I spent the past two days fishing with Sam Scott at Blue Ridge Musky. The first day, I caught 5 out of 6 sure muskie bites. I caught two on back-to-back casts. Lots of follows and I may have missed a couple bites I didn’t know I had. I was rather happy with that, thought I had this muskie thing figured out, and I didn’t care if we even caught one the next day. Then Sam told me that this was 16 consecutive trips landing muskie.
The next day, I missed the first bite on a jig. Then, I had one bite a glide bait. It was just hooked on the outside of its face. Pulled the hook on that one. Later, I had muskie come in on 3 consecutive cast of the glide bait. The first bit good, I was sure I had that one, pulled the hooks. Next bit while I had the rod buried in the water, trying to keep the bait deep for the following fish. I saw the bite, but the water resistance stopped my try at a hook set. The 3rd cast just had one follow the bait to the boat without a bite. There were a lot of those including one later by a muskie, with a mark on the side of its face where I had hooked it earlier.
I knew my fishing buddies were going to make fun of me for breaking Sam’s streak. The 5th bite was the charm. I held onto that one. Give me enough shots… The consecutive catch streak reached 17 trips! It has to end sometime. It is muskie fishing, but it won’t me!
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