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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | The Muskie must have though her foot was a trolling motor! |
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Location: oswego, il | There was no mention in the article that they seen the fish. I say it was a big walleye.
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Location: The desert | It was an otter. |
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Location: Pine River MN. | I'm also guessing otter. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | With otters and muskies on the prowl how can we ever feel safe again? On the bright side, musky bites cause atheletes to perform at levels higher than ever.
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| Maybe it wasn't a muskie... 
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| My guess is it's the Honey Badger's distant cousin, a Honey Otter. |
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| no question that was a five foot muskie! I can make up data to prove it.  |
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| Otter not go swimming in Island Lake. Sorry |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Maybe a muskrat bit her and then that muskie from the other post tried to save her. See we can turn this around, stock more muskie!!! |
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| Could have been a big pike bite. Who knows? They are just as aggesive if not more than a musky. People just assume.
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Location: Elk River, MN | Just anotter story to get people all riled up about muskies |
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Location: oswego, il | I rushed to judgement with my earlier post. Do not rule out the over agressive perch. |
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Location: Waconia, MN | Funny, I just saw this yesterday, same pictures but titled :Otter attacked"
http://mix108.com/beware-of-otter-attacks-at-island-lake-in-minneso...
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| Is it true most people get attacked by Muskie in 3 feet of water less than 10 yards from the beach? |
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| IMExpertO about muskie attacks, this one appears to be an otter, since a big ski would have tboned her leg and therefore left cuts running the other way on her leg. I would encourage all swimmers to tattoo bump boards on their legs so we can get some truth to these stories. |
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Location: Elk River, MN | Could have been a big walleye trying to ruin the muskies reputation as the "freshwater gentle giant" |
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Location: oswego, il | She doesn't know when she will go swimming again. How about eating otter pops? |
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| All kidding aside those are nasty wounds whatever caused them. |
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| Espy - 7/21/2017 9:00 AM
Could have been a big walleye trying to ruin the muskies reputation as the "freshwater gentle giant"
They are the Great Danes of fish |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Bite marks on top of leg don't seem to match up with back of the leg for it to be a muskie bite unless it tried to swallow from the toes up but that seems very unlikely. I'd guess it was an otter. Plus as we saw in the video of the muskie attacking that pike last week a muskie would not have let go. |
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| I think it was a person from the group "No More Muskies" swimming in a giant muskie suit. Muskies are being framed. It's a conspiracy. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | I don't think otter teeth are sharp enough to leave slices like that. Looks like an esox was the culprit IMO |
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| Def not a musky ... otters are the most likely culprit considering they are territorial to begin with and they are some voracious creatures. I have respect for those slick lil' beesterds. A musky wouldn't have been anywhere near some girl cannonballing into the water lol |
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Location: Ludington, MI | It's great to sit here and say "not a muskie," but CBS picked up the story saying it was a fish. Does Muskies Inc. not have a doctor or zookeeper or fisheries biologist to refute this? This is going to be a "musky attack" in the institutional memory of everyone who sees that story. Basically going to make MN's musky stocking "controversy" into the whole country's controversy...As if VHS wasn't problem enough. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | River2Stream - 7/21/2017 1:00 PM
Def not a musky ... otters are the most likely culprit considering they are territorial to begin with and they are some voracious creatures. I have respect for those slick lil' beesterds. A musky wouldn't have been anywhere near some girl cannonballing into the water lol
Have you trapped or shot an otter? Have you been bit by one? I have trapped and shot otter, and I have been bit by one while bringing it into a canoe from the water after I shot it. I don't know how you can say that was def not a musky or at least an esox. To me the sliced cuts indicate sharp recurved teeth, but again it's only my opinion... |
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| Not a forensic scientist, but I've seen inside the mouth of a few muskies. Not enough holes in that foot for it to be a muskie. |
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| Waiting for the DNA results before I'm convinced either way |
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| I heard Jeremy Wade is on his way to Duluth. |
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| Pike Master - 7/21/2017 12:03 PM
I don't think otter teeth are sharp enough to leave slices like that. Looks like an esox was the culprit IMO
Well, unlike you I have not trapped them, but one day a family of them was "fishing" off the end of my dock for about 15 minutes and from a distance of no more than 5 ft., I watched them bite bluegills in half with ease. Close enough I could hear the crunch and see blood on their whiskers. They were not at all afraid of me and were very successful in their fishing. Unlike fish, they are warm blooded and have to consume a lot of fish every day just to keep their body temps up. |
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Location: Minnesota | Just seen it on the news calling it a musky attack |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | muskyhunter47 - 7/21/2017 4:48 PM
Just seen it on the news calling it a musky attack
The news said muskie, that must mean it was a muskie, everyone knows the news is right.
But in all honesty, although I've never caught a muskie, I have caught my fair share of pike, and their moths are basically the same. I honestly don't think that could have benn a muskie there would be way more holes and if a pike or muskie did bite and shake her foot would be shredded. And if it just bit and let go there would be holes, not two cuts. I guess any things possible but I don't buy it.
But I guess here comes the next jaws movie. |
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| There was an otter attack on that very same lake a few years back. |
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Location: Sakatchewan,Canada | Yes, I seen pictures of ladies legs from the otter attack, they are more puncture wounds/rips than sharp slices like the girl |
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Location: Elk River, MN | I read one article that combined the 2 different attack stories and claimed the girl was attacked by a Muskie 25 times. Fear mongers win again, even when the original woman spoke out and said they've seen otters around recently and most likely attacked the little girl. But a wild otter attack isn't nearly as good of news as a killer fish on the loose |
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| At leAst she wasn't shot by a Minneapolis cop!! |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Espy - 7/22/2017 1:08 AM
I read one article that combined the 2 different attack stories and claimed the girl was attacked by a Muskie 25 times. Fear mongers win again, even when the original woman spoke out and said they've seen otters around recently and most likely attacked the little girl. But a wild otter attack isn't nearly as good of news as a killer fish on the loose
Good, I thought I was the only one who saw them combined, bitten 25 times by a Muskie didn't make sense. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | have they found any piles of tobacco on any rocks in the area? |
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Location: The desert | Headed to Island Lake!
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| Face it, it could have been a muskie. In fact, I think it is more likely than an otter based on the smaller abrasions which could have been the teeth on the roof of the mouth. Big deal, it happens about once every 10 years. |
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