Andy and I went fishing yesterday on Spider Lake. The last time I fished that lake was with Carren too many years ago. Andy and I read the maps and info...good smallmouth bass lake, designated musky lake...yadda yadda. Andy is a manic bass catcher and had never caught a smallie and this looked like the nearest...closest best bet to catch one. First three hours we caught over 30 northerns and largemouth bass and having a ton of fun catch and releasing although all were small and not what Andy really wanted to catch. I finally decided to catch and keep some nice sunfish that were hovering around boat for Grandpa Walsh in Rosemount. Andy had finally caught what he wanted...a nice 2 1/2 lb. smallmouth bass and so did I only a much smaller one. For some odd reason, he decided to throw a large antique McHarg bucktail spinner I had in tackle box for awhile. I was busy with this huge school of sunnies. Andy then screamed...and I mean SCREAMED!!! "MA! Look!!!"
Andy had the biggest darn freshwater fish following his lure I've ever seen!!! It was a Musky! The fish of 10,000 casts. Andy only cast this large lure 3 times. This fish followed lure right up to boat for us to get a great look at it and then casually swam away. It was twice the size of Mikey's 17 lb. northern on our wall I'm positive!
When we both calmed down, I had to get into the act and rigged up a contraption of two lures in one to make it large enough for this fish. This musky surfaced and rolled top water 3 more times within casting distance and followed Andy's lure once again. We fished hard for this beast for way over an hour.
It started to rain and then lightning strikes were near so we had to get off lake. On drive home both of us thought about that fish. If one of us had caught that thing there was no way we would have gotten it in the boat and I did have a fairly large net along. I had one other shaken in the boat with Carren and learned my lesson about nets! I guess I didn't... :/
Here's a few funfish we caught that are now probably food for that Musky!
6 comments:
Ben said it was probably 35-45 lbs!! I will get him next saturday
It looks like Andy is giving up on Bass for Muskies. That would be fun for you and Jamie when we are up there next month.
A good day of fishing it looks to me. I do remember our trip on spider lake.
Roads are MUCH better now Carren to get to that lake!
lets see, muskie line, got it,,, muskie leader,,, got it,,, new musky bait, got it,,, bidding on a st croix muskie rod, bought another pflueger bait caster, new polarized glasses, Im almost ready to catch him.. all i need is for you to get a bigger net!!!
Andy,
Well...I did buy 4 new ridiculously large lures today...You can make a cradle net out of that minnow seine of yours and Mikey's. A $100 musky net not in my slush fund.
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