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WalleyeFIRST

Posted 5/16/2007 9:38 AM (#55918)
Subject: Tuffy Guide Bruce Becker Scores Big

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Here's the story from Outdoors Notebooks Bob Maciulis

Just got back from a four-day trip to Eagle River/Land O'Lakes/Watersmeet.
Becker was popping walleyes from the lower Cisco Chain; he released some 35
pounds just in a two hour stretch, including a 29-plus incher. Looks good
sitting in that 20-foot TUFFY holding such a beautiful fish.

I just got off the phone with him.

On the twentieth cast of the UP musky opener at 9:30 this morning, Bruce
hooked a 53.5 inch musky (24.25 inch girth) and said he has "...about a
hundred pictures of it and video that my client took." I told him I'd let
you know asap.

I thought this would be great for MuskiesFirst... Besides
being cold and wet, still shaking from the adrenalin, Bruce hasn't been this
excited in a long time.

Tonight, we kick off a joint project with Bruce talking a column he'll be
doing for a local newspaper up there. Will have him on our
live-streamed and broadcast radio show on Saturday.

Bruce runs a Mercury Powered 2060 T Osprey guiding out of Boulder Junction Marine Center and fishing the Land O Lakes area.

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KHedquist

Posted 5/16/2007 2:49 PM (#55931 - in reply to #55918)
Subject: Re: Tuffy Guide Bruce Becker Scores Big

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Nice

Gordy

Posted 5/17/2007 7:30 AM (#55951 - in reply to #55918)
Subject: RE: Tuffy Guide Bruce Becker Scores Big

Man thats a nice tasty looking fish! I could feed the whole neighborhood "ski" steaks with that one. Looks like I might need a bigger electric knife.

Pullin that around all day on a stringer would make me proud as well

I just don't think I could punt that fish more than say......... 20 yards.

Great fish! Awesome way to start a year, thats for sure.

nwild

Posted 5/17/2007 8:56 AM (#55954 - in reply to #55951)
Subject: RE: Tuffy Guide Bruce Becker Scores Big

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Bruce,
Awesome fish!

Gordy, I need to get to Mille Lacs and watch your punting skills. Maybe you can use the new boot that Mike got in Madison as your kicking shoe.

Norm Wild

stacker

Posted 5/17/2007 11:33 AM (#55970 - in reply to #55954)
Subject: RE: Tuffy Guide Bruce Becker Scores Big

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Location: Fremont, Wisconsin

Is it a common practice for "Ski" Guides to fish while they have clients in the boat? I noticed his client took the pictures. I guess I would be less than pleased to have a guy that I am paying, casting to the same fish he is supposed to be putting me on and then plucks a pig like that. Hmmmmm..... if so sounds like a good gig.

nwild

Posted 5/17/2007 12:33 PM (#55982 - in reply to #55970)
Subject: RE: Tuffy Guide Bruce Becker Scores Big

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It is very common for a musky guide to fish along with the client. As you can see Bruce is in the back of the boat, his clients are more than likely in the front of the boat getting first whack at the water. The guide having a third bait in the water will many times help establish a pattern or bait preference. It also gives clients the opportunity to see how a "professional" works baits, kind of a picture is worth a thousand words type of scenario.

Sometimes the fish hit the last bait through, nothing a guide can do about that, but had he not been casting the fish would have never been seen to begin with.

Now if a guide was on the front deck.........that would be totally different.

Norm Wild
Wild's Musky Guide Service
http://wildmusky.com

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