I definitely understand the situation this bass fisherman was in last
evening. A bass tournament is about catching bass. Catching a muskie is
just going to take time away from the job at hand. I just found it to be an
interesting dilemma in that a muskie is a prized catch in Southwestern Ohio
because it is rare to catch one. I have never caught one and would now like
to try. My interest is definitely elevated actually seeing one landed.

As far as size limits, 36" is the required size to get a certificate.
However, except for the Ohio River and Pymatuning Lake, there is no size
limit, just a daily limit of 2. For the exceptions, the size limit is 30".

Jeff

"go-bassn" wrote in message
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Would 28" even be a legal muskie in your state Jeff? They have to be 36"
to
be a keeper here in PA (not exactly a premiere musky state). I've caught
muskies during bass tourneys (among other species lol), doesn't exactly
thrill me either.

Warren

"Jeff Durham" wrote in message
news
Last evening, I was out scouting dove fields for our upcoming opening
day.
I was walking along the headwaters of a lake I fish quite often (and
hunt
waterfowl). I was very surprised to see a bass boat here as I knew that
getting this far upstream would be very difficult because it is so
shallow
in many places between the main lake and this section of the feeder
creek
that was not more than 20 feet across.

As I was looking on, the one guy had a major fight going on with a fish.
He
ended up landing a 28" muskie. He seemed really ticked off so I asked
him
about it. This lake does have some muskie, but catching one is rare and
it
is a highly prized catch by locals. Turns out that he was fishing in a
bass
tournament and was hoping that fish was a bass. I just had to laugh.
Any
of us locals would have been overjoyed to land that fish in these waters
and
the state would have provided a certificate to go along with it.

I have a new area to fish now and will definitely do some targeting of
muskies. :-)

Jeff