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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Well, while seated on "my throne", reading old magazine articles about muskies (my magazine collection only goes back to the early 80's- when I chased other species), I once again came across what is probably my all time favorite muskie article - "OF MUSKIES, MICE AND MEN, AND OTTO, FAMILY AND FRIENDS by Doug Stange" on page 84 of Book #112/ March '93 issue of the In-Fisherman.
Some selected excerpt's:
"Medicine men, dancing great dances and depriving their bodies of food and water for days are said to fall finally into a trance in which the wisdom of worlds comes crashing from the great beyond to provide enlightenment. Sounds like muskie fishing to me"
of Doug Johnson- "Johnson's a creative sort with a spray can, at least in the sense that Frankenstein was creative with body parts."
of Dick Pearson- "Having gone through the 12 Steps to Relatively Reasonable Behavior For A Muskie Fisherman, he is these day's living one day at a time."
The caricature by Larry Tople of Dick Pearson in his boat is priceless!!!
Don't get me wrong, this article also has lot's of great information, i.e., serious insight from two of muskie fishing's best sticks. It's a great read! Thank you Mr. Stange.
So what are your favorite muskie related magazine article's? Why are they your favorite(s)?
Have fun!
Al
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Mine has to be the two-part story in "In-Fisherman" where Larry Ramsell details his work doing telemetry studies on Eagle Lake with Dr. Bernard Lebeau. For a guy to drop what he was doing, pack up and leave for Canada to help on a summer research project, for free, is amazing!
I am very envious, actually...
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| I frequently vacationed when growing up and started musky fishing on Lac Vieux Desert. As a youngster I would buy anything I could having to do with musky fishing and I finally got my parents to get me a subscription to Musky Hunter Magazine.
I believe it was an issue in 1994, but it was specific of LVD. It told of a gentlemen who heard of a record musky in the lake that has been caught, but never boated and he wanted to see for himself. The author went on to tell about his expirience on the water with an old codger who was the guy who has had this fish on more than once. I wish I could get more specific. It has been a long time since I have seen that article. But reading that and fishing that lake at that age got me all riled up.
I read that article more times than I can remember when I was younger. I lost the issue with it in. I actually lost the all of the MHM's that I had, but I really wish I could get my hands on that article again.
Edited by tr7 6/11/2008 12:24 PM
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| I read old musky articles over and over while in the "mens library" at my home and at the cabin. "Of Musky Mice and Men" is a classic, which I've probably read a half dozen times over the years. I also have one of the first MH editions dated 1990 with a bucktail article by Joe Bucher that I've read a dozen times or so. I also think Steve Rustenburg's MH article about musky myths stands out, as do Larry Ramsell's tracking observations from a musky fishermen's perspective. Of everything I've read, those seem to stand-out.
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Location: Minnetonka | Eat At Your Feet and Goin' Camping, Mike Hulbert.
These 2 articles reinforced crucial techniques and tactics that proved themselves in MMTT tournament scenarios for us several times in 2007. Vermilion was figure 8's... Mille Lacs and 'Tonka were camping... proven success. Both are informative, substance-based muskie fishing articles that were implemented and produced RESULTS. |
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| Does anyone know what article I mentioned above and if so where I may be able to get a copy of it? |
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| Definately Tony Rizzo's new book and take on catch and release. |
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Location: lansing, il | Hammskie - 6/12/2008 8:41 AM
Eat At Your Feet and Goin' Camping, Mike Hulbert.
"eat at your feet" was my personal favorite too! hahaha |
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| My favorite article was in IN-Fisherman many years ago.
It was about a husband and wife who fished big jerkbaits in the fall way over the top of muskies.
I remember some things that still stick in my head.
The husband liked to work his lures in a very eratic action, imitating dying ciscoes. His wife, on the other hand, worked hers very slowly, with lots of pauses and never changed the cadence much. Some days he ruled, some days it was hers, some days it didn't matter. I remember him saying that if he was hungry, he would find some way to reach a cheeseburger that was dangling 25 feet above his head. The point was that they caught fish with Suicks and Bobbie Baits as well as Teddies and Eddies in 40 feet of water with those lures running 5 feet deep at the most. The fish came up to hit the lures, and turned right back down with their meals. This meant much to me because I was just a couple of years into serious muskie fishing and caught almost all of my fish from a deep clear lake in Vilas County by fishing the 'black water' just off of shallow flats, and like the couple in the article, I saw all of the fish come straight up to eat the lures. After reading that piece, I never felt weird about fishing jerkbaits and gliders in 40 feet of water again, and I still do it. It was easy to do, because on the lake that I fished, I could hit the bank from 60' deep water. Their eyes are on the top of their head for a reason. |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | One of the better articles I've read as of late has been the one in newest MH comparing spots and bars.
Edited by Jomusky 6/15/2008 8:52 PM
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | A couple of oldies but goodies:
Ramsell's article on radio tracking big fish, and Bucher's article on targeting moon phases.
Not an oldie: Chad Cain's article exploring lake stratification.
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