Fall muskies

[chicken]

Had a pair of 45" fish this weekend, right in the middle of the afternoon on Sunday. Both fish were even on the same sucker, althought first one got off right at the side of the boat. I guess you could call that a successful release. Check out the pics of the 2" gashes on one side, plus the 1-1/2" gashes on the other. After the clicker went nuts on the first fish, we set the hook (at least we thought we did), and pulled him all the way to the boat where he got off just before the net. Since it was the only sucker we had, we threw him back out and an hour later caught this hog. This time we made sure the hook was set. Both fish were the same size, although the first fish might have been a little larger across his back. Pretty sucessful fishing for the few hours we were out, and it was my dad's fist big fish (even though it got off).