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| I'm interested to hear about everyone's first Muskies. That's something I'll never forget I was 11 years old when I hooked into my first musky and me and my 12 year old cousin were out in a paddle boat in the middle of the day. It was hot and blue bird skies. I was throwing a mepps 5 in natural/gold and got a 42" fish. I'll never forget my cousins face when that thing came up to the surface next to the boat and he went to net it haha. I've had muskie fever ever since. Unfortunately it's still my PB muskie. I cannot seem to get by the 42" mark!!! Let's hear your stories! |
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| First musky was a beaut that took a bite out of a Panfish I was reeling in on my Tasmanian Devil fishing pole (if that's any indication as to how old I was!). I was hooked from then on! Couldn't quite get him in the boat, but from that day forward I was hooked. I'll never forget it! |
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| Mulldaddy - 8/22/2017 5:42 PM
I'm interested to hear about everyone's first Muskies. That's something I'll never forget I was 11 years old when I hooked into my first musky and me and my 12 year old cousin were out in a paddle boat in the middle of the day. It was hot and blue bird skies. I was throwing a mepps 5 in natural/gold and got a 42" fish. I'll never forget my cousins face when that thing came up to the surface next to the boat and he went to net it haha. I've had muskie fever ever since. Unfortunately it's still my PB muskie. I cannot seem to get by the 42" mark!!! Let's hear your stories!
Nothing wrong with a 42" biggest fish I'm very happy to get one of this size and rarely do. I've gotten about 5 between 40" and 43.5". After 14 years this seems to be were I top out. Seen buddies get 48," but not me. To me anything of 40" or bigger is a real jumbo. Also weight to length ratio's varies widely. One 40" was > 25 pounds, maybe my biggest fish. |
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Location: Lockport, IL | My first muskie was a 32" fish that hit a #3 mepps. I was fishing a sand bar on LVD off a small island. I was shaking like crazy and have been the one hooked ever since. I was 18 at the time. |
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| By first was about 25" caught off the dock targeting muskies (dad was in the camper napping) caught my 2nd about 4 hours later, also under 30". I was probably 9 uears old |
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| Caught my first at 9 years old. It was a 45"er fishing with small suckers for walleyes in October. I remember thinking I was snagged on a crib, when my line suddenly went completely slack and the fish came flying out of the water about 20 feet from the boat. We had a guy that was actually fishing Muskies stop by our boat as we landed it, and he hadn't seen a fish all week! Very fun fish to catch on walleye tackle |
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| Caught my first in the late 1980's fishing a wrong lake to try to get your first from. Only 32" and I babbled repeatedly that I couldn't believe I got one to open its mouth and eat. The lake was Rowan in Ontario an amazing muskie fishery but tough to get your first fish from. Have never forgotten the event, even though it is getting close to 30 years since it happened, made my muskie addiction much worse. Thanks Don Pursch! |
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| Rainman JD if you ever need a buddy to muskie fish with let me know, I'm from romeoville so not far from you at all! |
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| Caught my first musky on February 5th, 2009 at 3:30 pm during a full moon phase. My Son and I had decided to try to catch a musky in a nearby river. Catching a musky took me 42 hours of casting time before I finally caught one.
I was standing on the side of a river bank and the water was up from recent rains. My friend had given me a black and silver Bill Norman DR3 lure and told me that I would most likely catch my first musky on that lure. He told me that he had been seeing a big fish near the mouth of a feeder creek. I took off work early and walked across a field down to the mouth of that feeder creek and started casting at about 3:00. I saw a big old swirl about 20 yards out in the current of the river and I thought to myself: Come on up into this creek old girl. Next thing I knew three things happened simultaneously, I saw a silver flash right at the bank as I brought my lure in, my world shifted, and my line felt like something angry was trying to pull me into the water. I fought with that fish, scared to death that I was going to lose it, and then I finally wore her out enough to get her head up against the bank where I could get my hand on her. She was 48.75 inches.
Catching that fish sure has cost me a lot of time and money over the years, but it has also brought me some very good friends and memories. I'm one of the fortunate ones, whose wife puts up with all this nonsense. |
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Location: oswego, il | Caught my first two about 5 minutes apart in the no motor zone on lake shabbazoo the year it opened. Both were sub 30" tigers. Caught on a gold and black floating rapala, 4lb trilene, zebco cardinal 3 and a 5'6" matching light action zebco pro staff rod. |
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| ToddM - 8/22/2017 10:16 PM
light action zebco pro staff rod.
coughing funny. |
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Location: Tomahawk,Wis | Fishing in a bass tournament on little Green lake . About 36" ate a buzz bait. forgot about bass and was hooked on muskies. |
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Location: Jane Lew, WV | Caught my first while smallmouth fishing a local river. Completely caught me off guard. Once I realized what was going on, I just started yelling lol. I bought a boat and musky rod/reel/lures 4 days later.
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Location: Tulsa, OK | My first musky was a 34" from Ghost lake in WI. I was up there on a family trip, never fished musky before, had no idea how to fish for them. Went to local tackle shop, bought a perch colored crank/jerkbait lure. Right at dusk, fishing for bass, something splashed 3 or 4 times about a 100 yards from our boat. Motored out there, casted the new lure out there as far as I could and after 2-3 turns of the reel the musky hammered it. It was exciting because I had no idea what I was doing or how I had caught a musky. In some ways I wish I had never caught that fish...lol |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Big girl on Bone when I was 16 on a jig, actually fishing muskies that way. That was a long
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Location: US | Crappie fishing as a teenager. First one was 36" on a bobber and crappie jig. Actually caught 2 that day within short order. Ironic that my only multiple muskie day came fishing for crappies lol. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | My first muskie was caught out of season on the Minnesota side of LITW, from shore, on a bass rod, while fishing for pike. I went out to fish the docks before the rest of my party got going in the morning. I made a few casts and thought to myself, "I could catch a muskie, this is LOTW after all." 4 casts later I got hit, reeled it in and serendipitously, it was a 24" muskie! My addiction started that day.
The first muskie I caught intentionally was a beautiful 44" fish that I caught from shore on a blue/silver cowgirl a few months after the one in LOTW. |
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Location: Seymour, WI | My first muskie followed a silver Mepps to the boat on N Twin lake. I go so excited when I saw the fish that I botched the figure 8 and the fish swam away. I threw another terrible cast out the direction that the fish came from and it followed in again and hit on the first turn of the figure 8. I was about 15 at the time and very proud of my first catch. Wish I had a picture of the fish.
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| Had seen a few that my father and brothers had caught--15 yrs old--Out by myself--casting a Bobbie bait-- Got my first 1--a 36".... Managed to get 2 more that 3 day weekend also----and that was it... I don't think I picked up anything but a Musky Rod for the next 15 yrs---I couldn't get enough !!!! Now-- I have gone back to the Multi-species fishing. I do a little musky fishing still and always manage to catch a couple while jig fishing for walleye.... NEVER will forget those first few Musky |
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| My first musky was the first time i fished in ontario on a dollar store crankbait 8lbs trilene and a quantim spinning outfit. the fish was only a minnow 18 inches max
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| First one was january 2013 when I was 13 yrs old. It hit a shallow red october tube on a river we were floating. I was zoned out and didn't see the hit but my dad did and immediately yelled to set the hook. It immediately went under the boat and buckled my rod against the edge of the boat. Got it in the net, pulled over to the river bank and it measured 44". The first one was more of a shock to me than anything, It wasn't until I caught a few within a summer did I realize if I put in the time I could start catching them. Almost five years later and nothing really even comes close to being as interesting as musky fishing. |
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| My first one was a 40'' caught in June 2016. Had decided to try targeting musky, and took my sportspal canoe and 2.5hp suzuki to Buckhorn Lake in Ontario for a 4 day solo trip. I had bought a 7'6'' mojo musky rod and a few TI bucktails. On day number three I hooked into her, she bit a TI double 10 dominatrix in muddy gold colour. Took my canoe for a ride. I'll never forget the rush of adrenaline I felt! Netted and released successfully, I was absolutely hooked. Since then I've bought 2 more rod/reel combos and lots more lures. Oh, and a 16' polarkraft boat with a 40hp suzuki...don't know how my wife puts up with me haha! |
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Location: Illinois | First for me was a sub 30" on a bass spinnerbait while bass fishing in Hayward area. Caught a lot while bass fishing and only a few while Muskie fishing lol. Did get my future son in law his first this summer. A nice 36" tiger which was the first tiger I've seen in my boat. Also had my GF's autistic son hooked up on a mid 40's fish that came right to the boat. When I was going to net it, he dropped the rod tip and I literally watched the showgirl helicopter out of its mouth. He thought he caught it and tells everyone how big it was lol. Wish I had been able to let him lay his hands on that fish. He truly would have been beside himself. |
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Location: Ludington, MI | I was on vacation with my wife and no gear, hired a guide on a bluebird day. He bought a couple big suckers and we hooked up on one of those. I wanted to get one casting, but that had to wait for another day. About 34 inches long. |
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| June 2011 was fishing a flooding in the UP , i was throwing a Mepps #5 pink on pink . Casted 2 days before i hooked her 38 inches . I now am making lures. So to say I'm jooked is a understatement. |
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| Was fishing in a river system off a lake here in Ohio. I was in the front of the boat and we basically just let the boat drift into a massive log/sticks/tree jam that is about 30 ft long. I was unable to make a cast since I was in the front of the boat. So I took my mepps 6inch spinner (black with red tails) and I dropped it off the side of the boat and was jigging with it. Ended up pulling up a 43inch just jigging my spinner. I have been hooked ever since. |
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| Was looking for a nearby muskie lake and realized there was a small one pretty close to home. Read an article in a magazine saying muskies hang around reefs. So I paddled out to the reef and caught my first muskie within 10 minutes of targeting them. Only 25 inches, but I was able to catch 6 more that month and have been hooked ever since. |
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| Mine was a 27" fish from the Flambeau river jigging for walleyes with guide Ed Robinson in August of 1973. Took a few structure fishing classes in 77 from Tony & Spence at York H.S. and I was hooked on Muskie fishing. Got serious about it when I joined FRV, M.I. in 1988. Its been a great run!
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Location: Southern Indiana | Booked a 2 day trip with my brother in law, neither of us had ever musky fished before. I win the coin toss to get the first fish if a sucker rod goes off. First day, one sucker goes off, immediately followed by the other. Guide thinks we got a double, hands us each a rod. My bobber pops up instantly, sucker evidently just spooked & took some line. Brother in law hooks & lands a 35 1/2", first musky either of us had seen out of the water. I'm happy for him, but that was supposed to be MY fish. First thing the next morning he catches one on a figure 8. I'm less than pleased. This sucks, muskies suck, everything sucks. It's Memorial Day weekend, getting hot, the jet skis are out in droves, and all I can think about is how I'm NEVER doing this again. Clicker goes off, I'm up. Set the hook, fight and land 47 1/2" of magnificent glory. From there it's the usual downward spiral. |
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| Looking forward to Alzheimer's and catching my first muskie again. |
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