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| I've got a question for the guys lucky enough to fish a chunk of water often enough to have a milk run. Nothing scientific here. How many times do you think you catch or contact the same fish in a season? Do the same lures work or do you have to give them something different? How many days between catchs?(average)
Thanks
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| I got a 48.5 on a bucktail that was blind in the right eye and skinny in July. In August Bryan Schaeffer a good friend of mine got a 48.5 on a Suick..same spot and blind in the right eye and skinny.
Had to be the same fish![;)] | |
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| Right Anon.. I Cant believe I forgot this.
Two of the twenty muskies I put transmitters on after they were caught in my boat, were again caught and released in the Pewaukee study. There may be more..but I only know of two, both were caught only a week or two after I put the transmitter on.
One Study 41" fish from the first year (internal transmitter) was caught 5 times in one year.. once in my boat. The fifth time it was killed. | |
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| I believe that I recall when tagging was done by many guides on the Chip that some fish were showing up four and five times throughout their lives, who knows how many other times they were caught and not reported. I also recall some similar numbers for fish in other Hayward Lakes.
As to how short of a time span fish can be caught I have had two fish that I boated and thought I caught one three days later (42"s) and the other was a week later (38"s). Two seasons ago I boated a 48" fish that we were sure we had on a Q/S rig three mornings in a row (exact same spot and the exact same time) never got a hook into her. On the fourth morning she was not so lucky. It was obvious (have the fish on video tape) that her belly was full of suckers (or something), probably the same fish each time. | |
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| There was this one huge fish I caught once that had the antena sticking out of her belly from a previous telemetry study, now there were only two fish in the study big enough to be it and after talking to another guide about it he said he caught her the next day and many times since the study. [:p] Now I had lost my tape as this was my fifth fish that night smallest one been 38 so I scratched up the side of the boat and measured it at 54 inches once home, the other guide said he measured her at 53.5. [:sun:]
Now that was the shortest time between recapture ( less the 24 hours ) that I know of and here's a link to the longuest.
Catch and Release works
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| I had one of the first taggers out, using a weighted tag that was pinched through the dorsal. I also used the Muskies Inc tags some.
I recaptured many muskies, some multiple times each year. There was one that was captured as many as a 1/2 dozen times per year, a 36" class male on the North Shore of Pelican.[:bigsmile:] | |
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| Several years ago, I was fishing a tournament on Boom Lake in June. One guy caught a 44.25 (I think that was the length anyway)on a bucktail. It was measured, registered and released very close to where it was caught.
The next day, another competitor caught the same fish, in the same spot on a bucktail. The reason we know it was the same fish is that the poor guy who measured and registered the fish the first day, had to do it again for the second time! He recognized the fish and could see where the hooks had been removed the day before.
The guy who caught it first, got 1st place, the guy that caught it the second time took 2nd, seemed fair to me.
On a small lake that I used to fish, I had my buddy "Sparky". Sparky was a 35 inch muskie, probably the stupidest (or most generous) muskie on the planet. If I was struggling to get a client into a fish, before we left, I'd run past Sparky's weedbed. He'd fall for a white bucktail or a ReefHawg every time. I refused to abuse his generosity and would only fish him once a week. This continued for an entire season, until one day, Sparky was gone.
Whether he got tired of having his picture taken, moved on to greener pastures somewhere else in the lake, or (Oh the horror) was caught and kept, I'll never know.
But I do think fondly of Sparky :)
Steve @ G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods. http://www.herefishyfishy.com
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| I caught one pike of 75cm three times in one day (in the shallow drains I fish regularly). He took a pike fly of 20cm, a spinner and a jointed rapala. Those were the days! I did catch one pike of 80cm two times, the second time he was 83cm. Same for a pike in Ireland we took three consecutive years: 83cm, 91cm, 93cm. Same pike as identified by pictures. These fish had a holding spot, a hangout of some sort. Not sure whether this also happens in larger bodies of water. I think pike tend to move around more but there are always some pike that are homebound | |
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The same fish more than once.