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| The financial aspect is what currently keeps me from being able to fish as much as I'd like to. If I didn’t have to worry about affording being able to fish all the time, then I think that the mental aspect would come next. But, I guess when I don’t get to fish often then body isn’t in muskie bait chucking shape, so it takes a bit to get through the barrier of pain and adjustment to those unusual physical demands. Once the body is adjusted to throwing baits all the time, then it is all about the mental demands of putting fish in the net. Long term, I can’t think but feel like the physical demand prevails and those parts of the body that adjust to being able to throw baits all the time eventually wear out and stop doing what they are supposed to without constant pain. Some people are blessed with better genetics, and some are obviously worse off, but I would think that almost all muskie fishermen are somewhere in this progression. Obviously, most people’s positions will change throughout a muskie fishing lifetime.
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Location: On my favorite lake! | I would say mentally demanding because you can get away with only a few baits and one rod. There are a good number of sports and activities that are a lot more physically demanding. However, you forget or mess up a figure 8 and that fish might be gone for good. Keeping mentally sharp and thinking, I think is #1 thing in musky fishing. |
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Location: Columbus, Georgia | This is a great thread, though I think there are some factors that lend themselves toward one of the choices over another. There was a recent post/thread about the average age of Muskie fisherman frequenting this board. I am 56 and while I have been fishing since I was around 4 years old; I crossed over to Muskies six seasons ago and fish exclusively (now) for these toothy critters.
I spent a bundle the first few years and bought the best equipment and literally hundreds of proven baits. Now on my third boat, I can say that the financial aspect of our sport has gone down (for me) by about 75% per season based upon being set up with everything I need. Last season I purchased only about a dozen new baits. My wife could hardly believe it!
The mental aspect is something I try to keep in mind whenever I am on the water and can fish without results without the disappoint levels I experienced when I was a newbie. Hey ... it's Muskie fishing! Enough said about that.
However; while I began to experience some arthritis and lower back problems as I approached 40 ... since I have begun fishing for Muskies I have had surgery on three fingers (trigger-finger release on two fingers and a thumb), along with two shoulder surgeries. So for me, I can say unquestionably the physical aspects of the sport are my greatest challenge. Elbow tendonitis also visits for me for at least part of each season. Figure-8's of double 10 blades and throwing LARGE swim baits both prove to be a formidable hurdle.
I can't imagine another pastime that I might enjoy more than hunting Muskies.
Edited by cjrich 1/11/2011 4:32 PM
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