|
|
Posts: 255
| I hate fish with a hook in the side, three points of treble in the mouth and one in the eye. Bigger fish handle better. Small fish thrash and can twist too much. Don't like bleeding fingers or net tangles. Don't care what hits a spinnerbait, but I would let anything under 28-30 watch their meal fly into the sky. Do small fish factor well into muskie feeding patterns?- for those of you that fish more than I do. |
|
| |
|
Location: Green Bay, WI | Flambeauski - 6/15/2017 1:43 PM
Since muskies don't fight as hard as most saltwater fish I pull my bait away from all of them, regardless of size.
Wow...and here I thought that I was a good troller.
I bow to your greatness!
TB |
|
| |
|
Posts: 20178
Location: oswego, il | I use a specialized barcode scanner to determine muskie size. Along time ago on a popular site prior to this i posted i caught a 28" musky on a figure eight. The fish came from under the boat and blasted it. I didnt post that part. A guy from a state who hands the ball off to a really dumb running back got every one of his panties bunched in a knot. Funny stuff.
Edited by ToddM 6/15/2017 2:33 PM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 8716
| Not that a 30"er is unworthy of my time, but those are the ones that are throwing hooks around in the net and going nuts when you lift them. Those are the ones that thrash and get dropped. (Hopefully flung over the side) I've taken lures away from a few, and thought "crap, I think that was a pike. I wanted to eat that..."
Agree with Nelson on the figure 8 thing, but the little ones can turn so fast and take so many swipes at a lure it's hard NOT to catch them. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 16632
Location: The desert | I don't pull out. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 841
Location: Southwest PA | Pointerpride102 - 6/15/2017 6:13 PM
I don't pull out.
Wow... you went there didn't ya? Hehehe |
|
| |
|
Posts: 155
| Pointerpride102 - 6/15/2017 5:13 PM
I don't pull out.
HAHAHA!! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1000
| below ~34" i'll take it away from them, but I do like to try and have a little fun with them in the process. See how hard they can turns, how fast the can swim, and if I can get them to jump out of the water for it.
Had a 32 literally pin a slammer against my hull two seasons ago. I probably deserved those scratches...
Edited by tolle141 6/15/2017 6:58 PM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 735
Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Anything smaller than 31 3/16" gets the bait pulled away. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1209
| This thread has now became the same thread from last year or two years ago. 31 and 11/16th gets caught haha |
|
| |
|
Posts: 735
Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Fishysam - 6/15/2017 7:54 PM
This thread has now became the same thread from last year or two years ago. 31 and 11/16th gets caught haha
I personally like to measure my fish before I catch them.
If I'm not sure about a fishes size I like to begin by politely asking him or her to take a seat on the bump board to make sure they meet the minimum size requirement. If they meet the catchable size requirement I will then place the fish back into the water and we will resume where we left off (me going into a figure 8 and the fish following hot behind)
Edited by Musky_Mo16 6/15/2017 8:05 PM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 841
Location: Southwest PA | Glad to see I'm not the only one with a laser measuring tool... how do you guys get them to stay still while you measure to their tail and then their head when they're coming in hot? My biggest concern isn't the little guy getting hooked so much as it is my laser blinding him if I accidentally catch em in the eye! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 558
| The little spotted ones make sweet pics along with the big girls. Give me all of them, I not a hater.
It honestly doesn't take that long to unhook a little one. Quick sweet little spotted pic and gone like the wind. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 260
Location: Lockport, IL | Is that laser calibrated to include a tail pinch? |
|
| |
|
Posts: 4
| I am new to the whole musky fishing thing. I think I get excited and pull the bait away anytime I see a fish  |
|
| |
|
Posts: 735
Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Rainman JD - 6/15/2017 10:15 PM
Is that laser calibrated to include a tail pinch?
That's the fancy one, if you want it to include tail pinch you need to get the "ski-sizer 2.0" and that will run ya $800 compared to the $700 of the "ski-sizer 1.0" |
|
| |
|
Posts: 390
| I am going to put a measuring tape to the out side of the hull. That way when they follow to the boat I can make sure they are above 30 11/16 . |
|
| |
|
Posts: 255
| When the size limit in WI was 32 and I was a newbie I had a very different perspective on size compared to the new limits. A 3 fish day in, say 1992, seemed like such huge success. But they were all 33 and 32. . Nowadays those don't even get a photo. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 86
| I fish a very small river close to the house. It has a good population of musky
Under 30". There are also some nice fish swimming there too.
I have been pulling away from small fish say 24-26" I won't pull away
From a 30 but them two footers are good at getting hooks n the eye and gills.
Anyway, I recently seen were people were showing pics of fish under the 36 size limit
from another small river in a different area of the state.
Got me thinking that giving these small fish as gental of an
Education as possible might not be a bad idea.
Maybe they'll get some size to them before they get caught again.
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 1425
Location: St. Lawrence River | I am feeding the coals to any fish that eats my lure. I will really put the boots to her, and play her out boatside like im on film. I then require 5-6 pictures. Regardless of size. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 20178
Location: oswego, il | I am going to put warning signs on my baits and the side of my boat to ward off small fish. I do not need to register with the police every time a catch a small fish. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 841
Location: Southwest PA | Musky_Mo16 - 6/16/2017 12:04 AM
Rainman JD - 6/15/2017 10:15 PM
Is that laser calibrated to include a tail pinch?
That's the fancy one, if you want it to include tail pinch you need to get the "ski-sizer 2.0" and that will run ya $800 compared to the $700 of the "ski-sizer 1.0"
It would, but it would need 1.21 jiggawatts to power the tail pinch feature and i dont like being on the water in a thunderstorm... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 3136
| I refused to buy Charlize Theron a drink once!!!! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 119
| I watched my buddy pull off of a low 30s fish a few years ago and I gave him a hard time about it. But as I've gotten older and hopefully more *mature* - I think that he did the right thing. I haven't had a situation arise like since that time but if I'm ever faced with it, I'm not sure I'll pull out even though it might be the right thing to do. When you see one fish a day or you get skunked on a few trips it gets increasingly hard lol. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 20178
Location: oswego, il | happy hooker - 6/16/2017 6:56 PM
I refused to buy Charlize Theron a drink once!!!!
You should be banned from eating pizza! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 32784
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I just jab 'em in the top of the head with the rod tip. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 293
Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | BNelson - 6/15/2017 9:07 AM
ok so to play devils advocate, you're worried about the barb harming a fish, and not the actual hook, don't you think that is a bit hypocritical? I mean the barb is what, 1 mm? and the hook itself is how big? if you are worried about the barb injuring a fish, then don't fish with hooks at all... proper unhooking starts with a good Knipex and cutting the hook when in doubt... we should all take great care in handling and unhooking but to point blame on the barb? c'mon. not buying it.
while I respect you crimping the barb, it just seems silly to me to say that you're worried about harming a fish when you are putting a 5/0 hook in them barb or no barb...
Completely ignorant statement on your part. Barbless does way less damage to the fish unless you are cutting every hook, known fact. No need to leave the fish with a mouthful of steel either, therefore barbless is way healthier for the fish. Why do you think so many northern remote lodges in Canada are barbless? Because the fish are their business and they don't want to harm them. I have fished both, and barbless is 100% without doubt much better for the fish. |
|
| |
|
Location: Contrarian Island | Yah. So is not fishing. I get barbless is less harmful. Wasnt questioning that was I?? |
|
| |
|
| I start fishing barbless when the fish are super aggressive and inhaling baits. Makes unhooking the fish much easier and the fish release better. Otherwise I fish with barbs almost all of the time. I fished in Canada one trip and hated having to pinch the barbs but I did it. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 20178
Location: oswego, il | I pinched a barb once while musky fishing. I could not see out of my left eye for a week. |
|
| |
