A Musky/Metal/Soccer Weekend

Was able to take Friday and Monday off giving me a 5 day weekend. Hit the water on Friday at 5am. I have read just about every Musky fishing book out there, watched 5 or 6 Videos on the topic, Saric, Linder, Maina all the Musky biggies. Bright day fish bright colors, dark day fish dark colors, clear water natural colors (perch etc.), dark water bright obnoxious colors.....fish the point, fish the weed lines, fish the drop offs, etc. etc. Hmm what do you do if it's dark and your are fishing dark water? Certainly a dilema. Anyways after all the reading, watching and discussing various techniques and strategies I have come to the conclusion that the Muskies don't read the same books as me.

The morning was clear, and I was fishing a clear lake so I started using perch and walleye colored baits. Didn't see a damn thing for three hours fishing all the "top" spots on two of the lakes in the chain. So I decided that I was going to go against the rules. As some clouds rolled in I decided to fish a spot I hate, in dark water with an ugly lime green bait....of course I nail a 36 inch Musky, go figure.

Saturday, I took the 11 year old out fishing. I let him drive the boat. We had a great time. We caught only one small bass, but just getting out for 3 hours was fun. It was a great day for fishing. Overcast, a bit of a wind...I thought for sure we were going to get a lot of action....but again the damn fish weren't doing what they were supposed to. I let him use a 7 ft St. Croix rod, which is bigger than anything he has used before. I don't think he got even one backlash the whole time (unlike somebody else I have fished with). He cast the entire time except for a few minutes when he was enjoying his orange soda. I was proud of him, now if I can just put him where the fish are hungry.

Spent the rest of the weekend watching World Cup games and playing my Guitar. This week "Fight the Good Fight" by Triumph was the main focus. What a great tune, even my guitar teacher couldn't stop raving about the chord progressions and the solo. Rik Emmett, who wrote the song, is a fabulous musician, I am going to have to learn more of his stuff.

As for Soccer I pretty much picked all the games wrong....but I am looking forward to the final between Italy and France. If you are betting, I am picking Italy so bet France and make yourself some money. Watched most of the Italy/Germany game yesterday, but of course fell asleep just after the overtime started and missed all the goals. Probably the first time in over a year that I took a nap in the afternoon when I wasn't sick.

That's all I got.