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My First Musky
« on: August 01, 2008, 04:01:26 PM »
Caught my first Musky out at Mayfield Lake last month.  It was my first time out, I'll post some pics later tonight, but man what a fun fish to catch!
« Last Edit: August 06, 2008, 05:37:23 AM by SilkWWU »

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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2008, 01:35:16 PM »
Want to see the pics, I fish for them all the time in Curlew Lake. The only one I've ever caught was in Spring Valley Reservoir outside of Moscow ID. I was trout fishing. Kind of a surprise.  :fishin:
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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2008, 01:08:10 PM »
Ya, wheres that pic! I have never caught a Musky...they look awesome though! Prehistoric kinda.

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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2008, 05:37:48 AM »
Sorry it took so long!

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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2008, 07:50:25 AM »
Nice, used to catch them alot back east in PA. years ago, fun as heck.............

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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2008, 08:19:46 AM »
Ya I think it got caught in a motor or possibly fighting?  Do the Musky's fight with each other quite a bit?

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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2008, 08:49:11 AM »
Sweet, catch and release?

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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2008, 10:28:23 AM »
Ya, he actually wasn't even legal size! :o  But, unless he was a monster and I wanted to mount him, I would have put them back anyways.  Because I wouldn't eat them.  I eat trout, but not the nasty lil Musky!  :)

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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2008, 10:48:56 AM »
very nice
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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2008, 06:42:31 PM »
Way to go man :IBCOOL:

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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2008, 10:00:39 PM »
Hey silk, way to go man. I've been thinking about going over there to Mayfield for a couple years now, but just never have. I used to catch Northern Pike all the time in SD, yes they are exciting to catch. Is it me or is the nose of that a little goofy?
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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2008, 10:11:55 PM »
I caught this in Washington...:)

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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2008, 10:17:23 PM »
what happened to his upper jaw? that fish has been run through the ringer....like a beat up old bear.

nice fish...looks  like a lot of fun.
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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2008, 10:34:13 PM »
what happened to his upper jaw? that fish has been run through the ringer....like a beat up old bear.

nice fish...looks  like a lot of fun.

That's what I thought too. Looks like it's missing about 2-3 inches of face, or maybe it got hit by something and it gave 'em that "roman nose"
Poor fish when he got hooked it was probably thinking "Well Son of a Bitch! what' it gonna be this time, every time I try to get a bite to eat I end up getting the *censored* beat out of me" :chuckle:
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Re: My First Musky
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2008, 10:35:48 PM »
Hell I'd still like to catch some of them. I wouldn't care if it had a hair lip and a short fin :chuckle:
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