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| What's the strangest thing you've seen following your muskie lures? Here are a few of mine:
Bluegills
About a 6" perch
A loon (scared the crap out of me!)
An Eagle |
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Location: Illinois | Gar |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Not strange, but rare for me was a Dogfish.. buddy had one up going into the ovals that same day. |
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| Three muskies lined up like a train! LOTW first week of July - not a spawning area...
Edited by IAJustin 4/10/2012 3:21 PM
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Location: north metro, MN | Craziest thing for me was a blue heron.. Dang thing would not leave me alone. I was throwing a red phantom and working it fast to keep it above the weeds and the heron would follow it almost all the way back to the boat no more then three feet out of the water. The bird did that probably every other cast for almost an hour. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Loons are riot when they follow, especially if you don't know they're coming. I've had them harass my sucker for over a half hour. I've seen gulls and eagles follow, too (from above). |
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Location: Roseau | about a 7 lbs walleye in the 8 for several turns on LOTW, jointed x-rap in about 3 feet of water. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Loon for me would be the strangest ever for me anyway.... but god bless the over aggressive panfish!
Edited by FAT-SKI 4/10/2012 3:56 PM
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| have had loons, pike, gar, smallys, largies, wallys, schools of gils, perch, sheepshead follow....prety much anything that swims.... |
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Location: Leech Lake, Walker MN | Have seen only a few that big but I guessing about 58- 60" with the tail of about a 10 lb lake trout sticking out of its mouth. And had a owl come after a surface bait at dark totally silent very strange |
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| Five or six city ciscos aka sheepshead with a mid fourty ski right behind the sheepshead. Heart skipped a beat. Biggest #*^@ thing I ever seen. |
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Location: Minneapolis | schools of white bass. |
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Location: Not far enough north! | I Caught a muscrat on a pacemaker one time! Little bugger chewed the heck out of it trying to get the hooks out of his fur. Glad we had gloves and the knipex that time... |
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Location: North Metro, MN | When I was maybe 8 or younger I was casting a big rap in the driveway and the neighbors cat chased it.... got that + trouble |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Ask Norm Wild.
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| I once had a low 40's fish following a HawgWobbler. I go into the eight and my Lab (Sophie) sees the musky behind the bait and decides she is going to help. If she was equiped with two trebles and a leader she would have caught that fish. She land right on top of it. Along with that about the same time Sophie made her leap the fish appeared to have hit the bait. The rod loaded up but I didn't put 2 and 2 together. No I wasn't hooked up with the fish but rather a 65 lbs of female Blk lab. I cut the line called her in and removed the hooks. The next twenty minutes or so she paced the boat from bow to stern. Thats the coolest follow I've ever seen. |
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| A loon, and and 4-footer with a big sucker sticking out of both sides of her mouth. I saw it coming from 50yds away, just under the surface. I was thinking, "What the hell is that thing?", when she angled toward me and passed by just 10' in front of my bow I could see that what caught my eye was the belly of her dinner. A nice fat sucker. I watched in awe as she swam past and then started to head down. Never saw that before or since.
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Location: oswego, il | I have had dogfish and loons follow but the oddest are buffalo following musky baits and eating them! |
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| Eagle, loon, rock bass, and lots of school of perch. |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Giant snapping turtle...lotsa crazy sh¥£€t happened between my ears until i figured what i was looking at. |
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Location: Mayer, MN | Watched my buddy take a 29.25" walleye on the eight on Minnetonka, mid day, blue sky. Using a Big Game Tackle Company 8" or 9" twitch bait in about 8 feet of water. I think we had a big laugh about that one at the time.
Edited by lots of luck 4/10/2012 10:42 PM
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| Loon and dogfish |
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Location: West Chester, OH | A painted turtle . |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | A black lab and a poodle - at the same time. One never knows what might follow a topwater when working a shoreline in front of a park.  |
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| caught a 23 inch smallie on a figure eight opener 4 years ago. thought it was a musky till i got it in the net |
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Location: Money, PA | I had Nessie follow once! |
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