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Location: United States | These goofy fish have been following in our baits on a metro lake the last couple times out. The seem like a perfect size meal for muskies. Anyone know if they feed on them?
Edited by MN SLICK 6/12/2005 9:35 AM
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Yes, they are a native species to many of the lakes and rivers in the midwest. |
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| If it swims, they will eat it. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | I wonder if anyone has ever tried putting one on a quickstrike rig? |
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| I caught about a 12#er on The Mississippi River last week, you could have stuck about 20 hooks in that thing.
Crazy fight. Big, fat fish. Strong current. It was a riot. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | The DNR here in Madison would often see regurgitated sheepheads in the fyke nets when pulling nets in the spring - YOU BET THEY DO!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | They like them so much on Pewaukee Lake that its now hard to catch one. Years ago we would catch plenty of they while fishing for walleyes. Now, I have not seen one in two years. They love to eat Sheepshead. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Maybe a sheepshead Castor is in order here Beav! You could call it BoPeep.
Edited by MuskieMedic 6/12/2005 10:53 PM
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Location: Holly, MI | Isn't that also called a freshwater Drum? They are considered a nusiance fish around here to the walleye guys. I think they are a fun mistake when you get one while walleye fishing. They fight hard! I like any fish that fights hard for its size, especially on the right sized (think light tackle) gear. I catch carp on purpose before the musky/walleye/bass/pike seasons open. I had an absolute riot watching my 6 yr old land a 23 pounder this spring. |
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | Lobi,
That's correct. A sheepshead and freshwater drum are one in the same.
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| I would think that skis would crush those turds, they swim so slow and are a bigger target, all the better to sink those teeth into.
I did see about a 30 inch walleye on Winnebago that didn't make it when it tried to eat a 12inch sheep. That really hard spine on the dorsel fin was sticking through the roof of its mouth, It pretty much choked on it and died,
Easy meal for the big guy though.. |
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| Would that be Waconia by chance.....? Those things are relentless. Makes you think color patterns though... |
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| Im betting Waconia too???,,,sheephead have hard pieces of bone or whatever in their heads called 'sheapshead stones",,The Biologist who used to be in charge of that area told us that he found alot of those stones in Muskies bellys when he had dead ones from Waconia |
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Location: Hugo, MN | Weedconia has almost as much drum as it does weeds. |
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Location: United States | As a matter of fact it was Waconia. Hooker, did the bioligist give any indication that the stones found in the dead ones were a problem? |
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Location: New Baden IL | Do you think a muskie would spit out a fish that spined it in the mouth real hard?
I think I read an article out here on the world wide web once about a muskie in a tank full of baitfish..to see what food it "preferred".
The last things eaten were all fish with tough spines?
Just wondering....out loud again |
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| That makes sense, what would you prefer, A jawbreaker over a piece of primerib? Those sheeps have some sharp stuff on em. |
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| Slick
no he never said anything about it being a problem..sheepshead are very oily,,alot of people think that Waconia could produce a real metro whopper someday,,problem for me is I have to drive past tonka to get there and thats hard to do |
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Do muskies feed on sheepshead?