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June 2nd, 2012, 06:44 PM
#1
My first Muskie.
I was fishing for pike and walleyes with my nephew today. Crappy rainy,windy, cool day. We were trolling a river that drains into Lake Nipissing. Passed a weed bed along the shore when I thought I snagged bottom. Told my nephew to turn the boat around and then I felt a few head shakes. Fought it for a few minutes and then gave it a quick release. Best guess estimate was about 36 inches and about 12 to 15 pounds.
First Muskie and biggest fish I ever caught. Too bad it was under length and out of season...
Learn all you can about nature. What we don't understand, we fear and what we fear, we destroy.
Teach a young person to hunt and fish, after all, someone taught you.
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June 2nd, 2012 06:44 PM
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June 2nd, 2012, 07:55 PM
#2
Hey, thanks for sharing!
That river have a name, Sturgeon, Veuve?
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June 2nd, 2012, 08:52 PM
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Learn all you can about nature. What we don't understand, we fear and what we fear, we destroy.
Teach a young person to hunt and fish, after all, someone taught you.
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June 3rd, 2012, 09:43 AM
#4
Veuve River
Originally Posted by
35wailin
Veuve.
One of my old stomping grounds!
There used to be some dandy Pickerel / Walleye in there.
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June 3rd, 2012, 10:07 AM
#5
Congrats on the PB..
A Ray
:moose: Live for the adventure, half the fun is getting there !! :fish:
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June 3rd, 2012, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by
Clamp-It
One of my old stomping grounds!
There used to be some dandy Pickerel / Walleye in there.
In the Veuve? We were hoping to catch some, but not really sure where to go. We were fishing the section near Verner. Trolling and still fishing likely looking spots, with only that muskie to show for our efforts.
Slow moving, dirty river with lots of woody snags on bottom. Doesn`t seem to be a whole lot of structure being a slow river running through clay farm country.
Learn all you can about nature. What we don't understand, we fear and what we fear, we destroy.
Teach a young person to hunt and fish, after all, someone taught you.
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June 3rd, 2012, 01:51 PM
#7
Originally Posted by
Abitibi Ray
Congrats on the PB..
A Ray
Thanks, Ray. I wish I caught it two weeks from now. Still wouldn`t be legal keeper size, but then I could have measured and took a few pics. I`m sure that would have qualified for an Ontario Angler award.
Sigh...
Learn all you can about nature. What we don't understand, we fear and what we fear, we destroy.
Teach a young person to hunt and fish, after all, someone taught you.
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June 3rd, 2012, 02:03 PM
#8
Congrats on your first 
Epper si muove. - Gallileo Gallilei
FM
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June 3rd, 2012, 02:10 PM
#9
Originally Posted by
35wailin
In the Veuve? We were hoping to catch some, but not really sure where to go. We were fishing the section near Verner. Trolling and still fishing likely looking spots, with only that muskie to show for our efforts.
Slow moving, dirty river with lots of woody snags on bottom. Doesn`t seem to be a whole lot of structure being a slow river running through clay farm country.
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Yes, there is a lot of run-off from the local farms that are causing substantial sediment and weeds, and what ever.
This was first ice fishing (about 30 years ago).
A friend of my buddy's lived on the river all his life, and eventually showed us this place, and once the word got out... well..
These were current areas with a vortex, about 15-20 ft deep, between Verner and the mouth at Cache Bay. You needed to get permission from the landowner to park your vehicle in order to walk across his field to get on the river.
Anyway, large 6-10 lb pickerel would be stacked in these holes, and made for some interesting catches.
I'll post an actual picture of my (late) best friend with an actual pickerel he caught from that very spot.
Here it is:
Last edited by Clamp-It; June 3rd, 2012 at 07:30 PM.
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June 3rd, 2012, 07:00 PM
#10
Congrats on the muskie....nothing like'em
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