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Location: tHe LaKe Of PrIoR, mN | First muskie was on a lindy rig with a jumbo leech it was 50" I caught and released her on lake winnibigoshish still haven't forgot watching her swim away... That was 15 years ago and I was ruined just didn't really want to walleye or bass fish after that anymore
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Location: Dixon, IL | My first musky was 33 inch on a large Roostertail spinner below Illinois lake's dam in 1983. |
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| First Muskie was a 34" on a BOBBIE BAIT !! Caught 3 legals that weekend --all on that same bait--and have been hooked ever since |
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | June 1990 lake winter i was 7yrs old fishing with my dad. i had my blue/char 3/8 oz spinnerbait over the side of the boat, two feet of line out, 5hp johnson going about as fast as it could on our way back to the cabin we were renting for the weekend. 25'' musky. i remember EVERY detail of that catch. my mom caught her first that day too on a blk/org 1/2 oz spinnerbait 39'' |
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Location: B;acksburg Virginia | my first was 50 inches on a home made bucktail with orange skirt and nickel blade in 2006 |
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Location: Indiana | F18 magnum rapala in silver trolled at a 10' weed line. |
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Location: Ludington, MI | Jointed 8-inch Believer trolled downstream at 4.5 mph, last day of the trip, fishing alone, half hour left until we were leaving town. It was the brown-yellow jointed model. Banging off the rocks in 9 fow and all of a sudden a rock pulled back hard. |
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Location: Missouri | My first was caught on a Suick (Nighthawk color pattern). It was 47" long and one of the most memorable moments i've had. Been a muskie addict ever since. |
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Location: NE Wisconsin | First was 33.25", Aug. 3, 1961 on an orange 1.5 oz ABU Reflex. A5'6" Hedon Pal Musky Special rod with a Pfluger Rocket reel, loaded with 45# braided. I was 11 yrs old, fishing alone in a 14 ft Alumina craft Model A boat with 1957 3hp Johnson outboard. That one event has cost my much throughout my life. All of it well worth it. |
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| Around 1986 got my first musky with my brother. It was a 27'' tiger I got on a castmaster spoon fishing for trout! It fought like crazy and ran through our legs as I fought it! I was yelling so loud my dad came down from the van because he thought I was hurt! I still have the bent treble hook from the lure! My next musky and first pure, was about 1993 when I was 15. It was a beautiful 31.5'' PA musky that crushed a homemade silver/white bucktail! |
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Location: Maplewood, MN | Shallow Invader. Burning that baby. |
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| 34.5" on Lac Viuex Desert. Caught on a pink Mepp's Cyclops spoon first turn into the figure 8. Funny thing was the fish came from under the boat the complete opposite way of my retrieve. I was 13 and was shaking so much that my dad said he could feel the boat moving in the back by him. |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | #2 silver mepps... about 10 years old haha
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| 6 lb. mono, hook, sinker, and a fathead minnow. Mine was an incidental catch while fishing for walleyes on opening weekend of walleye season on the Mississippi River. I was reeling in a rock bass that got absolutely crushed and luckily I managed to land the fish. Didn't get a measurement on the fish but easily 45"+. It took me another 4 years until I actually started targeting muskies. |
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Location: oswego, il | I caught two hybrids on lake shabbona the year it opened. caught them 10min apart neither were very big. caught them on a 3" gold floating rpala 4lb berkely trilene xl, zebco cardinal 3 with matching prostaff fiberglass rod. was back in the no motor zine north shoreline. remember it like yesterday. still have that rod and reel. lots of good memories with it. |
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| Walleye reef hawg |
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Location: West Bend, WI | Little cleo about 28" on the eagle river chain |
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| A red and white hula popper from a small aluminum boat with my brother and father and six-horse motor. It was 32 inches and took many minutes to land with the spincast reel and 10-pound line. Bass fishing on Wildcat Lake near Boulder Junction.
That musky changed my life, leading me to a new passion, eventually leading to a book, and a new home near musky waters.
If I hadn't caught that fish, my life would have gone some other direction.
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| reefhawg 11 years old on LOTW it was 43in |
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| Maybe a 30" on a 1/4 oz. white spinnerbait while fishing a bass tourney 35 years ago. |
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Location: Black Creek, WI | 34 incher on a silver/black jointed rapala while bass fishing. Way back in 1979. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | 39" on a squirly jake in the figure 8! I was hooked for life!!! |
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| ugg...a horrible memory
34" hit a all black 10" suick a couple feet from the boat and proceded to jump in the boat (old aluminum lund) and completely freakout with that 10" suick whipping all around totally tangling everything in sight until the fish was totally wrapped up.
when i finally got everything settled down the fish was as dead as a nail. tossed it back and sat in awe. then a bald eagle came down and scooped it right out of the water and flew away with it.
i still carry that 10" suick with me but have never thrown it again. |
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Location: Lockport, IL | 32 incher on a #3 Mepps Aglia fishing on LVD using a medium bass pole with 10 pound mono and no leader. I became obsessed after catching that fish and thankfully learned quite a bit more about muskie fishing since then. I'm still not that good at catching them, but I'm great at releasing them. |
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Location: Wakefield, MI | 1/4 oz Beetle Spin on 8 lb Stren with a 7' ML St Croix, 36" Muskie. Actually have caught a few on the same setup, my dad had one about 48" on, had it up to the boat but we couldn't land it. |
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Location: West Chester, OH | I'd been casting all morning, when my wife finally put down her book & iced tea & proceeded to catch 3 northerns on almost as many casts w/a #3 Mepps.
Not a complete fool, I put on a #3 Mepps & promptly boated 16" of romping, stomping musky....smaller than any of her northerns! |
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Location: Waconia, MN | Hot n Tot lure, 27" muskie. Not muskie fishing |
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| Trolling with a Little Cleo silver on Yellow for pike, when I was 10, and my brother who was 16. It was just us two in the boat. I had the fish to the boat a couple of times and didn't have a net. There was a Walleye fishermen near by watching the whole thing happen. My brother shouted out if they had a net. They did, and a came over to help.
They came over and older gentlemen jumped into our 12 ft boat and landed the fish. I wish I had a picture of that fish, but it was the early 80's and we were kids.
I will remember my first fish, and the kindness of older gentlemen helping me out!
Just remember when you see a couple of kids out in smaller boat, and they are having trouble with a fish, don't stand by and watch, shout out if they need any help. Who knows, that kid you helped, could be the next Bucher, Gelb or Heiting. |
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| Over 60 years ago when I was 10 and fishing by myself on Lower Gresham lake i Vilas Co. Casted a Heddons Crazy Crawler next to a reed and caught a 30" fish. Still rates as my biggest fishing thrill. |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | I caught my first muskie a 35"er trolling a 2600 series Pikie Minnow in HornedAce color in the Upper Niagara River in July of 1977.Larry Ramsell,I was 8 years old when you caught yours,see muskie fishing is good for your well being! |
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