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| Me and my dad were talking about this the other day. As we were going threw our new baits we purchased and comparing our collection, he ask if I remember the first muskie lure I purchased? Of course I do it was like it was yesterday. Even thought I was around 10 years old and on my first muskie trip to the Hayward area. The first bait I purchased was a toprader. At the time it was a small fortune for a 10 year old and a kid that has never muskie fished nor eve seen a muskie. Take you back 16 years here we were, my family heading up to Hayward to a small lake to go muskie fishing. We barrowed a few big rod and reels from one of my dads friends, and his boat. We fished panfish at the time but that was the extent of our fishing. Everyone that we talked to thought we were crazy for even wasting out time muskie fishing. Well anyway first night nothing. Second nite, nothing. This went on for 4 nites. I was beginning to think everyone was right. On the 5th nite my sister wanted to go with. At the time had not even went fishing. Well there we were casting away and it happened. She said I think I have one. Sure enough she has the biggest thing I have seen come out of the water. She even said what is it? Well to make a long story short she hooked the fish at boat side with a Zebco hawg with no drag on a mania Burt. We netted the fish in our little butterfly net. We were in aww. We zipped back to the lodge to get a measurement on the fish. The big girl measured 49 ½”. Since that moment I have been hooked. I still feel bad to this day that we killed the fish. Anyway amazing how far muskie fishing has came from buying muskie lures in little gas station to what it is. Lets here how you others got into muskie fishing? |
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Location: Apple Valley | Topraider!!! I bought the bait in the morning and later that afternoon I boated my first muskie. A 32"!!!!
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| creek chub pikie. just a few years ago |
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Location: Indiana | Rapala f18 magnum in silver. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | About 1975 a Mepps #5 musky killer bucktail. Brass willow blade with yellow Mylar hair (single hook). I was into trout fishing ans was using Rootertails spinners back then and that's probably why I like those willow blades. |
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Location: Irvine, KY | I have heard stories about muskies from my father (a trout fisherman for the most part) for as long as I can remember. about how big they were, the teeth, etc,. Dad had a hatred for the toothy critters... always complaining about them eating his trout or crappie or whatnot.
But the thing that intruiged me the most about muskies as a young child growing up was how he talked about guys fishing all night long and calling it a good night if they even got a bite. The challenge always made me want to catch one.
I never fished for them until last year... the first bait I got was a black musky killer with an orange blade... havent caught anything on it but a few good sized bass, but I plan on changing that. I spent well over 1000 bucks trying to catch that first fish... but it was worth every penny lol.
Oh yeah btw, my father is now spending all his free time after retiring making musky fly lures in order to catch his first musky this year.... on a fly rod! LOL (I knew Id get him to come over to the dark side!)
Edited by Muskiecut 3/1/2009 6:44 AM
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Location: Richland Center, WI. | My first lure was a black Rizzo Wiz that I bought at Kmart in Madison WI.
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Location: indiana | My story is similar to Rod's. First trip to Winter, Wis. stopped in gas station to buy a few baits. Bought a 10" beleiver, a 10" grandma, 8" reef hawg, and a topwater bait I have never seen again in any store. I was 14 years old and spent almost my whole summers earnings on those baits. My dad caught a 32" in that tournament. He had never fished before either. He got the fish to the boat and then threw the rod down and started handlining it in the boat. He was pretty excited. That was in 1986. I didn't catch my first musky until 1990 on lotw. I can remember like it was yesterday. Still have those same baits and use them regularly. |
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Location: Twin Cities | Black Topwalker, first fish I caught on it was a nice largemouth bass while trying to learn the figure 8. Scared the you know what out of me. |
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Location: ne53 | My first muskie bait I bought new was a small suick. It's been modified over the years but is still in the tackle box. It does not have one muskie to its name but lots of pike and bass. After not being satisfied with one lure, I called Scheels out of Omaha, NE and ordered a Depth Raider, Shallow Raider, Believer, Jake, Grandma, and a Smitty jerk bait. |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | 7" black/orange Wades Wobbler. Still have it and still moves/catches fish. |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | The good 'ol Rizzo Whiz. Hot early season bait in N.WI, might still be, haven't thrown one in awhile. Might have to dust off the old milk crate full of my early tools.
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Location: martinsburg wv | creek chub pikie |
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Location: Not Where I Want To Be | A Perch Pattern Crane bait And a 6" Perch Jake. (Purchased 2 Baits that day)
First fish came on the 6" Perch Jake a 34" in Vilas County |
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| Purple rizzo wiz -- landed me a ton of fish! Still love me the rizzo wiz. |
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Location: Almond, WI | Mepps Musky Killer, orange blade/brown tail. Come to think of it, I've never caught one on it, though my dad and cousin have. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | A black and silver Giant Jackpot. I never did catch a fish on it. Just weeks after that I attended a tackle swap and picked up a bunch of used baits. The bait that got me my first was a handmade bucktail with natural colored hair and a brass colorado blade. It cost me $1...unless you count the $ I've spent since trying to catch that feeling again. |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | A firetiger squirrly burt and a orange suick from the old poppin rock bait store in morehead. |
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Location: Central WI | 9" Suick when I was 11 years old(21 years ago...I cant believe it's been that long!!). Throwing it with bass gear and 12# mono on our trips up to MN. Never caught anything but it was fun trying and dreaming of getting the big one. I still have the Suick. |
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| Mine was a Perch Suick in 1978. Followed not long after by a Black/gold Mepps Musky Killer. The Suick brought the first follow but the Mepps caught my first musky, a 36 incher on Big St Germain. It took a long time to catch that first one with many small Wisconsin pike getting caught before the musky. It was probably good though, as it gave me experience at playing fish.
This thread is great, though. It brings you back to the beginning. Stopping in a Jack's Sport Marine in St Germain to see the fish in the cooler. The front window had the weight of a musky written in soap to draw you in. It worked every time. Check out the big musky in the cooler and find out what it was caught on and go check out what the bait looked like in the bait department. That was how I picked out that first Suick.
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Location: Bemidji/Cass Lake | The all chartreuse buchertail. |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | No. I think it might have been a Mepps Musky Killer with a black bucktail and a silver blade. I used River Runts, Daredevils, and anything else I found in my box or my dad's when he wasn't looking to fish muskies when I started. Funny how those old lures are worth a bunch to some people and for me if they didn't catch fish they were worthless and no tears were shed when they wound up on the bottom attached to a log or rock. Caught my first legals on chubs. I don't even have a clue what lure may have been the one I caught my first legal fish on. |
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | A green/char giant jackpot when I was in 7th grade (1st I bought myself with my own money) |
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Location: Wisconsin | Mepps Musky Killer black and silver. Thought it was such a large bait at the time, compared to them now..... |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Purchased or "borrowed"? I took a Creek Chub from my great uncle's box on Oxbow when I was 6. I still have it. |
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Location: Stones throw away...finally!! | Jointed sucker colored shallow raider...first of three baits I picked out for my first trip. Trolled it with a medium heavy bass rod and boated my first fish...44 1/2 Lake Carleton, IL fish. Used to go back to the lake every year for the next 3-4 years, but haven't been back for a number of years. Great memories!!! |
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Location: Davenport, IA | Rapala Magnum 18 in firetiger. I still have it, but do not use it. It never produced anything anyway. But I do remember climbing onto a tree to retrieve it and falling in the lake. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Silver prism blade, black haired Buchertail. |
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Location: madison wisconsin | A chart blade/chart hair mepps musky killer. Put it on lighter spinning gear (I only owned 1 rod/reel at the time) and slammed the pike on that trip...... No skies though. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | I got my first baits at the same time. They were a yellow with silver blade Mepps Musky Killer and a perch colored suick. Still have the suick 25 years later, although it's now black and has 2 hooks rather than 3, but it's got a bunch of fish under its belt. |
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