Perspective By Craig Sandell © 2025 During the off-season, most of us will attend Musky shows. These shows provide an opportunity to see the new lures and equipment on the market, but it also gives us a chance to renew old friendships and make some new ones. With all of the off-season things that garner our attention, we tend to lose sight of the fact that, as people who hunt for this shovel nosed prehistoric throw back, we are in the minority among others who fish. I can remember (having never fished for Musky) my first time looking in the throat of a mounted Musky. The impressive array of teeth on the jaws and on the roof of the mouth was a shock. I had never considered that fish had teeth. Even before learning how to cast using the baitcasting reel, I had to learn how to reliably tie the fishing line to a leader. My next memory was learning how to use a bait-casting reel. Mastering the mechanism of casting in free-spool and feathering the spool with my thumb to prevent backlashes was a taxing process. And then, there was being introduced to the different types of artificial lures. I had to get familiar with surface lures,
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