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| Everyone knows that muskies are surrounded in legend and lore.
I was wondering what are some stories that you all have heard.
I heard one about a lady daggling her wedding ring in the water and a muskie came up and bit her hand. I have also heard stories about people's dogs being eaten ... stuff like that.
Any good stories out there? |
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Location: Sheboygan Falls, WI | I heard one about a guy on the Chip catching a 69 lbs 11 oz musky. |
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Location: MPLS, MN | One guy told me he got a 69" muskie.
I also like when guys say {when talkin muskie} saw/caught 12 fish instead of muskie. You just know 10 of them are probably small pike.
10,000 casts is always funny to hear. |
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Location: Angola, IN | Hey Eggy,
Good one man. Let's see if John Detloff or Chip Porter come on here raising hell. Everyone knows that Chip fish is a joke, well, everybody but a couple of people. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | The one about the little girl dangling her foot over the edge of the dock and having a big muskie come up and take a swipe at it is most definately true. This happened to my younger cousin Tracy on Big St. Germaine, she had to have a few stitches as a result. My uncle grabbed his rod while she was screaming and tried to catch it, he said it was and upper 40's fish. |
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| I knew some folks whose yapping little poodle dog was almost got. The owners were aware that an upper 30's fish was hanging out under their pontoon boat. When the lady realized her dog was chasing minnows near the back o fthe pontoon, she screamed at the dog who then bounded out of the water in fright and suprise. When the water surface settled the fish was where the dog had last been standing.
The same people told me about a time that a 38" musky chased a 32" musky into the shallow water and then repeatedly struck/chomped on the little one. A small crowd of people formed to watch the attack, it lasted some time. Finally a couple guys scooped both fish up in a long minnow sien/net. They released the two fish off of different docks. The guy who told me said they were all kinda spooked by how determined and ruthless the bigger musky was in the attack. Mr. 38" was so focused he didn't notice the people and the net.
Read a story of a guy who was chomped by a low 30"s fish as he dangled his legs over an underway canoe. The fish hung on when he lifted his foot into the canoe. The DNR showed up at the hospital, took the fish and GAVE THE GUY A TICKET because the fish was undersized. The DNR later tore up the ticket and also returned the fish to the guy. I think this story was in InFisherman, I bet some of you saw the picture of the guy's stitched up leg. |
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Location: Pardeeville, WI | I went out with a guide who had a LOT of time on the water and I asked him how big the biggest fish he ever saw while musky fishing and he said he saw a Musky well into 70 inches. He said he dropped the pole out of his hands and just sank in dis-belief.(sp)
He said he never saw the fish again even though he estimated putting
about 250 hours into the fish after the sighting.
Serious story...
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| Some bozo posted this last winter......
Last weekend I was ice fishing on Lake X. It was my favorite new musky water last summer, lots of action and no pressure, and I had run across a few really nice walleye. So, back to last weekend, I had tip ups out for walleye, goin' for the big ones with 5" walleye suckers. 10lb mono leader, by jingo. A neighbor said someone had accidentally caught a musky the day before. I was walking a baited tip up to a new hole, and it being real cold and me in a hurry, I clipped my bright orange depth finder on the treble just above the chunky minnow and let her drop to the bottom. I set my little marker bobber below the spool and started bringing the rig up when it became stuck. Thinking timber, I gave it slack to drop out, but it didn't drop. Instead, it pulled back hard, once, and that was it, nuttin' but slack again. I pulled it up and the hook, bait and depth finder were gone, plus about 4 inches of line.
Musky. Big one. I guessed it was about 54 inches, based on the mighty power of that single tug. The line cut off my left pinky. When I bent over to pick up my finger, there she was, looking through the ice at me. She was a 60 incher, lads. I reached for my pinky and that's when she made her move. Hit the ice like a titan missile. I somehow scrambled backward as the ice screamed and exploded all around. She didn't get me but my truck fell through the hole she made in the ice. They pulled it out with a Coast Guard helicopter, cost me $3,200. On shore, I opened the door of the truck and the musky jumped out and bit the back of my neck, flopped onto the ice, smashed through with one mighty blow of her tail and she was gone. I got 79 stitches and a bill for $745 at the hospital but the HMO won't cover it, says "I had it coming." Still woozy from the morphine, I called my insurance man about the truck. He laughed so hard he dropped the phone. Then he dropped my auto policy. Got a $4,621.21 "environmental hazard clean up" "order to pay" bill in the mail from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Couldn't pay it within the 14-hour deadline, got a "contempt of court" fine, $1,200, from the local magistrate. Those 3, the Guard, DEQ and the judge are all in the same building. Next to the hospital. I think they've got a scam going. And, the more I think about it, the more I believe it's the musky thats the brains behind the operation.
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Ok, how does that tale rate, whopper-wise in mid-winter, on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being "I was skinny dippin' and I caught a 32 incher on my wang-dang-doodle"??
Ranger
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Location: Holly, MI | Ranger Wins! Was the Musky 90 inches after eating his finger and all the stuffing from his truck seat? |
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Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland | How bout' the one on the In-Fisherman tape when the two fisherman are out on the lake and hear a lady screaming on the shoreline that a giant Musky had eatin her dog, Foofi (swimming in the water until ole Esox got her). One of the anglers says to the lady: "what color dog was it?" |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | The river i fish most of the time. there is a dam with a lock, and divers periodically go down and check things out. ive heard that there were some divers that refused to ever dive there again because they were scared to death of the "mutant" fish that were down there. musky and catfish wellllll over 6 feet long |
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Location: Eden Prairie & Pine Island | How 'bout a true story that you just can't believe...last year when the little boy had his electric radio controlled toy boat taken and later released by a Muskie at some resort. Several witnesses and such, too. By the time I reworked by kids' RC boat to add hooks, line tie, etc., it didn't have enough power to handle the waves.  |
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| I liked the one about the guy being blown across the ice in his shanty! What a putz! |
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| Ice shanty? Putz? Hey! I was that putz! |
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| I heard about a lake in WI where a helicopter crashed in 90 feet of water and all the people in it perished. Rumor has it that there is a 70 lb musky hanging around the crash site getting fatter on human flesh. |
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Location: Washington, PA | dude, that's just weird. |
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| Dude, it's just what I heard. |
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| There was a muskie caught last spring in the McGregor Bay area on a 5 lb pike. Seems they were after pike and were reeling one in and this ski comes up and swallows it. Light tackle too. The guide landed it. Was longer than their boat was wide. Guide held it vertically (wrong) had its head above his and the tail was still on the floor of the boat. Estimated weight of 65 pounds and at least 72 inches. Saw pictures of it. It was released since it was preseason (May). The client was screaming bloody murder and couldn't hold the video straight or the 35mm. The best pict was of the head, gill plate and FAT belly. If that struck at boatside.....the guy's probably still has nightmares. |
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stories: fact or fiction