Anyone Ever Get A Muskie Here?

[Geoff]

I rarely see anyone fishing for them so I imagine an accomplished angler with the correct gear could do pretty well.

However, there is a reason they call them the fish of 10,000 casts. Even people who fish for them will go a long time without catching one. i know a guy who fishes Pomm de Terr for 4-5 years and never caught one. Guess we'll just have to see!!

[stlfisher]

However, there is a reason they call them the fish of 10,000 casts. Even people who fish for them will go a long time without catching one. i know a guy who fishes Pomm de Terr for 4-5 years and never caught one. Guess we'll just have to see!!

Yep, the catching part sounds much better than the casting part. I think my arm would fall off after 10,000 casts with no fish! I am going to have to add that to my list of fishing adventures for this year. Would love to get one a fly rod...need to buy heavier rod for that, but I imagine that would be insane!

[Geoff]

My 8 weight is all geared up and ready to go. Even have some 30 pound steel leaders rigged for the adventure. Bought some stuff today for tieing some muskie flies, well see what sort of huge nasty thing i can come up with

[Geoff]

started tieing... http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=20991

and i got some big game mono at Cabela's today that im going to tie up as my leader from fly line to steel leader/tip

[Geoff]

So...who wants to meet me out there tomorrow morning for some tries at these bad boys?!? Im ready for them.

[patfish]

Man! Wish I would have read this yesterday. Let me know how it went.

[Geoff]

Poorly. haha. Didnt even see anything that could have been a muskie. I just dont think it was ment to happen that day. i forgot my leaders, broke my sunglasses. All i managed to do was some R&D with the flies i tied ( which look pretty sweet in the water ) and catch a bass on a frog pattern. maybe next time...maybe next time

[stlfisher]

Poorly. haha. Didnt even see anything that could have been a muskie. I just dont think it was ment to happen that day. i forgot my leaders, broke my sunglasses. All i managed to do was some R&D with the flies i tied ( which look pretty sweet in the water ) and catch a bass on a frog pattern. maybe next time...maybe next time

Glad you got out to give them a shot. Keep us posted when you get one. Only about what 9,000 more castes or so:)

[Smallie Seeker]

Guess no one ever caught one? It's only been 4 yrs lol!

About 5 years ago I was crappie fishing near the dam in the fall with minnows in the evening. My buddy hands me this gaudy clear red plastic bobber that glows and has a rattle in it since it was getting dark and hard to see the bites. Well we decide to leave 10 mins later and as I'm burning the bobber back to the boat it gets absolutely smashed by a big Muskie (THE BOBBER not the minnow!) after nearly having a heart attack I start twitching the glowing rattling bobber at the advice of my buddy and WHAM! Muskie nails it again, takes it under severing the line then spits it out and we retrieved it from the surface.

Since then I've been lucky enough to hook up with 2 muskies on accident on 35. Both were small. One on a spinnerbait and one on a crappie jig. On my first outing 2 weeks ago there were mdc study nets in several locations and I assume they were for the Muskie. Hope the harsh winter and the severe low levels didn't hurt the population. Think I'm going to give mdc a call tomorrow and see if there's any new info yet.

Might pick up a few oversized baits and try targeting them if the population is still good. All else fails I might just have to find a way to add hooks to that dern ugly rattlin' glow-bobber!

[Geoff]

Theres a bunch of talk about muskie in the crappie thread actually haha. I had a follow from a pretty solid fish a few weekends ago. I might have time to get out again next weekend and try again.