Personal Catch Of Lifetime - Mission Accomplishment! 50 Incher Muskie!
Title said it all. No word need to describe it. My friend and I went PA for camping. We found out that we are camping at muskie lake. So, we figure it to give a shot. I brought two savage sand eels. After re-tied on my friend's line with savage. On his first cast, boom! stuck on rocks. He gave me rod, i'm expert on unhook from rocks. so, i'm trying to go different position to unhook the rocks and somehow, i felt that i was able to pull something with me toward surface. I handed him and told him to reel everything in. I'll unhook if something was on hook. He agreed and reeling it in. Oops, log was surface! Oh CRAP! Its fricking huge muskie! Madness was breaking loose! splashing everywhere and jumping like 4 or 5 times! whole body out of water like you seen Jaws does. Unbelievable! Then we realized that we forget the net at truck. So, I told him, i'll grab it! no matter what happen next. I'll go hospital if i got bad injury. Boom! got him on kayak! Processed mouth-roped it and tow toward beach. Quickly C.P.R. then released it. I got mad because i havent got cast yet! on my first cast, Boom! Got muskie!!!!!! NO WAY!!! two first casts and two muskies! processed same C.P.R again. we gave up after that.
On next day, our mind was set to catch muskie again. we went out again, but no, nothing happen for half hour of casting. we decided to trolling our lures behind kayak. boom! we got them again! double! Holy crap! I processed to land it myself and C.P.R. then released it back. Paddle back into my friend kayak to help land that muskie. Oh man! unbelievable trip for sure!
Total 4 muskies
-50 x 25 inches - 40lbs
-50 x 24 inches - 39lbs
-50 x 24 inches - 39lbs
-48 x 22 inches - 34lbs
live4fish - haha, yeah, thought you want to see it... Maybe next year, we can take the trip....
thorn168 - no worries, they are already healed completely. but yes, I know that they can be life threatening. I havent got anything that far yet.
Hey Mark, why don't you go post to Pennsylvania fishfinder and stop wasting our time. HAH! Way to go bud.
Wow, Congratulations Mark on catching and landing four Muskies!
Seriously that is a lifetime achievement. Good call on using the Savage Real eels. I think I am going to get some of them for my tackle box now. Thanks for sharing. Finally, Go to a doctor to get that "fish infection" taken care of because "fish infections" can be life threatening.
pocketfisherman -you are right. But I still have fish infection on my hand. They will be heal completely some point this weekend.
And no trip to the hospital, so win-win for you AND the fish all around!
Dang it.. my body is still fully pumped after catch muskie.
Thanks everyone! and Yes, it was awesome trip for sure! Just glad to cross it off on my species list to catch.
Mark u r the man! I swear u could catch fish in a sandbox!
Congrats dude! That's an awesome trip!