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Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy
« on: Mar 26, 2014, 10:28 AM »
Welcome to my photographic story for 2014.  

My first open water trip of the year was two weeks ago and what a day it was.  I had my first multiple musky day of the year!  My first musky of the year isn't a big one, but a 34.25" male, but for me it's a milestone.  I religiously do figure 8's at boatside and always put forth my best effort with doing them correctly.  I've had hot fish follow through several full 8's before, but hadn't had even a bite during those experiences.  I'm in the habit of always doing them (or other boatside maneuvers depending on the type of lure) to tempt followers.  But this fish came deep, and I never saw it, and hit on the third full figure 8.  What a thrill!  It was my first figure 8 fish.  He's not big, but I'm very proud of this fish:


He's posing for you all with a nice smile displaying his business end:


And he's even happier now after this clean release:


My next musky, the second of the day, was a larger one, a female that was tagged, that slammed a glider.  She was 39.5" long.  I have since reported the tag info and found out that in October 2011, according to our fisheries biologist, she was electroshocked and tagged, and was 35.5" long and weighed 12.25 pounds, growing at a rate of 1.7" per year.  I didn't weigh her this time, but she seemed pretty fat.   She T-boned the glider from underneath and put up quite a fight before coming to the net.

Here she is:


It was a great day, water temps were in the low 40's.  Air temps went from below freezing to over 60 degrees (shown holding a musky in a t-shirt in March)!

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #1 on: Mar 26, 2014, 02:02 PM »
Awesome Fish and awesome pics. Hoping to come across a few this year!
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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #2 on: Mar 26, 2014, 04:05 PM »
Awsome, congrats! My first musky is on the hit list this year.

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #3 on: Mar 26, 2014, 04:14 PM »
Very good start, nice!
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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #4 on: Mar 26, 2014, 05:56 PM »
Very nice! Way jealous here, still two feet of ice in my neck of the woods...
 

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #5 on: Mar 27, 2014, 03:51 AM »
Nice musky

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #6 on: Mar 28, 2014, 06:49 AM »
Thanks everyone!

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #7 on: Mar 28, 2014, 10:30 PM »
Very nice start to the soft water season  :thumbup_smilie: congrats on the 8 take. I still have yet to get one like that
                                                             

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #8 on: Mar 29, 2014, 06:16 AM »
Great fish Kevin...   Congratulations.....
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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #9 on: Mar 30, 2014, 07:27 AM »
Thanks guys!  That fish inspired me to blog about the figure 8 (link to blog in my sig).

I'm trying to get my boat trailer fixed so I can get out there more often.  It's frustrating seeing my boat in my carport, crying for me to take her out.

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #10 on: Mar 30, 2014, 11:09 AM »
Nice fish Kevin. Congrats on the figure 8 catch as well. Headed down your way with boat on Friday. Hope to put some bass in the boat. ;)

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #11 on: Mar 30, 2014, 08:14 PM »
Meant to add gotta love this years catch so far. ;)

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #12 on: Mar 31, 2014, 10:24 AM »
Thanks Dave.  Now if we can get some decent weather.  The Monocacy River was in the fields today...Uggghhh.  Good luck Friday.  I'll be thinking about your trip as I sit at my desk at work!

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #13 on: Mar 31, 2014, 07:02 PM »
Your killing me...........   I still have a foot of snow around my boat.....     :P :P :P :P :P
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own.....<br />Strangers stopping strangers just to shake there hand...<br />\"Dying is the easy part. Learning how to live is the hard part....\"

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Re: Fat Boy's 2014 Photo Eye Candy (off to a good start)
« Reply #14 on: Apr 01, 2014, 08:44 AM »
Your killing me...........   I still have a foot of snow around my boat.....     :P :P :P :P :P

Hopefully we're done...right now everything is flooded!  Once the rivers drop, life will be good :)

Now, time to fix my boat trailer...ughhh.  Dang money pit.

 



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