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| I tell my fishing buddies that if I have one on keep casting because they often feed together. The first time I proved this theory I caught 3 in three casts while my partner just stood in the boat sulking. Since I have had a number of b2b's. The funniest was after dinner at a friends house, I went down to the dock and cast to the left and caught a 24 and that was the second 24 for the day because I caught one in the morning. This was after labor day but my first day fishing all year so I teased my friend who only caught 2 fishing all summer. She said mine didn't count they were to little. I replied "watch this", a cast to the right and a 48". |
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Location: Hayward, WI | On the St Louis I netted a 42.5" for my buddy. After it was released I got a 50" on my very next cast. Saw 6 fish in a half hour, best window I have been part of. |
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| Netted two fish at once when sucker fishing. Third rod went off. Set the hook on it, felt it wasn't too big, put the rod back in the rod holder and got the two fish out of the net and released. Picked up the third rod, fish was still on, got it in.
So they weren't on "casts", but certainly a pack of fish came through and they were hungry!
I was hit on back to back casts, though. Same fish. It hit and shook my lure. I got the boat back in position, bombed another cast and was hit again. Caught the fish this time. 38 incher. It was the same fish. Hungry and stupid. That's how I like 'em. |
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Location: Chicago, IL | Yep- in 2012 stuck my first fifty (51") catch, photo, released it. Took time to girth it while in the water. My buddy and I were absolutely PUMPED! It was a Thu night on a week long NW Ontario trip after we had seen tons of bigguns. We finally got organized and caught or breath. On my first cast after releasing the big girl, I decided to cast over to the deep side to get my line spooled back up right and BAM 44.5" that smashed my bulldawg as soon as it hit the water. Didn't know what was going on! Haha. Great memory. |
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| My boat partner and I got 4 in 40 yards. 3 mid 40s fish and a small tiger. Maybe 7 casts. Came back the next morning to the very same spot and caught two more. |
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| I lost a monster at the boat (54"+) and the next cast I caught a 48" that looked like a toothpick compared to the one I had just lost. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | vegas492 - 8/5/2016 12:36 PM
Netted two fish at once when sucker fishing. Third rod went off. Set the hook on it, felt it wasn't too big, put the rod back in the rod holder and got the two fish out of the net and released. Picked up the third rod, fish was still on, got it in.
So they weren't on "casts", but certainly a pack of fish came through and they were hungry!
I was hit on back to back casts, though. Same fish. It hit and shook my lure. I got the boat back in position, bombed another cast and was hit again. Caught the fish this time. 38 incher. It was the same fish. Hungry and stupid. That's how I like 'em.
I had the same fish hit a WTD right at dark 2 casts in a row. Shook me the first time, no hooks the second. Ran back up did the drift again got to the end threw a pacemaker instead, whammy, caught that fish on the 3rd try. |
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| JakeStCroixSkis - 8/5/2016 3:54 PM
vegas492 - 8/5/2016 12:36 PM
Netted two fish at once when sucker fishing. Third rod went off. Set the hook on it, felt it wasn't too big, put the rod back in the rod holder and got the two fish out of the net and released. Picked up the third rod, fish was still on, got it in.
So they weren't on "casts", but certainly a pack of fish came through and they were hungry!
I was hit on back to back casts, though. Same fish. It hit and shook my lure. I got the boat back in position, bombed another cast and was hit again. Caught the fish this time. 38 incher. It was the same fish. Hungry and stupid. That's how I like 'em.
I had the same fish hit a WTD right at dark 2 casts in a row. Shook me the first time, no hooks the second. Ran back up did the drift again got to the end threw a pacemaker instead, whammy, caught that fish on the 3rd try.
Love those stupid/hungry fish!
I was guiding a fella once. He caught a scrappy little 28 incher. We released it, I made a cast, got a hit and reeled in a 28 incher...no fight in it at all. Same fish. I've always wondered if that stupid, hungry fish grew up and I got her at 38 inches.
BTW...love these stories. Memories and action like this make those long uneventful days on the water kind of worth it. |
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Location: davis,IL | Not back to back casts, but pulled up in a smaller bay a couple of years ago in Canada. There was a couple boats fishing the "shore side of the bay and doing nothing. Pulled up on the "point side...a couple hundred yards away and caught a 45 and 48 within a dozen casts. Need less to say they left quickly in disgust. And no I did not "cut them off", they were on the western shore and I was on the eastern. |
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| Didnt catch back to back but had fish up every cast and landed a 43 and a fat 39 within a couple casts on a Fat Bastard. Was a crazy few minutes in time. |
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| Last week. 9:30pm, 15 mins after moon set, caught a 35 and 5 cranks into the next retrieve hooked a bigger one (42-44? based on how it felt and head shakes). Alas, it threw the bull dawg about 15' from the boat. Shocked the heck out of me! |
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Location: Wisconsin | Great thread, as Vegas said, it makes you look back on all the crazy things that happen while Mukie fishing. |
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| Last year a buddy and me pounded the water to a froth.... With 2 lazy follows under "ideal" conditions, In about a 10 hr day. Next morning had to drag myself out of bed. In a 2 and a half hour span seen 18 fish. On the exact same spots we were fishing on the previous day. Felt like I was dreaming seemed as every cast I had a fish coming in hot. Moved 6 fish off one reef. Ranging from small to 50" fish. Ended up catching 3 of them. And missed a couple golden opertunities. I have never seen anything even remotely close to that morning and not sure if I ever will. |
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| Fishing with my significant other and we are fishing a heavily pressured lake. We try to get past this boat going the opposite direction and we go deep away from where they are casting. As we get close to parallel they flip around and cut us off. We take the high road and go somewhere else, but the lake is so tiny you can't actually get too far away.
We end up boating our forth fish of the morning and are unhooking / releasing the fish and that same boat swoops in from a considerable distance and starts casting from the weed edge to our boat, probably only at most 20 yards away the entire time we are releasing the fish. We release the fish and three pulls into the first cast after releasing the fish I hook / catch another fish. That was the most satisfying fish I have ever caught and the thing couldn't have gone 3'. We ended up catching 6 in the few hours we fished that unreal morning. |
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Location: Metro | Wow a lot more of these stories than I thought there was going to be. I hope this happens to me at some point. |
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Location: NE PA | Last fall I managed 3 fish on 3 consecutive casts. 44, 47, 47.75. We went 11 for 17 from about 7am-10am. Complete chaos haha. The fish shut down and not another look the rest of the day. |
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| Last year I didn't catch my first fish until August. I caught my second of the year the very next cast. Boat partner was still rinsing the net as I hooked it. |
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Location: Illinois | The first family vacation trip to northern Wisconsin I caught 2 small low 30" fish on back to backs. It was actually the first 2 fish that I landed in my boat(had caught a couple with a guide previous). Over the next hour had 9 follows/strikes and caught 2 fish (again smaller fish up to 36"). I only get one full week a year to go and a couple long weekend trips. Near dark my then 10 year old son says "here's another one dad", I look back and he's sitting in the chair "walking" a 40"+ down the side of the boat. He was throwing a bass spinnerbait because "Muskie have teeth and he didn't want to get bit" lol. I tell him to do a figure 8(I had already taught him that previously), he stands up and the fish lunges for the bait and he proceeds to scream like a girl and pulls the bait away! I still tease him about that nearly 12 years later. It still stands as the biggest Muskie he's had an opportunity to catch. He only gets a few days a year to go Muskie fishing with me. He is the "Pike Master" though. Every trip he catches big pike and numbers. Personal best of 40" and multiple 34-38's. I always catch snot rocket hammer handles. That one evening completely gave me the "fever" for life. I hardly ever fish for anything but Muskie unless it's do to having others with who want to catch bass/panfish etc. |
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| Thanks for all the stories guys! I did not expect to get this much feedback. I get excited reading all these accounts!  Thanks again for sharing! |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Nailed a 38 and a 34 on Pewaukee Lake 10 years ago. Both on a Cobb's Round Nose Countdown.
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Location: Southern W.Va. | got a place marked on my LOTW map thats called "10 cast bay ". 42" ,38 ", and 38 "northern caught and had a upper 40 muekie rush a killr eel and tried his #*^@est to eat it, luckly I was able to keep the lure away or I would have had 4 fish in 10 cast . caught fish on the 1st , 2nd and 4th cast , missed the bigger one on about cast # 7 or 8. all fish caught on a " stink pickle weagle " . musky , northern , then 2 cast later ,musky . |
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