see if I could raise a musky. On my first stop I had a follow from a nice low 40' s musky. The fish powered up several times to take my Stalker but backed off and faded away right at the boat. On the second spot I hooked an upper 30' s musky on my Stalker, but did a " quick release" at the side of the boat. Since I was by myself I didn't see any rea­son to net or handle the fish alone, so I quickly cut the hooks and let the musky swim away unharmed. No picture, but it was much easier on me and on the fish! I continued on to a third spot, a submerged off- shore reef, and hooked a mid 30' s musky on my brown and gold bladed Mepps bucktail. This fish came unbuttoned at the boat. I was good with that since I wasn't planning to net him either. I then motored 2 minutes to another submerged reef, my fourth spot in 45 minutes, and had a double follow of two upper 30' s muskies on the same bucktail. In fact, these musky were so hot, they were nudging each other out of the way to get to the bait. What a start! Later that same day my buddies from Sweden arrived at camp. There were six guys this time, three of which had made the trip in 2007. I told them that I was on some fish, so a couple of the guys grabbed their gear and headed out with me to the same area that I had fished earlier in the day. I pulled up to the submerged reef and immediately hooked a low 30' s musky with my buck­tail. It took only two casts, then fish on! We proceeded to the next spot and one of the new guys had a nice musky at­tack a Stalker right at the boat. I then spent a little time talking about follows, figure- 8' s, and NOT being in a big hurry to take your bait out of the water. We were running short of light and dinner­time at camp was nearly upon us, but we were all too pumped- up to quit and decided collectively to visit one more spot. I loaned one of the guys my Mag­num Musky Killer bucktail and he im­mediately hooked and landed a mid 30' s musky. From that point on, my bucktail was called the " Magic Bucktail". Since I was in camp by myself, I got the

opportunity to fish each day with some of the guys from Sweden. They are a great bunch of guys and we had a lot of fun fishing together. Since I know the area so well, and am used to running the boat while guiding back home, I was nominated to run the boat and help the new guys find some musky. Over the course of the next four days the musky action remained hot and heavy. Be­tween the guys and me, we managed to boat 18 musky in the 4 days I was in camp. The number of fish that we saw in those 4 days was insane! In addition to the 18 landed, there were a half dozen musky lost right at the boat, another dozen or more musky that rolled over baits and missed the hooks, and more follows than I can remember or count. We joked that it was " find a rock.... see a musky" week at Young's. The best fish I measured were two different 46" musky, both as round in the middle as a volley­ball. After I left for home the musky fishing continued to improve. Clouds and oc­casional rain moved into the area and made for excellent musky fishing condi­tions. I had showed the guys a couple spots with large scattered rock piles on the eastern edge of Sabaskong Bay. Those spots continued to produce and yielded a 51" and a 49" musky after I