My friend, Frank “The Muskie” Maus and I spent some quality time on the great Allegheny River in our quest for the muskellunge! Frank has had a dry streak and he was hoping his “good luck charm” would change the fishing.
The morning was a beautiful fall-like one with cool temperatures. Beautiful wisps of fog could be viewed lifting from the still waters of the river. We saw a small flock of turkeys and a deer while traveling to the fishing event. Would these sightings be a positive omen.? Time would tell! 
The method of fishing this day would be continuing casting lures hoping some hungry ‘ski would chase and gobble up. We casted and drifted for a long time catching up on the many stories of spring gobbler hunting and fishing and other friends and past working partners.
At one site, Frankie had a swirl of a fish coming close to his lure and, later, I felt a bump and saw the flash of some unhooked fish!
later while retrieving my lure I felt the tug and in short saw a muskie. Unfortunately, the muskie threw the hooks and swam away to fight another day. (We were fishing near Dan’s favorite place!) We, laughingly, kept saying that we didn’t want to catch any skies anyway for then one would have to remove them. 
Well, that would be it for any fish action. In a way, the good luck charm worked for we had three potential times when fish could have been caught. So, I will take credit for that!
Frank battening down the hatches!!!
Other critters of the day were a great blue heron, buzzards, geese, and an osprey.
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