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Location: Minnesota | Anyone have a picture of a muskie eating a loon or the stomach contents of a pike or muskie that has eaten a loon? If so, could you post it? Just looked on Google images but could not find one. I have seen a few but they are eluding me 
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Location: Eden Prairie & Pine Island | I know one of the Iowa records had an adult seagull in its stomach, but I don't recall pictures. Maybe the DNR there does. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Here is an picture of a pike with a duck in the stomach contents. I got this one in an e-mail a while back.
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Location: big cove tannery pa | Wow that is sweet, i have heard that pike and muskies take ducklings, not full size ducks. must have beeen mighty hungry |
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Location: Minnesota | So did the guy eat both the duck and the pike? mmmmmmmmmmmm tender....
Thanks for the picture. That is one I do remember seeing but thought it might be a loon. Still searching but not finding too much. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | I suppose it could be a baby loon? Kinda hard to tell. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | if i were a baby, i'd rather be a loon and ride on momma's back than the last duckling in the string ....
i was on the water last year with kevin cochran over in minnesota and we saw a lone duckling swimming around big fish water ... we both almost stopped fishing just to watch what we knew was going to happen eventually. it didn't while we were there, but it might have been worth filming and just waiting to see the innevitable ... LOL |
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| Seen it a lot in Madison -- First you see a hen with 6 or 7 ducklings, then a few days later there's only 5, then 3...
When they get down to one or two left they sure stick awfully close to their mother! |
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Location: Minnesota | I should have a loon like lure to take a picture of when I get home. Looked at my pike templates and figured I could make something that would look close to a diving loon. It is not decoy pretty but, I think if it is moving at 4mph it will look something like a yearling loon diving around. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | I think most of those ducklings disappear due to eagles. I have seen eagles sitting along shore, especially in fog, waiting for a family of ducks to swim by so it can swoop down and pick one off. I have yet to ever see a fish take a bird, I know it happens, but I think the eagles account for more of the ducklings disappearing than pike or muskie.
At least this seems to be the case up here in Minnesota. I have heard reports of eagles taking care of entire litters of ducklings. Once they start hatching and swimming with the hen, in some areas the eagles will clean up on them real fast.
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| I saw a muskie trying to eat an adult merganser! it was too cool - the fish hit the bird so hard it broke its wing - all hell broke loose as the bird quickly pulled free and ran across the water with a HUGE V nipping at it from behind! I raced over with my electric and put a nice 46" fish in the net! Must have thought my topraider was his smaller cousin |
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Location: Mid Wales, UK | Not quite what you're looking for I know but take a look here.
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=1117 |
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Location: Minnesota | Luke, Had not seen that one yet. Interesting. Next you know we will be finding liscense plates in some muskies. LOL |
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Location: Tomahawk, WI | "I think most of those ducklings disappear due to eagles. I have seen eagles sitting along shore, especially in fog, waiting for a family of ducks to swim by so it can swoop down and pick one off. I have yet to ever see a fish take a bird, I know it happens, but I think the eagles account for more of the ducklings disappearing than pike or muskie. "
We saw an eagle attacking a duckling last summer. It picked which one it wanted and continued to go after it, swooping down and landing on it, probably trying to carry it off. Probably lasted 10-15 minutes and somehow the duck made it into a bay where the eagle couldn't get at it. Don't know if the duck lived or not but the only reason the eagle couldn't carry it off is because it was late July and they had some size on them. It was kind of tough to watch because the mother kept swimming out there trying to get the eagles attention off of the duckling, and trying to help it to safety.
Snapping turtles lurking in the shallows is also a problem for ducks. Four summers ago we were fishing around the shore of an island and saw this hen with five of six ducklings. One of them started splashing around like it was caught up in something, we though maybe fishing line or a lure stuck to a fallen branch. So I fired up the trolling motor and headed towards it. When we got up there, my mom who was in the front of the boat, grabbed the duck by the neck and pulled it up. I'm leaning over the side, and out of the bottom, attached to the ducks leg rises a snapping turtle the size of a couple dinner plates. The turtle let go and sank back to the bottom. Luckily there isn't a whole lot of blood going to a ducks leg, so we cut it off, because it was just hanging there by skin and put the duck back in the water. It swam fine and went around the island where it's family went.
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| CJW - 5/31/2007 9:57 AM
"I think most of those ducklings disappear due to eagles. I have seen eagles sitting along shore, especially in fog, waiting for a family of ducks to swim by so it can swoop down and pick one off. I have yet to ever see a fish take a bird, I know it happens, but I think the eagles account for more of the ducklings disappearing than pike or muskie. "
We saw an eagle attacking a duckling last summer. It picked which one it wanted and continued to go after it, swooping down and landing on it, probably trying to carry it off. Probably lasted 10-15 minutes and somehow the duck made it into a bay where the eagle couldn't get at it. Don't know if the duck lived or not but the only reason the eagle couldn't carry it off is because it was late July and they had some size on them. It was kind of tough to watch because the mother kept swimming out there trying to get the eagles attention off of the duckling, and trying to help it to safety.
Snapping turtles lurking in the shallows is also a problem for ducks. Four summers ago we were fishing around the shore of an island and saw this hen with five of six ducklings. One of them started splashing around like it was caught up in something, we though maybe fishing line or a lure stuck to a fallen branch. So I fired up the trolling motor and headed towards it. When we got up there, my mom who was in the front of the boat, grabbed the duck by the neck and pulled it up. I'm leaning over the side, and out of the bottom, attached to the ducks leg rises a snapping turtle the size of a couple dinner plates. The turtle let go and sank back to the bottom. Luckily there isn't a whole lot of blood going to a ducks leg, so we cut it off, because it was just hanging there by skin and put the duck back in the water. It swam fine and went around the island where it's family went.
Cameron
lol i can see that duck swimming around in little circles |
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Location: Tomahawk, WI | guts - 5/31/2007 4:12 PM
lol i can see that duck swimming around in little circles
Right after we let it go it dawned on us that, hey one legged ducks can swim straight. 
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