Rainy Rewards

As I mentioned in the last post - musky fishing is tough business. That is the nature of the game...the nature of the beast. This fish lives by its own rules and often times the pursuit of them leaves us anglers scratching our hair covered computers and wondering if the database we operate with is ever going to be more than swiss cheese.

Tim from St. Louis got a wet and wild baptism into the musky realm on Friday. Ten hours of driving to get up here to Musky Country and a hope to see what this kind of angling is all about.

Well Tim must have been living right! He fell right into a wild couple of hours of action the first morning...raising six fish, hooking two and landing a true trophy as seen above.

Congrats Tim! Wow what a first musky and to get it on a fly rod!! WOW!!!

Sometimes getting up early and braving the weather and the wondering are the only thing I can turn to on the musky trail. Other times I feel like I have these fish in my hip pocket only to realize that my pocket has a hole in it.

I love this sport and the life that revolves around the quest for a musky on the fly.