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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Just curious as to see how muskiefirsters deal with losing fish, especially big ones. Do you stare blankly? Are you a talker afterwards? Personally I have many different reactions some bad, some good....let me hear your stories
Edited by Zak Olson 7/21/2009 11:13 AM
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | I try to shake it off quickly and get back to the game. If you keep playing it over in your mind about what you could of done to keep the fish pinned it will eat away at you time and again and likely cause another losed fish. Unfortunately i've been here more than i like to admit this season... |
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Location: University of Hartford | Immediatly curse and swear.... after a moment has past, the shake my head, check the bait for damage/ hooks and then get back to fishing. I dont catch enough to really lose them, and when they do get off, well all it cost me was a picture. |
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| Like Bo Jackson, I snap my rod in half with my knee. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | I gasp, drop my jaw and give a curious stare that seems to last a moment. Then I question what happened, followed by justifications, (e.g. There was nothing I could have done; She was too far out; That fish was barely hooked; She charged the boat, I couldn't keep up with her; Etc.)
The biggest fish I've ever hooked and seen was a day I'll never forget. We had two boats out this day on Big St. Germain and one boat forgot a net. We flipped a coin and lost, so the other boat had the net. I hooked up to a fish that cleared 50+ with no question; boy was she girthy, too! We had her up to the boat horizontally and tried hand landing her to no avail. My buddy had his hand around her tail and she freaked out, but didn't come off. With walky-Talkies we had called for the net and as the hand off was being made, what was a now relaxed fish then turned furious and with an explosion of power, she made a power dive under the boat and off she came. There were several people on shore and on thier docks watching this performance as we were hollering in excitement and clearly being dragged around - It was a flat day in a john boat with a 40lb+ fish pulling us around.
A lot of heads must have shaken when they heard me yell, M-er F-er at the top of my lungs and slam my rod on the surface like a little boy - I was 18 at the time. Needless to say, I don't do that anymore - sware and throw a fit. Three years before that, at 16 years old I cried on that same lake after losing a fish close behind this ones size. Whitecaps and a V-haul don't go well together when you're all alone, but I crossed the lake and hit my favorite spot - the same spot. She hit the same bucktail as I used three years later. Had her up to the boat but couldn't get a net under her. I didn't speak, I was alone, but I let that boat drift a while as I sat there and I swear a tear rolled down my cheek. To me, at that age, catching that fish meant more than anything to me! |
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| I had seen a guy beat his dog with hat after lose low 40s at forest lake. Its p'd me off that he take it out on poor cute dog.. Heck I have a stupid dog but I don't beat her when I lose fish... when I lose fish I just say$%^& few time then get back in game. |
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Location: McFarland | _)**&%*^$$*^%&@&*(@%@&*#@^&$&%@*(@(%@(*&^)(@&*#!&%@*!)(*_$@@$!)#@^$&&^ ok lets fish |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | I get used to it, fishing a lake with a lot of pressure you can't get to worked up over something that seems to happen regularly.
Bruce |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I usually take a deep breath, say " I can't believe that..." and start pitching again. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Smile and say DRATS!!!!!! |
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| Shuckey Darns.... |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | I try to shake off the negativity and get back to fishing. |
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| I waist no time casting out again...of course I may say a few choice words under my breath.  |
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Location: madison wisconsin | I usually use some vulgar language. Then my fishing partners tell me every little detail that I did wrong, just to rub it in...... Good times.. |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Easy release w/no picture & keep on keepin on.. Hurts more when you don't get to see it, then it was the biggest fish of my life! |
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| I hooked up with a fish years ago, out on Heartbreak Hump on the Chip, and had it go straight away and break me off, and truly it ruined my whole summer. It was really my only opportunity to fish that season, it ruined the week and about made me hang up on musky fishing. At some point you have to accept that hooking up and landing big fish is much more of a tenuos proposition for you, and even more so if you fish alone. However, you also need to accept that the biggest challenge is to hook up with them in the first place, and that if you are succeeding in doing that, you will eventually get yours.
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Location: somewhere! | "What the duce"!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: East Troy, WI | one small tear shed... and lie and say it was at least a 50" |
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Location: Eagle River, WI | I cry, swear, break rods, kick dogs, and smash everything in my boat. And then I keep fishing. Cuz I love the abuse. |
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Location: Twin Cities | I've gotten way pissed off in the past. This year i've come to realize that if the fish eats whether it gets hooked or not, I did everything (ok almost everything maybe the hookset failed me) I need to and triggered that fish. On to the next, keep doing it, it worked once, it'll work again. <just keep fishing just keep fishing just keep fishing just keep fishing> |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | I cry, pull out the baby wipes and clean off, then get back at it while praying to God to end the curse. |
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| My boat is set up with torpedoes so i usually fire a couple rounds at her as she swims away! 
Brian |
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| I immediately start droping F-Bombs while staring at the floor of my boat shaking my head saying to myself "You dum%^&" Then start fiishing again while shaking my head for about another 10 min. It takes awhile to get over it. This happended a few to many times on Saturday!!!! |
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Location: Houlton, WI | lots of swearing and i find a reason to blame the equitment or any other person it the boat. Then im silent for the next 30 min to a hour
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| I never loose a fish. It just comes off. |
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| I just always think alright.. I have that one located for tomorrow  |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Hunter4 - 7/21/2009 10:42 PM
I never loose a fish. It just comes off.
It's just a LDR - Long distance release. |
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Location: McGuire AFB, NJ | Two things are certain, there will be an intial F-bomb followed by completly random SOB's for at least forty minutes. Worse thing I ever did was chuck (more like Brett Farve) a lure onto shore I was having hooking issues with. |
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| Well, I've come to accept that losing fish is an inevitable part of the Muskie fishing experience. That said, I tend to be more of a 'quiet loser' when they do get off. (Ah...shoot.) And then throw back out in hopes that he might be stupid enough to hit it again, or maybe he's got a hungry buddy with him. I've had a few hit again it after losing them.
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| I'm 1 for 11 this year in MN, so I've had quite a bit of experience losing fish this year. The only ones I got really upset about were an upper 40's and a 52" fish I lost at the boat. I broke my favorite cowgirl over the 52...and I'm pretty sure the whole lake heard me yell the f-bomb that night...oops. |
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