support group

[mtreno]

I need a muskie support group. please help. i do not nead your "secret spot". i do not need a lake to try. i just need some poeple to talk me thru a dry spell. i have been fishing for the "big ski" all year and have yet to put one in the boat of legal size. i told myself that i cannot go hunting this year untill i get one. early goose is around the corner and crunch time is here. i am to the point that i will be pulling the boat to work every day and fishing mornings and evenings untill the job is done. if it comes down to it i will start fishing my lunch break. i have come down with a bad case of muskie elbow "tennis elbow" from the amount of casting. has anyone else ever had this happen? please help talking me thur this dry spell - do not tell me how well your season is going - that will only make things worse. help

sleeping eating drinking walking muskie freak!

[MJR]

Sounds to me like you are due and if you are able to fish morning and night every day I do not think you have much to complain about.

[mtreno]

nothing last night - try again tonight

[Muskydanno]

Mtreno , i think i can help you out with your plight. Where have you been fishing? I too had a case of the tennis elbow earlier this year but that has been remedied by recent action. If are near the metro i can give you some fairly easy results.

Shoot me an e-mail at [email protected] and i will see if i can up your odds.

[mtreno]

Muskydanno -
thanks for the info - did see a few fish out there but nothing in the boat yet. will be out this week for sure! good luck in Canada!! question to put out there - whats the deal with my elbow? hurts all the time now and after about 1 hr of casting it gets really swollen. as soon as i stop the pain gets so bad i cannot hold my fishin rod anymore - so i just fish thur it till i am done for the day. am going to the doc sometime this week but i was wondering if anyone else has these pains - any thoughts on what to do?

got a 39in & 36in pike on mille lacs this weekend - no skies - they were going crazy with the weather both friday night and the wind swept rocks saturday day. tons of chasers but no takers. they remind me of Jaws right behind my cisco kid.

[delmuts]

ya! it is called tennis elbow! figures!! del

[mtreno]

went to the doc. told me i have tennis elbow. boy are they good at telling you what you already know. anyway his first bit of advice was to hang up the poles for the year. after i explained that it does not end untill i am breaking the ice at the access he got the point. doc had me get one of those strap things that goes on your forarm. said most of the time that will help if not there is not much else to do. guess i will just have to go get that 56incher this weekend and just be done - wait that would only make me go out more. oh well - hockey coach once told me if it still works it cant hurt that bad. guess we are back to that. cast cast cast cast cast cast cast cast cast - not getting to many skies here at the office. better get to work so i can hit the lake!

[Guest]

Try a weight balancing system on your rods. They work like a weight system on a pool cue. You can add on a system or buy the rods pre-equipped with the system.

It will reduce fatigue in a big way. Rods like the Pete Maina Signature series feature at Bass Pro come equipped with it, sweet rods.

I use several Maina rods and the system helps keep me plugg'n away without arm or back pain.
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Ed "Backwater Eddy" Carlson

Backwater Guiding "ED on the RED"
701-281-2300
[email protected]

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[mtreno]

Backwater Eddy -
Great Thought! see i new someone out there may have something that could help. i would think i should be able to find something like that at one of my local stores. will have to play with them a bit but even if they only help a little bit every little bit helps keep me on the water. thanks for the great thought

[muskieman]

You have "Muskieitis" and there is no known cure to mankind. My wife tells me that people need counseling for this incurable problem. They are on my answering machine 3 times a week. Muskies are biting on Mille Lacs!

[This message has been edited by muskieman (edited 08-28-2003).]

[walleyewacker]

I am in the same jam. First time for muskies was last year on mille lacs and saw four follows in about 20min. Ever since that day I have been hooked on these dumb things. It was my summer goal to boat one and only fished for them a couple time all summer because I am pretty far from muskie waters. I have seen follow after follow and have even hooked into a couple that would eventually spit the hooks. But the last few weeks I went nuts trying to put one in the boat. I have been staying overnight in my truck and making two hour drives at 430 in th morning latley. It has yet to happen. Gotta go to college on sunday so I dont know if I will get another shot this year. Muskies are like drugs.

[walleyewacker]

I would love to take you up on that offer but I dont think it will happen. I have to move into SDSU sunday and that pretty much covers saturday with packing and stuff. Otherwise I would make that three hour trip in a heartbeat. I will be coming home most weekends all fall to work and hunt and I would like to give it one more shot. [email protected] if you get any crazy ideas in a few weeks. Thanks for the offer.

[mtreno]

walleyewacker -
they are worse then drugs. and more expensive. are you going to give it one last try this weekend? i am going to mille lacs and would say we should hook up but both of our bad luck in one boat we may end up swiming home. haha. if you are up in that area let me know and we can share some spots for the weekend. i plan on working rocks and am hoping for some wind. i will be leaving from cove bay saturday mornin (parents cabin)

[mtreno]

here we go - sunday sleeped in knowing soon as i get up its time for a day trip to mille lacs. get up, pack boat, load dog, and on the road again all by myself (all my hunting and fishin budies are up bow hunting and goose hunting). get to the lake and did not even drive to the cabin - right to the ramp. fished all afternoon hard with nothing to show untill right at sundown. got the "feeling" on a spot and thur my jackpot at it. was like slow motion - fish took a nice strike at the bait but must have missed by about two feet. all in one motion a put my rod down and grabbed my backup with my fav. bucktail and gave her a toss just past where she had shown herself. gave the bucktail a three count to get it to the right depth and started it in. bait maybe went 4 ft before wack! FISH ON! oh wait who am i yelling fish on to? not only am i fishing by myself there is no one else in the bay other than one other solo man working the rocks on the other end of the bay. fish gave a nice fight with one little jump. when i first saw here i thought she was well under 40 but once i had her on the bucktail and got a look i thought she would be close. was able to get her into the frabil(sp) net no problem by myself - hit free spool - removed hooks - pulled her out and she was just what i had been lookin for - put her on the tape and..... 41 my dry spell is over! snaped a pic of her next to the tape and put her back. one snape of her tail and she was gone. no markings at all on this fish - no spots or bars nothing. looked great!
well i said no hunting untill muskie and now..... i just want another muskie!

[EBass]

Congrats and nice story!! I look forward to your next story.

[mtreno]

ok here i go again - so last night i pulled the camera out of the boat because i wanted to get my muskie pic and also there where some good eye pics from canada. so i start to rewind the roll and go all the way to the end when it stops - open the back and all of the film comes flying out onto the ground. for some reason the film unrolled from the camera spool but did not feed into the roll(sure it was my fault its my roomates camera that i have never used). anyway so i grab the film, put it under my shirt and run into the next room(lights off) and hand feed the film back into the roll. thinking maybe something would turn out i brought the film in today, but no good news. the pic i took to make sure the camera had film leaving the dock - turned out - the next two photos (muskie pics) where nothing but black. i also lost some great walleye photos (one of which was a 29in with the biggest belly i had ever seen - well over 9lbs) anyway i backed out of my bear hunt this weekend (dont worry i will get my bear next weekend) and will be heading up muskie fishing again. think i would have made that choice anyway but with no photo prof now i must go back. wish i was out today - nice cloud cover with some rain. maybe it will stay for the weekend. can anyone say addiction?

[Fish-n-Freak]

Who says you need a picture?

That fish and the day you caught it, will stay etched in your mind forever! Nice story and a 41" is a nice fish.

Congrats! and good luck sticking your next fish, i hope it comes quick -- this time of the year, you can really get some big girls.

Steve