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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Think about it; it's about the hardest freshwater fish to chase, yet you do it. It takes up a ton of time and sucks up alot of your money, yet you do it.
Why do you do it? |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | I’ve thought about this one a bit and why it’s the primary type of fishing I do. I’ve come to the realization that it's more like hunting than any other type of freshwater fishing so it satisfies my two basic needs (fishing and hunting). I still do other types of freshwater fishing but they don’t satisfy my hunting needs like muskies or hunting flats fish in saltwater. |
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Posts: 897
| I'm an adrenaline junky, plain and simple. Boatside strikes and follows are why I fish muskies over other fish. That, and they are the biggest, baddest fish in most lakes. Bass fight harder pound for pound, but who really cares when you are talking about a fish where 7 lbs is considered huge in most states.
I also think I have ADD. Constantly casting, changing spots and moving quickly keeps me from getting bored.
-Chris |
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Location: Smith Creek | I agree with the two answers above and will add that I LOVE the way they smell! The scent of a muskie... HOO AHH! |
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Location: Algonac, MI | Plain and simple. Its' an illness I acquired, and can't shake it.
Only good therapy, is to do it again, and again., and again.....
Edited by Contender 11/12/2009 2:32 PM
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Location: Otsego, MN | I like hunting and I consider muskie fishing to be more like hunting. Your looking for that spot on the spot, chasing a species that is low in numbers in a lake. Trying to get a pattern and pinpoint the fish location. I compare it to deer hunting in a way. Except I'm not eating them. |
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Posts: 529
Location: Not Where I Want To Be | I do it to get a reality check. Most other species i've fished for in the past have yet to supply the Adrenaline rush musky fishing does for me. I've done plenty of fishing and 40 -60 Walleye days are not uncommon on the lake i fish. Actually to me it gets a little boring at times.
Also if it was easy everyone would be doing it.
Edited by bridgeman 11/12/2009 3:09 PM
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Posts: 427
Location: Wausau | It's the endless quest to gain more research and knowledge, more experiences, more techniques and more skill. All in attempts to be successful in the ever-changing environment of the world we call musky fishing. To fulfill my characteristic trait of “All or Nothing”, where one can spend years mastering the sport, only to go out and find there is still more to learn. I also enjoy the peaceful opportunities nature allows me to enjoy, knowing I am only borrowing a moment in time from her, but a lifetime memory for myself. |
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Location: Utah | Well for me believe-it-or-not it's a stress reliever from the every day grind. It allowes me to get into a hobby I along truly enjoy. I've learned it's takes a whole lot of the 3Ps (Passion, Persistence and Patience) and a sincere love for the angling art of catching these fish. Plus I like helping to stimulate the economy by purchasing tackle/equipment to chase these fish. Ohhh what a great passion and hobby is all I'll say.
Out here in Utah...well anyone can catch a Trout including all the gentic hybrid trout species they have out here...Not everyone will learn how to consistency catch a Tiger Musky. Besides after catching a nice Musky or Tiger Musky all other fish are just bait anyways... |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | To quiet the voices in my head  |
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Location: Twin Cities | The thrill of the hunt and the taste of victory...yeah that's it.
Reminds me of bombing around the mountains chasing elk. Closest thing in the flat country... |
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| To prove to myself that the fish of 10,000 casts, isn't really a fish of 10,000 casts.
Sometimes it's a fish of 25 casts, and sometimes I need a calculator to do the math...
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Two reasons, really. I'm drawn and pushed. I'm drawn by the anticipation of the strike, the thinking, reflecting, adjusting, observing, learning, researching. I enjoy the chase as much as the catch. The crazy thing is that I'm convinced my efforts will pay off very soon each time I'm on the water...there's a term called EFFICACY and I think that plays a large part in why many of us do this. Also, sometimes when I'm on the water, pulling in a bait, watching it approach, I am at complete peace--that's pretty cool and pretty rare..in that way I'm pushed toward musky fishing because it offers an ESCAPE from what ails me on any given day. Like Frank Costanza would say, "SERENITY NOW!!" |
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | Being from the south I always like to say,"I fish for what everyone else cant catch".Bass fishing sucks,and it's no fun trying to get a crappie to go on the 8. |
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Location: Bemidji/Cass Lake | The challenge. I enjoy fishing for everything, but muskies do things that other fish don't and can't. |
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Location: New Hope MN | Because I have yet to catch a walleye that made my knees shake. |
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| I've aksed myself that question a thousand times!
1. I enjoy the scenery, and I like being on the water. I'd go out and just sit there, but I'm an anxious, nervous kind of person. I have to be physically doing something.
2. I like trying to figure out where the fish are and what the fish want.
3. I like that you actually see the fish coming and sometimes have to make them eat
4. I like shiny sparkly things. Once a hippie always a hippie I guess.
5. Hours of mindless casting followed by 2 minutes of chaos. What could be better than that?
6. The way a muskie will sometimes come flying out of nowhere and just crush a bait, throwing water everywhere? MAN nature is cool! Watching the top predator in action is fun on TV, but it's a riot in real life.
7. I know I can catch the other fish in the lake. Most of the time I don't know if I can catch a muskie that day or not.
8. Seeing a wake behind a surface bait, even when it's someone else's
9. I like the teamwork, a collective effort to get a fish in the net.
10. It changes from day to day. The spot or lure or technique that worked last week? Maybe, maybe not. |
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Posts: 386
| Why? Because the Musky is the KING of the liquid jungle in my part of the woods. If I lived where I could fish for the Great Shark, I'd be all over it and would fish for nothing else! |
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Location: Minneconia | Because they are made of awesome |
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Location: Fishing the weeds | Because I can. |
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Posts: 131
| I used to live for archery season to come around . Being in the woods on a crisp morning is just plain cool . Bucks chasing does all over the place , with plenty of action . Ive shot plenty of deer and believe me the rush is still there , but I think maybe as we get older the need to harvest wildlife slips away . Thats where musky fishin comes in the picture for me anyways . It is still hunting , exciting as heck , never knowing when the big ones going to latch on. playing the wind , going by the lunar phases . The similarites are so common its scary. The one big difference is photo and release . Im not a tree hugger I love venison , I just dont need to shoot the big one . I do however want to catch the big ones. |
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| To justify what I have invested in the sport.
Muskies are lower for me than most. If the following would be happening at the same time of the muskie season opener, I would forego muskies completely:
1) Spring sucker run
2) Spring bullhead run
3) If I would get into perch on a lake I know rather well
At all times I would much rather be crawling around in a brush filled trout stream. I only muskie fished this summer twice before the middle of August. Had plenty of opportunities to get out but alas, my fishing time was devoted to trout. Since I have invested enough money, I need to at least justify it a little bit. |
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| It used to be a driving force in my fishing but not anymore. As I've gotten older it's I spend a lot more time walleye fishing. i still pound the crap out of it when on my 3 weeks in
canada tho. Canada fishing has spoiled me where I don't fish much in
wisc anymore. Got a 53 2 years ago and don't know if I can ever beat that. Actually Eagle has spoiled me more than anything. What a lake. I still get the fever when 1 shows itself. |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | It's more fun than fishing for other fish. No one thing in particular, but everything about muskies all together makes it so. I love fishing for other fish too, but fishing for muskies is just more fun and there is no other way to explain it. |
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Location: On my favorite lake! | Because I am sick in the head! I have a caught over 300 bass in a single day and got sick of them! They are like no other fish! The Follows! There is just something about them above all other fish. When its time to go out musky fishing. I can't wait. |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Because I was a musky in my former life - At least that's what the jamaican psychic told after she said "Call Me Now" on the TV - So it has to be true. |
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Location: WI | The mystique, it's the extreme in freshwater fishing. I grew up reading In Fisherman and being in awe of the musky articles, reading about people like Doug Johnson slaying the big ones up north. My family always camped at Leech Lake or Cass, my uncle on my dad's side has a cabin near Woodruff...I've always been around it but never really knew anyone that was into it.
Looking at the huge lures at the bait shop and wondering what the heck would eat those, and guessing they would all be HUGE fish that did. I liked catching pike and it was a natural progression into the musky disease for me.
Edited by JKahler 11/13/2009 12:16 AM
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| sultry unpredictable ornery slimey fish. known to humble, and make a man talk to himself. thats why. |
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| Why?
Why not? |
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| i agree with most of the other posts. I do it because its more like hunting. Anyone can put a minnow on a hook and lob it off the side of a boat (i do) for walley and crappie, but the constant casting, hunting, and the reward of catching a fish that could be 40-50" is just too good to pass up. I also think i have ADD which allows me to cast and not just sit there. I think it takes some skill to catch a muskie which i like that aspect. |
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