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Location: Palm Coast, FL | Mine was a 12" Fred Arbogast AC plug...fish was 38.5" and hit 4' from the boat. Scared the hell out of me as it flew through the air over the corner of the boat! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Jig and a plastic worm. Yes, I was fishing muskies. It was a good one, don't remember exactly how long but I had biggest in camp for a week of fishing. I think I was in my teens, 16 maybe. Fishing with my Dad, Tony Portincaso, Jimmy Cairnes, and the Rockford/Chicago contingent on a Fall outing on Bone Lake. What a rush.
I miss those guys some. Hope to see my Dad in April. |
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| Mepps musky killer |
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| Homemade SUPER UGLY multi color bucktail 34" |
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| First musky was on little green and chartreuse Rapala DT-6 while bass fishing. It was a whopper at 17" long. Two weeks later I caught it's twin on a different lake, same little crankbait. First musky while musky fishing was a 28" caught on a custom painted Crane bait. Orange tiger. My wife caught a fish on the same spot the very next day with that little bait. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | Chartreuse Hi-Fin bucktail. Sported a #7 blade and it was the biggest bucktail my Dad had at the time! |
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| Summer of 1982 up on a lake in Michigan. Annual Family Reunion, same lake for 12 years through the years of 1980 through 1992. I knew Muskie and Pike were in the lake, I had seen the pictures and heard the stories. I immediately knew I wanted in on the action. After two years of that week-long family reunion trips in a row, finally, cut my teeth on Pike and Muskie fishing all in that same week that year in '82. Got my first Pike, a 29 incher casting a traditional red/white Daredevil spoon. Later that week, got a low 30s Muskie on a chart/silver J-13 Rapala. Have had the infectious illness ever since... |
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| Jointed Rebel Minnow... silver and black |
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Location: WI | 9" Smity Bait. 18" musky. |
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Location: Richland Center, WI. | First musky was caught on a white Rizzo Wiz using a Tony Rizzo rod by South Bend loaded with an Abu Garcia 6500 C3. Caught it on Lake Wingra in Madison,WI. on May 5th with my two boys acting as guides/coaches/camera men. Don't remember the year or the length of the fish.
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Location: Ohio | Pearson Plugs 6" shallow minnow crank bait that Jack Cobb had help me with when I was making my first baits 25 years ago it was 33" and it came from the Elk River in WV |
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| Night crawler harness trolling for walleyes on Rice Lake in Ontario sometime in the early 90's, 34". |
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| My first musky was 33" and came on a 10" Red October Tube. |
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Location: Palm Coast, FL | Ja Rule - 3/8/2013 5:50 AM
Night crawler harness trolling for walleyes on Rice Lake in Ontario sometime in the early 90's, 34".
Been there and won't go back. I actually went there with my dad and some of his friends going for bluegill. We slaughtered them to the point I wished I would never see one again. Had blisters from cleaning fish! If I ever do go back it will be to go after muskie! |
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| storm thunderbeast...still one of my favorite rubber baits! |
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Location: MN | Black/green inhaler bucktail 45" Cass lake! I was maybe 11-12? Mom dad and my little brother were all in the boat watching me cast and run the boat. Lol |
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| Mine was on a clown J 13. My first entry in Muskies INC was on silver and black Harasser. 35.5 incher |
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| Vince Weirick - 3/8/2013 5:00 AM
Ja Rule - 3/8/2013 5:50 AM
Night crawler harness trolling for walleyes on Rice Lake in Ontario sometime in the early 90's, 34".
Been there and won't go back. I actually went there with my dad and some of his friends going for bluegill. We slaughtered them to the point I wished I would never see one again. Had blisters from cleaning fish! If I ever do go back it will be to go after muskie!
That's how I felt. It was fun catching unlimited panfish but the 3-4 hrs a day of scaling and filleting was miserable for a kid! I haven't been in about 13 years but if I went back I would target muskies. |
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Location: NorthCentral WI | Banging a jailbird Shallow Invader across a shallow rock bar during a full on algae bloom. 42". |
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| All of a sudden I feel really old.
1958. Mudpuppy. Pfleuger skillcast. We were anchored and eating lunch. My Dad had just said,
"Put that #*^@ thing back in the boat and eat a sandwich, there ain't enough water here to hold a fish" , when a 42 incher hung itself on the lure as I attempted to lift it out of the water.
I remember it like it was yesterday! I had experienced dozens of bites prior to that one, but this was my first hook up!
Ldahlberg
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Location: On the O | Carp Believer, fish won me 2nd in a friendly little derby...came to find out a couple years later it's actually a Golden Sucker pattern or something but since it also caught my PB it is and always will be referred to as the Carp Believer in my boat.
Edited by BigC 3/8/2013 6:22 AM
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| trolling 10 inch reef hawg, , 34 in, i did my happy dance for a wk. it was not 1958, more like 2000, so i'm still considered a newby |
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| A 34 incher on a black and orange Bucher 700 |
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Location: minnesota | low 20" fish on a crappie minnow... while fishing crappies. First fish while actually fishing muskie 47" on a jointed firetiger shallow raider |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Firetiger Suick still my favourite jerkbait and I have wornout many. |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | July 4th sunrise 40" on a bullfrog topraider on a super long 6'6" pool cue rod with an Abu 6500, hit 3 cranks in. Been addicted ever since. |
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Location: WV | 22" on a Mepps #5 Black Fury out of Cedar Creek WV. |
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| i was 16, caught it on a 1 1/2" lil cleo, it was a 43" fish |
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Location: Florence, Wisconsin | Perch-colored Super Shad Rap fishing from shore. |
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Location: West of the metro, MN | She was 36". I was trolling a black Hawg Wobbler at 11:00 pm on Labor Day. I was on baby lake with my dad neither of us had ever caught one and I had chased skis all summer out there with no success until that last night out. |
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