Thrill of the Week

[Hans]

Last week, fishing on Lake Vermilion, I was pulling up a walleye of a hump. Just as it was at the boat and my partner was trying to net it, the walleye was attacked by a muskie! Peeled line of my reel for fully 15-20 seconds at a *smoking* rate before it dropped the walleye. When we landed the 19" walleye, it's belly was opened and there were massive teeth marks in the dorsal area.

My partner almost soiled his underware when that muskie appeared!

Hans

[EyeBoy]

Hans;
Fresh water Jaws? Just when one thought it was safe to go fishing again........
ON-PLANE!!!TOM

[tim(wi)]

That is why guys like me and millions of others love MUSKY fishing. When they hit they hit hard. The musky I got last monday hit my lure at the dock and scared the bejesus out of me. I was shaking for five miniutes after we landed him, and let him go. I would loved to have seen your friends face.

[RMB]

Hans, Last summer I took a buddy out to one of my favorite walleye holes in Big Bay and we were getting into them pretty good. 1-2 lbers every few minutes on power grubs in about 12 ft. of water. I'm just running the front trolling motor and staring at my rod tip while I'm jigging and suddenly out of nowhere there's a behemoth of a Muskie right below my rod tip and just staring at it! Without question a 50+ fish. My heart leaped into my throat! I finally managed to get my friends attention and he saw it just as it swam away. Not a minute later we both had 16"ers on at the same time and as we brought them boat side, we just looked at each other and let them back down again to swim around for a minute or so. Nothing happened but we had a good laugh. When I got home I'm telling my neighbor this story and he was out guiding that day as well. He tells me that he had just dropped his marker as he drives over his spot, turns the boat around, and one of his customers is in histerics because there's a huge Muskie a foot from his spinning marker eyeing it up for lunch. Marker stops spinning and he swims off. All I know is that I'm gonna get me some of that action this year. I wonder when the peak time on Vermilion is for Muskies?

[DeeZee]

We were up on Vermilion last August and had some excellent muskie action. My wife and I were fishing smallies on tops of the reefs and we saw and came in contact with 12 muskies throughout out short 3 day stay. Boated two that were 45", and 47". All came throwing small top waters for smallies.
Needless to say that our smallies were tough to find in these areas, wonder why?

Good Luck

[Grey Wolf]

5 years ago when my son was 11 we were fishing Walleyes in Canada. All of a sudden my son is winding in a fish, and something just starts peeling drag. He is pulling on this thing with all his might. Hot got the fish up and we seen what it was. Finally on the third time he got the fish up, my son is pulling so hard he pulls the 13" Walleye out of the Northerns mouth as I am right behind it with the net. I scooped it up, and it was a 10 LB Northern. I have pictures, and everytime I think of that I chuckle. I probably damaged my kid for life when I told him that he had hold the fish while I took a picture. He was pretty excited.

[Phil T.]

That would have most of us buying St. Croix rods and Calcutta 400 reels and moving to the Musky page.