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| This has probably been covered but, typically how soon after a musky has been caught and released will it bite again. I am planning a few days fishing on a lake after a large tournament this spring and not sure how it may effect the fishing. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | As soon as one hour...tagged after the first catch for proof! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | I'd have to agree with Larry,
You just released a 48" hungry fish........ It's really pi$$ed,....and now even hungrier,...what ya think ? ..... It's going hunting for an easy meal,..... and probably smack it HARD !
Jerome
Edited by Top H2O 2/25/2011 5:37 PM
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| Thanks, that was the answer I was hoping for. |
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| I would think that after a few hours they'd recover from the stress of being caught and be back on the prowl. They were hungry when they were caught the first time, so you KNOW they're still hungry. I really don't have anything to base that on though. If it was me? I'd wait until the day after the tournament. Hell, even I am dumb enough to make the same mistakes over and over. What makes you think a muskie isn't even dumber? |
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Location: oswego, il | I once caught a walleye on a crankbait in a river by me. I caught the very same walleye on the very same crankbait a half hour later right where I released it. All fish are different and not all fish get caught in a tournament either especially if there is a nasty early spring coldfront which has affected the tournament you are talking a out. |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | I caught a 41 last spring, released her and an hour later and a mile away she went hot after my partners bait. Pretty distinct pattern and had a sore on one side, clearly same fish.... |
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| Wasn't a muskie, but I caught the same bass on the same bait in the same spot two Sundays in a row. There have been other fish that I caught and released twice in a matter of an hour. As far as muskies? Well, I did manage to raise the same fish 13 different times over 3 days up on Eagle a few years back. You'd think they'd learn, but they don't. |
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| Larry Ramsell - 2/25/2011 5:06 PM
As soon as one hour...tagged after the first catch for proof!
Which leads to the question of how soon they'd also hit the same lure again. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | If it moves....... it's food.....
If you put a cigarette butt on an end of a hook, eventually it will get attacked.
Instinct says to eat anything that moves, when hungry, especially when the prey looks like it's dying.
P.S. The cigarette butt thing really works for Stupid Pike .
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Location: deephaven mn | ILBOB
you have your answer on will caught fish bite the next day. I think what you are asking is it wise to fish a lake after a tournament.good question. most tournaments are on large lake that can handle the pressure. it is possible for a tournament to effect fishing immeadiatly following. that being said weather and moon could cancel all.
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| I think the quality of the release would affect how soon a fish will eat again. In most cases even with a good release a fish wouldnt be looking to eat for another few days (probably some rare cases where a guy catches the same small fish quickly again) - way too much trauma - plus alot of times after catching a fish i never see the fish again, if i come back through the area a week later, i hope i dont catch the same fish a week later (what is the point of that), but i never see the same fish again - not even a follow. Now, i think if there is crappy release (like alot of outdoor shows Saturday Mornings - early on FSN). Lets keep the fish out of water for 2 minutes and pretend just cause the fish barely swims away it will live. Then i think it takes them alot longer to eat with a crappy release. I typically find the more pressure a lake has the skinnier the fish are, the less pressure the more girth the fish carry (not always the case, but pretty consistent). THe few times i fished Waconia after the metro tourney the follow i got was from dead floaters - no action what so ever. I would avoid fished any lake after a tourney. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Wait a minute.
If the catch is really good and there's 100 boats in the event, 20 to 25 fish will be caught. if the lake has an average of .5 legal fish per acre, and it's 2000 acres, then there's plenty of fish out there that have not been caught. |
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| I'm with sworall on this one. I've fished tournaments for 7 years and the most fish I've ever seen caught is around 70 on the PMTT last year. Most tourneys catch between 20 and 40 fish. That accounts for a tiny percentage of the total population on decent sized, stocked waters. That said, there are way too many stories and experiences to confirm that CPR works and often works quickly. I personally have caught many, many fish twice including two over fifty within days of each other. I even caught the same small fish twice in one day! The odd thing I've noticed is: I've never caught one a third time. It could be mortality or, more likely, conditioning. The old G.W. Bush line: There's and old saying in Tennesee....can't get fooled again. So, anyone catch one three times? |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I have caught the same fish twice a bunch of times but never confirmed a 3rd time ever. Only once I caught the same fish the same day. Usually they are the next day or day after. Also only once the same fish was caught on the same bait, same spot at the same time of the afternoon. Most others were all caught using different patterns and baits.
Most re-catches are casting fish then caught trolling the next time. I think some of these casting fish will back off structure after being caught and end up getting caught trolling the next time. They are just fish. They are hungry, they eat.
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | We had a team in our touney last year hooked a fish and ended up loosing it at the net, 2-3 hours later they hook and land the same fish. |
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Location: NW PA/Allegheny River | In 2009, I caught the same small musky on 2 consecutive casts and within 5 mintues of each other in the exact same location and on the same bait. A friend of mine released a musky, it swam under the boat and attacked a dangling bucktail just under the surface within seconds of being released.
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| PAmusky - 2/26/2011 12:48 PM
In 2009, I caught the same small musky on 2 consecutive casts and within 5 mintues of each other in the exact same location and on the same bait. A friend of mine released a musky, it swam under the boat and attacked a dangling bucktail just under the surface within seconds of being released.
Those are the kind I like - the STUPID ones!  |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Jim: It was the same bait in the same spot one hour later! |
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| I caught the same Rock Bass 4 times in 20 minutes once, the same 5lb Largemouth twice in a 2 hour span and saw my brother catch the same 37 inch Muskie twice in a 3 hour span. Don't think it puts them off for too long by being caught. |
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| Larry Ramsell - 2/27/2011 8:56 AM
Jim: It was the same bait in the same spot one hour later!
I kind of suspected that it might have been. Sounds like a fish that didn't know the rules about lure conditioning! |
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| PAMusky,
So if your friend that released the musky and had it swim under the boat and attack the dangling bucktail, had been in a tournament would he have been able to count the musky again?
You can tell it's been a long winter and I'm bored.
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Location: NW PA/Allegheny River | Good question. Technically, I would say 'yes' unless trolling (due to rod not being in his hand) was disallowed per tournament rules but to convince 100 teams that it actually happened might be another 'story'. 
(BTW, The bucktail was dangling on the other side of the boat cuz that is where his fishing partner had placed his rod during the chaotic netting of the fish.)
Edited by PAmusky 2/27/2011 10:30 AM
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | jerome my brother and my cousin and i were sucker fishing a couple springs ago. my cousin smokes my bro thought it would be funny to hook up his cigerette on his hook and casted it out, on the second cast a small pike hit it and he landed it. stupid fish! |
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| Many years ago, I know of a 30 inch natural tiger with with a deformed tail which was caught 4 times in 10 days. The guy who caught it the third time thought he killed it because it was bleeding heavily. But my father caught it, a couple of days later. My dad caught it twice and 2 of my customers each caught it once. |
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