If you’re reading this, I have to assume that you’re not ready to jump into full-on muskie fishing torture. I have the utmost respect for those willing to work giant lures until their wrists ache, and even when they fail to catch fish, get up and do it all again the next day. But over the last 20 years, I’ve spent time on the water with many anglers who live for that punishment. I’m so into variety that I have a hard time passing on trout, stripers, smallmouths, tuna, and many other fish I love to spend hours casting for a muskie and (probably) not catching one. Part of the reason I haven’t caught more is simply because I have fishing A.D.D. To date, I have six muskies to my credit, which by muskie-zealot standards isn’t that great of an achievement.

That doesn’t mean, however, that I don’t have a deep appreciation for them as a target, and that I wasn’t over the moon every single time I put one in the net. If anything, muskies are the bane of my existence as a fisherman.

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