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nicely done, looks like you had a great year!

very nice, congrats!

Great work! congrats on your PB's!

look at his name, probably some spineless lurker that doesn't have the 'nads to post on his main account. hopefully the mods can pick it up and get him for multiple accounts if this is the case. Very nice fish btw, Congrats on your PB!!!

same, a guy i worked with got a slight cut up north and thought nothing of it. the next day he was in hospital battling flesh eating disease. he was/is a very large man (300ish) but lost about 80lbs and was very sick for quite a while. the doc told him to always keep iodine with him while fishing, it kills everything the best. i personally trust that a good dose of hand sanitizer will do the trick immediately upon any cut. Its a very scary thing that these serious problems can arise from such a small start, i never take this type of injury lightly anymore. AA.

wow it's soo fat, kinda nasty looking

i'm sure lots of people surf alot at work and whatnot to pass the day... when on breaks and lunch ofcourse.

Great report, thanks for sharing! congrats on your new boat!!

That is awesome!!! post the video please

wow those are all some really nice looking fish, good work!

very nice speck! congrats that is pretty cool having the 2 on 1 as well, fun stuff. thanks for sharing. AA.

i've had a bad battery do some weird things on me, might just need a new one.

wow, what a day!

"Bass fishing was a little slow. Managed to get 18 largies and a few rock bass into the boat." lol that plus a musky seems like an awesome day to me!

very nice fish! and at least the pictures show your girl very happy to be out there so i'm sure she didn't stay mad at you for too long

Happy Birthday's and nice work on the lake, some good looking fish there!

thanks all. yes rico, i was definately surprised pulling that thing out of there

congrats! gotta love the last minute fish enroute home, let alone a PB!

pretty nice for just a couple hours.

Wow, just wow.

Nice fish! good to hear you got into them in the evening.

Today i had my brother-in-law come up to help me paint my master bedroom and promised him i would take him out fishing while we let the first coat dry. After lots of prep work removing a wallpaper border (I hate anyone that uses wallpaper as it suuuuucks to get off) we finally got the primer coat on and got the canoe out around 6pm. As we turn onto the street where i park i see in my rearview mirror that my tie-down has gone a bit slack indicating one of the foam blocks has wiggled loose. No problem i think, it is only 50yards to where i stop to unload. Well don't i take the turn into the parking lot and the damn thing comes sliding off the roof of my lancer and i catch it with my left hand out the window. bro comes across to right it so i can get out and fix it enough to limp to the drop off point. What an embarassment as two young girls chilling in a car in the lot ask if we need help, "no, but thanks for the offer" i mutter as i shield my face from other onlookers surely getting a good chuckle. Great start. So we unload the green beast of a canoe and head out into Frenchmen's bay. The winds were pretty calm so we decided to take our chances and go check out a little not so offshore action in Lake O. It was a tad rough but managable and once we had the anchor out and were pointed into the waves we were pretty solid. As I tie the anchor my bro makes a comment something along the lines of "oh this will be good so long as your knots hold". I scoff at the remark as I am quite confident in my knots. Well sure enough doesn't the rope pull free at the anchor end about 20min into fishing. I have used that anchor without a retie for about 50 outings, i really can't remember what knot i had on it but apparently I suck cause it got free. There goes $30. Not a great start to the trip, not a great midsection, well it can only improve from here provided we get back in the bay without tipping... No anchor left we decide it is a little to sketchy to drift so we let out our lines and troll back in. A couple sea-do's make it alittle more hair-raising than it needed to be but whatever, we probably have shouldn't been out there in the first place. Trolling in we plod our way through the breakwater, I glance at where we unloaded straight ahead think to myself "I do not want to end this trip like this". I turn us hard right as I have heard many people catch decent pike near the marina. We just get turned and my line starts pulling like im snagged in weeds. I put the paddle down and give'er a tug just incase. Well doesn't the weeds pull back. FISH ON! He feels ok, maybe 4-5 pounds i think to myself as I try to keep the line tight while my bro pulls his line in. It was tangled a bit in mine and he tells me not to bring it in too fast so he can get his lure unwrapped from mine. No way I tell him I have to keep the tension on. He really wasn't fighting hard and I catch a glimpse of his tail. My Brother asks "is it big" just as the pike sees us and peels off a good amount of my line. "ya it's a good one" i respond. After a few more runs I get it to the boat and its a big one. Grabbing it by the tail and pulling lifting it in was quite the chore and I estimate the weight at about 15lbs! Easily my biggest fish EVER! Ofcourse i forgot my camera and my scale with measuring tape was still in my vest from spring trout fishing but got a pic on the camera phone quick before letting the beast go to fight another day. I will gladly tip the canoe off the roof of my car and lose an anchor for more fish like that any day. Trip status = Success!

Great to see all the effort paying off. Nice work!!!

i only control enroute...i'd be able to get ya direct to shave a bit time off though