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Location: The desert | What is the most exciting/exhilerating part of fishing muskies in your opinion?
For me, since I dont have a boat and primarily wade in the river to about waist deep, nothing gets me shaking or makes my heart race more than having a fish come out of no where and attack your bait when it is less than a foot away from your body. Last night I had about a 45 inch fish bolt out of the current behind me and swing at my bait. It missed and sunk into the current. So I worked the bait around the area a bit, in some sort of figure 8 action although figure 8'ing in the current and in waist deep water is near impossible. The fish came up againa and hit the bait but rolled it over as it hit it so I didnt get any hooks into it.
I'm sure that catching a 50 inch fish is a good rush, but if you have never tried wading for muskies, give it a try. A follow or strike boat side is exciting too, but to me having one nearly run into you....there is nothing better!
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Location: Madison, WI | Setting the hook. |
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Location: nationwide | I remember growing up on Lake Thompson in Rhinelander and wading out into the lake and fishing for muskies as well. It was all fun and games to get fish to hit on a cast and then drag them into shallow water to land and unhook. I also have memories of a fish that seemed like loch ness following my little mud puppy to the end of my rod tip and there we sat eyeballing each other. I am not sure who flinched first but suffice to say there was water flying all over from both of us leaving the vicinity.
I fished off the neighbors dock for a long time after that happened.
So to answer the question it is the follow ups and strikes that are the most exciting to me.
Corey Meyer
Edited by muskymeyer 10/3/2006 1:17 PM
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Setting the hooks into a huge fish that stops the rod and takes line. You know your on a big girl. Set it again and enjoy the ride. |
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Location: Downers Grove, IL | click...click......clickkkkkkk..... |
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| Feeling the headshakes of a big musky  |
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Location: Iowa | its all fun as he11 but for me I would have to say a big fish bulldawging and just straight owning you for the majority of the fight...seeing them swim away is awesome too...
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| There's so many exciting moments it's hard to say...
Watching a fish swimming up behind your bait, getting closer and then smashing it is one of the coolest things in my opinion!
But we can't forget about feeling your bait stop when you're reeling in a bucktail, or setting the hook, or when you're reeling in a fish and you get that first look at it and see how big it is, and your heart about stops...
Or when you get a following fish that's just HUGE
Man can we pick three?
It's not very exciting watching a fish swim away after all that but it's one of my favorite parts. |
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| A fish crushing a bait at boatside on a figure 8 in the middle of the night in utter and complete darkness. |
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| sitting there for that 5 minutes after i get the boat set up and wait for my dad or whoever is with me that day to board. that time to me, right there cannot be duplicated.
first few casts on the good spots are always killer too.
and seeing someone catch and hold their first lets me relive that thrill i felt!!!
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theres too many! |
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Location: Des Plaines, IL | Watching the fish follow more than once and trying not to jump in and grab it.  |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | follows, boat side strikes, jumpers, strikes. |
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| Seeing the fish. They are just so awesome.
Try this sometime: take a Q-beam gazillion powered light out with you. Fish till 3:00am or so and then put the rods away and use the troller to cruise along the shore and shallow breaks. Stand as tall as you can, like on the seat, and hold the light really really high and then aim it down about 20-40' from the boat. Even out in open water you'll sometimes see big fish just sitting there, just below the surface. But in the shallows you'll see many more fish that you would expect. Move the light slow and you'll likely not spook the fish.
You'll catch big old 'eyes playing shallow, too. And turtles are always cool, but then everybody likes turtles.
One time I flashed an upper 30"s off a break and that fish followed the light beam: We spotted it and checked it out and then swung the light slowly to one side, stopped, and the fish swam into and stopped right in the center of the beam. Slowly swung the light the other way, stopped, and guess who showed up. Back and forth, the fish would swim into the beam. Maybe she thought she was a movie star or something. We got bored with playing with that fish.
You'll see all sorts of cool stuff with a Q-beam at 3:00am. |
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| Having a 52+" fish eat in a figure 8 !!!
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Location: Fishing the weeds | Follows, seeing the fish swim away after a release and, watching someone catch and release their first Muskie. My Bass fishing partner caught his first (On purpose) Muskie this weekend. He was shaking like a leaf and had to sit down afterwards. That is probably my favorite part. Pat |
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| I hear you on river muskies. They do some crazy #*#*! Which rivers do you fish?
The most exceiting thing to me is getting hit. Under or topwater, doesnt matter to me. Setting the hook and feeling that fish just gets the blood flowin. Afterwards is where the real fun starts but it begins on the hookset. You know something awesome or cazy might happen afterwards. That and the fact that you had a successful outing. Netting someone's fish is also a blast.
Now the single most exceiting thing to me is getting a fish on the 8 in really clear water. Seeing it follow from 30+ yards out... seeing it follow every turn and coming up from underneath your lure and attacking.
Edited by Reelwise 10/4/2006 8:22 AM
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| Seeing it in the net and watching it swim away after the release. |
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| a few things come to mind....seeing a BIG wake come up behind your topwater...where the lure is surfing on the wake..then having the fish come unglued and explode on the bait...
figure 8 hits at night! those are wild...the unknown of what hit it...
setting the hook on a sucker hit...the unknown again of what grabbed your sucker is a rush...
explosive topwater hits at night....
really anything at night is just magnified by the darkness.....
celebratory beers after the catch are nice too!
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| Holding em up for a pic,and realizing all the hard work paid off,but it's all good. |
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| Being alive to do it. |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | The internet forums.
Kevin
You stay classy, M1st. |
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Location: Clintonville, WI | anticipation.................of.....what.....could.....- "holy cr@p, BERTHA is behind my bait / on the sucker / in the eight" -.....happen.....next. |
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| Goll dangit Joe! |
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Most exciting part of musky fishing?
Being outside.... |
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| Everything, from reading maps and magazines, to sharpening hooks while watching TV in January, to the sleepless nights before your big trip, meeting knew people with the same enthusam as you, and finally the sense pride and acomplishment and all out joy you get when you reach into the frabil and release the fish that made you so happy for some else to expirence. For me, thats what its all about. Everything about musky fishing gets me excited. |
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Location: Avilla, IN | Spending time isolated in a boat with someone who has the same passion as you about musky fishing. |
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