First Muskie of the Year

roenman

roenman

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we have went out 3 times this year.
This is the first Muskie for me this season.
About 43". Good size girth.
One heck of a fight!
The last pic is cool, he lives to swim again.
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Nice fish! What were ya using? Casting or trolling?
And good job keeping her in the water, let 'em go and let 'em grow!
 
Sullie said:
Nice fish! What were ya using? Casting or trolling?
And good job keeping her in the water, let 'em go and let 'em grow!
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Thanks
Trolling with a modified Lee Sisson Diver
First time using this "Conservation" series net to keep them in the water. The net is huge, has a 36 x 42" opening
 
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Holy hell! Great fish Bill! Did you have a steel leader on? Man I need to get a Muskie this year...
 
Great fish, man! Congrats on the catch.

I'm a bit of an angler myself... mostly salt water, but do some freshwater when I get the chance.

Are you fishing from a boat, or shore? What kind of gear are you using?

I've never fished for muskie's, but have fished lures designed for muskie and had pretty good success on the gulf coast. I'm not quite sure why they seem to work, but my own 'pet' theory is that the fish here haven't seen those lures.

On South Padre Island in the Laguna Madre Bay, I did well a couple of weeks ago wade fishing with a weedless copper spoon and mister-twister type tail attached. It was marketed as a muskie-rig... but trout and redfish found it appealing.

Anyway, congrats on the great fish! :thumbup:



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Fun fish to catch, just don't like to get to close to them. They are a little too toothy.
 
Congrats! I want to try Musky fishing sometime within the next few years. It seems like a blast! What's the largest Musky you've ever caught? I don't really know what is considered a "big" musky.

My neighbor caught a 54" Tiger Musky at a nearby "creek" (more like a small river) that made me afraid of swimming in creeks for a while lol.
 
nice fice!

that's a big net for sure. water looks nice and clear compared to here.
 
Excellent fish!!! :thumbup:

I've only caught a couple of those and not nearly that big. Pike/Musky fishing is not that big here in CO :(, but there are those of us trying to persuade the CDOW to manage more lakes here for them instead of for Trout. We have TONS of Trout lakes, and literally only 2 or 3 lakes here where they manage the fishery for Pike. There are some lakes where the CDOW actually encourages people to kill the Pike and just toss them up on shore! :mad: Part of the problem is that CO is known primarily as a trout state, and that brings the money which is huge part of their reasoning. :rolleyes: However, Pike and Musky are excellent game fish and we have some primo habitat for them. One lake up in the mountains has grown numerous fish as big as that one of yours where they stocked them back in '08 after killing off the lake for a dam repair, and I'm sure there are some bigger ones in there.

Anyway, congrats! Sure beats my 19" Walleye from last night!
 
Spyder, that size Walleye is very tasty!
To bad these Muskie are edible, this one would have made a good dinner.
 
roenman said:
Spyder, that size Walleye is very tasty!
To bad these Muskie are edible, this one would have made a good dinner.
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They sure are!!! It was dinner tonight! :D State length limit on Walleye here is 15", but at this lake they have to be 18" or bigger, and you can only keep one over 21". I would have brought home a lot more fish if it weren't for that 18" limit. There are tons of 'eyes in there that are 17" - 17.9999"! It seems those are all I ever catch lately... :rolleyes:
 
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