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Location: Tomahawk, WI | Green Mepps Muskie killer with a silver Blade. The fish came right out from underneath the boat. I never know it was there. Great fight, it was 36" long. Best part was my grandfather catching one the same day. We kept them to eat back then, so I have a great picture of me and my grandfather holding the fish in his front yard. Defiantly my most memorable day muskie fishing. And I still have the muskie Killer!!!!!
Bone Lake, back in the 80's
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| I think my first was a 25"er on a prototype hi-fin, boatside....it was one of those cranks where the lips always broke off. I was 5. I think.
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| Heddon Torpedo, 1964, |
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| My first Muskie was on rattlin rap while bass fishing. Caught two that day both in the low thirties. My first musky when targeting them was a 42 inch on a magnum double bulldawg with walleye pattern. |
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Location: Stanley, WI | Firetiger DT-4, wade fishing a river, 28" |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | Cobb … perch colored on Trout Lake … Wisconsin. |
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Location: Metro , Mille Lacs, and G. Rapids | 38 1/2 on a 8inch straight believer at indy |
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Location: B;acksburg Virginia | I caught my first on a bucktail my brother makes she was 50 inches and 38 pounds. I do have a replica of her from Joe Fittante. I did catch a 491/2 incher on the same spinner last weekend. |
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Location: Madison, WI | First accidental musky was on a floating rapala in perch while bass fishing 28". After I figured out what it was from another angler I scratched my head and thought "why do I search for big bass when I could go after the biggest fish in the lake??". First musky caught intentionally was on a sucker @ 40". First on a lure was a prism shallow raider @ 30". |
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Location: Pennsylvania | 37 inch on a mepps musky killer. Gold blade yellow bucktail! |
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| Kitchi lake MN 40 incher on a bronze colored spoon. |
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Location: Schofield, Wisconsin | Chartreuse and silver blade Roland Martin Big Bass spinner! 32 " |
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| 5" Rapala 54 years ago while I was fishing for Bass 39" and it scared me looking at this fish with all those teeth . Never forget my first one . |
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Location: Fonda IA | A 30 incher caught on a casted jointed swim wizz in 1999 in West Okoboji. |
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| 37" on walleye rapala super shad rap on stonewall jackson lake in wv. |
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| I think it was 1987. My first boat, a tiny 12 ft. row boat with a 6hp Johnson. A med-hvy. spinning rod and reel with 14 lb. Trilene. Michigan still had there tiger stocking program going and a small lake near where I lived was known for putting out some big fish. The lake was actually an old mine pit about 90 acres in size but probably 200 feet deep. I was trolling an orange and black Salmon Slammer spoon and caught a 28 and 34 incher. Michigans size limit was 30 inches and I killed and ate that 34 incher. I have a couple of blurry photos of that fish. I was new to the area and later found out that it was illegal to use gas motors on that lake. |
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| First one was 1975 off the dock, casting a small Gapen bait that looked like a Beetle Spin with a black rubber skirt at the head. A beast at 25". Two years later got serious with a 31" on a 7" yellow Suick. Still have the rod, reel and bait. Ahh, the memories. |
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| She was a stout 39" on a blue and silver double cow girl, from a canoe. With the wife on our honeymoon.
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| 34 inch shoepack on a 3" curly tail. Came out of a river draining into Crescent. We slid a 12 foot aluminum over a beaver dam to get there. |
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Location: tamahawk,wi-elmwood pk,il | The Johnson silver minnow was what I got my first musky on over 40 years ago and i was fishing for muskies. The Johnson Silver Minnow with a pork frog or a twister tail is a much over looked bait. You can work this bait in just about the thickest weeds or timber you can find. I still use it when I need it today. I would have to put this bait in the top 10 for many species for the test of time. The Old School still pays off ! |
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| 40"er trolling Loon Lake in Antioch IL. In dense fog. It was Great!! |
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| 37" boatside strike on a firetiger cisco kid shallow crank. Been hooked ever since. |
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Location: Germantown, WI | My first musky was caught on a wooden Creek Chub Pikie Minnow using 12lb line and spinning gear. The lure had been passed down from my grandfather and was probably purchased in the late 1940s. It was probably 28-30" which was a legal musky in that part of Ontario at the time. It was the one and only musky I have ever kept and I vowed then that I would never keep another one barring a true trophy. Now that there are reproduction mounts, I don't see myself ever keeping one unless I have a true hawg that dies after all attempts to release are made. Sad to say, but sometimes it happens even to the best musky fishers out there, |
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Location: Naperville, IL | Gold super shad |
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| muddymusky - 3/7/2013 11:50 PM
Mepps musky killer
mine too...... a pink one |
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| 1987 up on Sweeney Lake in Oneida Cty, WI. It was our first "full year" of fishing Musky. Was with my Dad and Grandpa, and hadn't seen anything. I got frustrated and said "Im going bass fishing." I took off my Mepps Musky Killer, and put on a Foxy Jig. Remember those old commercials where the little Foxy Jig used to tease "neener, neener neener, you caaaaan't get me!"...and then the largemouth bass would come unglued and engulf it. Well, my Dad and Grandpa started making fun of me with that Foxy Jig, and you of course know what happened. A handful of casts after putting the little jig on and working the jig around some deadfall and thick weeds...and BOOM...I get a "big hit". My Dad thought I was messing with him, until he saw my rod (which was merely a heavy "bass rod" I bought with my paper route money) bent almost in half. A few minutes later we netted a 36" musky.
Catch and release was really just starting around the time, but my grandpa was obviously old school. My Dad handed me the fish, snapped a few polaroids, and then i gave the fish back to him. My Dad put the fish back in the water, and it swam off...and my grandpa goes, "what are you guys doing?" My Dad says back, "Letting it go." And my Grandpa says, "I can't believe you did that! I wanted to mount his first musky for him!" And my Dad goes, "Well, then why the h*ll didn't you say something before I let it go?" My grandpa says, "I never would have thought you'd toss it back, so I didn't think I needed to say anything."
I'm glad my Dad let it go. He was an In-Fisherman subscriber the day he bought our cabin in WI in 1984, and really started the C&R concept (via In-fisherman) for our whole family back in 1987. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Big girl on a what at the time amounted to a home made Squirm N' Jig.
Bet most of you have no idea what that is. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Probably some kind of squirrelly tail worm on a power/or pyramid head!!! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Was the first jig and worm available to us. Weird jig head, and a seriously crappy rubber like worm. Caught the heck out of the fish on my Dad's version. |
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Location: Delavan, WI | back in the mid 90's i got my first on The Eagle River chain on a water melon colored jointed thunderstick bass rod and spinning reel- i was however actually targeting musky though & got 2 that day- both in the 24"-26" size range, needless to say i was ectstatic!
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