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| Has anyone ever heard of, or experienced a musky attacking someone washing their hands in the water? I've thought about this a time or so when I stick my hands in the water and scrub away and thought I would ask here. |
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| I have had them bite me while I was reaching in the livewell or net to grab them. You hear of swimmers being bit now and then. |
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| There was a guy who was washing his feet in the water, muskie bit his foot and he flung it on the boat and got a ticket for it. |
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| I remember a young girls foot being bitten when she was dangling her feet off of a dock in Wisconsin , this was probably in the late 70's early 80's when I was a kid. I still remember her streaming and bleeding badly. |
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Location: Ashland WI | Eaglescout2012 - 3/20/2015 8:13 PM
There was a guy who was washing his feet in the water, muskie bit his foot and he flung it on the boat and got a ticket for it.
How did they make the muskie pay? |
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| A few close encounters unhooking pike in the water, but got hands away in time prior to the musky slamming the pike... |
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| This made me laugh, because every time I wash the slime off my hands after releasing a fish, I'm always worried that it is going to swim back and take revenge on my hands!! LOL
Thankfully it hasn't happened yet;)
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| The blue gills on Hamilton lakes will attack and bite leg hair and nipples. They are ferocious!!! |
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| Dockboy on Lake Minnetonka was laying on a dock washing sunscreen off his hands when a giant came out from under the dock and crushed his hand. Saw pictures of the big tooth holes. It looked very painful. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Reached down to water release a three foot muskie at the back of my Ranger and shook it off with a long nose. As I stood up and turned around the muskie jumped straight up out of tge water and grabbed my hand and ripped me a good one. 11stitches later I was still scratching my head on what just happened. Im assuming the fish still thought it was hooked and jumped to shake the bait free. But actually jumped into my hand and ripped me open. Crazy revenge from a peeed off muskie or what?
That fish was never touched or out of the water. Just grabbed the hook shaft and poped the hooks free. Seconds later I was bleeding big time. The muskie had to be clear out of the water because I was standing when it got me. |
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Location: Detroit River | I've heard of swimmers on LSC getting bit. |
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| Eaglescout2012 - 3/20/2015 8:13 PM
There was a guy who was washing his feet in the water, muskie bit his foot and he flung it on the boat and got a ticket for it.
Haha so that's what happened! |
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| Eaglescout2012 - 3/20/2015 8:13 PM
There was a guy who was washing his feet in the water, muskie bit his foot and he flung it on the boat and got a ticket for it.
That's quite the yarn. I've got some ocean front property for sale... |
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Location: davis,IL | What the heck are you wiping on your hands before a rinse in the water? Sounds like time for an xtra 8 with the lure before a wash. |
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| I know some of the guys above and they are legit guys, but I've heard the story about the guy who got a citation till the cows came home, and I don't believe it any more than guys who read Playboy for the articles. In fact, I don't believe the rest either. I don't even believe they bite at all.....and I've tried to get them to bite on lures and suckers. Then again, I seldom see the need to wash my hands. I have swam naked under my boat when I forgot to put my plug in at the ramp, even had a complaint filed once in tournament for doing so, but I promise I would have never done it if I, for one minute, thought my minnow was in danger. |
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Location: MN | I do know growing up in my home town we had a case of a persons being bit on the toe, it required stitches... However he didn't " catch" the fish. He said it was A muskie but there are big northerns in the lake too. |
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Location: MN | I just googled this fish foot story looks real the guys name was Dan Droessler, picked up in the papers. I would post a link but apple products suck. Guy got 60 stitches |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | NathanH - 3/29/2015 6:30 AM
I just googled this fish foot story looks real the guys name was Dan Droessler, picked up in the papers. I would post a link but apple products suck. Guy got 60 stitches
Here's a link: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-07-08/news/9807080030_1_fis...
(By the way, that link was posted from an Apple product) |
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| This is a whole "nuther" story, wasn't fair at all to suggest he got cited for fishing with his toe. He kept the #*^@ fish. He had no call to do that, or to kill it , unless he was really mad. How many think he'd be cited for just telling how he'd gotten bit? Now I'm thinking about where people go to get all those fingers they claim McDonalds put in their BigMacs. Um, now them fingers could be what I've been searching for. And, that's it for swimming to put my plug in. Besides, the new Ranger has a lever in the boat to deploy and retract the plug, just 6-7 more weeks? |
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Location: MN | Junkman - 3/29/2015 8:13 AM
This is a whole "nuther" story, wasn't fair at all to suggest he got cited for fishing with his toe. He kept the #*^@ fish. He had no call to do that, or to kill it , unless he was really mad. How many think he'd be cited for just telling how he'd gotten bit? Now I'm thinking about where people go to get all those fingers they claim McDonalds put in their BigMacs. Um, now them fingers could be what I've been searching for. And, that's it for swimming to put my plug in. Besides, the new Ranger has a lever in the boat to deploy and retract the plug, just 6-7 more weeks?
I'm thinking you need 60 stitches in your foot your bleeding like a stuck pig the fish is your last concern. Plus your in a canoe with a green fish. I'll give him a pass. |
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| A couple years ago, my son and I were returning to the dock at our cabin when we had to slow down for our neighbors who were swimming, in training for a triathalon. The had bright orange caps and were easy to spot. The stopped and treaded water for a minute. The guy said, "how about catching the musky that has been following us?" He fishes musky and said it looked to be upper 30s. The weird thing was it followed them for about a hundred yards down the shoreline, never getting more than 10-15 feet away. He laughed and said being eye to eye with a toothy critter like that in the water gives you a whole new perspective. During the summer the two of them put in a lot of miles in the lake and they said that was the only time they ever had an encounter like that. Figured the musky was just curious. Since orange and black tend to be the favored color combination on our very dark stained lake, I think it was the caps.
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| So which one of you guys is gonna be the director of Jaws 6... |
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| 14ledo81 - 3/20/2015 9:38 PM
Eaglescout2012 - 3/20/2015 8:13 PM
There was a guy who was washing his feet in the water, muskie bit his foot and he flung it on the boat and got a ticket for it.
How did they make the muskie pay? |
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| Someone posted a picture of his foot that got bit on Random Lake in SE WI last summer:
http://www.lake-link.com/Wisconsin-Fishing-Reports/report.cfm/37914...
(posted on 7/23/14, since that link will change based on new posts) |
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| I saw the River Monsters Canadian Horror episode last night... I'm never putting my hands or feet in the water again! ha ha. |
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| Released a small fish a few years back that was swimming away as I bent over the side of the boat to rinse the slime off my hands. #*^@ed if that fish didn't stop and turn right back around to face my hands. I can see where it might happen. The fish is still hungry after all, and there's something splashing around in the water right next to it.
If they'll eat a lure...
On a related note, I know of one pretty accomplished Canadian guide who will not swim in the lake because of the muskies he's caught out there. I laughed at first, but he said "Think about it. A hand or a foot splashing around? That looks more like a fish than this thing! (holding up a double 10)
It's not going to stop me from swimming in the lakes, but he does have a point! |
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