I absolutely love targeting and catching a new type of fish. It’s fun to learn about the species and learn new fishing techniques to broaden my fishing experiences. I had been out once in the past for a few hours in search of musky, had one follow and no hits. I’ve heard about how they are ‘the fish of 10,000 casts’ and just hoped that someday I would get the chance to land one.

My friend Greg Amiel invited me out to fish on Friday for salmon, so I took the day off. Thursday night the weather forecast on Lake Ontario was not looking promising (wind-wise), so he asked me if I would be OK with fishing for musky instead. Of course I said ‘Yes!’ and was really excited to try for musky! I had a positive attitude, but knew that they were no easy task to land. Something new is always fun!

I got up at 1am (yes, that early!) on Friday, got ready and left home at 2am to head to Greg’s place near Toronto . Greg and his fishing buddy Arnaldo were ready to go when I got there at 5am, so off we went. I fell asleep for a little while on the way there, so I have no idea which lake we were on 😉 Let’s call it, ‘Lake X’ in the Kawarthas. We all have our own Lake X somewhere, right? Wink, wink 🙂

We fished hard, trolling and casting and covering a lot of water. I was casting when I had my first follow. I reacted fast doing the ‘figure 8’ as Greg showed me. The fish startled me, but I was excited to see my first musky! However, this fish was not interested. It gave me hope!

We were trolling when the first musky hit, and it sounded like a salmon peeling line! I could not have been any happier reeling in my first ever musky!