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Location: Windy City | Mepps musky killer nickel/white. |
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| Fishing for panfish with my 9 year old daughter on her birthday. Hooked a low 20's musky on a jig/leech that was soaking off the back of the boat. As a kid, first reel I ever bought with my own money was a Mitchell 300. I found an old Mitchell 300 at a rummage sale last summer (along with a $2 whippy old rod) and the fish put up quite a fight on that rig. My daughter was hollering and whooping it up. It's twin was swimming along with it checking out the action.
I caught more fish on that rod/reel last summer than all my other gear combined.
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Posts: 422
| 40 incher using a firetiger super rattletrap! |
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| Blue muskie boss. 43". I hooked one within the first 30 minutes of that trip on a grandma. It went skyward after i set the hook head shaking like crazy. I thought for sure that grandma was going come unbuttoned and hit me in the face! I just ducked down and watched my bait go one way and fish the other. |
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Location: SE, WI. | 33"ER, on a #3 mepps... once I first got my drivers license, I got in my dads Chevy, grabbed my waders , my ugly stick,10lb test, and walked the east shores of Pewaukee. Think I landed one the first 3 openers, 1975,76,77....crazy stuff. |
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Posts: 394
Location: WI | 1st musky ever was on an orange 1/4 oz jig & twistertail, 22" fish
1st musky while musky fishing was on a crappie jounted shallow raider, 32" |
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Posts: 283
| 6in firetiger Jake and it was 32" |
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| 41" Winnipeg river on a grinder. Only other musky on that bait was my sister's BF`s 1st Musky. A 50 1/8 from Tonka. |
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| My brother brought me on my first muskie trip to Vilas Country. I hooked my first skie on LVD. I fought her for maybe five minutes and she came unhooked when buried in a weedbed. I was hooked! Bought a new boat the next week. My bro and I went to Eagle Lake the day I got my boat because he had heard that the lake had muskies. Twenty minutes in to the trip I hooked up and landed a 46" on a silver/black muskie killer. Back in June of 03'. My life has never been the same since! |
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Location: Marshfield, WI | First was on a walleye minnow and was 15". First on a musky bait was a black and silver Mepps. It followed another guys bait in, we all figure-eighted and it went under the boat. The other two kept casting and I kept figure-8ing. Fish came back and grabbed it. Fish was maybe 30". |
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| 1976 Vilas County, Black and Silver Smitty, 42.5 inches, laid in the case at then Bennets Sport across from Island that's still there and earned a photo in the Lakeland Times. Only one I ever killed on purpose. |
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| Mid 80s on Shingwak lake Ont. on a cisco kid low 30s |
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Location: New Jersey | Chart/gold bass size spinnerbait....... $0.99 from sports authority. She was about a 40"er. I was bass fishing with the old man and we were not prepared. One of the coolest memories i have with "Pop." |
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | I was 8 years old and caught a 29"er on a 3" black and silver floating rapala. Still have the lure with a tooth hole. First legal one 36" when i was 10 on 7" bomber long A jointed model.
Edited by allegheny river kid 3/9/2013 7:52 AM
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| my first muskie was a 38" that i got on a rizzo tail.she followed as soon as it it the water and before i could figure out what it was (panic)she exploded on it 15 feet or so away.that picture makes me laugh because of the what the hell just happened look i had on my face. |
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| 24" Tiger caught on a 3" Black/Silver Floating Rapala Minnow. Caught at age 14 while smallie fishing in a local river in 1977
Edited by Mike D 3/9/2013 8:23 AM
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| IAJustin - 3/8/2013 10:14 AM
1991, 17 years old...Day Lake, WI Bigger size Buchertail blk/nickle, still have the bait -whopper 30"  Unforgettable though..its just girls were even more important then- lol Didn't really get crazy about muskies until 1997.
My first was also at age 17 on Day Lake. Summer of '93. I was twitching a straight Rapala minnowbait (red/gold belly) by the nearest the bog edge from the campground. 34" drilled it. It really was an awesome, amazing experience and I don't think a day has gone by ever since that I haven't spent some time daydreaming about muskie fishing! |
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| My first Muskie was a 43 in. caught down by Steelton, Pa. in the Susquehanna River early morning , first light, fishing with a friend for Muskies, I made the first cast while he was getting a lure on, shortly after lure hit the water the J-13 Rapala perch color was hit. At first I thought I was stuck then the line went up river and then I knew what I had |
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | Red and white daredevil 1978 |
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| 1980 something, maybe 11 or 12 years old. 28" on a blk/silver 7" Rapala on the Chipewa Flowage. |
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Location: IL | Orange firetiger hell pup. 35.5 |
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Location: Hudson,WI | Spoon Plug |
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| June 2009 41 1/2" perch MF shad |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Like Mr. Dahlberg, I feel "old"! Got my first "legal" muskie my 3rd year muskie fishing in September of 1957. Was starting to rain; I was using a yellow globe (yellow bird) and got the fish on a figure 8. Was 33 inches and 10 pounds...ya never forget!! |
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| A 40"er on a 1/8th ounce jig and minnow fishing for walleyes.
My first one when I was actually fishing for muskies was a 36 1/2"er on a Cisco Black n Blue jointed Radtke Pikie Minnow. |
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| 39" on Teal in Hayward on Labor Day morning...blew up surface hitting a red/black bucktail...adrenaline rush hooked me |
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| A 41" night fishing on little St. Germain, black/siver depth raider. |
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Location: Grand Marais, MN | Rapala 11cm gold original floater. Caught it casting for walleyes closed to dusk over a shallow rockpile. still my favorite lure of all time for all the other action i got on it when i was a kid. My granddad gave it to me when i was six and i just recently got around to retiring it. |
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| Leech Lake, summer 1996. 38 inchers. Purple mepps giant killer with an orange blade. Fishing with my dad and a guide. You never forget the first. |
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| First muskie was 34" on Canyon Lake in Ontario, on a brown/white Tek-Neek in I think 1997. I remember it swung and missed the Tek-Neek halfway back on a cast and being so pist the fish missed it and my buddy said, "throw it back over there it might hit again." I thought, no way, but did it anyway and twitched it for maybe three feet and the fish crushed it. Ended up catching 16 muskies that week and I've been screwed ever since.
Ryan
Edited by Fishwizard 3/9/2013 11:35 PM
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