I'm Now A Member Of The 40" Club

[bigbuck]

Well, Friday morning I was able to get out for a day of fishing with my old bud Tony. We hit the road from Markham shortly after 7:00 and were on the water over by Bobcaygeon about 9:30 or so after a couple of pit stops. We hit quite a few spots and after about 2 hours or so of casting my 'squirrel' (big black bucktail) I felt a mighty tug on the line. I set the hook and the battle begun, it took about 3-4 minutes to get this girl tired enough to cradle and perform a bit of hook removal surgery. She measured in at 41 inches and was fairly hefty, no marks and real pretty.

A real healthy Kawartha's muskie. We spent the rest of the day hitting a bunch of different spots to no avail, not even a raised fish but I'm not complaining, 41 is my new PB. Now I need a 45+ incher.

The bugger was some guy crossed behind us and spooled my 7000 Abu of brand new 80lb PP, a 2ft fluorocarbon leader and a brand spanking new ShallowRaider that I was trolling about 50 feet behind us. We tried yelling but he was oblivious, I was out about 40 bucks or so, he'll be out a bottom end if all that PP wrapped around his prop. So for the rest of the day, the joke was that we should troll our VISA cards.

A pit stop at Pigeon Hollow Trailer Park to see another buddy of mine and have a quick beer (a cold pop for my DD Tony) and we were off again. We called it quits about 8:00 and hit the road. It was a beautiful day with temps in the high 20's with a nice breeze and no humidity.

We had a great time and I hope to get out again sometime soon.

And a pic of the release:

[JFR]

Congrats on your PB. great report, thanks for sharing your outing.

 

John

[Weeds]

Nice Fish and nice report. Sounds like a great day despite the knucklehead.

[Matt15]

congrats on your Pb.

[tbayboy]

Congrats. That grin on your face says it all.

[Rich Clemens]

Congrats on your PB. Hope you achieve your goal of a 45"+ soon. Be sure to let us know when it happens.

[Roy]

Great looking fish there, Bigbuck. Congrats on your new PB.

[Guest Johnny Bass]

Nice! Its always a thrill catching a new PB!

[SlowPoke]

Nice fish, congrats!

[Handlebarz]

BB nice lookin fish and always nice to hit anotehr PB mark

[solopaddler]

Hey congrat's, nice fish!

[mattyk]

very nice, thanks for sharing.

[Guest Trophymuskie]

WTG on your new personal best, those Kawarthas fish over 40 fight real good too.

 

Now I hope that idiot loses a lower unit, it might make him realize that he's not the only one the water. How can people be so dumb as to not see that you are trolling? I did have an idiot drive over my line once when we were casting ( well actually I was on the phone but my clients were casting and all 3 of us were standing facing that side of the boat ), the idiot didn't even want to stop.

 

We even have fishermen cut between us and the structures we are fishing all the time, I hope a 10 inch bait landing withing feet of them will have them realize of their wrong doing. I guess us muskie fisherman are fishing to big of spots and cast to far for them to realize they are in our fishing spot. But then again why come between us and the land some 100 feet away instead of the 5,000 acres behind us?

 

Maybe muskie fishermen should carry a big sign marked " Stay at least 100 feet away and do nut cut between us and land " LOL

[dustink]

Great looking fish!! Congrats on the PB!

 

dk

[kennyman]

Beauty fish. Looks like you had a blast. Have you got the grin off your face yet? It'd still be on mine. Thanks for sharing what gear you used as well. Congratulations bigbuck.

[fatherof3]

great report and congrats on the pb

[Smokey]

Congrats and hope you get many more and even bigger ones.

[Rich]

Nice fish! Now you and me are in the same boat looking to join the 50" club!

[Carp]

Congrats on the new pb.

[Dano]

Hey man, well done, congrats on your personal best!

[bigbuck]

Thanks for all the well wishes guys. I'm hoping to put together a fall trip down to St. Clair to go for the 45+incher.

[lew]

Congrats on the new PB, it's always good when another milestone is reached

 

 

Guess you weren't sleeping thru all the Odyssee seminars afterall eh ??

[1leggedangler]

Awesome Ski Bigbuck! Congrats with the PB. Sorry to hear about your trolling accident, could be an expensive lesson for the boater not being courteous of others on the water.

 

Cheers,

1leg

[bigbuck]

Lew, you're kidding right?? Oh no, I was a good little boy and I listened to all the speakers and picked the brains of a lot of the exhibitors as well. The Odessey was great and I look forward to it next year. Now if I can only get out a bit more often.

[addict]

congrats on pb