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    Avatar photoT. Wiles
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    Early morning:
    Working a shoal bubble line into a cliff wall with nice depth, shadows, and timber. Pulsed a chartreuse prop bait, slashing and churning up a nice spray.
    This fish erupts out of nowhere and launches up a straight vertical lunge, snatching the bait and suspended in air with its tail about 2 feet above the water!

    I was carrying on and hollering so loud in disbelief, that I caught the attention of a few campers. Knox and I had a bank side audience as we photographed and released the fish.

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    Wound up spotting some Gorgeous smallies in the mid-day sun…a couple looked in the mid 20″ range, and I was kicking myself for leaving I’m a hurry and forgetting the 6 wt.
    Drove some miles and covered some more water…we spotted about 8 more Muskies—-2 real bruisers—some sluggish, but I had a couple fired up fig8 turns on the fly.
    Knox missed a heart aching chase-down and grab from a beastly dark colored musky in the last hour of daylight…that fish closed in on a 10 yard chase incredibly fast. That’s the chaos you wait patiently for.

    It was great to spend a day on the water with a good friend.

    #87951
    Zach Matthews
    The Itinerant Angler

    Good grief Travis, that’s awesome.

    #87953
    Tim Pommer
    Member

    Looks like you need to start throwing big poppers

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    Avatar photoMike Tolbert
    Member

    Nice Pike! Beautiful river. What river is this?

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