{"id":11768,"date":"2026-09-18T17:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T00:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=11768"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T00:53:29","slug":"virginia-muskie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=11768","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Muskie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fished with Capt. <span class=\"xv78j7m\" spellcheck=\"false\">Sam Scott<\/span> at <span class=\"xv78j7m\" spellcheck=\"false\">Blue Ridge Musky<\/span> today. The water was just cool enough to target muskie. I got two bites and caught them both. A bit of an improvement on my usual average. We saw other fish and had follows. Both bites were on a jig. It was absolutely gorgeous.<br \/>\n<a class=\"x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blueridgemusky.com\">www.blueridgemusky.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11768 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?attachment_id=11771'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1000022221-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1000022221-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1000022221-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1000022221-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, 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Sam Scott at Blue Ridge Musky today. The water was just cool enough to target muskie. I got two bites and caught them both. A bit of an improvement on my usual average. We saw other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=11768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11780,"href":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768\/revisions\/11780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}