Fishing Blog

Hi. I just wanted to share the results our boat in the 42^nd Annual Frank Schneider, Jr. Memorial Muskies Inc. Tournament September 11-13. The tournament waters consist of some twenty-one different lakes in northern Minnesota. All proceeds go towards muskie stocking. Pretty cool.

Most muskie tournaments are team based, however this is designed as an individual event for total inches of legal fish.

I had the pleasure of fishing with a new friend Dwight Labrosse from the state of PA. Dwight being quite the hockey stick, had spent the previous 14 or so days muskie fishing the area lakes with only one bite from a mid 50” fish only to loose it after jumping and throwing the bait free. So a pretty tough stretch of bad luck huh?

Things can only get better right? Well they did in fact. On our first day, I was able to land a 48.25” fish on a Boogerman buzzbait. What a rush! That evening Dwight was able to break the cold streak with a 53” monster that ate a loon colored Lee Lures Top H2O!

Day two was pretty slow. We both managed to loose two lower 40” class fish.

On day three we only had four hours to get it done. At 8:30 on the third twitch of my Phantom Softail jerkbait I hooked a beautiful 49” fish that made it into the net. Not long after that Dwight was burning in a Rabid Squirell bucktail when we watched a 47.5”er eat it ten feet from the boat. Moments later, Dwight’s twin brother Clay landed his personal best in the boat next to us, a 52.5” fatty!

Either of us just needed one more 40” plus fish to win. That would not be in the cards that day. In the last seven minutes of the event I had a close call with a mid-forty inch fish that I was not able to get hooks into. That’s fishing.

Had it been a team event, we would have taken the cake. We had to settle for 3^rd and 4^th and big fish of the tournament. Not too bad for some weekend fun.