Multi-Species angler & guide based in Green Bay, Wisconsin! Fishing and filming all over the mid-west and Canada. Let me share my experiences and make you a better angler!!!
Yup sadly sometimes there isnt really much time to think about it and bow down to drop the rod tip to get the fish down from a jump and hopefully keep it from heads shaking and spitting the hook! But thats a big esox for ya, especially musky will make you all day blame yourselves with "If only i had...." and "Why didnt i just" 😂 fuckin great times tho regardless (them being called the fish of 1000 cast) good chance that, that's all ur day fishing was for action. Its worth it in my mind. Sure, he got a small heart attack from that fish and even a follow without a strike is so exhilarating musky is worth the time you put in so long as you're learning to musky fish that particular lake is always worth all day fishing to just get one or a few bites or catches from these water wolves entire time. Always worth it bad day fishing is still great time spent😂
Y'all are losing the true joy of this...with every cast, your entire desire and experience and animal intellect comes together on eveyr cast, and instead of FFS you use your imagination to put the fish there....That is the intellecual benefit and sporting benefit of this exercise. The fish are there, go fish for them. If you nerd out on this due to the masculine drive to kill/dominate these animals, it is time to grow up. I did, I do not take pics with these grand fish out of the water. For a long time, I went barbless,. and still do. Leave your HS problems behind. Just me.
Thank you for this video. I too have thought about it a lot. I don’t really agree with those that say FFS ruins the chase. Fishing has never been fair to the fish. That said, I certainly understand people’s trepidation. I caught a musky this week that I wouldn’t have without FFS. It was wise to bring fish handling into this discussion. I think that’s the best thing we can do. We should police ourselves and our friends/family. It won’t solve everything, but I think musky fishing is a small enough sport that if a lot of people are doing it, it will make a difference.
I am looking at new graphs have been catching some monster walleyes out of the weeds on vermilion and musky are in them too just havnt had time to get after them 10 " of rain pushed the fish shallow ?
man i feel like im not worthy enough to catch one now......... great video! I've caught probably less than five as i dont ever go for them on purpose and i always release as quickly as possible and i never grabbed between their gill plate and gills - i would support head and tail while keeping horizontal i didnt however know about the the slime on dry surfaces - i always would wet my hands but didnt think about clothing or surfaces.... Wow
Great video Doug. Im glad you had it in you to post something like this, as most people are just simply for or against FFS. Pushing the Muskie community to sure up some threshold limits for targeting fish in deep water is a necessary step to moving forward in a world with FFS. Hopefully others will see this and follow.
