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| List some stuff that you don't see a musky do every day, much like Musky Midgets post.
-I've heard a splashing on shore of a beach while fishing and talking to a local on the beach. The guy said it was a very large crappie. Next thing I see is a 40" musky coming directly from that area.
-muskies biting my lure
-a friend told me of a time he was fishing Bone lake for skis and saw a 3 or four muskies circling around a school of crappies, when one would try to excape, one musky would chase it back into the school.
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| While fishing with Gregg Thomas about a month ago on Mille Lacs, he has this fish come from behind and eat his Phat Boy.Crazy fish's head comes out of the water shaking back and forth and toward the boat. Waiting for the fish to go down but it doesn't.This fish came straight toward the boat for 15 yards head shaking the whole time . Never seen a topwater strike /fight like that. Second example was about 5 years ago on a so. Wi. lake and had a 40" hit the lower unit of the Pinpoint . Couldn't believe my eyes.Motor was off. Goofy fish. Steve |
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Location: Germantown & Land O Lakes WI | along the same lines as Jonesi I had a small guy actually smash head first into the side of my boat chasing a bucktail. About a season later while walleye jigging I had a ski munch down on a perch, let go, comeback and grab my anchor line...he twisted and rolled out of it thank God. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | 2 weeks ago, I had a fish take a bait on the figure 8, I hooked it, and let it run. 2 seconds later, it ran at the boat and jumped.... Right onto the deck of my boat. That was the fastest I've ever landed a fish. |
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Location: Woodstock, IL | I had a low 40's fish approach the boat for no apparent reason and stare at me. I don't think it was from a follow because I was casting in the opposite direction. I just happened to turn and saw it there at the back of the boat. I did a couple of figure eights and it didn't move until I accidently bumped it's snout with my rod tip. Then it darted under the boat never to be seen again.
It felt like it was sizing me up for a meal....
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Location: Washington, PA | Had a muskie do it's best to engulf a topwater that was encased in about 10 pounds of weeds. Ok, you guys have me beat. |
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Location: Bagley,MN 56621 | I'm with TomyV, I havent had anything real crazy, except the double follow.
The "corraling" of crappie sounds cool to watch.
Weedy lures do work too, after hearing about them getting bit so many times it happened to me last thurs nite....couldnt keep it on but it did eat a weedy bait on the 8. |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | A few weeks ago I was working a bait, finshed my figure 8 on the left side of the boat, pulled the bait out and went to re-cast when I saw out of the corner of my eye a mid 40" muskie coming in like a torpedo from the right side. Even though my bait had been out of the water a fair amount of time, she kept screaming in with her mouth open and gills flared. It looked certain she was going to chomp down on my trolling motor. I took my foot off the pedal and she turned away with only a foot or so to go. |
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| I had the same thing as Steve this spring on Kinkaid with Chad Cain. Got a 40" to go on a drop belly. The thing stayed on the thing comes up to the surface with just it's face out of the water. It then proceeds to come at me with it's head out shaking all the way to the boat and makes a c turn out. That was the longest I have ever seen a muskie head shake. Seemed like it was doing it for 5 minutes.
I also was fishing a electric only lake a few years ago in a 12 foot jon. It is very thin aluminum and all vibrations can be deteched in it. I hooked into a 37" fish and had it at the side of the boat. I tried to net it the first time and it dove, then the second and WHAM!!! I was thinking what the hell that was. Just the muskie running into the side of the boat, I netted it pretty easily after that.
kly
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Location: NEW LENOX IL | THROWIN A CRANK BAIT UP ON A WEED FLAT, NO WIND,SUNNY , CRYSTAL CLEAR WATER. OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE I SPOT A NICE FISH(LOW 40s) UP ON TOP JUST CRUISING SLOW RIGHT AT THE BOAT. ABOUT 30 FEET AWAY THE FISH STUCK ITS HEAD ALL THE WAY OUT OF THE WATER PAST IT'S GILLS AND KEPT COMMIN. IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS LOOKING AROUND ,IT'S HEAD WAS GOING SIDE TO SIDE, I THINK THIS WAS DUE TO THE FISHES SWIMMING MOTION?? IT GOT WITHIN ABOUT 10 FEET OF THE BOAT ,PUT IT'S HEAD BACK IN THE WATER AND SANK OUT OF SIGHT UNDER MY BOAT.
I TALKED TO A GUY THAT HAS A PLACE ON SHADOW LAKES IN IL. AND HE TOLD ME HE SEES THIS A LOT . I ALSO FISHED WITH A GUIDE A FEW WEEKS BACK THAT TOLD ME HE HAS ALSO SEEN THEM DO THIS QUITE OFTEN.
THE GUIDE THINKS IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH DIGESTION BECAUSE HIS SIGHTINGS WERE ALWAYS IN SIMILIAR CONDITIONS WARMEST WATER SUNNY, FLAT CALM ECT..
AT LEAST I KNOW NOW I WASN'T SEEING THINGS DAVE |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | I've seen some swim with their head out of the water..actually these fish were mostly just sitting.. Took awhile to figure out what these guys were doing.. Small birds or big dragonflies would get them to errupt out of the water..no BS!! Here I was casting lures by them and doing nothing but occasionally spooking them. My older Brother actually got one to hit at a spinnerbait by casting low above the water by one.
I had a monster blow up on a Musky Candy bucktail twice in 30 minutes. Set the hooks hard both times, I meen real hard(these hooks were very very sharp). I've always been told once a fish tastes the hooks you won't get him to hit a second time..This one didn't seem to mind.
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| About 6 weeks ago the wife has a hot fish follow her buctail to the boat and is then following around her figure 8 for what seemed an eturnity,so after about 15 8`s I just through my buctail out about 5 feet and that fish just turned on a dime and smoked mine 42".I have never seen a fish follow so many 8`s and then take a different bait.she was pissed to say the least!
One other time seen a 3' some kind of water snake get smoked by a mid-40`s.We watched the snake come off the shore and handyboy says that would be awesome if it got hit and then a big head appeared behind the snake not 10 seconds later gone!Truely has given me some new bait idea`s! |
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Location: Wales Wi. | Caught a Muskie on Bone Lake in 1993 0n a planner board..no not on a bait behind the board but on the board itself..my Son kept pointing back at a ski that was smacking one of our boards pulling a sucker so I reeled it in fast as I could to get the sucker in front of the Muskie, but the Muskie just took off after the board and latched on and would not let go ..I even tried to jerk it off but ended up bringing the stupid thing in the boat and had to pry it out of its mouth..43 inches of pure mean or stupid. |
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| I had a 36-38" fish follow the prop of my trolling motor for over and hour. When I'd step on the motor to turn it on or turn it, the fish would back off 3 feet and hang there. Then when I shut it off, the fish would return to it's position directly behind the prop about 3" away from it.
Wierdest thing that I ever saw.
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| I've seen a few swimming with their heads out of the water, but most were smaller hybrids, which I've heard to be common. The strangest occurrence of this phenomenon I've witnessed was one time I was fishing with two other guys and there was about 15 minutes of usable light left. I was standing there in the front of the boat for a second contemplating where to cast next, when about twenty feet out from where I had just retrieved the last cast this head suddenly broke the surface. Swimming directly at me with its head completely out it then proceeded to slam nose first into the side of the hull. Standing there, all three of our baits out of the water, we were puzzled by what was unfolding inches from my feet. The sizable muskie lowered its head back into the water, then turned and continued bumping its way down the side of the boat. Amazingly Jeff in the back of the boat had the cognizance to plunge his bait into the water a couple feet out in front of the fish. It immediately jumped on the bait, and after a breif but furious battle I netted the healthy 46" one-eyed muskie. We could only speculate whether the missing eye had an effect on the fish's behavior.
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| Cool thread.
Had one hit my trolling motor while running on low continuous at night. Felt like a good fish...rocked the boat.
Caught a 47"er when my bait wasn't even in the water. It exploded out after my bait which was then probably at least a foot or more off the surface after I had begun to raise the rod for another cast. A miracle I caught it.
Had a nice one on and coming to the boat, head shaking and going nuts. A big fish. Fought her half way to the boat, probably 10-15 seconds of mayhem, then she came off. I reeled in, swore, and threw the bait in disgust, right into the churning, burbulence where she had just come off. Reeled the handle twice and she smoked the bait again. Lost her the same way. Gman can confirm.
There's more...
BrianF.
Twin Cities
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Some of these stories are very wild and in no way does my story come close to being half-as-wild.
But was out perch fishing with light line, and a very large musky grabbed on to a perch I was reeling in. 3 times this fish let go of the perch, only to grab it again before I got the perch to the boat.
This went on for what seemed like and hour and 2ce nearly had it close enough to be netted. The fourth time it let go was the last and I have yet to catch a legal musky!
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Location: Willoughby, Ohio | Last summer at West Branch, I had one in the low thirties jump completely out of the water after my lure as I was lifting it up to clean a wad of weeds off of it. This year, also at WB, I was trolling one of the bays and noticed something laying just below the surface, in front of my boat. By the time I realized it was a decent sized muskies, it was too late to turn. I clonked the dummy on the head with the boat, heard it bounce down the length of the boat and whack the motor. The fish never turned up despite my looking for it off and on that day, so it must have been okay. I guess I just ruined its day of hanging some rays! |
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Location: Chippewa Falls Wisconsin | This spring I had a 39" muskie jump completly out of the water two feet behind my top raider. The fish jumped like a dolphin and about 3 feet high. But he landed face down on my top raider and got the rear hook caught under his chin. I laughed that fish all the way to the boat.
Funny thread...makes for for coffee reading in the morning.
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| Well I had a triple follow with a 4th fish spotted beside the boat, the neat thing was all 4 fish were 48 inches and up. all 4 were seen within 20 seconds. My nephew and I pulled up to a reef (in august) , as soon as he stands up he hollers "look at that muskie" as it swam off the top of the reef , at this point I had already fired a suick down the spine of the reef, as it came in 2 48 inchers swimming side by side followed my suick as it approached the boat a super tanker fish 52-54 darted up and hit the twins in the tail sending them off the lure. Made another drift and had the big one take a swipe at a squirko but did'nt touch the lure , all I saw was a whole lotta fish. Also released a 42 incher a few years ago and it became lodged in the motor between the prop and the motor housing. Its nose was buried in there , had to dig it out. Here's another crazy thing those fish have started - Have fished the manitou for over 10 years and have NEVER had a ski follow a hooked pike. Now this year it happened 5 times. How can you figure that ? ManitouDan |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | A few years ago I took a buddy out to break his cherry......it turned out to be one of those can-do-no-wrong-days...boated 4 fish in 3 hours...anyway
He taggs this 40 incher on a slammer in 20 fow and as he is reeling it in another fish as big is "dive bombing" and smacking the well set bait...........this was the guys 1st muskie so I didn't mess with it but absolutly wild to see.......that fish wanted that lure and it was driving him crazy that his little friend had it and not him....CPR and the same thing happens 15 later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Madison WMT this year my partner had a 4 fish follow on hair...that was insane too.................as the biggest of the 4 kept shovelling the bait with her nose.....talk about wild
This spring I am up north and the skis are up shallow on the spawn as I am putting the pier's in.....this 45 incher plus makes a run and beaches herself flopping up on the sand...she surfed almost 15 feet onto shore.......nuts---absolutly nuts |
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Location: Davenport, IA | Once I saw a mid 40's muskie chase a frog around awhile with its head completely out of the water. It was weird, but it eventually got the frog. Once I saw a muskie that thought it was a dolphin. It was jumping in and out of the water, about 10 times. It was going fast too. Perhaps the weirdest and rarest thing a muskie does is stay hooked. Its rare, but has happened to me. |
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Location: Rockford Il 61108 | Good story, Hmmmmmmmmmm |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | saw one come out of the water on a surface bait and put hooks in its mouth .... flapped it's tail enough to hook that too .... came to the boat like an innertube .... LMAO |
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Location: So. Illinois | Was throwing a topwater last weekend in a glass-calm bay and saw what I thought was a river otter swimming about 20 yards away. It would show itself about every third cast when I was burning the topwater hard making a lot of noise. About the third time I saw it, I took a hard look and realized is was a muskie swimming with its head out of the water. I swear it was looking at me trying to figure out what I was doing. It did this at least 5 times and in unison with my topwater when I was retrieving it hard (always staying about 20 yards from my boat). It stopped when I threw my bait toward the area it had been swimming and did'nt show itself again. Apparently it had seen enough. |
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| I was testing out some baits in my pond below my house. It was early spring and there was only a small spot to cast that still didn't have ice on it. My first cast sailed to far to the left on top of the clear ice. As I speed reeled it in on top the clear ice my 38" pet muskie attempted to eat the bait through the ice with gills flaring making a loud thud when it hit the ice.
Needless to say I quit casting and caught him some food
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Odd things you've seen a musky do...