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Location: Menomonee Falls, WI | 128 fish in the boat so far this year...biggest fish is a 47 1/2. Hopefully have 2-3 weeks left before the water gets hard. |
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Location: WI | 23 fish in the boat in 293 hrs. Fishing this year was SLOW and challenging. Maybe the highest number of sub 30" fish in the boat since my first season. 46.25" was the biggest, followed by a nice 43" tournament fish. Hoping for an early spring next year and more time on new waters. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | had about 27 follows. and hooked into 18 fish. LOST EVERY SINGLE ONE!!! Brutal year, just flat out brutal. Now I have to wait 6 months to try again. Ohhh dear, gunna be a long off season. Guess I am going to have to ice fish even more this year than last. Gotta make it up somewhere... I spose its good I spent a ton at thorne the other day on stuff to make in the off season. (Saturday mornings go as such. Wake up, make coffee, watch musky hunter, make bait... repeat
Edited by FAT-SKI 11/26/2013 2:32 PM
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| 14 caught
~ 15 to 20 missed hits or hooked-then-lost
~ 60 to 100 other follows
~ 100 to 150 hours of fishing
Just over 40" average size, 47.5" was the biggest.
Low point was 4 weeks (~ 5 outings) straight without a fish, high point was a 4-fish day that broke my losing streak, followed by 4 nice ones in the next 5 outings.
June and July sucked way worse than usual.
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| 46 for me ( 57 boat - I fish alone a lot), (7) 47"+ , My largest this year was 49" ,partner got a 50". First year in the last 5 I didn't stick a 50" |
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| This year was tougher than usual, I thought. I got 37 muskies on the season, I think about 48-50 or so in my boat (I fished alone a lot, too this year). Seems like I'm fishing less and less with each passing season--which isn't the trend I'd like to be on! Although that's only slightly below par for typical numbers, still, it was frustrating for much of the time as a number of patterns that have been historically tried-and-true never really materialized. I had more head-scratching this season than I can remember. Also had a higher-than-normal amount of nippers and short-strikers. Fish were definitely more difficult to trigger at boatside as well. Bigger fish were harder to come by...(it was the first time since 2005 that our LOTW trip9s) didn't result in a 50"+ in the net)....49" was the biggest in my boat this year.
Overall, I'm not complaining...it wasn't a terrible year...just certainly not a great year either. |
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| As far as numbers, I only caught one this year (I was only able to get out twice for the whole year. I know, dismal), but that one fish smashed my personal best. It measured 53.5 inches long (I still have a smile on my face). So even though I wasn't able to get out hardly at all, I would classify this year a huge success (did I mention that I still have a smile on my face?)
Edited by Lucky Craft Man 11/26/2013 10:23 PM
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| We fished 6 days during 2 trips this fall and boated 8 fish: 32", 32" tiger, 34", 40", 41", 42", 44", and 45". After forgetting some fish from previous years, we created a spreadsheet which includes data gathered from pics and videos of every fall trip since 2001.
We just posted the montage to YouTube. Hope it helps you all get through the winter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufqj9EJZJRA
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Location: Hopefully on the water | Put 4 in the net for myself ranging from 30-48.5" this year with the 48.5" being my personal best. 4 others in the net in the boat which were all peoples firsts which was the highlight of the season. Lost a few low to mid 40" fish, Saw the biggest fish I have ever seen miss my bait. As far as follows we saw a lot this year for the time we had on the water. The boat saw roughly 45-50 follows and we had about 15 outting (days) on the water. With the boys and some newbies we fished a lot of action waters that holds some big fish yet and wasn't uncommon to see 4-8 fish per outting. Not complaining about the season at all. Looking forward to next season already. Tourney fishing was tough this year as we had fishing going and lost a couple of nice fish but still had a great time. |
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| I put 23 in the boat this year with the largest being 48 inches. I also lost more fish this year than ever. 6 over 50 inches I think without measuring. #*^@ bull dawgs! It's a love/hate relationship. Tough year, particularly in Minnesota.
Edited by muskymagnet 11/27/2013 8:01 AM
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| I've netted 26 fish 30"+ year to date with hopefully a month to go if the weather permits. My best year by 7 fish already. No monsters but a few 40", 42" and a 43"r being the largest. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Called it a season today. 133 fish in my boat in 2013 put in roughly 875 hours. 7 over 50. The biggest, and of course highlight for the year, was a 55 x 25.5 that my son caught the day before his 12th birthday.
Edited by Will Schultz 12/4/2013 10:07 AM
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