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Location: Thief River Falls MN | Check out this link. http://www.usflagballoon.com/toothy.htm Click on the toothy.avi on the web page. Has anyone seen this video, or anything like it in real life? I've seen fish on the surface but never swimming like this.
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| Cool that someone got that on tape. That's actually a fairly common occurence at the spillway below Lake Shelbyville. Why do they do that? |
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| stupid fish |
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Location: Iowa | That is by far the wierdest thing I have ever seen...I have seen muskies just swimmin below the surface but never with their head out of the water...
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| I think they're doing it just to #### with us.
Maybe they're scooping up something on the surface? Mayfly larvae or something? |
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| Very odd behavior |
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| Im no expert and I didnt sleep at a holiday inn express last night but I think it all depends on the way they get hooked.
My buddy caught a nice pike this spring and the thing went on a huge run and then just stopped, came to the surface and turned around with its mouth wide open as he slowly reeled it in. Im sure it swallowed a few gallons of water as he reeled it in.
It was hilarious! |
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| I have seen them mouthing like this on little Green Lake, WI. I have heard that they develop bacteria in their mouth and the oxygen running over their mouth reduces the bacteria.
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| actually this isnt that rare in the dark metro tiger lakes,,the fish cruise around with thier heads out of the water every so often,,this used to be fairly common on lake Nokomis is MPL's,,I asked a dnr Biologist about this once and he said they wernt sure why they do it but they speculate its to flush tiny parasites out that attach to their gills,,seemed to be mostly on darkwater and in the hot months of late july August,,,never could catch one by leading them and aiming ahead with the cast |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | I've seen it a lot out here too (fairly clear water). It seems to be an activity far more frequently occurring in tigers than either of their parental pure-strain counterparts. Again as to why, it's pretty much anyone's guess; some plausable theories have been presented. I always just told people that they were looking for jet-skis 
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I have also had very little luck getting their attention by casting to them. |
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| I have seen it on three different occasions.. Spotted muskie, really clear lake.. Elkhart lake... deeper water..
the first time I saw this there were two 40+" muskies together and they were kind of swimming in circles with just there mouths out of the water.. Confused the #*#* out of me?
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Location: The Yahara Chain | I have scene four different fish doing this. One night two of them at the same time, one fish kept its head out of the water for a little over three minutes. I read that tigers do this. The one fish I could identify was a tiger. I also have had no luck getting one of these fish to bite. I don't think they are catchable when they have their heads completly out of the water. It is wild looking, they look like gators when they do this. |
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Location: Hugo, MN | Saw a stupid fish doing this on Saturday morning threw a Weagle and swooshed it right across his bow and he couldn't have cared less. I figure he was just washing down his morning meal of baby pike. |
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| kind of makes nonsense out of the theory that direct sunlight hurts their eyes |
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| Tigers, huh?
They also relate to different structure, they hang out in hot shallow water, they eat stuff that's pink, they're sterile, and now this?
Guys, they are beautiful fish, but the more I learn about them the more I think they're really messed up genetically.
Yet another reason why it's bad to sleep with your cousin |
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Location: Northern Wisconsin | tiger muskies will sit right on the surface with there mouthes open to help clean out there gills. they
get parasites that pure strains dont get. it is actually cool looking. you wont see little ones doing to
often either. |
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| I've seen it a lot on the metro lakes. first time i saw it was a real shock to me. i thought something was wrong with the critter, the fish was swimming like that around our boat for roughly ten minutes, we were able to look right down it's mouth and there was nothing in it (as far as a stuck bait or bluegill in the wrong way). after time i began to see it more, passed it off as just a wierd thing that do for whatever reason. I only see it with younger or smaller fish on really high and bright hot days though. funny fish.  |
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Location: oswego, il | Realplayer says it needs additional software then tells me there is no additional software to support this video. GRRR! |
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| Todd, try it with windows media player as your defualt. |
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | I too have seen this on about 5 different occasions but only on a stocked man made (strip mine) lake. In Macomb, Ill. Way cool to see it on video. Ditto the thought on the effects of sunlight. Makes you think the same can be said for being "boat shy".
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Location: Hugo, MN | The Fish I saw doing this Saturday morning was not a Tiger . . . It was over 24 ft of water about 10-15 yards off the break. |
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Location: Holly, MI | Remember the people who couldn't catch Pike in the middle of the summer that used to say that they lost their teeth?
Maybe the air flowing over the raw gums feels good.
I'd like to see it live. |
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| If you look close at the vidio and freeze it at the boat, this one is a tiger also. I talked to a biologist about it and he too said that they had parasites in their gills that they were cleaning out.
Weird!
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| Forget why. Forget trying to catch them.
New Sport. Musky Lippin!
when they swims by, thumb 'em like a bass for a second (no vertical holds please), or for even more points, pour a drop or two of beer down the gullet.
that my friends, is ahead of it's time. (picture it in 10 years on espn). |
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| Good one lobi...
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Cool video