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| How many people have had muskies attack smaller fish like bass walleye etc while fishing? |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Yes. I've had it happen to small northerns, bass, and a crappie almost every spring. |
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Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | Lots of time ! They are very opertunistic feeders ! Not expending a lot of energy to eat some thing |
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| of course. Perch and smallmouth in Canada. |
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Location: oswego, il | A fish being caught shows signs of distress which is vulnerability. Predators understand it perfectly. I have caught bass fighting a bluegill, my son caught his first pike reeling in a perch. My youngest almost got his first musky reeling in a perch.
Edited by ToddM 1/9/2017 6:23 PM
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| its not just small fish. had the biggest sheephead I ever saw in person chomped on. 18" bass, 37"pike. |
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Location: South Central Wisconsin | One of the best baits ever is a struggling bluegill... |
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| Up here in MN when I know I have a 20" northern on I retrieve it slower and about 1 in 4 will show me a 50, I also got my first and only 50 on a 30" pike that hit a booty call spinnerbait, I never knew I had a pike because he must have got t-boned at the same time as eating my bait. And yes I had the ski in the mouth with a hook and he spit the pike boat side while tail walking |
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| I've had large (20"+) smallies take a musky bait and then awhile later get munched on by a musky. It happened twice this past season alone. Go figure... |
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Location: Waukee, IA | Perch, yellow bass, walleye, pike. All of the above |
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| Had 3 different pike get wacked so far... darn muskies are eating all my pike  |
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Location: 31 | It's rare, but when it does happen they typically just follow the hooked pike to the boat, figure 8s can be difficult.
Haha - pretty sure I've heard a couple of muskie's growl at me after they followed a pike in and I removed their would-be dinner from the water for my own consumption. He11, after reading the other "bite thread"... now I'm kind of surprised I haven't been bitten by one of them like a dog guarding his food bowl. |
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Location: Illinois | Multiple times I've had this happen. Biggest fish I had "hooked" was in the 50" range and found out in last few feet it was the 20" pike that actually had the hook lol(Muskie t boned it and nearly bit it in 1/2). Have had it happen with walleye,pike,bass,and a bluegill on(usually resulting in a bite off). |
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Location: Ashland WI | Fishysam - 1/9/2017 9:03 PM
Up here in MN when I know I have a 20" northern on I retrieve it slower and about 1 in 4 will show me a 50, I also got my first and only 50 on a 30" pike that hit a booty call spinnerbait, I never knew I had a pike because he must have got t-boned at the same time as eating my bait. And yes I had the ski in the mouth with a hook and he spit the pike boat side while tail walking
1 in 4??
Wow!! |
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| Three or four times now I've had a mag dawg in a dawgball (back hook caught on the leader and coming in sideways) attacked when pulling it back in slowly. It acts like a fish struggling. Problem is, with the lure like this, if you try to set the hooks it's usually counterproductive. Haven't landed a fish doing this yet. |
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| Yeah "will show me" not get attacked. |
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| Had 7 attacks on pike/bass last yr. 6 let go near the boat. The only one we boated was 54 1/2 ×26. A14 yr old kid i was guiding from Kansas caught it. |
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Location: MN | 'I've had so many Muskies grab my walleyes'. Probably number one excuse I've heard from anti Muskie guys. Like Todd says a struggling fish is a prime target. I'd love to be able to fish with game fish like you sconies.
I've had big pike up to the boat that have t-boned walleyes but the net was no match and it was before my Muskie days so there was no way I was hand landing em. Had follows on pike and swipes at smallies. |
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