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Location: Algonquin, ILL | One of our FRV Members (Dan Lamkin) took this photo at Cabela's in Hoffman Estates, The staff was feeding the fish in the tanks when the Resident Muskie decided that the large Trout would be a better meal, Notice the Trout is almost as big as the Ski 
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| Wow! Kinda feel rejected when your trying to feed them and they go and eat the fish your raising. |
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| we need bigger lures |
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Location: 412 | Dang, I wish I was there. Thats wild - did he take it all?! |
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Location: Glenmoore PA | very cool! |
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| I heard that the big musky in the Bass Pro Shop in Gurnee a couple of years ago died because it choked on a trout that was too big. If anyone has more info, please post. For me, two events makes a pattern.
Brian
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Location: Almond, WI | That is awesome! (But doesn't exactly help our case with states like Maine that want to protect trout and salmon.) |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I believe that Muskies will eat anything that is available. Bullheads, carp, ciscos, suckers, trout, especially anything that is injured or somehow vulnerable.
Keep in mind that it is a very different thing for a Muskie to catch a trout, or any fish for that matter, in a tank than in the wild. That trout in the tank can't really go anyway or hide easily. If the Muskie wants it, he takes it. But in the wild the Muskie has to find it and then catch it and the trout can also leave the area when it detects the threat.
When I look at how fast and manuverable the various smaller fish species can swim, I see why Muskie prefer fish like bullheads, ciscos, and suckers. Compared to a game fish, those fish are rather slow and easy pickins - especially the bullheads.
Just a few thoughts.
Edited by Herb_b 3/17/2009 3:34 PM
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | I was at the Cabela's last night and the Ski is still there, Don't know about the trout though 
Herb-B is correct, a fish in a Tank has no chance of getting away vs a fish in the wild, That would be like putting a Rack of ribs right in front of me vs Putting the rack somewhere in a church 
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Location: Milwaukee, WI | At the Cabelas in Richfield WI, I noticed several muskies had un-healed sores on the tips of their lower jaws. I wondered if those were from bashing into the sides & corners of the tanks, chasing victims.
And I don't recall seeing any injuries like that on the few I have handled on the water.
Hard to tame that type of behavior in captivity !! |
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| snaggletooth - 3/17/2009 5:06 PM
At the Cabelas in Richfield WI, I noticed several muskies had un-healed sores on the tips of their lower jaws. I wondered if those were from bashing into the sides & corners of the tanks, chasing victims.
And I don't recall seeing any injuries like that on the few I have handled on the water.
Hard to tame that type of behavior in captivity !! You might be right on that, the cabelas around here has a bunch of pike in there aquarium and several if not all have those un-healed sores on the tips of there lower jaws like you mentioned. I wish I would have been there to witness the muskie attack the trout I have only ever seen a bunch of channel cats beating the crap out of a 10inch bluegill, pretty cool watching them try to fit it through there mouths but it was to wide so they ripped it into smaller peices |
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Location: Alexandria, Minnesota | sucks to be the trout , I think in the wild if a muskie is in feeding mode it will hit just about anything. I have seen it a couple of times now, I have been out at the crack of dawn both times, I have seen a carp swimming in a circle on the surface with its head near the top of the water and its tail pointing near the bottom. One of them had teeth marks in it, the other must of had a broken back or something,I just pulled up on it and netted it. I thought it was somthing pretty cool to see. |
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Location: Davenport, IA | snaggletooth - 3/17/2009 5:06 PM
At the Cabelas in Richfield WI, I noticed several muskies had un-healed sores on the tips of their lower jaws. I wondered if those were from bashing into the sides & corners of the tanks, chasing victims.
And I don't recall seeing any injuries like that on the few I have handled on the water.
Hard to tame that type of behavior in captivity !!
I always thought suckers were a little "slow". They always have those scars and run into the livewell walls. They probably run right into muskies mouths too. |
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| I can tell you where I am at the DNR annually stocks a small lake with Rainbow trout for people to catch out and eat, because they cannot live very long in this lake(illinois) This very small lake that drains into a river. Two years ago the DNR found a huge muskie dead in the lake, opened it up and was filled with the rainbow trout. Needless to say, I have my best time fishing that river mouth a week after they stock the lake. Why would anyone think they wont eat a trout? Its along the colors of a tubilee and cisco right??? also much softer meat! like a grilled cheese! |
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| Makes you question the wisdom of keeping a Musky in a fish tank. They just don't work and play well with the other fish. |
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| True story Hawkeye, had a musky eat a walleye last winter. The musky was probably 9 or 10 inches long at the time and the walleye 5-7". Both died. Sometimes they want a bigger meal, kinda like us on Thanksgiving! |
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| My wife and I did a behind the scene tour at Underwater World at the Mall of America and I asked the tour guide why the only had one muskie and she replied "They are too hard on the other fish." |
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