old man

The guys here at LOU, members of Muskies Inc and our friends of the Niagara Musky Association all support the practice of catch release and that can't be stressed enough. Remember that muskies are "long-life" fish (i.e., a 45-inch Tiger and/or 50+" pure) can be 10-15 (tigers) years old and 20-25 (pures) years old. An adult salmon is replaceable in only 2-years, not so for these ESOX species. Kill a trophy pure and that fish won't be replaced for 20-25 years down the road.... to this day, my grandmother can not understand why I release every fish I catch as this was an unheard of practice back in her day. Angler education is why musky fishing is as good today as it has ever been. "Table fare" fish are easily replaceable (2-years or less) and grown on fish farms..... not over the course of 20-25 years. Efforts like educational signage proposed by Justin above are awesome and go a long way in helping sustain trophy fisheries.

Anyways, I digress from the original topic point but thought it important enough to bare repeating and hope that all members here support practices that help preserve the fishery for our future generations.

nicely stated.

Way to go! Congrats!

Do you need the LOU App to load pic to here?

oh yeah,probably. It's a good free ap that lets you read about fishing when you should be working

On this i phone you tap the icon below to the right of the camera icon. Takes you to your photos and you select them there. If you're after pike try right off the clayton yacht club. The drop off at the channel marker is a good spot.

I read that 9 fish were caught by 35 anglers. None of them were caught by me. Water was 62 in the morning and 65 by 5pm. Still pretty green for october. I raised three fish by 11am. One was about 200 yards north of the tower in 6fow. Next one i saw was in 6fow in irwins bay. Third one was next to a moored sailboat off point chataqua in 7fow. I caught a consolation bass there. All three fish came up to check out a black and white maribou double ten that i made. Not quite good enough to eat. After 11 i cast for 5 more hours and saw nothing.

Waneta is a good lake to catch your first. At less than 800 acres no matter what you cast or troll some fish will see it. If you're there when they're hungry you'll get one. Just stay at it.

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Wow,that's a great fish! Nice looking baby too. 4 of my 5 kids have caught musky. Next year i may see my first grand child get one.

nice northern! Don't feel bad,the larry is the hardest place on earth to catch a muskie for the average guy. I guess in my life i've caught less than one a week there.

Never thought to keep them for awhile. What do you feed them?

I have never tried but i guess their musky half may get hungry at night. I fished there yesterday from 8 to 1. Pretty slow,i caught a small one next to a for sale by owner sign on a cliff. That was the only one i saw. Not a cloud in the sky or a lick of wind.

Try spoons,redeye,johnson,docktors. All nickle. Good luck.

That's a nice fish!

I saw the first pic. Hey! that's my spot! Haha. I mean I like it there too.

I was going to get a boga to help me control the fish from hurting themselves flopping around. I got the rubber net (big improvement) and it seems that with all that teeth a boga would help calm them down some. I didn't think about it possibly hurting the fish. I thought it would come in useful with the 18-20 inch chains. They are small enough that it is hard to subdue them and big enough to get you with gill plates (or the business end). I got a few nicks this year. Not a fan.

that one was under the dock with the diving board on it

I didn't mean to trash bogas, just getting the word out that like any tool they can be used wrong. There is a facebook page called "european pike protection alliance". They are on a mission to ban bogas in europe. They post pictures of damaged pike and trash bogas. And they post pictures of bad holds and trash the holder. I get it because i like seeing the pike photos. "Lucky lures" in holland is another facebook page you may enjoy. Great photos. They catch some gnarly northerns over there!

Water temp mid 60's. pike were hungry early and then it slowed as the day went bluebird.we boated 6 pike and 2 bass. Nothing great. All caught on spoons,been a good bait so far this fall. Caught 2 near the launch,2 near kosaka's place and 2 at the south end. this pike has a broken jaw from a boga. If you use one of these remember to get a hand under the fish's belly before lifting it. No way this pike's lower jaw works as it should. Didn't see any tigers again.

Nice

Dunno if I could have that much self control. Plus I have a gift card for there. Have not used it yet because Bass Pro is such a long hall. Nice color on the tiger. At least it brought some excitement.

i always get a bass gift card for christmas and my birthday. Usually 25 or 50 bucks. I regift them because i can't go in there and not burn a weeks pay.

Slow today. Water was 65. Kevin lost a nice one about 40 when it blew up on the surface at the boat. Later he boated this dink.i got nothin,not even a follow. I have driven by bass pro 4 times in 8 days and not gone in. That's self control.

guy with the phone is my son and musky hunter kevin at bills game. Got picked to give wall of fame jacket at halftime to bill polian. Go bills!

Until it was right on me. If i had the net in my hand i could have scooped it. A cool experience. I hit send by mistake because my thumb is really infected and swelled up.

a sequence of shots... In the first shot it's 50 yards out. After the last pic i switched to video but can't post it. It didn't pull the plug and dive until

Fished from 8 til 1 today. Water was 71 when i got there and a bit warmer when i left. Had 5 lookers before 10am,2 of which nipped at the bait. Dead after that. I'd have left if they would have stopped taunting me.that's a muskie coming right at me. Saw this 4 times today. At 1pm i ran into a dumb one. not big but pretty. This one was in 6fow off the point near the marina. I was feeling good about the barbless hook falling off in the net again and then ouch!poor thing had a hook in it's mouth.that's the only bait that worked today. Other side is nickle. Back is sprayed gold with black bars painted on.nice and easy on 5and20 has booze free gas now.

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