why we do it part two...

A nice evening out on my home lake with a 51" .

Why we do it...

I fished one of the largest, if not the largest Muskie tournament in the world last weekend with my friend Stephan Nielsen. Stephan travels from Sweden a few times a year to fish with my friends and I . We ended up having a great tourney finishing third place out of 525 people! We started the tourney fishing a pattern that no one else was using. It was good enough for us to catch a fat 52.5"! We had a few other chances at some more big fish that day, but we couldn't keep them pinned. Day two, the pattern held up and we caught a 47". We again had a shot at another really nice fish, but it wasn't meant to be. Day three and we had once last chance to take first place, but the fish did not commit. Not only did we get 3rd place, we also had the largest fish of the tournament and we had an awesome time doing it! See you in October Big buddy!

Rumor,Rumor, Rumor......

A newly designed 12" Rumor. This one will easily get down to 10+ feet. Perfect for robbing the Coontail! The colors are pretty straight forward on these. The First one is "Lemon Danish". I made this color at the request of the "Crazy Dane" Stephan Nielson. The second color might just be my new favorite. It was created for my Friend Chris Thury. His two favorite colors are Pike and "anything pink". So I combined the two to create "Thury's Pink Sox". There is double meaning there. I'll let you figure that out on your own ;) Third color is straight forward Perch.

Esox Assualt

It has been a little while since I have posted anything. Now that the Holidays are over I have a lot more time to work on lure making. These are the first of 2013. Nothing too crazy about the lures. They are just solid Glildebaits. 13" long, all cedar construction and paint :)  I have about 8 more Esox baits in process right now. I will have some Pike and a few different Muskie colors. These happen to be Leech Lake strain yearling color.