Posted by George Rogers on 1/2/2003, 7:05 am My largest musky was 38 1/2 inches but only weighed 12lbs., 8oz.mainly cause I caught it in the summer time mid-summer. I do most of my fishing at DAM #4 in Scrable w.v..There's not alot of room there for a lot of boats at one time because it is on the most part shallow water. But that is if you stay up front around the dam area and fish just that part. But I always go down river and fish but you can't be afraid to hurt your boat to get there, but i don't have a big boat,like an express jet boat or to that effect,wish I did though, but instead I have a boat i bought from Wal-mart and then fixed it up from there,14x36 fish master with a 24 volt 56lb thrust foot controlled trolling motor that i completely rebuilt myself,a garmin BLUE 160 fish finder 2 seats a 3 gallon gas tank and a 15hp johnson boat motor with a home-made pitch fork to protect the prop. Oh yeah - and two 10ft closet poles from Lowes to push my little 4x4 boat through the real shallow waters. Now with this little set-up I get to go on waters that hardly anybody else gets to fish cause it's too deep to wade and too shallow to get to. This is where I catch mostly all of the muskies that I catch and this is where i caught the 12lb., 8oz.one. It was the very frist cast of that day. In the summer time I'm addicted to using my buzz bait pole. I put more miles on that pole than I do my truck. But anyway I casted to this one log I always cast by but untill this day never caught anything off of it,and I have'nt even loosened up my drag yet and only got to reel the buzz bait twice and WHAM, the explosion hit my buzz bait and I was spinning the drag lever with my right thumb and holding on with both hands. After fighting him for about 20 minutes I had my net ready and landed the monster. My heart was beating like crazy and I was all excitied. After I netted him and got him in the boat the buzz bait fell right out of his mouth. I weighed him and measured him and got him back in the water as soon as possible, held him by the tail and pulled him back and forwards and then let go and he just swammed back to the deep.One of the great days that i have at DAM#4 in which me and a buddy of mine call "THE MUSKY HOLE"!!!See ya on the water and remember we all live down stream.
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Favorite Musky tip: I'ved learned a great deal about fishing from my older brother and my late grandfather who taught the two of us.What I have learned mostly about musky fishing didn't come from either one of them, but from the teacher who we all know is the best,TIME ON THE WATER, and lots of it too if your into musky fishing. But i love the outdoors and the time on the water - very peaceful, until you hook into one this monsters, then the water isn't so still anymore, I love it!!!! I guess my TIP is that these toothy critters are on the most part un-predictable in many ways(atleast on my waters they are - POTOMAC RIVER) they like wood for coverr,rocks,grass,deep water,shallow waters, but one thing they don't like is hot waters. They are active
in colder waters or faster moving waters. So my TIP is they can be anywhere at any time,so ALWAYS just be ready for the unexpected,'cause as AL LINDER says: "musky's are a fish of a thousand cast," and you don't want to be on the 999th cast and then WHAM,SNAP!!! Cast #1, Cast #2,well you get the picture. One more thing, NEVER, NEVER, think a musky is done fighting when he comes up to the side of your boat after just a few minutes of fighting, and always be able to adjust your drag at any second while fighting a musky - they have so much power they can break poles, pull them from your hands if the drag is set to tight, and NEVER, NEVER lip a musky they will shred your fingers!!!!!!!!!! 
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