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| Here is something for the experience of you muskie men (and women). Can you explain it? Or have you seen something similar?
I was on Black Lake, St. Lawrence County, New York, on Saturday, October 11. The weather was bright and sunny, with very little wind. It was about 11:45 a.m. Although there had been light traffic that morning, more and more boats were now coming onto the lake. (Columbus Day weekend.)
I was casting toward a shoal on the north end of Rasberry Island (mid-lake). I looked to the north and in the distance I saw something that startled me. Moving in an easterly direction were four or five large fish, in a line, up on the surface. Their backs were not out of the water, but seemed to create a hump-like wake. They looked like a traveling pack, moving on a course. My impression was that the humps were so big, the fish had to be 40 to 50 inches each. To me, really big.
My hypothosis is that these were muskies; and that they were either feeding on something at the surface (shad?); or traveling as fast as they could to another part of the lake--there are many bays and channels. I don't know of any other fish that could make such an impression on the surface.
Black Lake is a dark water, highly eutrophic water. It is shallow, with 25 feet being its maximum depth. It is not known as a good muskie lake, although muskies are present and caught from time to time.
Again, does anyone have any insight into this?
P.S. I have seen the tiger-muskie on the surface film. This wasn't the same thing. |
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| Could have been gar. They get very big and do trable in schools. Gars on the surface are common. |
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| I have fished black lake and the could have been bowfin...great lake to fish.... |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Nessie from,Lake Champlain. |
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| Don't start drinking until after 12pm. |
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| Musky53 - 10/12/2008 10:01 PM
Don't start drinking until after 12pm.
Tea, brother. Only tea. |
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Location: Sioux Lookout On Canada | I have seen both pike and muskies swim with their heads out of the water. never multiple fish and I do not think they were swimming fast. Would have been neat to see. |
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| Carp,i fish lakes with heavy carp populations and have witnessed carp do similar types of things many times. |
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Something strange