There Is No Substitute For A Good Net Man By Craig Sandell © 2009 This story starts on September 10, 2009. That was the first day of the Chippewa Flowage Musky Hunt Tournament. I don’t do tournaments, but this tournament is probably the best organized Musky tournament and the ‘Invitation Only’ registration does serve to keep the tournament a “family affair”…But I digress. The weather this September was beautiful unless you are fishing for Musky. The Blue Bird skies and very warm days made fishing tough. The first day of the tournament, my fishing partner Rob Meusec and I didn’t see a fish. We were not alone and the expectation for the tournament turned to the next tournament day. On the second day, Rob and I were camped out on our first spot at 5:30am. At 6:00am we started casting the isolated group of islands with a couple of surface baits. About 10 minutes into our slow troll, we had a Musky blow up on my black globe…it did not come back for a second try. About 10 minutes later, in a different section of the island complex, Rob had a Musky swirl at the boat
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