"swanezy" said:
I do notice a lot of people don't post anything about activity they had on the lake etc.. Usually a waste to even read some of the post's, but maybe thats just me
There's a reason for that…. I've had it happen to me before. I would post that I had some good action for a couple days, and the next time I was there, everyone and their grandmother was there. Lakes seem to go through phases, with each lake being hot at different times of the year. Sure, it would be nice to know which lake was hot when, that way you will never go through a cold spell. But that's muskie fishing. You have to learn how to adjust. I don't mind if people don't post "Caught a 45" and a 42" on a Jake. Fish seeemed to be in 6-10 FOW. Fish are using the milfoil". I just like to see posts with temps, clarity, color, weed growth. Those are the pieces of the puzzle. The fun part is putting them together!
I'll admit I keep some good bites to myself (and a few friends), but I worked hard to find the bite.
I know some guys were upset at me posting some stuff in my early days here. I know posting I had 40+ follow days on Murray had some people upset. I keep it a little more low key now… also I just haven't been catching or seeing many fish this past year.
I still try to post the basics if I fish a lake that hasn't been posted on in a while. If I'm at a lake the day after somebody posted, then I typically don't leave reports because often much doesn't change overnight.
This discussion has come up before and I'm sure it will come up again in the future. I definitely have cut down on the information given, but I still feel I give a lot of good information that can be used if people really pay attention. This has always been a problem among musky fishermen, but I think it justified. We work hard on getting information about a certain lake and we don't want to give that information out too quickly unless we feel we will get information in return. I love reading reports by Kingfisher because of the detail, but I also like figuring things out for myself. I definitely like to have information on a lake, but it's not fun for me if I'm told to go to this lake at this time with this bait. Being told everything just takes the fun and skill out of fishing. I fish for muskies because it is a challenge and I want to figure things out. I don't write reports every time I go out but usually it is because someone just wrote a report about the lake in the last couple of days and mine wouldn't be much different. Just look at the SW Michigan Reports from two years ago and see how almost the entire last page is about Murray and one should understand why people have cut down on reports.
Will, to me it doesn't matter cause I just go fishing whenever I can. Like some of the other guys posted, i know people aren't going to post what they caught if they had a good day, or how they caught it just cause thats how most fisherman are. I mean even if people posted fishing was terrible, im still gonna go to the lake. Like Jim said, people see that someone did well and everyone runs out to the lake. I didn't really think that most people in mma really do that, i guess it is just cool to see what other people are doing on a lake on a wk to wk basis, even though I am not gonna rush out to the lake if someone has a good day. I mean it still is musky fishing, not like bass fishing where it can all of the sudden be a crazy bite consistently on some lakes.
the truth is musky fisherman are all selfish and we all want to be the best, i dk i dont want to be rude but i agree with swanzey those reports were worthless lol.
Maybe we all need to stop making musky fishing a competition, but focus on how awesome it is to just be on the water, and fishing.
And also focus more on building more musky lakes and improving our waters.
Instead of spending all our money on the newest coolest lure, we should spend it on fundraising for our programs. I mean that is the point of our organization isn't it?
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