When Musky Fishing Goes Wrong: Losing the Big One in Appalachia

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  • DJ's avatar

    I’ve never caught one.

  • Mike's avatar

    Sooooo close…

  • Appalachian's avatar

    @Mike I elected to leave the 7 foot dog catcher net in the truck since I was bushwhacking a mile through mountain laurel to get to the hole. It's always nice to make contact with the aliens when you're just guessing they ought to be there.

  • Mike's avatar

    @Appalachian that’s been a bucket list fish of mine for 3 decades man. I’d have brought the net🤣🤪

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    @Mike I figured you were in the thick of them up there. I was raised on tales of my grandaddy chasing them off in the creeks round here. Finally got the notion to chase them when I turned 20 or so. No lie I sight casted to one and hooked up on my second cast but my mono leader was no match and I lost it 10 feet from the bank. I blundered around for a few years till I figured them out. Now I've got them all named down the river 😅 Nice ugly names like Gertrude, Helga, Rasputia..... and so on.

  • DJ's avatar

    I sure would like to catch Gertrude but no musky in my part of TN!

  • Mike's avatar

    @Appalachian they’re not exactly ghosts up here, but certainly not very common. Very few places in the state hold any that can get sizable.

  • Appalachian's avatar

    @DJ You’d be surprised they’re in most moving water in the state and only 9,999 casts away!

  • Appalachian's avatar

    @Mike Weird, I figured once you crossed the Mason- Dixon line they’d be in every creek, puddle and ditch 😂 don’t tell my wife but they give me butterflies in my stomach and put my heart in my throat

  • Mike's avatar

    @Appalachian 🤣🤣

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