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Super vyndrup,, awesome report, What did you get him or her on and about where did that baby smack your bait @? Hope you can post a picture and I do believe you but there nice to see. And keep us posted on future hunts. Muskie Bob Sr. sure would be proud or that.

h2o<--says wtg.

I caught it on a "Believer" lure. It was a jointed perch 10" in length. I just picked up that lure for the trip (don't you love buying a new lure for a special trip and getting a nice fish on it the first time out?) I caught him near the sand bar at Fair Haven. My lure was giving me a little trouble though. It has 2 eyelets so that you can run shallow or deep. I read that they were up closer to the surface but the darn shallow eyelet kept causing the lure to lurch to the left or right. Once that happened the lure would flip over and go for the surface. No matter how I adjusted it I could not get it to work. We were in about 11 or 12 ft of water and I know that the lure was very close to the bottom. I do have a picture (35mm). Once I can get it scanned I'll post it.

vyndrup: Try tieing the believer direct and see how that goes, also sometimes that might happen if you go to fast, you can also bend the eyelet one way or the other to correct that problem putting a sinker on the line a few feet helps to, play with that and see if that helps. It's great when your new lure give's you your reward for taking it off the shelf and it gets it's chance to come alive,, . Good stuff..

Dgreif: oh i hear you, the thrill of the unknown, that's part of the reason fishing is so exciting you just don't know the end of the day and there's never been two trips the same for sure.

h2o<--says oh the memories

Before everyone rips on me.....sorry about the double post. My computer said the first one didn't go through. Now, who am I to doubt a computer ha ha.

I noted the spots as well. I fish occasionally on Lake Huron with a buddy for salmon and we sometimes catch a fish with a lamprey on it. they leave similar marks. Do they have a lamprey problem in LSC? Nothing came up with the fish. Also note that there is a similar mark in the middle of the body though not as bad. I didn't let him go because of the marks though. I would have let him go regardless. If he did have some sort of parasite, you wouldn't have known it the way he fought in the boat. He even bit my finger really good while thrashing around on the deck of the boat.

They have a Bacteria not a virus. It lowers their immune system. The spots are like a red rash. Bob

We "rookies" didn't have a scale that went over 5lbs. Would anyone have any idea how much that would have weighed (just roughly, I know that you can't know for sure.)

I would say that fish would weigh 20-22 lbs.

h2o<--i won't be off by much,, you can say it's a 20+ lber.