Some crazy people get the notion that fishing for muskies might be fun, so they become muskellunge anglers overnight. I would imagine far more people become hooked on Esox masquinongy because one time they incidentally caught one while fishing for bass or walleyes.
For me, it was watching a large musky T-bone a smallmouth bass my son had hooked. After seeing the behemoth materialize out of the shadows and engulf the 12-inch bass, that pretty much did it. The next four days, we hunted that fish with a free-lined sucker until he finally bit. I handed over the rod, and my son claimed the fish as his own - 46 inches of lean, mean predator.
For a month after that, I fished muskies and only muskies. I saw plenty of fish and only goaded one into striking. After all, I knew it wasn't supposed to be easy.
I expanded my musky fishing knowledge when a friend took me out in his boat one day in late July. He pulled out a topwater plug, proclaiming it a "big fish lure." He tied it on and made a short cast to get the lure's cadence right. On his very next cast, I heard a sickening sound that will forever live in my memory. It was like a "whoosh" mixed with a "roar." A second later, I heard him scream, "Big fish! Big Fish! BIG FISH!" I was attending to a bird's nest in my reel, and by the time I figured out what happened, he had winched the fish halfway to the boat. I fumbled with the net far too long for his liking, but he did boat the fish, a 49-1/4-inch beauty.
True to musky fishing form, he held it for a quick photo, and then it was lowered overboard, the fish speeding up the release process with its remaining power.
Well, after that show, I was sold. I started fishing exclusively topwater lures. The sheer terror I witnessed in his eyes stuck with me. I had a few follows, and then caught a musky in the mid-30-inch class.
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