Dave's - Fish On

This morning proved to be successful for our boat with my brother Dave boating this fish on a topwater bait about two hours into the morning.  I know it looks like me with a 41" muskie but really it was caught by my brother Dave. 

With the eldest of the 6 boys, Jim, in town from Switzerland we decided to hit Lake Minnetonka this morning with Travis guiding one boat and myself guiding the other boat. 

We were on the water by 6 a.m. in search of the elusive muskie.  Jim had intentions of catching a muskie on a fly but shortly after sunrise the wind picked up and it made it difficult to throw the fly.  Travis switched him over to a baitcaster and soon they were seeing fish. 

Dave, the second of the six boys, was the first to put a fish in the boat.  That is when the story gets good.  Being that I threw my pliers in the lake the other day I had nothing but my bare hands to land and take his fish off.  I was able to land the fish as you can see, but taking it off (without it biting me) was another task.  Off to work but will try and finish up tomorrow. 

Thanks Dad, Jim, Dave, Ed, and Travis for all the memories today.    

to be continued.........  

Update on Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 12:14PM by Matt Peters

Continued......After finally landing the wild thing I had to try and remove the hooks without a pliers.  As I dug the hooks out with nothing more than my hands I buried one of the treble hooks into the top of my thumb as the fish shook viciously.  The hooks were no longer in the fish but in my hand and the natural reaction was to let go of the fish.  Daves first muskie was now on the verge of falling out of the boat and I wasn't going to be able to grab it.  Dave made two attempts at the fish then it made one big flop and back to the lake it went.  It swam off as though it was taking a nice Sunday afternoon drive.  The fish was un-hurt and I was able to take the hook out of my thumb.   Dave however was not able to hold his fish nor get a picture with it before it was back in the lake.  Thanks to my dad we were able to get this shot before it flew out of my hands.  Nice catch Dave, and next time we will get a picture of you with your trophy.      

Comments

[Andy]

Way to finish that story bud.