing 2 nice fish in for them (39, 43) ect. We got to the boat and tied up, something just felt right so I grabbed a rod and pitched across the marina and I looked at my uncle and said "watch this Im going to stick one". Not a second after a huge splash erupted in the middle of the marina as I set the hook. I yelled out I got one as my dad continued to walk down the pier laughing as if I was joking. He finally realized I was telling the truth and ran back. Some how we managed to wrangle the big girl in and into the bag.(46) All three fish on the same lure now nicknamed the "cooper-tale". There were 4 of us in the boat that day, best fishing day ever!
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Location: Okauchee, WI | 1. Bringing home a trophy and a payday just for being the Junkman's net boy! He truly is a great guy.
2. Scoring a 51 on Okauchee one cold miserable November day. It was a solitary quest for me. |
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