08-19-2007, 03:07 AM
Jacksonman and I went on a 3 day fishing excursion this week. We started Wednesday and finished up Friday. First, we fished at Pineview at 5:30am. We trolled around the shoreline, but not much success. We landed a few tiny perch, but one was keepable at about 10". We headed back to our starting point, trolling along the way. Jacksonman was casting a mepps spinner, when it broke off and the top half of his poll flew off and sank into the depths. He was fairly upset, but set up a new rig with a spinnerbait, and we kept trolling. We came around a point when it looked like his poll had caught bottom. I told him "dude, you're on the bottom." We cut the engine and he started reeling in, pulling the boat backwards. "I think its a fish..." he said. "No way. Bottom" I replied. Then it pulled back. Hard. It didn't put up much of a fight, sort of like pulling in a log. Having a small 8' alluminum boat helped much, as it pulled the boat and kept the tension off the line. When it reached surface, we were both shocked. It looked like a crocodile in the water. It dove down again, but we got it up and into the net. We were only a few feet off shore so we hurried in and beached. Jacksonman, in the excitment, jumped into the water with the fish, effectively soaking his wallet AND phone. The phone is ruined, but he says its worth it. We snapped a few photos and swamit back out. He took a minute or two to revive, but he swam off to bite another day.
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Here's the proof that it is still off and swimming...
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So here's the thing. We didn't have a measuring tape or a scale. We took a rough estimate using a rod and a leatherman, but it's far from accurate. Our estimate was 48" and probably 25 lbs. What does it look like to everyone else? We're rookies to the muskie world, since this is the first one either of us have ever caught. Aside from this monster, we didn't catch much else. 15 perch and 2 mudders.
We headed off for some tiger trout action at a certain lake that we were told not to disclose the location of. We were expecting fast action all evening, but we were disapointed to only catch 4 in 3 hours. Here's one of them...
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After the tiger-fest[pirate], we drove to Buckboard at Flaming Gorge to get an early start on the Kokes the next morning. Despite all the expert advice we recieved, we rented a boat and headed out at 7:00am. We would have liked to leave earlier, but hey, at least we got a boat. We used our fish finder first, which meant following the other boats to find fish. It didn't really work, as we only caught one in the first 2 hours. This particular fish decided to eat the lure from the wrong end. i'm just glad it stayed in him long enought to get to the net.
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After little success following everyone else, we decided to do what we thought of before we set out and troll along the cliffs. MUCH better. We had 3x as many bites, and caught 4 more in the next 3 hours, but missed at least 15 bites. These guys are hard to keep on. Here's the biggest of the day...
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The Koke fishing ended for us at about 1pm and we headed in to camp to take a nap. We had some loud neighbors roll in after sleeping for only an hour, so we packed up camp and drove down to Anvil. We thought we might have a chance aat some Lakers, so we launche our little 8' tin can and jigged for about 2 hours. Nothing. We came closer to shore, and the Smallies were biting like crazy! As the night came closer, the bite got hotter. We marked tons of fish on the finder, and they were all biting. Unfortunatley, we didnt take many pictures. the only one we took was of the first one, the smallest one.
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Most were around 16" and fought hard! So fun. We fished until it was too dark to see, and the fish were still biting. We pulled out at about 9:30 and drove down to Startvation. Yes, its a long way. No, we didn't sleep much that night. not to mentino that it rained on us that night. I had the comfort of sleeping in the car, Jacksonman threw his sleeping bag on the ground and got drenched. Oh well. We spent our last day trolling for Walleye, but nothing. not a bite. we were NOT going to be skunked, so we pulled in close to the launch ramp and jigged for perch. they were in thick. You could see them right under the water. We brought home 7 for eating, but caught probably 30 that afternoon. We packed up and drove back to Provo roung 1pm. Since we didn't catch any Walleye, but tried all morning, we are wondering if we were in the wrong spot. We trolled the south east shoreline, up and down. Is that a bad spot? Neither of us are familiar with the lake, so we'd like to know a bit more about it. Any help would be appreciated. Ill catch a Walleye one of these days.
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[inline "Tiger Muskie.JPG"]
Here's the proof that it is still off and swimming...
[inline "Tiger Muskie in water.JPG"]
So here's the thing. We didn't have a measuring tape or a scale. We took a rough estimate using a rod and a leatherman, but it's far from accurate. Our estimate was 48" and probably 25 lbs. What does it look like to everyone else? We're rookies to the muskie world, since this is the first one either of us have ever caught. Aside from this monster, we didn't catch much else. 15 perch and 2 mudders.
We headed off for some tiger trout action at a certain lake that we were told not to disclose the location of. We were expecting fast action all evening, but we were disapointed to only catch 4 in 3 hours. Here's one of them...
[inline "Tiger Trout.JPG"]
After the tiger-fest[pirate], we drove to Buckboard at Flaming Gorge to get an early start on the Kokes the next morning. Despite all the expert advice we recieved, we rented a boat and headed out at 7:00am. We would have liked to leave earlier, but hey, at least we got a boat. We used our fish finder first, which meant following the other boats to find fish. It didn't really work, as we only caught one in the first 2 hours. This particular fish decided to eat the lure from the wrong end. i'm just glad it stayed in him long enought to get to the net.
[inline Koke1.JPG]
After little success following everyone else, we decided to do what we thought of before we set out and troll along the cliffs. MUCH better. We had 3x as many bites, and caught 4 more in the next 3 hours, but missed at least 15 bites. These guys are hard to keep on. Here's the biggest of the day...
[inline Koke2.JPG]
The Koke fishing ended for us at about 1pm and we headed in to camp to take a nap. We had some loud neighbors roll in after sleeping for only an hour, so we packed up camp and drove down to Anvil. We thought we might have a chance aat some Lakers, so we launche our little 8' tin can and jigged for about 2 hours. Nothing. We came closer to shore, and the Smallies were biting like crazy! As the night came closer, the bite got hotter. We marked tons of fish on the finder, and they were all biting. Unfortunatley, we didnt take many pictures. the only one we took was of the first one, the smallest one.
[inline SMB2.JPG]
Most were around 16" and fought hard! So fun. We fished until it was too dark to see, and the fish were still biting. We pulled out at about 9:30 and drove down to Startvation. Yes, its a long way. No, we didn't sleep much that night. not to mentino that it rained on us that night. I had the comfort of sleeping in the car, Jacksonman threw his sleeping bag on the ground and got drenched. Oh well. We spent our last day trolling for Walleye, but nothing. not a bite. we were NOT going to be skunked, so we pulled in close to the launch ramp and jigged for perch. they were in thick. You could see them right under the water. We brought home 7 for eating, but caught probably 30 that afternoon. We packed up and drove back to Provo roung 1pm. Since we didn't catch any Walleye, but tried all morning, we are wondering if we were in the wrong spot. We trolled the south east shoreline, up and down. Is that a bad spot? Neither of us are familiar with the lake, so we'd like to know a bit more about it. Any help would be appreciated. Ill catch a Walleye one of these days.
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] Nice tiger thanks for letting me have a crack at him.
] I actually respect that you were asked not to say and you didn't. Keep up the good fishing.