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Location: The desert | If you're afraid of them when you're in the boat you probably shouldn't fish for them while wading. I've had fish run into my leg chasing a bait. Now that will get your heart going. |
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| My first follow of my life was on a double prop topwater when I was a teenager. Back then, I didn't know to figure 8 and I didn't see the follow. When I lifted the lure from the water, the fish jumped clean out of the water right at me and almost jumped into the boat. I was totally freaked!
Even in that extreme scenario, the fish didn't stay airborne very long and certainly could not have hurt me.
All of us have a part of our brain that is scared of being eaten by a sea monster. But a musky is not a sea monster. So, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" (Franklin D. Roosevelt).
Brian
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Location: Wauwatosa, Wisconsin | kreegz - 6/9/2009 7:51 PM
my favorite is when a 20 something inch pike comes out of no where and scares you half to death at the boat side... mostly scares you cuz you were thinking it was a 50inch muskie...
haha I hate that! Espacially when you have been trying to a catch a musky for a couple of days and all you get are these 25 inch northerns that scare you! |
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | I had one come 6 feet out of the water after my bait when I wasn't paying attention and lifted it out to start another cast. It was my first time muskie fishing. I didn't get the fish, but it got me! That's what started my love affair with these beasts.
The only time I get worried about being scared by a fish anymore is at night. Even after doing a number of figure 8's I am worried when I take the lure out of the water, for fear that it will explode in the dark at my feet. I love it. Does that make me a masochist? |
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| I think we have all had muskies do unexpected things, that can be a little heartstopping. I have had them come in so fast on a follow they smack the side of the boat with their tail when they turn, I had a small undersize musky take to the air and clear the bow of the boat once, but the key to all this is to always anticipate the follow, and with more experience you can see the fish following from a ways out. That not only lessens the need to change pants so often, but also will significantly increase your conversions of those following fish, because you can respond tactfully to his level of aggression and further anticipate his moves. Now nightfishing, thats a whole other ballgame. I still get jumpy when the water explodes 30 feet out from the boat. |
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| Last night a buddy and I were shallow water bass fishing with senkos and spinning gear and he hooked into his first muskie, a mid 30" fish.
The fish quickly broke his line and then the fish threw it in my buddy's face by not moving from where he was hooked. It was almost like he was saying, "here I am, is that the best you got???"
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Location: West Bend, WI | I tried a new method of trying to get a following fish to bite a few years back. Instead of a figure 8, pull the lure out of the water and yell "FISH!!!" and point at the following fish. I will admit that hooking percentage is quite low, but the others in the boat will really get a some excitement. Should I charge for this kind of insight? |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Oh boy, you gotta R_E_L_A_X!
Musky fishing is like a good Hitchcock movie. The suspense keeps building and building. You know something is going to happen, but when and what? The more you get into it the bigger the shock when out of nowhere the beast appears. That's a big part of the fun! Just relax and enjoy! If you take that out of the equation, you lessen the experience.
If you want the ultimate shocker get out there on a really moonless night and throw topwater over some prime spot. When you get one to smoke it 6" from the boat, all you see is water flying, fish skying eye high, and hear a shriek of terror that would raise the dead. Now that's intense!
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| this is why I almost ,I said alsmost give up deer hunting for because it is the same addrinalin flow that I get hunting but when I get that fish on I can put it back ,wish I could do that with deer.That rush I'm telling you right now if you lose that knee nocking sensation when you see hogzilla come up, you better just fish for bass .This is what I live on the lake for everytime I go out!!!!!The release and follows (sometime s)are beter than the catch .good hunting |
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| I remember when I was younger and just beginning to fish for Musky--I would have basically the same feeling. You will get over it and will look forward to the followers and boatside explosions. I love the figure 8 fish and now after a few years of fishing for them ( 20 years ) I can;t wait for the next fgloow and boatside strike. GOOD LUCK and enjoy it!!!!!!! |
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