First Musky

After almost 2 weeks of fishing, I finally managed to catch my first musky.  It was 34inches, and caught while trolling along the weeds in Thornapple lake last Sat evening.  It took a silver/black jointed J13 rapala.

It tore up the rapala pretty badly, but I've still been fishing it.  It also kinked up the seven-strand leader.  Between this fish, the pike and walleye, and a few tangles I've gone through about 6 leaders a week that get kinked up and look like this:

 So I've decided to go with fluorocarbon leaders.   I've ordered some Berkley Vanish leader material and will be tying up my own, re-using the snaps and swivels from the bad leaders.  I'll post more about that once I get a chance to try it out.