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| I don't think most guys fish for muskies for the fight. The hardest part is hooking a fish. Stripers (ocean stripers) are without question on of the toughest fighting fish I've ever tangled with in the surf. |
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| I have fished for Stripers in Texas and they fight very hard and take drag when making runs but as stated they don't release well. When a striper hits your bait you will know it, they hit hard! I have also fished for Salmon the 20 pounders and up hit your bait and run like stripers. Both Stripers and Salmon are salt water fish planted in fresh water. Muskies fight hard and hit your bait hard but only fight hard for a short time. Muskies release well as do salmon, but most anglers keep salmon since they spawn once then die. Both Stripers and Salmon are Pelagic fish with lots of endurance, Muskies are ambush predators and sprinters, Kinda like drag racing, very fast from a dead stop, go like hell for short time. Were Stripers and Salmon are like Nascar racing, go like hell for 500 miles. This is the best I can describe it. Ive also caught some Catfish not really big ones but they pull and pull and pull, all these fish will test your equipment. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i do a fair amount of black tuna, wahoo fishing and the fight on the wahoo is ridiculous ... to me it's too much and instead of feeling the fight it's like reeling in an old tire against the current. that's the same reason why trolling other than salmon doesn't appeal to me. are you fighting the fish or are you fighting the 3 mph load of weight coming into the boat. i'll take smallies over just about anything all day long. |
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| Trolling for anything is boring..Casting topwater to wahoo is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on -- Get a good 6000 spinning reel, load it with lots of 50lbs braid!!!.... after you hook them and they turn on a dime you swear you lost them , sometimes for 10 seconds... they swim like 50 mph ...crazy crazy fish! Saltwater fishing is just plain nuts! (especially if you never troll)  |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | the 6' pool cue trolling rods and monster reels are absolutely no fun! might have to try that spin casting ... we catch black tuna, quickly live rig em and put em out and a Wahoo is there in seconds. unbelievable power ... tasty too! |
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| Tuna is the same deal, football 20-40 lb ers are the best! ...many times you can chum them in with sardines and then throw topwater ...nuts!!!! I had a monster hit my light tackle once... it never stopped . I tried to stop it when I knew it was gonna take all 300 yards of braid..ya right!!!
Edited by IAJustin 10/5/2015 12:05 PM
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Now you're talking ! Saltwater fishing is a blast. King mackeral can be fun too. Talk about a screaming drag. They don't call them smokers for nothing. |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | I've caught many-many muskies, and a good number of stripers. Biggest difference is that muskies are harder to catch, and the fishing is much more visible, with all the follows (hard to beat catching a muskie on the figure 8). Caught lots of both and muskies are more fun to fish for, but stripers fight longer, but it's a different fight. Both are great fish! Doug Johnson |
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| lol with muskies its not about the fight, it's about the hunt and the take. You never know when it's going to happen, and it's so much work that every fish gives an incredible sense of accomplishment.
If fight is what you're after in MN, fish for those Lake Minnetonka manatees, or smallies on the fly. If you want to be humbled over and over again, fish for muskies. |
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Location: Already Gone | Want a fight? Carp... with a Walleye UglyStik and a Mitchell 300. Green Giant Kernel corn.
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| LOL! That is exactly how we used to fish for carp on the Wisconsin River back in the 1960s. The canning factory in Wis. Rapids used to dump their waste directly into the river and in that green soup, the carp were plentiful. Why they took the corn, when they had their fill of been waste, not sure but they did. When we were in our early teens we would buy 1000 yard spools of 10# test through the mail because you knew you would get spooled a couple times a season. We caught carp that weighed over 50 pounds on the old brass scale we hung in a tree but the fighters were the 5 to 10 pounders.
AJ McClane, fishing editor for Field and Stream magazine for decades once stated that the carp was the hardest fighting freshwater fish in North America. He said if you tied a 10# carp tail to tail with a 10# brown trout, the carp would pull the brown trout inside out in seconds. |
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Location: Walker, MN | A 1# bluegill will out-fight a 2# crappie but both are fun to catch. Just a different fight.
Catching a Muskie is a real accomplishment as chances are often few. More than any other fish, it often comes down to perfect execution. I do agree that Stripers are much stronger fighters and have better fight endurance.
Snook vs. Redfish in saltwater is a similar comparison. The redfish are much stronger and have better fight endurance but there is just something about a Snook that is really fun to catch.
I love 'em all.
Cheers and hook-sets! |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | LOL - Saltwater versus freshwater - really? As for gear I've been on a stripper trip out of Rhode Island, off Block Island, the rods were all St. Croix muskie rods, the captain was surprised I noticed. Thats also when, I seriouslly started searching saltwater shops around the world for lures and studying saltwater rigging techniques for muskies.
Musky versus Cobia - inch for inch cobia wins for battle. Wahoo got their name for a good reason too, blistering fast run once hooked...
http://www.outdoorlife.com/articles/fishing/saltwater/inshore/2007/...
http://www.fishfishme.com/blog/top-wanted-game-fish-world/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1eRJFyp0HA
Have fun!
Al
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Location: varies | Anyone ever drag baby seals along the southern tip of Africa? I think they were selling for as much as a Minnesota sucker.  |
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| lakes frozen already? |
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Location: Tennessee | 30lb striper vs 30lb Muskie, in terms of fight,the striper has it hands down on the same gear. |
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| 30lb blue gill would drown a 30lb boost power stroke hands down |
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