Thanks, Jay.


Well, no 55 in the net but I did raise 2 and maybe 3 specimens well over 50 but that is all I can say for sure. We were on fish of that caliber but the bite got slow after the cold front on 7/26 and the bigguns were especially tight lipped. All a man can ask for is the opportunity to catch a true trophy....we were fishing those areas and that was the goal from the start. Gotta find them to catch them.

I pulled my bait away many times on sub-45 fish as to not waste time during the short bite windows we were dealing with. Our 3rd guy who drove out just to fish the tourney caught a 51 during the tourney and almost won the big fish pot but was nudged out by a 51.5 on the second day.

We netted several fish in the 44-47 range and a few 36.25 to 41 inch class....hardly any small fish. We saw more fish over 45 than fish under 40! I caught 0 fish and it was the best week of musky fishing I have had in awhile.