Tom Dietz Outdoors's Page

Real Name:

Tom Dietz

About:

I am a professional guide and avid musky tournament angler and I am originally from Wisconsin. I am married to Kris, who is also a passionate musky angler herself, and together we have six kids plus a German Shorthaired Pointer named Klaus. I am the Store Manager of the Gander Mountain store in Baxter. I am guiding musky anglers here locally around my work schedule. I also write articles for Musky Hunter Magazine and Outdoor News each year. I have been involved in the fishing tackle industry for fifteen years. I ran Joe Bucher Tackle Company for eight years and was the Advertising Director for Joe's popular TV series "Fishing With Joe Bucher". I was a Territory Sales Manager with Mepps and Mr.Twister for several years before working with Joe, covering Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North and South Dakota. I give numerous musky fishing and turkey hunting seminars at sport shows, retail locations, and club meetings throughout the Upper Midwest. I enjoy fishing tournaments, and have placed in a number of recent competitive PMTT musky tournament events with my partner, Aaron Templin (Professional Musky Tournament Trail), including a tenth place final overall finish out of approximately 500 teams in the 2006 PMTT Final Top Gun Standings, a 17th place overall finish at the PMTT Championship in 2008, a 8th place fininish in 2009, and a third place overall finish during the 2000 season in the PMTT Championship Event with my partner and good friend Steve Heiting. I also placed in the top five three different times in the National Championship Musky Open based in Eagle River, WI.

Website:

http://www.tomdietz.com

Years Musky Fishing:

Since 1987

Personal Best Musky:

Fifty-three inches long from LOTW, Ontario.

Occupation:

Store Manager Gander Mountain; Musky Guide and Educator; Contributing Writer for Musky Hunter Magazine, Outdoor News, and Muskies, Inc. Magazine

School:

UW-Stevens Point, 1988

Clubs:

Brainerd Lakes Chapter Muskies Inc. #24

Tow Vehicle:

2006 Ford F-150 Extended Cab

Boat:

2003 Ranger 618VS with 2003 150hp. Mercury EFI.

Favorite Fishing Memory:

It's a tie: Netting my oldest son John's first ever musky, a thirty-eight incher on national TV while filming an episode for the "We Live Outdoors" television series with my two boys for Gander Mountain in 2005 and netting my youngest son Matthew's (age 12) forty-five incher in June of 2008.

Favorite Waters:

Lake Vermilion, Minnetonka, Mille Lacs, and Bemidji Lakes in MN; Lake of the Woods, Ontario; , Cave Run Lake in Kentucky, and a good number of lakes in Vilas County, Wisconsin in and around Eagle River.

Favorite Style of Fishing:

Casting topwaters, bucktails and glider style baits.

Favorite Lures:

Bulldawgs, Esox Edge bucktails, Bucher Depthraiders, Topraiders and 700 Series bucktails, Super Stalkers by Drifter Tackle, Double Cowgirls, Suicks, Hellhounds, etc!

Tournaments:

I fish the PMTT Tournament Circuit each year (Professional Musky Tournament Trail) and took 8th place overall in 2009, 17th overall in 2008, 10th overall in 2006 and third overall in 2000. My tournament partner is Aaron Templin of Bemidji.