Oh, there's karma in fishing.
On Aug. 2, David Godin took his friend Bruce Cozzi muskie fishing in northern Wisconsin.
However, it was this 50-inch-plus muskie, caught by Godin, that made the trip. And it made Fish of the Week.
FOTW tops the Midwest Fishing Report each Wednesday in the Sun-Times.
Let the Tinley Park man tell the story.
He was `` `sort of Guiding' [Cozzi] for muskie the first weekend of August. We had fished a couple of lakes in Northern WI near Eagle River and Bruce caught a nice 40 incher in the AM. His first at the 40 inch mark. Switching lakes I was trying to put Bruce onto more fish, for he has only caught a few fish in his muskie fishing career, all in the mid-30 inch range.''
That's the building up the karma part, or the doing of the good deeds.
Godin continued, ``I have caught close to 1000 fish over the last 30 years of muskie fishing, so I wanted to have Bruce get a nice one. Luck came my way and I boated 3 fish in 2 hours of fishing. A 38, 40 and a 50 + inch whopper. I guess I would make a "bad guide". This was my first fish at the 50" mark that I have landed. I have many stories of "lost big fish" but none in the boat.''
It's stories like his that make muskie fishermen into the obsessed lot they are.
Email FOTW nominations to outdoordb@sbcglobal.net.
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