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Now You Can Speak Muskie Too!

I laugh sometimes at all the jargon that applies to fishing.  Listen to yourself sometime!

Lure names alone are stimulating.  You have your Hula Poppers and Rat-L-Snakies, Lazy Ikes, Royal Coachmen, and Whopper Ploppers.  Jerkbaits refer to how an artificial lure is properly fished, and not necessarily the guy on the end of the rod.

What in the world is “bottom bouncing”?????  And, “walking the dog” ain’t what you think it is and has nothing to do with canines.

Shockingly, what is a guy doing throwing a Grandma?  Is it his Grandma or someone else’s?  Will she survive the incident?  (Well. . . if the targeted muskie bites, she won’t!)

Or, how about a Baby Beaver?

Speaking of muskie fishing in particular. . . . The anglers that do that are particularly “out there”.  Maybe this will help you understand them a little bit:

It is the weekend!  Hope you get a chance to work on your figuer-8 or maybe your double-haul,  and dry some off!

MuskieHead

About daryl bauer

Daryl is a lifelong resident of Nebraska (except for a couple of years spent going to graduate school in South Dakota). He has been employed as a fisheries biologist for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission for 25 years, and his current tour of duty is as the fisheries outreach program manager. Daryl loves to share his educational knowledge and is an avid multi-species angler. He holds more than 120 Nebraska Master Angler Awards for 14 different species and holds more than 30 In-Fisherman Master Angler Awards for eight different species. He loves to talk fishing and answer questions about fishing in Nebraska, be sure to check out his blog at outdoornebraska.org.

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