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| What's the longest fight you've had with a muskie? With and without muskie gear. I don't expect people to know exact times or anything, but I thought it might be an interesting discussion.
Mine personally is about 3-4 minutes, but that's only because the first minute and a half was spent with me trying to fish my rod out of the water after it slipped out of my hands on the hookset! Morning dew and mammoth strikes whilst not paying attention are a bad combo.... |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | o'hare to pudong ... 14.5 hours |
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| Pudong? Is that pronounced Poo-Dong? Please tell me it is...
Longest fight with muskie gear was a 48" that hit way out on a cast and was about 20'-25' down (counting down rubber). Maybe 4-5 minutes???
Longest fight on other gear was a 45" I caught on a 1/8 oz. jig and fathead using a 6' med. light spinning rod. It actually didn't take as long as I thought it would...maybe 20-25 minutes. |
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| More than ten minutes; and I lost the fish. I can't say how long exactly--it might have been more than 12. It was an accidental musky, the first time I had one on line. I was casting from shore near the mouth of a creek that flows into the Allegheny River. It came out of the water like a rocket after hitting a jointed 5" minnow bait. My rod was adequate, not stressed. My reel was bass sized, and was slightly stressed. My line was 10 lb. Smooth Casting Trilene. Not recommended. For the life of me I could not move the fish into the shore. I could move him from side to side, but not towards shore. I got tired of this and went to a pump and reel mode. After the second pump, the line let go. I was in awe. |
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Location: Minnetonka | 30 seconds with. 1 minute without (and by "without" I mean trolling walleyes with 12 lb braid and a 7' medium action rod). I'm not picking on anyone, but I'd rather break my line on light tackle than fight a muskie for 10 minutes. |
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| 30 seconds with. 1 minute without (and by "without" I mean trolling walleyes with 12 lb braid and a 7' medium action rod). I'm not picking on anyone, but I'd rather break my line on light tackle than fight a muskie for 10 minutes.
Good Point Hammskie. Breaking your line and leaving a walleye crank stuck in their mouth is so much better than fighting them for 10 minutes. Especially when they take that little bait really deep. I've heard having a 4"-5" bait with mulitple treble hooks stuck down by their gullet really helps them feed more effectively. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I once fought a mid-40 inch Muskie for over 20 minutes. The fish was barely lip hooked and I was just trying to ease it near the net. Didn't work. It still got off before we could net it. |
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What's harder to recover from;
Running up a flight of stairs for 3 minutes or going for a walk for 10?
A short fight on heavy tackle takes as much or more out of a fish than playing one gently on light tackle.
It's simple physiology.
JS
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Location: Ontario | I had a fight with an ex girfreind that lasted like ten days. Did a LOT of fishing during The Intermission. Dynamite. |
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| Guest - 10/14/2011 10:15 AM
What's harder to recover from;
Running up a flight of stairs for 3 minutes or going for a walk for 10?
A short fight on heavy tackle takes as much or more out of a fish than playing one gently on light tackle.
It's simple physiology.
JS
I highly doubt it. The fish is going to fight the only way it knows how. A run that screams drag off of a light spinning reel is no different than a run it tries to make on a musky rod. Only difference is I turned it back around before it had the chance to make the run. But somehow that caused the fish to use more energy?
It's more like having a bad dog on a leash. When I want him to come back I will pull the leash hard and "reel" him in. On the other hand, you could let the dog run to the end of the leash, then start pulling him in, then he'll get excited and run to the end of the leash again. And the process repeats itself for ten minutes because I don't want to pull too hard on the dog. Meanwhile, the dog could have been in the car or whatever 9 minutes ago, with energy to spare.
Or more like a 100 yd dash vs. a 1 mile run. Acid builds up in the muscles much more over time than it does after a short burst of energy.
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| Longest fight I had thus far happened to be my first 50. very high winds were blowing us around like a tin can. As I was adjusting the boat ( I operate from the back with the foot pedal) my pops n buddy are done fishing waiting to resposition. I fired a cast upwind out of the blue, it was one of those end over end toppling dead duck looking throws. shouldnt have made it to begin with but...
2 pumps and fish hit hard! now the fun begins, its upwind of the boat, and decides to run directly around the only obstacle near us. a buoy.
instantly its dead weight with headshakes. so I run to the front of the boat,
and my buddy cranks trolling motor on 10power. He cant stear it due to wind pushing us around, so I manually am turning the trolling motor with my hand,
and keeping tension on rod with my other.
we had no idea how big the fish was until we got up to the buoy and looked down.
its wrapped around the chain and thrashing. well I figured it was done. line would break and there goes fish with bait T-boned.
So I did sort of a couple swoops around the buoy with the rod tip, shoved it into the water and whalla! fish came out and sped away.
maybe 20 seconds later slid the net under her. WOW! did that just happen?
I dont know how long of a fight it was, Im guessing it was a couple minutes.
and... there wasnt a single fray in my line from all that ruckus going on down there. You couldnt slap the smile off my face for how that went down and turned out.
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Well then every large fish caught on a fly-rod should be dead.
Lactic acid builds up when your muscles use O2 faster then they can replace it.
I'm not an expert but I did learn a little in class, maybe the science is wrong?
JS
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | jbush "I had a fight with an ex girfreind that lasted like ten days. Did a LOT of fishing during The Intermission. Dynamite."
We may have dated the same girl!! 20 days in the hole with a gal that had Red Hair and beautiful green eyes. She was gorgeous, but what an alley cat!! Over that 20 days she threw just about everything we had in the house at me. Of course I never did anything to upset her....repetitively. Ah those younger days!! Oh, and yes the make up was fantastic!!! |
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Location: Eagan, MN | I suspect most fights are shorter than we think. What seems like a 2-3 minute tussle is probably more like 45 seconds. Just watch a few videos... it's really not as long as at seems in the heat of the moment. |
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........8 years and counting
Ha, that is great!! I am going on 4 myself, WHAT A FIGHT IT IS, she is great though! |
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| Guest - 10/14/2011 11:11 AM
Well then every large fish caught on a fly-rod should be dead.
A phenomenal point to this debate.
Another factor is the hooksets being so much more aggressive with heavy tackle. If you're throwing a 9' rod rated to 12 ounce baits and really unload on that fish, it's gonna feel like it just got punched in the head. Running a moderate pace mile may be more tiring than sprinting 100 meters, but I'd wager that getting a solid right cross to the jaw before running that 100 meters would even the score pretty effectively. |
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| Shortest I've ever personally seen was 8 seconds from hook-up to net (to say she was "green" is an understatement). Spencer Berman's client's giant from St. Clair (vid might be on this site) fought for 5 seconds from hook-set to net. We timed all fights for the C&R study and (looking at the data now) of 77 fish that were angled our shortest fight was 10 seconds and longest 2 minutes 12 seconds (one fish caught on a jig rod and another caught trolling). Average was around 30-40 seconds. |
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| My longest fight came this year when I was throwing a #10 x-rap for Bass on a 7' Mojo Bass spinning rod with 12 lbs. line and had a 41" Tiger come up and eat the bait. I'm not sure how long it was but I spent a lot of time running around the boat trying to keep the fish out of the timber. It was one of the funniest fights i've had! Mike. |
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| On 8lb Trilene XL test while bass fishing I landed a 36-38" pike, the thing hit right next to the boat with ~10ft of line out as I was reeling in a crankbait. It tore off I don't know how many yards of line before it ran back to and under the boat just to make the drag sing some more. I last a good 5-10mins before I could grab it. Luckily the small crank was outside her mouth and I could get to the hooks quickly. |
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| Guest - 10/14/2011 12:11 PM
Well then every large fish caught on a fly-rod should be dead.
Lactic acid builds up when your muscles use O2 faster then they can replace it.
I'm not an expert but I did learn a little in class, maybe the science is wrong?
JS
there is some tarpon rod&reel for serious musky fly fisherman out there.
i just hope they are not using regular lil trout kit to fight them..............
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| Longest fight I had was this June when I tied my PB, took a lot of tries to get her in the net; probably a minute and half. |
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| Actually,you dont need a tarpon fly-rod ( generally 12wt) to whip a muskie quick... an 8wt will do just fine, fish tire quickly if you keep 10 lbs of pressure on them. I have landed dozens of pike 42-44" on my 8wt and the average fight is between 45 seconds to 1.5 minutes, it might take a "long" time to catch a 55" on an 8wt ....like 4 minutes 
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