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Location: Minnesota | Don't get me wrong I love musky fishing . But I was at a musky expo and a guide asked why I haven't been at the vermilion dam lodge musky outing the last few years . I told him its the same time as the Minnesota pheasant hunting opener. I love my musky fishing but bird hunting is my first love . This guide looked at me and said I can buy children if I want to eat a bird , I guess he just don't get it. It got me thinking how many other musky fishermen put there gear away when fall comes around and start hunting. Don't get me wrong I'll still go musky fishing in the fall just not as much |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | from about oct. 20th til nov. 15th, its treestand time! love my bowhunting! |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Yeah, deer hunting takes priority in November and even late October just prepping. I still fish a little but I just can't get out of that tree!
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Location: Southwest PA | Couldn't agree more about bow hunting. Coyotes also have a special place in my heart. Luckily the last one mainly interferes with ice fishing though. |
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Location: The desert | Have rotated through a handful of different things. Bird hunting was big for a while, especially out west where musky fishing wasn't as big and it was only Tigers. Moving back to Minnesota has put me back on muskies. Now that I'm
Back in the Midwest I've gotten back into hockey big time. At least going to games. While my son is too young to fish, we go to hockey games instead for family time. Taken my son to 28 various hockey games this season and we've loved every minute. Our hockey puck collection will soon rival my musky bait collection. |
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| Watching sports. Especially in the fall with football and hockey starting up. Plus playoff baseball. |
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| Pheasant hunting with my two bird dogs. |
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| My obsession goes from skinny Musky's to fat toad Musky's. I love the peace and quiet in the fall, I love that lots of musky fisherman and women switch over to hunting that time of year rather than fishing for big fat Musky's. Lol |
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Location: Walker, MN | May and June shallow walleyes, and then muskies from July to November. Jumbo perch and crappies in the winter too. |
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Location: MN | Duck hunting is and will always be my number one. Over open water vs field nothing I love more. |
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Location: WI | Sitting in a treestand with my Bear bow. I should've spent alot more time muskie fishing last fall.... |
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Location: Madison, WI | Every year I say I'm gonna fish harder in the fall, then I see that first "good" buck in the treestand and I can't quit bow hunting the rest of the year. I love muskies but big whitetail with a bow is always first priority |
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Location: oswego, il | There is only one place i even care to prespawn musky fish so i have picked up salmon fishing. I enjoy it. I used fo drive stock cars back in my early 20's so i enjoy going to a short track and watching some races. |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | NathanH - 4/8/2017 8:53 PM
Duck hunting is and will always be my number one. Over open water vs field nothing I love more.
Couldn't have said it better myself. There is defiantly something special about watching a musky follow a bait, seeing a big trout do a acrobatic leap from the water, or watching my favorite outdoor buddy flush up a pheasant. But to me, nothing can compare to sitting out on the water on a snowy day watching a group of canvasbacks suck right into your decoys. If it's something you've never done, its something you have to try to do. I've seen it time and time again but it still leaves me speechless every time. |
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| Grouse and pheasant, and some deer, during October. Love being in the woods and field that time of year. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Ice fishing for big pike is a close second..
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Location: Waukee, IA | Fly fishing. Muskie has taken priority over the last few years, but I love chasing trout and Steelhead in streams. The scenery is unmatched |
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| I'm on the water a lot from April-mid September, but once woodcock and grouse open up that's all I do. Nothing better than walking in on a point over your dog. |
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Location: Alex or Alek? | I grew up bow hunting and duck hunting as my favorite and didn't catch the Muskie bug tell I was 20. Been at that strong ever since and have maybe sat with my bow a few times. Hoping to get out in the stand more this year now that I moved and now have the option to fish/hunt during the week. |
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| Just fishing. Lake Erie is literally in my back yard so I spend a lot of time fishing for walleyes and perch. The walleye night bite will be starting any day now and THAT is a blast.
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Location: South Central Wisconsin | I've been very fortunate in my deer hunting career. I've killed more deer than most people ever will. Not bragging, just a lot of doe in my area and not enough people in the area killing enough to keep the population healthy so, I took it upon myself to do this. My dad and I started QDMA in our area in 1991. It was a little premature for the neighbors to get involved but, eventually started paying off. Myself, and my kids have killed many many wall hangers. I'm 43 and have 11. My son 16, has 3. And my daughter 11, got her first last season. Now, I take veterans out hunting every fall and they have killed a couple wall hangers and missed a couple more. So, at this point in my life, I get more adrenaline dump from my kids or veterans killing them than myself.
Waterfowling was always my passion. Hunted 56-57 days out of the 60 day season. Also been fortunate enough to hunt many different states. One of my favorites being the flooded timber in Arkansas. I met a father and son from there and hit it off immediately. Well, 4 years ago the old man passed away. This took it out of me as he was like a father to me.
I've been musky fishing since I was 17. Again, I was fortunate enough to fish in different states, and canada. I have caught 50"ers. Now I want 50 lbs! If I was in it for myself, I'd be out musky fishing every chance I'd get. The guy out there with a snow covered boat, ya, that's me. |
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| Hunting vs fishing?????
We were staying on vermilion few years ago brought the rods and guns,,
TroyZ and his partner went out and got a 56 and 53 in one afternoon lost others,,,bite was definitely on!!! We still went out grouse hunting instead,,more fun.
Now I'm totally addicted to custom turkey calls its sick how many I have from the grandmasters. |
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| Before I retired and moved out of Illinois, bow hunting and shed hunting were my obsessions. I had great success with both, but I wouldn't change my life right now, for anything! I get to spend five months up on the Big V. and fish every day if I want to, and spend seven months in Florida, where I rest up, and work out, for fishing up north. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Let's see...
Winter: Walleyes through the ice and indoor competitive archery
Spring: Golf when it starts, and Turkey hunting
Summer: Muskies, Muskies, Muskies (with golf thrown in when not able to fish)
Fall: Muskies and Bowhunting. By late october, boat is away and all bowhunting. Grouse hunting during the day, sit morning and evening for deer.
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| Muskies aren't even an obsession anymore. I have an opening day streak I'll try to keep alive but after that? Meh. If I do target them I won't be using a 'typical' approach. It'll be fly rods, live baiting in the middle of summer, jigging open basins, etc. Ice fishing was incredible this year and I'd be an idiot if I wasted too much time on fishing for other stuff besides what I was chasing around all winter long.
As far as obsessions go muskie fishing has slid down a ways and now is in the same company of making sure my rain gutters are cleaned out. Cooking maple syrup, making horseradish, dirt track racing, a kid, building an ice shack, etc. If I only fish for muskies once this year or not at all I won't lose any sleep over it.
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Location: 31 | Wow those are some nice pike! I've never enjoyed hunting with guns much but could see myself getting into hunting with a bow if there were better local opportunities. My problem is finding the time because I have so many other activities that I've enjoyed for a long time like vacationing with my wife, tournament poker, steel tip darts, ice skating, and more recently ping pong night. You wouldn't think you could work up a sweat playing ping-pong with a couple buddies but it's actually pretty good cardio... and a lot of fun.
It's kind of a tossup between poker and muskie fishing for me anymore though depending on the season... hard to beat the adrenaline rush of netting a big muskie or taking down a poker tournament. |
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| Jerry
I always thought it would be cool to combine a muskies Inc tournament during the day with a poker tournament that nite,,most casinos get a 10% rake on pots,,MI could get a 10% rake from buy in for stocking. |
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Location: Cheyenne, WY most of the year | happy hooker - 4/10/2017 1:45 PM
Jerry
I always thought it would be cool to combine a muskies Inc tournament during the day with a poker tournament that nite,,most casinos get a 10% rake on pots,,MI could get a 10% rake from buy in for stocking.
That would be sweet. Mille Lacs has a casino on the lake... |
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| So does the Frank Schneider tournament on leech,,northern lights casino which just happens to be a tournament sponsor,,,hmmmm? |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | salmon fishing, cooking with the smoker, training field cockers, field trialing and grouse hunting with them and making america great again ... |
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