It was fun, but it had the potential to be so much better

[WRD]

The past Saturday night and Sunday morning was full of action for me.

Saturday night

I saw the first musky right at sunset, I saw it initially but with the low light I thought it swam away until I moved deeper with my figure 8 and hit her with the rod. Bummer!!! Fifteen minutes later fish on and in the net. A healthy 38 incher. The next one was 1 1/2 hours after sunset and couldn’t really see anything in the water but something just seemed different when I brought my cowgirl in for the figure 8 so I did about 3 or 4 figure 8's just in case and my rod stopped on a dime for a split second. I never hit one before with the rod and that night I hit two.

Sunday morning

Got out shortly after 6 am and within 10 minutes had a mid 30's follow the figure 8 at least 6 times. Didn't matter if I went fast, slow, deep or shallow just couldn't get her to go. After about 40 minutes of casting on the fourth day wishing I remember to take some meds for the aching back we went trolling for 1/2 hr and had one just crush my lure but didn't get hooked up. That's when we stopped to cast a small area burning a smaller bucktail that was easier to reel in and a musky that made the 38 look small was on until she decided to go airborne and threw by bucktail. Five minutes after that had one hit but couldn't get a hookup. My biggest so far is 47 ½ and I am fairly sure that could have been challenged if I could have gotten her in the net.

If luck would have been the other way I could have boated 4 or 5 in a 24 hr period. But that's musky fishing.

[Fishing_High]

We call that a "presence feeling" when having that different feeling reeling your bait to the boat a muskie will usually present itself out of no where.

[Musky Buck]

It is a bit crazy depending on where you are in terms of the musky fishing equation, there are 3-4 hour windows each summer where I expect to boat 4-5 fish, and did, it's that sixth sense, it's putting almost all the odds in your favor, it's time on the water but not every water operates the same, good luck fishing.