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Posts: 350 Location: WESTERN WI | Every musky season brings valuable "lessons learned" that are part of the Musky Fishing Experience for me. Murphys Law can finds its way into every aspect of the sport. Here are a few of the lessons I have learned this season so far. I vow to never make that mistake again.  1. Always carry a backup camera (disposable, sealed in a plastic bag). A digital camera is way to complicated a machine to never malfunction at least once a season. 2. Always trim motor up before pulling boat out of water, even if it is 2 a.m. and your dead tired. 3. Always carry insurance on everthing possible on your rig. It does the job, especially when the river is 3 feet lower than normal and your overconfident as usual, running wide open. (thanks for the new lower unit American Family Insurance) 4. The only day you take your kicker motor off to give your buddy more "fish fightin' room" off the rear deck, is the only day you will need it to get back to the landing when the main motors fails. (see lesson #3) 5. Never take your reel apart to insert line guide back into frame while leaving Manta hanging over the boat, in the water for an extended period of time. That's when the fish will hit it, and that's exactly what happened. (Didn't catch the fish, but also did not lose any component of the reel that exploded upon the hit. I saw Murphy's reflection in the water on that one.) 6. Always turn trolling motor speed to "0" when it is undeployed as to not impale yourself on the spinning prop, or knock eye off of favorite bucktail rod when organizing boat. 7. When night fishing, always carry a very bright light(s) of sort, to recover expensive surface lures that rocket through the air twice the normal casting distance when your superline backlashes unlike no other. (having a bait that floated helped, but being "midnight black" as the entire lure color did not) 8. Always mark the location of an open water catch on GPS as soon as possible (without risking fish's health). You may think you can triangulate your position using lakehomes, docks or distinct shoreline feature in the excitement, but why leave it to chance, that's you you spent over one mortgage payment to all get those fancy electronics. Lowrance=exactly, memory=not exactly 9. Give a fish drag when they earn it, or they will make you pay, over and over again in your nightmares of lost fish. 10. Never post embarrassing incidents (lessons) that make you look "inferior" to the musky gods we all aspire to be. Did I miss any? Edited by Got Esox? 7/25/2006 10:17 PM | ||
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Posts: 350 Location: WESTERN WI | I posted this thread last night about this time actually, actually almost two hours later. So, it is not even 24 hours later and I have another "lesson learned" to add to the list. 11. When your Lee Lures' "Chopper" becomes wrapped around a dead tree by shore and you don't have a lure retreiver to get it out, there are several other options you have. The one I recommend you avoid is the following: DO NOT position the boat so it is just out of the way and hang on the tree so it falls in the water and you have access to your chopper. Because when you do (when I did) the tree fell right into my buddy's Tuffy, right down the middle, landing on the windshield and one of the wavewalkers, shattering both. Thank god it missed us and the electronics and rods too. So now I will replace both parts before his big trip of the year to the Chip next weekend. Hey the boat "still fishes" but it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. YUCK!!! Two fish were boated, but those fish would have both had to been over 50" to begin to remove the taste. Once again, I am sorry Jake. Anyone have a spare wavewacker? Edited by Got Esox? 7/27/2006 11:18 AM | ||
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