Early Musky fishing 9/13

I just bought a new beckman net and built a musky resuscitation box and really wanted to get some slime on’em so I hit the water very early on sunday, about an hour before first light.

I launched out of harley ensign and headed south along the deep weed edge. The water had just a little bit of chop on it so I decided to throw a top water bait, a chopper. Slowly I worked my way down toward huron point with no action. By this time the sun was just coming up so I headed to the other side of the bay and hit a few spots over there tossing bucktails. Again no action! Not even a follow. So I decided to change things up completely and headed toward the 400 club. I stayed out in the deeper water, about 10 foot or so heading out toward deeper water. After I had been casting for a while someting stopped my bulldawg dead on a jerk! So I hit it again and felt a huge head shake! Woohoo!! The fish took off on a short run peeling off a lttle bit of drag then suddenly turned and gave a big jerk that snapped my line! I use a #100 llbs power pro and it snapped! At first I thought it was the knot that came loose but ther was only 20 foot or so of line hanging out the end of my rod. It was unreal. I have never had a fish shake it’s head that hard! Man would I have loved to at least seen that fish!

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. I did catch a 10″ largemouth on a super shad rap though. Hopefully soon I can pop the cherry on my net and box.

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