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Pointerpride102![]() |
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Posts: 16632 Location: The desert | First off I need to thank Tom Betka for taking me out fishing today! I felt like I should have paid a huge guide fee for the day I had today. I learned quite a bit about trolling and just had an absolute blast on the water. Today the fish was just a bonus, I could have sat out there all day and not caught anything and still gone home happy! Thanks Tom, I hope we can get out together often! As for the fish....It ate a Bucher Swimmin Joe at about 9 15. After I broke the rod holder plate I finally got the rod out and did battle with the brute. After a few short minutes we got it to the net and Tom slid the Kahuna under her...thats when I saw how big she actually was.....Tom kept saying, you got your 50, you got your 50!! After some high fives we got her unhooked, snapped a few photos and took a measurement. 50 right on the nose! I still really cant even wrap my mind around it! What a great day! Thanks again Tom....sorry about the rod holder...I'm not used to them as they dont come standard on most waders!! Attachments ---------------- ![]() ![]() | ||
muskyboy![]() |
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Nice fat musky, congratulations on your personal best and the first of many big fish to come for you ![]() | |||
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Location: Green Bay, WI | No problem Mike, glad you had a good time! Let me know the information you get from the tag data (Mike got the number off a dorsal tag), as that would be interesting. How freaky is that--I fish out there for days and not get a fish bigger than 44", and you are out there for two hours and get a 50! But wasn't it was nice of the musky God to give two biologists a sweet fish with an intact tag? The fish measured just about 22" girth, but that was right in back of the pectoral fins. I simply couldn't measure farther back as I couldn't reach that far with it in the net. Looking at the pictures again, I bet you might have gotten another inch or so in total girth, as it looks a bit fatter there. You can catch her again next year! TB | ||
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Posts: 32924 Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Way to go Pointer! Congratulations to you both. | ||
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Posts: 201 Location: Stevens Point | Congrats again mike... glad to see you are VERY excited about the fish; you should be. | ||
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Posts: 1460 Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Congratulations Pointer! Awsome fish! The big girls are moving! Merkid is going to start to feel like there is no justice left in the world! Congrats on an awsome catch! | ||
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Posts: 336 Location: Lino Lakes, MN | Congrats man, thats one heck of a fish. Gotta love the big girls in the fall. | ||
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congrats! that smile says a LOT... | |||
Mikes Extreme![]() |
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Posts: 2691 Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | SWEEEET!!!! | ||
sworrall![]() |
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Posts: 32924 Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Twin WI 50's from this weekend on the cover, both personal bests. 1 spot, 1 old gold Wisconsin. Good stuff. | ||
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Posts: 1764 Location: Ogden, Ut | Nice fish Pointer! It looks like you're having fun holding that one up! Congrats. Sorno | ||
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Posts: 42 Location: Highland, IN | Congrats on a gorgeous fish Pointer | ||
Beaver![]() |
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Posts: 4266 | She's a beauty, and has obviously been eating well. Did you bite her fin off for a souvenier? There have been several nich fish photo'd over the years missing fins. Is taht a DNR netting data thing, or what? Nice fish man. Now the bar keeps getting higher....or are you gonna quit? ![]() Hell, I still like catching 40's. Beav | ||
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Posts: 1060 Location: Medford, WI | Pointer...hell of a fish man! I love to see that; as mentioned above, the smile says everything! Hope you get one bigger soon, but if you don't it doesn't matter, that's a fish of a lifetime for many. -Jake Bucki | ||
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Posts: 2323 Location: Stevens Point, WI | Congrats Mike. It definitely must be the guide your with. LOL. Too bad it was trolling though. LOL, kidding. ![]() Edited by Merckid 11/4/2007 10:36 PM | ||
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Posts: 3242 Location: Racine, Wi | Nice work guys! Great fish Mike, nice and girthy and perdy. | ||
Magruter![]() |
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Posts: 1316 Location: Madison, WI | Awesome fall time fish! congratz | ||
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Posts: 13688 Location: minocqua, wi. | nice fish Mike ... congratulations!! ... i would think you celebrated a bit eh? | ||
Shep![]() |
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Posts: 5874 | Nice fish, PP. Beav, that is a DNR fin clip. I hope PP posts that data from the DNR when he gets it back. I wonder if I ever caught that one in years past? hehehe | ||
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Posts: 94 | Nice fish Mike, you fish hard and deserved it. Chris | ||
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way to go I think that is my boat in the back ground 2 days with out a rip and I only had 5 joes out ![]() | |||
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Shep - 11/4/2007 9:20 PM Nice fish, PP. Beav, that is a DNR fin clip. I hope PP posts that data from the DNR when he gets it back. I wonder if I ever caught that one in years past? hehehe Shep, that is so weird...what a coincidence! The first words out of her mouth when we got the hooks out were "Hey, do you guys know Shep?" Apparently you made quite an impression! ![]() TB | ||
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Posts: 2754 Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Mike- Way to go! Congrat's on your first 50"r. You also look a heck of a lot better than the last time I saw you! Have fun! Al | ||
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Posts: 16632 Location: The desert | Thanks guys! Still having trouble believing its real! I'm going to try and call the DNR today and find out who I can talk to about the fish. I will definately report back on any information I get from them, it will be pretty cool to see what info I get back on the fish. | ||
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Posts: 281 Location: Girdwood, Alaska | Congrats Pointer, beautiful green bay fish! | ||
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Posts: 8824 | Mike, super fish! Congratulations, buddy! You DO look a bit better than the last time I saw you, LOL! | ||
TJ DeVoe![]() |
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Posts: 2323 Location: Stevens Point, WI | Yeah, last Sunday he was a bit intoxicated. Hahaha. Trying to tell him to get his butt out of bed Sunday morning at Presque Isle was not easy. But once I mentioned a "bucket of lake water and a sucker" he jumped pretty quickly to the shower! LOL. Definitely won't forget that weekend! | ||
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Posts: 90 Location: ne53 | Glad to see you got your 50 Pointerpride, well earned fish. | ||
Smokin Joe![]() |
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Posts: 311 | Congrats Pointer, that is a beautiful FIDDY...................... | ||
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Posts: 556 | congrats man | ||
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