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I'm gonna get to work on my peanut butter corn doughball recipe. Maybe I'll mince up some anchochovies too

So I'm working with an older gentleman (Physical therapist) and we got to talking fishing. It's always great when patients have a passion for fishing - talking fishing sure makes the workday fly by. He's 89 years old and was more of a pan fisherman "because that's what we ate, I didn't have time for sport fishing" but he did share with me the story of the first musky he ever saw. He was a young boy, he believes around 8 y.o. He was with his dad in a row boat in a bay off of the St. Lawrence. "I remember seeing it in the water and as soon as my dad got it in the boat I was out !". I thought he was kidding and asked if he jumped out of the boat. He was not. "As soon as that fish came out of the water and into the boat I jumped out". I had to ask if he considered there may be more in the water. "I didn't care, that I was right in front of me and that's all I cared about" I was dieing laughing, but the next parts were just as good. I asked "what did your dad say?" His dad's response, "I didn't think I raised a pu$$&". When his grandfather found out "he started calling me juney. He would say juuuneyyy, junneyyyy" "Well I had to fight my cousin because he thought it would be funny to start calling me juney too" "I believe that fish would measure close to 48 inches". I asked how they got it in? His dad used the net and grabbed the fish with his hands. I can hardly imagine landing a fish that large with tackle from 80 years ago. He said they had strong line, 20-30# test. I asked what they were fishing for ? Catfish ! What did you catch it on ?!?! Corn and a doughball I might start dragging a hook with corn and a doughball from now on when I'm casting shore

. I'll post results next week if they're any good. Thanks again for the input !! Tight lines !

Thanks for all the input guys. We will be starting out with Cassadaga. Depending how it goes we may take an early morning crack at Chautauqua on Sunday as recommended by Nalod. It would be a bit of a shame to be in the area and not get out there. Now that we have that narrowed down and it seems most of you guys will likely by at Chautauqua, would anyone care to divulge any specifics for Cassadaga ? Would you spend the most time on Upper, middle, lower ? Any good landmarks to try out or techniques you would recommend ? Totally cool if nobody wants to share that info on a public forum, figured it wouldn't hurt to ask .

Thanks for the input, it is greatly appreciated !! Any experience or opinions on Cassadaga or Bear and how they stack up against Chautauqua ?

Hi all, I'll be heading to Jamestown this weekend to fish with my cousin. We're both relatively new to chasing muskies and I was looking for your input/experience. He lives very near Chautauqua but Cassadaga and Bear are quite close as well. We have Saturday and Sunday to fish. We'll be using his 12' boat. We've each only boated 1 musky so we need not to catch a 50" to be happy(although that would be great). Catching multiple 30"-40" esox would be plenty fun. Given memorial weekend boat traffic, your experience / knowledge of any of these waters, how would you spend your time as a novice this weekend ? Prefer casting to trolling. Any and all input appreciated ! Thanks and tight lines !!