01-19-2019, 03:17 AM
I'll contribute to the original request for fun live minnow experiences......and mine is here in Utah!
I took the kids fishing several years ago to Newton reservoir to do some perch jerking. The perch fishing at the dam was fast and furious for 4-8" perch and my little girls were loving it. While my oldest daughter was reeling in a 6" perch a musky exploded on it just as she was about 2 feet away from the bank with it. She screamed, but held on and I started helping her. I thought that the musky would let go of the perch for sure, but it kept hanging on, so she settled in for the long haul. To make a long story short, we ended up landing that musky because the perch was down its gullet and the line was wrapped up in its head and gills a bit ( it must have rolled a bit and tangled itself).
So....my daughter caught a 36" musky on a "live minnow" in Utah by complete accident.....and loved every terrifying moment of it. We have had this happen several times since, but never landed another that way.
Mike
P.S. I wish we could use live minnows harvested in the waters we are fishing from, but it's not that big of a deal to me. I've fished many states with live bait and can't think of too many times that it would have been a deal breaker to not have them....just easier fishing when we did have them.
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I took the kids fishing several years ago to Newton reservoir to do some perch jerking. The perch fishing at the dam was fast and furious for 4-8" perch and my little girls were loving it. While my oldest daughter was reeling in a 6" perch a musky exploded on it just as she was about 2 feet away from the bank with it. She screamed, but held on and I started helping her. I thought that the musky would let go of the perch for sure, but it kept hanging on, so she settled in for the long haul. To make a long story short, we ended up landing that musky because the perch was down its gullet and the line was wrapped up in its head and gills a bit ( it must have rolled a bit and tangled itself).
So....my daughter caught a 36" musky on a "live minnow" in Utah by complete accident.....and loved every terrifying moment of it. We have had this happen several times since, but never landed another that way.
Mike
P.S. I wish we could use live minnows harvested in the waters we are fishing from, but it's not that big of a deal to me. I've fished many states with live bait and can't think of too many times that it would have been a deal breaker to not have them....just easier fishing when we did have them.
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