End Of Season Musky Binge

[John Pensyl]

Just finished catching up on release reports and I figured I'd drop a quick report.  I planned on fishing every day from the twmt on the 30th right up until Dec 13th when I leave to fish lake Amistad down in Tx for a week. 

After 5 days we've managed to put some very nice plump clean fish in the boat.  Conditions have been amazing and the wind that seemed to never quit in November has given us a break the past few days.  Both tournaments went well over the weekend and both Cullen and myself managed to boat nice fish each day.  Saturday we measured 45 and 39 inch fish caught jigging near strawberry and Sunday we caught 44 and 39.5 inch fish trolling just below the Lewiston boat launch.  I'll upload pics to the gallery for anybody interested in checking them out.  

Monday we went back to the Canadian waters of the upper niagara and spent the day dragging tubes.  After about 6 hours on the water we called it a day with 3 mid 30s fish landed and a couple more missed bites.  

Tuesday am had a new moon moonrise and 7:56am and those of you that have fished or talked with me know that the new moon mornings are what I live for.  Once again I wasnt let down as my biggest fish to date chomped my green ninja tube at 8:01am and I put a fat 48x25 inch fish in the net.  Cullen added 2 more mid 30s fish to the day and at about 3:00 we called it a day content with our success.

Today was more of the same, light to no winds, 10+ foot of vis and another girthy 48 inch fish in the net.  This time Cullen got the job done after a slow start he was demonstrating to me how he wanted the fish to eat his tube and as he lifted his rod illustrating where exactly she was going to chow it she actually did.  She fought hard at the boat but he made the only bite we had all day count.  2 48's in 2 days, yea you wont find me complaining.  

I plan on spending the next 8 days split between the Canadian waters of the upper and looking for a true giant in the lower.  Those of you who can find the time, get out there, she's waiting......

[Capt. Larry D. Jones]

Dave Martin and I will give the Lower Niagara River a go tomarrow! Scott glad I took that skull cap from you now! I will be bundled in layers tomarrow, even digging out the vest with 14 handwarmer pockets.This will be my last day on the water for the season, I'm sure Dave will get out every day till the end.