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Location: Maple Grove | Black and Silver mepps. Week long trip, only threw this bait. Only fish caught. 27" Tiger.  |
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Location: Marshfield, WI | First was 15" caught on a walleye minnow.
First one targetting muskies, approx. 28". It followed in one guys bucktail, disappeared under the boat, I kept fig-8ing and the other guys kept casting. Fish came back and hit the black and silver Mepps bucktail.
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| 6" Pearl White Phantom, actually first 7 fish came on that phantom. |
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Location: So. Illinois | Rapala Shad Rap 9RS in natural shad pattern: We had just given up fishing for muskies and started a troll for walleyes when a 38" muskie took the balit on a light spinning rod with 8lb test.
1st trying for muskie - 6 inch Super Shad Rap in Fire Tiger. We caught a healthy 42" wake trolling a breakline. While trying to manage the fish I got my first hook stuck in by hand. Not much fun geing connected to 42" of pissed off muskie. I learned my lesson that day -- at least I was smart enough to have my cutters handy. |
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Location: Windy City | A mepps giant killer. It's pretty beat up at this point but I always keep it close by. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Jig and plastic worm, in the Pre Creature era. On purpose. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | My first legal was on 6lb test and a number 6 hook that was in a bluegills mouth. The muskie hit my gill and the hook managed to hook into the muskies mouth.
My first legal muskie came shortly after that on a number 9 shad rap. Silver deep diver worked down a weed edge. After getting 2 muskies in a few weeks I was hooked. That was 35 years ago. |
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Location: chicago | 6" Radtkes Pike Minnow |
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Location: Burlington, WI | 39" on a white and brown arouser with silver double blades in 2-3ft of water. Took around 35 hours of fishing to get the first one in the boat. Caught a 35" later in the day too. |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | Paul Bunyan 66. In the early '50's. |
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Location: Perham, MN | 40.5" walleye rod, 8lb line, chartruse wally diver |
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Location: Omaha, Nebraska | 46" on a AHL Lac Seul Medium on Cass |
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Location: Northwest Wisconsin | 6" crane bait. White with black bars |
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| 1/8 ounce jig/minnow while fishing for walleyes. 42"
When actually fishing for them, a 44" on a Radke Pikie Minnow. |
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| 39" after switching to a walleye rig, spinning reel w/ Lindy rig and a minnow. It was an amazing fight.
Edited by musky39 3/11/2007 9:47 PM
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| 5 inch anusator |
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Location: Victoria,MN | A 1/16th oz jig with a fatty and 6 pound test. It was in October probably 15 years on Tonka, it was about a 40" fish. |
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | Caught my first dozen or so on jig/minnow combos (walleye fisherman starting out).
First muskie while targeting them was on a purple / nickel blade Rizzo Whiz.
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Location: Iowa | First pure bred: 28"er on a 10" white fudally hawg spin off the dock at lake of the woods...
First tiger: 41.5"er on a 6" chart. tiger tube on eagle lake...
Big Perc |
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| Both my first Muskie and my first Pike came in the same week and from the same lake way back when.
First Muskie came on a big, 8 or 9 inch black/silver floating Rapala. Still have that exact bait. It's retired and is in a special place.
First Pike came on the traditional red/white Daredevil spoon. Still have that exact bait and it's retired as well. |
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Location: Madison Wi. Chain | 40 incher on a sucker, let the obsession begin. BG |
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| black and green funky chicken on a figure 8 first time out, 42 inch |
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| Carolina rigged plastic Black w/gold flecked worm. Yup, I was bass fishing. On Pewaukee. This thing goobled it up, and when I set the hook, I was sure I had the biggest bass ever caught. Turns out it was a 37" muskie, and that was the last day I ever fished for LM Bass on purpose. |
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| 1975-25" from the dock on a Gapen spin(kinda like a beetle spin)
1977- 1st legal(31") on a 7" yellow Suick |
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Location: Cohasset, MN | 1st was about a 10 incher on a little rapala fishing for bass. 1st targeted muskie was on a black/red with black nickel blade bucktail. |
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| 3/4 oz Johnson Silver minnow with yellow twister... after only one hour my 1st time ever musky fishing....
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Location: WI | Orange Globe. 42.5" Chip Flowage |
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Location: Hayward, WI | 36" on green bass buzzbait |
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Location: Hayward, WI | First one ever: 3/8 oz. bass spinnerbait, 6 years old, 32 inch fish.
First while targeting them: Firetiger Mepps Musky Marabou, 20 years old, 40 inch fish. Currently my biggest but looking to change that this year.
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| Cisco Kid Topper, 33 years ago. |
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