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| 6" rapala husky jerk trolling for walleyes...life would never be the same again. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | My first was a 34" on a Wisconsin Lake, caught on a 9" bulldawg in the old perch color. |
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| First musky was caught on a 12" walleye fishing with dad
First musky when targeting them was on a 6 1/2" Woodie |
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Location: B;acksburg Virginia | I caught my first muskie on a orange skirt brass blade bucktail that my brother made for me. She was 50 inches even and weighed 38 pounds it got me hooked for life. |
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Location: On the Niagara River in Buffalo, NY | My first muskie was caught on a Pikie Minnow 2600 Series in Horned-Ace color with lip wing and tip bends,trolled behind leadcore line,near Strawberry Island on the Upper Niagara River back in 1975,it was 35"! No depthsounder,no net,hand landed!
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Location: St Paul, Minnesota | 36 Incher caught shore fishing (because my fishing partner with the boat didn't want to go out that day) with an Original Shad color Hawg Wobbler. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Around 1965 I caught one sub 20 inch while bass fishing in a canoe #2 mepps . The first one while targeting them was 42 inches casting swim wiz strawberry colour (I'm guessing around 1978).
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| All of 28", Lake Wingra, 9/2/2004, trolling (yes, I said trolling, on a 300 acre lake...) in someone else's boat. Don't know the lure. Least memorable fish to date. I reeled it in. Whoopdee#*#*. (I'll never forget the first one I hooked in about 1985) |
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| Black and silver Hi-Finn. Few streaks of silver in the black hair. The good days of a small black and silver single blade Bucktail. 39 1/2" @ 8 years old with my dad. |
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| 1993 on Indian Lake in Ontario. Throwing a fire tiger Bill Lewis rattle trap. My dad and Grandpa had anchored and we're slip bobber fishing walleyes. This muskie follows to the boat and I had no clue what a figure 8 was so I just let the lure sit there and the fish takes off. Make another cast, fish comes in and I just leave the bait hang in the water while the Muskie stares at it. Give it a couple jigs and POW, game on. Think I was using a 6'6" Quantum Snapshot rod with a Shimano FX 200 and 8 lb test. Probably was a low 30" fish. Never got a measure or a pic, wish I would have, just popped it off at the side of the boat. I'll never forget it! |
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Location: Walker, MN | During a downpour in 1993 on Sugar lake in Wright county Mn a 38incher brunched boatside on a Blue Fox Spinner. After literally a hundred follows it was total redemption. |
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| a jackpot |
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Location: Walker, MN | ckhawkeye51 - 1/20/2014 9:24 PM
Black and silver Hi-Finn. Few streaks of silver in the black hair. The good days of a small black and silver single blade Bucktail. 39 1/2" @ 8 years old with my dad. 8 Yrs old...very cool!
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| It was a jointed, hard plastic bait called a Bulldog in a smallmouth pattern. I was trolling Lake St Clair in Anchor Bay and running the bait on a down rod with 6 feet of line out at the back of the boat. She was 42". In 12 hours fishing over 2 days, we had 11 strikes and landed 7 muskies ranging from 35" to 48". We all thought catching muskies was easy.......... |
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| Black and Orange B-Flat. 39". But, that wasn't the one that changed my fishing life, it was my first "encounter" using a Johnson Silver Minnow in perch color. I think I was 13. My second encounter was with a Jimmy Houston Helicopter lure on a bright blue-bird day after I'd just took a swim in the bay. |
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Location: Aurora | Jig & pig during bass opener on Minnetonka late 80's.
Saw it turn completely on it's side to pick it up. |
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| April, 1963, Pflueger Supreme Direct drive reel, 5 ft True Temper rod, on a Heddon Torpedo....34 incher from the South Fork of the Hughes River, Fonzo, WV... |
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| 34 incher on a sherbert super d |
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| #3 Blue Fox fishing for smallies during a light afternoon rain. All of 18" or so. First real one on a gold/black Mepps Musky Killer. That one was right around 40" Seems like a long time ago. |
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Location: Walker, MN | Edit:maybe it was a Buchertail....yes a Buchertail! |
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| 51''x20 or 22 don't remember on a Krisco  not a bad start eh?
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Location: Money, PA | Yellow Mepps bucktail spinner. Early 80s - 36" Kawartha Lakes
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| about a 20" muskie a 5" or so Pike chub. We were fishing for anything that would bite. |
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| I caught my first muskie, on a purple Mepps muskie killer. I was in high school, back in 1977. Vilas County, Wisconsin. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | First one ever....A 52".... on a Pink Rapala Xrap 3 7/8", 10 lb mono.
That was the day I came to the dark side. Told my dad who was in the boat " that was way too much fun. We gotta learn how to do this on a regular basis!!!" |
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Location: ON | Manns Baby 1 Minus - 32" |
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| 37" on a walleye colored rapala super shad rap.
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| low 40"s on a bulldawg figure 8 at the boat |
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Location: Northern Illinois | Blue chrome shallow raider....straight cranking. Hadn't learned to actually twitch
anything yet. Still catches fish that way though. |
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| Red head creek chub, 41" spotted musky. |
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