36" Musky

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I’ll admit i’m one lucky bugger and I iced my first musky today! I’ve targeted musky for years through the ice and finally today I got one. I was thick in the perch in about 12 ft of water and pulled my musky rig up and dropped down another perch rod. I was up to 19 keeper perch and was cleaning up my stuff when i hooked him! It took me 20 minutes to ice him with 2lb test on my ultra-light perch rod…it didn’t help that I only had about 20-25 yards of line on that rod and he had me so close to spooled 3 times…I could count how many turns I had left before he busted me! He also crossed up my other rod and I had a huge mess of tangled line to sort through. I caught it on the smallest little rat-finkee i have. I was astonished that my line never crossed his teeth! He was 36" i can’t imagine what a 50" would feel like! What a good time!!!

My 3rd picture shows him next to my bigger ice rod that is 33.5" to the tip of the spring bobber…so i’d estimate him at 36-37".

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Way to go Tmas. That must have been a total rush. I am so jealous. I have never caught one of those before. Thanks especially for the pictures.

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[;)] Way ta,

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Nice catch

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Diggen the spatula ice scoop. God bless the dollar store. Great fish and great story.

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Nice fish! Way to go. :slight_smile:

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Great job! I assume that you were at Newton due to some of the details in your post?

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Very nice!! You’re remember that forever!

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Nice work man! That surely would be a rush!

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AWESOME FISH. :sunglasses:

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Atta boy! Feels great to pull them big fish out huh? Kinda makes you wonder why you fished for perch so much doesnt it? lol

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What a great fish.:slight_smile: You said the one you didn’t catch it on was a “musky rig.” What was this rig?

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That is awesome! Well done bud. I don’t do alot of ice fishing but I do know that getting a muskie through the hole is quite the feat. Thanks for the pics.

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2lb test ???

You da man!!! :sunglasses:

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You’re assumption is true…I was at newton. it was only my second utah trip this year I spend nearly all my time in Idaho.

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Tmas!!
Dude I am soooo jealous. That is a real nice fish, congrats. Give me a call if you are hitting any Utah lakes up again this season. Oh yea, this is Kurt by the way.

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Nice Fish!
[fishin]

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Nice Job!![;)]

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Wow- Nice catch, and though a hole and 2 lb line, This is the first time I have heard of a muskie though the Ice hole, but I am sure it has happened some were, thanks for the pic’s.[fishin]

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[;)]
Newton is just around the corner from where I live. A good place to take the kids for croppie but I have never tried for the muskies. I have heard of guys fishing mid to northern end of the resivoir for them but have not tried because I would not even know what to throw at them in an attempt.

What kind of lures are being used on these bad boys?