Sid & Tony

Saturday, August 23

We arrived in camp before noon, got checked in, ate lunch, got our gear together and headed out by 1pm. Several spunky, jumping pike in the 20-25 inch range attacked our lures throughout the afternoon.

Fortunately, we decided to head in for dinner just ahead of a torrential downpour that soaked the landscape.

After dinner, we hit the area where I had previously caught my largest musky and found her sister in about 8 ft of water. She nailed a Bass Pro Shops jointed Laser Eye crankbait and stayed down, providing some vicious headshakes.

The camera’s flash was somehow disabled, so the pictures came out a little dark and had to be lightened using PhotoShop, but you can make out the 42” gal’s girth.The fish was still hot when landed and was easily released to battle another day.

Sunday, August 24

Sid and I made our morning milk run, from Lunge Lodge Rock back and somewhere in between I hooked into a 25inch ‘hybrid’ that put up a great fight. It hit the same lure I used the night before.

After breakfast we headed up the main channel to a reef that’s known to hold muskies. Four casts into it, this 44 inch beast inhaled a black Hi Fin bucktail, making two violent surface headshakes along the way. Like the day before’s fish, this one was netted quickly and swam away after her photo shoot.