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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | How did I wind up the old guy here on the board? Started fishing muskies on LOTW in 1953. I am now 67 years old and this will be my 58th year fishing LOTW and muskies thanks to my Dad starting me out. |
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| Age: 51. I fished 4 seasons so, looking forward to next year. I'm in Washington State and we only have Tigers and 7 lakes to fish. Biggest fish so far is a 49" but I have seen a number of fish in the 50" + range. I fish mostly Bucktails and swimbaits, mostly Bass size stuff (6"-8"). I fish my swimbaits on G.Loomis swimbait rods and my Bucktails on a Legend Tournament split grip. I also fish Largemouth Bass in the early spring (prespawn) and winter steelhead in the winter. Mike. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Check these two kids out. This even makes me feel real old ;( I think we will hear a lot about these two kids over the years! They seem to be bigger musky nuts than most here.
http://www.muskybrothers.com/
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Location: Tonka, MN | Age 24. Been fishing muskies exclusively for 3 years when the season is open. Only been going hard for 2 due to college. My twin brother got me off the bass fishing and into a real challange. Far more exhilarating than any other fishing in my area. Primarily fish Minnesota waters, specifically Tonka and Alex area. All my free time goes in to the sport and the addiction will never be cured. Wish I could just hibernate for the winter, but ice fishing will have to do. |
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Location: Cohasset, MN | I'm 45. I've only been trying this for 7 years and only get to spend about a dozen days chasing muskies each season. Still consider myself a neophyte. My "home" waters are in Itasca county although I live in the cities. I started doing this after a co-worker brought it up. Sometimes I wish he hadn't - this may be the worst return on investment in fishing if judged from a fish/hour perspective. Can I stop ? Unlikely. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I'm 47, but feel a lot older.  I was introduced to Muskies in 1985 and fished them on and off until 1994 when I got into it more hardcore. I learned a long time ago there is always much to learn and one never knows it all. I also learned long ago that it isn't how many hours one fishes that matters - it is how many quality hours one fishes. Two hours on the water when the fish are active are usually much more productive than 25 hours when the fish are inactive. And the most important thing is to always have fun and not take fishing too seriously. After all, it is just fishing.  |
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Caught my first musky in 1997. I used to live in Maryland, which caused me to fish mostly eastern Ontario. Eventually started fishing LOTW.
I now live in Tampa, FL which puts me a little further away. I still make my annual pilgramage to LOTW, but it's only usually 10 days. I try to make up for it by catching Reds/Snook/Largemouths.
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Location: In a shack in the woods | Tackle Industries - 1/1/2011 6:44 PM
Check these two kids out. This even makes me feel real old ; ( I think we will hear a lot about these two kids over the years! They seem to be bigger musky nuts than most here.
http://www.muskybrothers.com/
I think they had an article in musky hunter or were on tv. I remember seeing them somewhere. If I ever have a kid #*^@ sure mine would be the same way. |
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Location: Southern MN | I'm 28; just got back into fishing a year and a half ago. Mostly spent the summer chasing big pike on the Mississippi/Lake Pepin with muskie baits and going after muskies during the fall, feel like I have a good handle on the pike and a ways to go but making a little progress figuring out the skies! I'm not far from French Lake in southern MN and have mostly fished muskies there and a few metro lakes. Don't have my own boat so it limits my options a little bit. |
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Location: Loves Park, IL | 44....... started fishing for musky when I was 16 years old and haven't stopped since. That would be 28 years of fishing exclusively for musky. |
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Location: Richfield, MN | I am 47 and went on my first musky adventure on Oct 1st thru the 3rd in 2010. But due to blood clots in both lungs the following weekend I had to put an end to all my fishing and hunting for the year.
All is good now so I am really looking forward to getting out onto the waters to catch my first musky ever!!!!
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Soon to be 59. Started hoping to catch muskies in 1966 if I remember correctly when I was invited along on my friends family vacation to northern Wis. Fished for pike and walleyes (loved Lac Seul in the late '70s) a lot before muskies eventually stole center stage in about 1985. Fished heavily for trout/salmon on Lake Michigan, fished bass in local southern Wis. lakes somewhat, walleyes in Winnebago, Big Green and other places, tried for many other fish too, and loved fishing carp in the local creek many years ago. Now my musky fishing is mainly in NE WIS. and Ontario.
I had fished so much more in the 70's and 80's than now because it was more affordable. We thought nothing of working 8 hours and then driving an hour and a half to fish for four hours before coming home and doing that three times a week. Now that would cost more for gas than I could afford even if I cut out the luxurious things like eating and having a couple beers. Bummer!
Yes, I have lost my fishing hours too because none of my friends wants to go out and fish muskies, so I am relegated to just fishing that much less. It really hurts the results that way, but there is always hope. My main fishing comes in when I take a few weeks off for an Ontario musky vacation and even that has been put on an every other year schedule lately. Then I get to fish as many hours a day as I want for the two weeks I'm there, an believe me, I fish hard. I still can catch the other fish proficiently, but it just isn't the same as musky fishing. All fish are fun, and fishing with friends makes it better, but it just isn't the same as fishing muskies. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I am 67 and caught my first musky while bass fishing in 1958. Was mainly a trout fisherman and would drive 3 hrs north every weekend to fish, on arriving home I would meet Americians who were driving 14 hours to get to where I live to fish musky. I figured I should check this out and was hooked. I didn't catch a lot of muskies untill I started fishing for them exclusively which I have been doing for 22 years.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | 46
started fishing muskies in the late 80's but got focused on them from 1998 to about 2008. the past few years i've gone back to more multi-species fishing and blend musky fishing with walleye, smallie and recently salmon fishing.
Home waters are Oneida and Vilas County Lakes and spend a week each year in Canada along with a lot of time in Minnesota each year. |
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| Im 33 and have been totally obsessed with these fish since I first started fishing them at the young age of 9. I spend most of my time in Vilas county with my annual trip to Lake of the Woods each year. |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | Bob, sorry, (new oldest) but I'll be 72 Feb 5th! Still fishing the LOTWs (and many others)and still liking it. Been at it for around 45 years. Still do around a 100 days a year. Caught lots of muskies and they are still fun! Doug Johnson |
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| Doug you are our inspiration!!! Glad to see that green Triton pass by every year we are on Lotw!!! |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | Age 24.
Was brought up around it in the evenings fishing in minoqua as a kid but got bored and usually started casting for bass. Started fishing more on my own and really taught myself over the last 4 years. After the first year became addicted, now spending 2-3 days a week on the water and fishing local tournaments and looking to fish more WMT's. Fish mainly central wisconsin river systems and make trips around central northern wisconsin to different bodies of water. Looking forward to heading to MN for some big fish this summer. |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Age: 62 - Didn't start muskie fishing until 1996. Home water- WI river, including Petenwell & Castle Rock Flowages. Preferred WI waters - Vilas county. Water I wish I could fish all season long- Flyin lake X - Ontario CA. and Kagagi Lake Ontario CA.
I'm really a multispecies fisherman, but I do love fishing muskies. I grew up fishing a small Central WI river, mostly for northern pike and expanded from there. Saltwater, freshwater, streams, rivers, it doesn't matter, being outdoors and fishing is always good for the soul.
Have fun!
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| great to see the youth being a little obssesed with the hunt
Doud at 72 yrs young you would have company at a Muskies Canada meeting
for some reason we are having problems getting the young to join/ participate
i'm soooo impressed with the amount of people under 30 plying their skills , south of the border, they will be/are the guardians of the beast
bob |
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| 26 years old
I grew up fishing pike/walleyes with my Grandpa transitioned to strictly walleyes. Now I only seem to fish Walleye's when musky is closed. I've had 2 succesful musky seasons now and I'm looking forward to many more. |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | dougj - 1/2/2011 6:36 PM Bob, sorry, (new oldest) but I'll be 72 Feb 5th! Still fishing the LOTWs (and many others)and still liking it. Been at it for around 45 years. Still do around a 100 days a year. Caught lots of muskies and they are still fun! Doug Johnson
Doug: Thanks for letting me be the kid again. I hope I can be just like you when I grow up. LOL:) |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | 40 years old.
I started as a trouter, walleye and panfish guy until the mid 80's when I started focusing on muskies. I haven't been the same since. Muskie fishing has killed fishing for other species, golfing, duck hunting, bowhunting the rut, baseball and who knows how other many activities. I would give anything to trade March and April for another November so I could bow hunt properly again!
I have fished from Kentucky to NW Ontario and various places between, I call Oneida Co. Wi lakes home, and since sworrall got so busy in the summer, I get them more to myself.
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Been fishing forever, fishing for the elusive water wolf for 30+ years. If therre's a lake thats gotem, I'll fish it.
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Location: So. Illinois | HI, my name is Jerry. I am 47 years old and I have been a musky-aholic for the past 8 years. I now live in a van down by the river and subsist on a steady diet of government cheese. My muskie addiction started when I found out there was a lake close to me in Southern Illinois that had a mature population of fishable muskies. My addiction took hold when I posted a question on a Musky forum on the Musky Shop web site and a stranger by the name of "Ranger" responded. His answers to my questions enabled my sickness and served as the tipping point for my addiction. I can honsetly say my life has not been the same since. |
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| 25 and been fishing all my life. Was out in the boat as a baby. My whole life I've been drawn to any kind of water like a magnet.
Caught my first musky in 2003 on a one day visit to a portage lake. That same year talked my parents into a long weekend on the mad chain. Next year tried it again. By 2005 was already taking on Mille Lacs I was so addicted. Looking back it was like graduating from pre school into college. It was a rough couple seasons but I'm glad. I learned so much in such a short period of time it was unreal. So this will be my 9th season technically but 07' was when things really started falling together so seriously chasing we'll say 4 years going on 5. I live in Iowa and I never knew a musky fisherman. So in some ways it's cool to know I'm self taught and drug my parents and one of my cousins along for the ride. All my fishing is done in the state of Minnesota currently. I want to expand someday but there's still so many lakes there I've yet to fish!!!
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Location: Aurora IL | 53 yrs. old, have chased musky about 30 years. Lucky enough to have sold tackle, hunting gear, guns, or boats for most of my life. Mostly fish wis but hit Minn, Ill, and Can. 49 incher still my biggest. Have met some of the finest people I know fishing and its good to meet others with the same disease! Bill |
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Great thread---I love reading about fellow Musky fisherman---we all have a lot in common!
45 years old---started fishing Musky's only my sophmore year (15 years old) of high school at the family cabin in Minocqua WI. Left it for a couple years and came back to it thanks to a college friend in the early 90s.
Taught school from 91-97 and put a lot of time on the water during those years in the summer.
Bought a cabin on beautiful Lake Vermilion two summers ago and now consider that my home water. Looking forward to learning the Big V. the same as my home water growing up as a kid.
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| 30yrs old, started fishing skis when I was like 16 borrowing grandpa's boat, fished hard the first couple yrs and then got sick of borrowing my granpa's stuff so I fished with buddies and then off shore too and got married and kinda lost it for awhile only get out once or twice a summer but got back into it the last couple of yrs big and doing better then I have done before. Getting out with new muskie buddies and learning new stuff and new waters and having a blast! |
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Location: Blaine, MN | 31 years old,
first fish got me hooked in 1999, a pretty 36"er on vermilion while after smallies...been fishing them on and off ever since... have picked up the intensity to almost exclusively chasing these fish in the last 3 years. Fish Mille lacs and Cedar most due to proximity to the family cabin east of Brainerd (been a rough few years)... hopefully the upper and lower south long stocking comes together. I too find it difficult filling seats in the boat, and never had any luck finding anyone to take some sort of extended musky fishing vaca. recently joined muskies inc. and slowly making some new friends and hopefully fishing partners.
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