Muskie opener in Minnesota is still a couple of months away. Sigh. At least in North Dakota I can be hunting pike after ice-out and shake off the cobwebs and make sure the gear all works.
The pictured setup is my newly put-together low-budget light muskie / northern pike setup. $45 Ambassadeur 6600 BCX (on clearance at Walmart), Shimano Beastmaster rod that I picked up from a friend for a song, and $1.99 Cabelas muskie bucktail (I bought a half dozen of those that day for that price!). If the reel lasts, it will be well worth it, but it is kind of sad that there is now a classic Ambassadeur round reel that’s made in China and not Sweden. I guess that’s the way of the world.
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