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I don't want to know how many casts it took me before I caught my first musky, but I must have been way more than 10,000 lol. That's what I get for fishing low numbers lakes like Baptiste and Elephant when starting out. Bowling would have been way easier lol.

Can't wait! Going to the Trent River on the weekend, then I have the next week off and I'm hoping to go every day that week, maybe bounce between Moira Lake/River and Stoco. Anybody around Belleville wanna try for some musky? lol

Cute video, can't wait until my nephews are big enough to take fishing. The kid's a pro in the boat, you're gonna have quite the fisherman on your hands.

That's awesome, thanks for posting! Glad to see you kept the walleye too lol.

Nice haul, nothing wrong with that. I hear ya about not being able to sleep, happens to me all the time. Next weekend I'm in a "tourny" (just 20-30 guys pooling money together for whoever catches the biggest fish) and I know I won't sleep well the night before, and that's not even a real tournament lol.

Ughhh, can't even say how much seeing old tires/appliances/garbage bags thrown down forest access roads ****** me off!

Great report, looks beautiful there and great fishing! Would love to fish there eventually.

Thanks for all of the tips guys! Man I'm getting so pumped. I'm going to try to use different baits this year (sledges, topwaters, jerkbaits) more often than last year. Too bad you can't work 2 baits at once lol.

That is insane! I've caught 9 muskies total haha. Thanks for all the tips guys. Are bucktails a good spring bait, or should I wait until summer to really break them out? I love throwing bucktails, especially when working shallow water/weeds, but I don't want to overdo it if they're not as effective early on.

Hey everybody, I got into musky fishing last summer, but missed the early part of the season. I've heard smaller baits are traditionally used more often in the spring, is there anything else I should pay specific attention to? Who's getting excited for opener? I've taken extra time off work just to try to track down some musky, starting with a weekend on the Trent. I can hardly wait!

I've definetely been guilty of that a few times.

Thanks, I'll give it a try. I'll have to search around for some 8" leaders. I have a love-hate relationship with jerkbaits. I love the action they produce, but hate how often the fish miss them. Plus once I get it back to boatside, I'm never sure what to do in the figure 8. Should I keep twitching it, or just do a figure 8 pattern like a bucktail?

That's a lot harder on gas though, it would eat into your profits if you had to use it for a while.

Yeah I haven't seen 48" leaders anywhere. I buy my leaders from protackle, 150# flourocarbon (3' trolling, 1' casting) and 180# steel leaders for jerkbaits. I've had a musky hit just my flourocarbon leader and it didn't break, though it was frayed in a few spots.

Leaders look great! I should start making my own, save some money. I'm not sure I trust my skills though lol. Can't wait for June! Got all of the gear I wanted, gonna finish sharpening some hooks.

I'd just buy the new one if it's in your budget. At least you'll have a warrenty if anything happens, plus it's not like your buying something you won't get good use out of.

Isn't yours a Honda 40hp tiller? Uh oh....lol

I've been wondering the same, I wanna pick one up for fall trolling on Quinte.

Whenever I wanna make it seem like I'm watching in HD, I wipe the dust off the screen.

Yeah, I was thinking about that. But if I use mice for pike/bass, where do I draw the line? I have a pet ferret and I like to musky fish. If nothing else is working.....of course that would be one very expensive bait, even for musky fishing! I'm joking by the way. I would never use my pet as live bait lol.

I saw lots of carp swimming around while fishing mon and yesterday, very spooky fish, would like to give them a try eventually for the fight. I was throwing a husky jerk for pike, and I caught a few pike (and a tiny tiger musky), a walleye, and quite a few bass, both LM and SM. I caught more bass than pike because, well, there's more of them. Does that mean I can't be throwing baits shallow among rocks/weeds because I could very likely catch a bass too? Before monday I caught all of my pike on a musky rod. I fished zone 17 for pike earlier this year while bass, musky and walleye were closed, so I used small musky baits that have done well for me in the past for pike, not wanting to catch walleye or bass plus I have confidence in catching pike on musky gear. I had 2 pike follow but caught a musky instead, so I stopped using musky gear until June, especially since the lake I just fished in has a large population of musky. But now using smaller "bass" lures, I caught many bass and even a tiger musky, in the same areas I caught pike and walleye. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess.

My aunt's cat had kittens about 15-20 years ago and she was giving them away, some guy came to her house wanting all of them for musky bait. Knowing my aunt, he probably left with sore ears lol.

I've used frogs occasionally as a kid but mice might be crossing a line.... I don't think I'd use frogs ever again, either.

Nice going Paul, those are some beauty pike!

Sure looks like fun if you can get a pattern down. You'd need a pretty heavy duty rod though lol.