The Allegheny River was beautiful as Frank “Muskie” Maus and I entered the boat for a day of muskie fishing. The Allegheny River was shrouded in a fog early, but the rapidly rising sun quickly dissipated the mist.
Frank Maus, notice the muskie decal.
Within moments we were busy casting for the elusive muskie. I was telling Laurie I was going to not going to quit fishing until I landed a six-footer! Needless to say, that feat didn’t occur. I think the world’s record is around five feet in length so catching 72 inches of fish was doubtful in reality.
We traveled and trolled for the fish as well, but my jinxing abilities won out over any good luck I may have had in the past. I did, however, catch a nice smallmouth bass, but the fish threw the hook prior to any landing attempt. 
While in the boat we saw two ospreys. One osprey dove into the waters attempting to land a fish. That was quite a sight. I saw a red-tailed hawk, geese and waterfowl and a pie-billed grebe too. The grebe swam about occasionally diving for morsels to eat.
Frankie has caught 250 muskies as of date.
I saw three deer and a small flock of turkeys while traveling on the road.
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