Episode #45
FIVE Muskies in 40 Minutes!
Show Date: November 7, 2026
Location: Vermilion Bay, Ontario, Canada
Guide: Danny Herbeck [807-216-8866]
Accommodations: Andy Myers Lodge, Vermilion Bay [https://www.andymyerslodge.com | 888-727-5865]
It's the final day of our whirlwind trip to Eagle Lake and Andy Myers Lodge for our 11th annual Sponsor Outing, and we're not ready to give up on the muskie hunt just yet!
After dedicating much of our time on the water to chasing muskies, we're back at it with a couple of new sponsors joining us in the boat. Tim from Fleet Farm and Dan from AMSOIL are along for the ride, and they're more than willing to put in the work. We appreciate their persistence with the casting rods just as much as we appreciate their support of our show. Without our sponsors, we wouldn't be able to bring you a fresh episode every single week.
The plan is to keep throwing big artificial baits while also keeping a close eye on the sucker rods. Those big suckers give us another opportunity to tempt a muskie that might follow an artificial lure but isn't quite aggressive enough to commit.
And then something pretty special happens. Dan gets the first muskie of the day on an artificial lure, and before long, Tim gets one on a lure of his own. Then the sucker rods start producing, too. Over the course of about 40 minutes, we manage to boat FIVE muskies!
It's an unbelievable bite window, and the kind of action that you just don't experience every day. After all the hours of casting and waiting, everything comes together in a hurry.
As Danny Herbeck puts it, sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. On this final day at Eagle Lake, we definitely won!
It's a pretty incredible way to wrap up our 11th annual Sponsor Outing. A huge thank-you to Julian Kalka, Danny Herbeck, everyone at Andy Myers Lodge, and all of our sponsors who make these trips — and our show — possible.
