Muskie Photo Gallery

[PDXFisher]

I gotta blend in with the sky, Reb, it was a robin's egg BLUE dress ;>

[Nick Kuhn]

Does he incorrectly use the measuring tape in his hand too? That could either be to your advantage or disadvantage I suppose...

[PDXFisher]

Actually, I measured, for some reason, he didn't want to let go after I handed it back...but then I probably stressed him out by yelling at him when he started to go vertical on the hold...

[Cooter]

Some pics from a LOTW trip back in '06:

[Jeffrey]

Heres a few pics of some Pike and Muskies from Northern MN in the fall of 2003. Drove from Denver,CO straight through to Walker, started fishing the next morning and it was fish on for the rest of the week.

[goblueM]

my first muskie, caught last fall in Wisconsin. Looking forward to more this year!

[cRaPpiEMaN8265]

Here are some pics from LOTW Wiley Point Resort back in June 06'

38" pike

My Uncle with a 37" Ski

Me with a 42" Ski

My dad also caught a 52" Muskie back in 05' but we cant find the pics on the computer.

We are headed back on June 20th-27th to get some more!

Ryan

[Nick Kuhn]

Not my pic, I stole it from another site. I thought it was cool. That's no salmon....

[Metroguy99]

Funny thing is, I have seen that picture in action. Right up a sewer pipe in the middle of the metro. Early spring, running right up through the flowing water.

[Grant Pearson]

looking at these pics gets my blood going and now I really can't wait for the 7th!!!

[JRedig]

Isn't the point of this thread to show stuff caught this year? Not to rain on anyone's parade......

[porterhouse]

Here is my first of the year.

Caught this chunky little girl this morning fishing for walleyes.

Caught her on 6# test line throwing a small perch shad rap.

This is why I always bring 2 nets. You never know when your going to need a bigger net!!

Brian

[Rebel9921]

Wow she got a nice color to her... doesnt look like Muskies has spawned yet... she doesnt look too beat up like Muskies would look after spawning...

[cjac]

Nice bonus while walleye fishing!

Would that be an Orchard Lake tiger? If I get that guess right I'm buying lotto tickets.

[Nick Kuhn]

chris if that were the case it would explain rebel's post nicely.

[cjac]

Shhhhh........

You're revealing my secrets to sounding smart!

Markings and the rounded fins might have been tip-off too! Out for the morning, lives in Lakeville, walleyes in Orchard....

Geez, I sound like a Profiler!

[porterhouse]

Man, you guys are pretty sharp!!!!!!!

Brian

[cjac]

Hey Brian,

Check your bumpers for a GPS tracker...... That's how I knew where you were. I'm just glad to see I've not lost my investigative skills!

Really, look at where you were, what you caught, what you were using, and you have yourself an all-season pattern. Beef up the equipment a bit as you're on good stuff with Orchard and Crystal in your backyard. I'll leave it at that.....spilled enough beans as it is.

There are, as you said, "chunky little girls" like you caught and chunky big girls too.

[Nick Kuhn]

Chris it's just part of moderating a HSOforum. Like a parent you always have to know where your children (read users/underlings) are.

That and wearing sweet graphic signatures that you made using your limited photoshop abilities.

[Fishin4Skies]

Caught this 41"er yesterday 5-28-08 on homemade bucktail on the St. Croix

[MuskieJunkie]

My friend caught and released this one on Vermilion Last week, the walleye fishing was slow so we decided to spend the afternoon casting Rapalas, this was fish number 7 of the day and the biggest at 40".

[fishcast]

nice skie there fishing4skies

and great MN pike there muskie junkie (but they do have a pike forum now for great northern pics like that)

But here is my first ever tiger muskie! real pretty guy, Vahn Titrio mentioned it was a tiger it in another post for me. Caught it while bass fishing on a floating rapala, it jumped out of the water like a dophin about 3 times too.

[fishcast]

Now for some good news, and some bad news. Starting with the good news: I got my 3rd and biggest MUSKIE monday!!!!!!

Funny thing is something like the day before I caught the skie, I posted in the catching a muskie from a canoe post, giving advice about how I would land one if it happened and it did!

I was floating a river in a canoe with another guy in the canoe with me and another canoe with a couple other friends. We started for smallies. Then got to a slower stretch, and the time before we caught pike and a small tiger pictured above in the slower stuff so we were going to try for muskie there.

The other group was ahead of me and one of them caught there first ever Muskie!!!! 30"!!! he caught it on a regular x-rap, with tiable steel and braid. We floated a little more and I was casting my 9 weight and about a 6.5" whistler style fly from The MN Fly Angler/Thorne Bros (same fly as my last one I caught) with 50lb tyable wire and 25lb mone and caught a big smallie!

Next we got to an even slower section which was shallow with a bunch of downed logs and after a long cast and a few strips of the line I felt weight and set the hook! I said "I got a fish, either a big smallie or a muskie", but then it just took off real hard!

It pulled soooooooo hard, and I was horsing on it as hard as possible to keep it out of the downed trees. (it fought a lot better than my last fish for some reason). After a few minutes of fighting it my canoe partner got me in to shore where I jumped out to land it (which was the hardest part with a 9 foot rod and no net)

Now everyone I was with was around me watching and I had just yelled to my frieds (who were also wading around me) to not let it get between your legs, when all of a sudden it took a run at me! I tried to dodge it, and did sort of, but it snapped my rod in half!!!!! then I had to pull it in with 3ft of rod and land it finally!!!!!!! (My friends were snapping lots of pics and taking video the whole time and I have a great video of the landing to post if I can figure out how)

ending with the obvious bad news: I need a new fly rod

42" !!!

[Rebel9921]

Wow excellent story there... Looks like he had a very rough spawning season... I hope to be able to have a similar experience of being in the water while releasing a Muskie... the pictures would be very PRICELESS!!!

[Rugbyguy]

Awesome pics and story! Can't wait to see the video.