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its damn ugly, that's what it is

nice looking musky! Very silver without too much markings (at least in the photo)

thanks for the report. Wow, that water is just like glass too. good to see short sleeve fishing in mid october!

hahaha magnificent specimens those creek chubs.

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very nice bass. So many spots to try up there it would take a lifetime

this is sounding good! I will likely have some room in my boat for 1 fellow OFC'er, plus i will probably fish the upper 2 or 3 times in November so by december I'll know all the spots where there are no fish

brrrrrr I'm cold just thinking about it. I should be there and I bet someone will catch a fish this year too!

looks like another victim of the musky bug. Now go take out a loan and head to the tackle store1

I'm surprised to hear how many say "just above idle". Although I don't have a spedometer, I like to really give 'er! I guess that puts me in the 5 -7 mph range? As the water cools I slow down, last week-end I was probably at around 4 mph I'm guessing. Not sure I ever get to "just above idle" other than december 14 on the niagara river

I also remember as a youngster reading his articles, always excited to read the ones about fishing

sounds like tough water. I haven't fished there in about 20 years, and even then we didn't stray more than a km or 2 from the resort. All I recall is some smallies and pike up to 6 pounds or so

with the cold weather at least you won't catch any of those nude sunbathers on that boys only beach out there

Here is another picture of the same fish...didn't have time to include it in initial report. Whoever was thinking this fish may have tangled with a prop may be on to something. It was pretty banged up but seems to have healed up alright, swam away strong from its latest misfortune as well!

Got out in the Port Severn area on Saturday. No luck for a long time and then the fish turned on. My partner caught a nice fat 42 inch fish trolling a black bucktail with orange blade as we trolled back and forth over a deep weed edge. We were in 20 feet of water when it hit as we were heading back towards the shallower weeds. A few hundred meters later, I caught my ugliest musky to date. Here it is, a face only a mother could love. Half his face was missing, and the body was real banged up too. We caught the ugly one trolling across a rocky point, again in approx 20 feet of water. It was caught on a footlong Storm crankbait and measured in at 44 inches. Hit so hard I actually thought I had snagged bottom. Didn't even give me the telltale head shakes. We even backed up the boat to the spot only to have the fish surface beside the boat! Rather embarrassing to me as I was complaining about being snagged. I've heard of others think the same thing, but I always figured I would be able to tell the difference!

same question, any size?

ZOINKS! What an unbelievable fish. Congratulations

real nice crappie! Having said that, I force myself not to take any other gear when targetting muskies or its too easy to switch when those dang brutes are getting you discouraged! Last weekend that tactic paid off for me...5 hours without even a sniff, then landed a 42" and a 44" a few hundred metres apart. You never know when they'll turn on! Either way, congrats on the pb crappie, now get back after those 'skis!

because its so skinny it actually looks more than 22 inches. pretty sickly

good to hear a couple of OFC'ers hooking up for a day (half day) on the water

true, but how do you know when this is

nice photos, congrats on the "photo finish lost by a nose"

i agree with lebarons'. On that amount of stuff I bet you'd save $50.

you'd think that may be the case, but 2 out of the three chances it latched onto a big soft plastic bait. Those hooks probably never even touched his mouth. I believe the fish clamped down, and even my hookset wasn't going to pull a big hunk of rubber out of his teeth. With the bulldawg, I actually set the hook about 3 times, because I had previously lost the fish on a giant white grub. When he was still there after about 10 seconds, I thought I had him...all of a sudden, here comes the bulldawg back all alone...teethmarks, but all alone.

same problem here. I tried a variety of hard body baits (topraider, sledge, burt, super shadrap) hoping to find something he couldn't as easily sink his teeth into. When nothing worked, I went back to the big soft plastics and had the same result as our first encounter...can't sink the hook in