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| I hope everyone had a great weekend. I know I did. Each of my clients put a 36"er in the boat on Sat. Neither one of these guys had ever caught a muskie before, so it made the day really fun. Kind of a nice way to close out the season.
Now, to the meat of this post. While out on a Vilas Cty. lake Sat. I happened to see, on two seperate occasions, muskies porpoising on the surface. The surface temp was 38.3°, has anyone else ever witnessed anything like this?
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| Yup,
Many times. Several this year. First time was on Deer Lake at the MF outing on Sunday. I think Muskyone also saw it.
Then DaveJ and I saw one on Cass Lake at the outing.
Next time was on Oakauchee lake with KLY.
Last time was with the Extreme One on Pewaukee a week ago.
Say, I'm seeing a pattern here. Every time this year was with a MF member! Just goe to show ya. This is a cool site, with cool people! Good things happen when you fish with MFers.[:bigsmile:] |
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| I too have seen this many times, usually on the clearer water lakes. I have only caught one fish that I saw porpoise, and have had only a couple of follows. On the WI River system flowages I see many muskie's sunning themselves in very shallow water and over mid lake shallow bars. |
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| Porpoising is the exact word I use to describe this. I see it all the time on our lake ,which, is clear. I'm not certain as to thier intentions, but, I've never caught anything while this occurs.[:0] |
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| I have also seen this happen twice and its kinda spooky, almost like seeing the lockness monster appear out of no where, sure gets the knees knockin. Most freshwater fish including muskies need to gulp [:0] air from the surface in order to regulate their swim bladders.
how often they need to do this, i have no clue? any thoughts
"Tah Da Gills"
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| Not a real unusual thing to happen around here. It is more unusual to not see one porpoise on Deer Lake in a days fishing. I don't have a clue as to what they are doing. But when they come up you always see a trail of air bubbles in the direction that they went. Very common on other area waters as well. I do not think that these fish bite at this time. The only one I have ever had bite when I made a cast to it had another fish with it when it came to the boat. I think that the tag along fish bit, not the one that broke water. |
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| I have seen lots of musky porpoise. I have no idea why.
One time when I was young, we watched a musky swim at the surface with it's eyes out of the water. It appeared to be searching for what I don't know. I have never caught one that has surfaced. |
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| I have seen it quite a few times also, as a matter of fact as Shep mentioned a few weeks ago it happened. Don't know why the hell they do it but it makes a hard day of fishing even more frustrating? However, I did manage to make one hit this year, and that became my first muskie on a fly rod! pretty sweet experience! Was like clock work right before sundown every night the little Bast@rd would surface and not hit anything. Then the fly was presented and it just sort of slurped it. So this next season I will be sure to have the fly rod with me at most times, being that I have a little confidence in that approach now.
later
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