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| Many many years ago when my dad was up in canada as a kid my grandmother got bit on the toe by a pike as she dangled her foot in the water. She ended up having to go get stiches....... careful that pike is still out there |
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Location: Minnesota Metro | I know that Chad Cain has been bitten by a muskie before. About 8 years ago at the Chicago muskie show he was showing pictures of fish he has caught on the big screen. He said after letting one of them go he was washing his hands in the lake. A few moments later the fish came back and bit him right on the arm.
Several pictures after that I remember seeing him with a huge wrap on his arm from where he had to get stitches. I might be leaving out some of the details, but that's all I can remember. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Years ago (late 80's early 90's) there was an article in In-Fisherman about a guy that was dangling his feet and got bit by a pike and required 20-some stitches. |
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Location: Ames, Iowa | Last summer my 11 yr old daughter Haley and I stopped over at Baby Lake while the wife was in Longville. On the public access dock Haley put her hand in the water to attract the little sunfish at the ramp. While swishing her hand, a small muskie about 24-27" came from under the dock and took a shot at her hand. It was just an instant and the fish missed. Scared the heck out Haley so much she ran off the dock crying hysterically. Got her calmed down, then got out a couple rods and casted for the monster from the ramp until another boater came in. She worries about feet in the water all the time now.
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| I have spent a lot of time underwater with these fish. A lot of time.
Over the 10 + years I've done this, I have never been bitten, and none of our crew has been bitten. Could it happen? Yes, it's a real possibility. We push into the fishes space on a regular basis, getting to within inches of them. We have had encounters that are pretty well known by most of you. They are an unpredictable wild animal, after all. But the fact remains that an actual successful attack has never occurred. We have had to defend ourself a time or two, but everyone swam away.
We sometimes read about attacks, and I do believe they occur, but are very rare. I feel there is a greater risk riding my bicycle down the street. They don't frighten me, although some have made me pay attention.
CHECK OUT WILD MUSKIE ENCOUNTERS RIGHT HERE ON MUSKIES FIRST VIDEO
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | About 20 years ago my uncle Mark "Muskie" Osowski and his family were up at a cabin on Big St. Germain I believe and my cousin who was under 10 years old at the time was dangling her feet on the dock was bitten by a muskie.
My uncle who had hundreds of muskie's including several 50's under his belt at the time saw it happen and got a good look at the fish, he estimated it in the upper 40's. Being the muskie nut he is he ran to grab his rod and made a couple of cast's while trying to console my cousin. Poor girl! She ended up with a few stitches and I remember it made the paper up there.
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| My worst was when I threw a bucktail at a big swirl and hooked a great big snapper turtle in a front leg. I was sure glad to have a set of giant pliars to use to pull the hook when I finally got that bugger to the boat.
There's a story out there about......
These guys who are into snorkling and spearing fly into a canadian lake full of timber and rocks. They brought a couple 2-piece cane poles and some really big heavy long-shanked hooks. At the lake, they straighten out the hooks and attact them to bottom section of a cane pole. They spear a number of big pike, some in the mid-40" range. One guy goes swimming off to check out a big cluster of timber and rocks and as he approaches the structure a BIG muskie comes slowly swimming out to meet him. This dude has speared pike over 4' long but this is no 4' fish. This is the biggest fish this guy has ever seen, well over 5' and looking like 100# under water. The fish's gills are flaring and mouth is slowly opening and closing. The guy is so scared he swims slowly backward, he won't turn his back on this fish because the fish is following at about 6-10' away from the guy. Halfway back to the boat the fish turns and goes back to its cover. The guy gets to the boat, he's scared $hitless and tells the others what he saw. A second guy calls hium a wimp and goes in to get, or at least see, the fish. He swims in toward the cover and the performance is repeated with the second guy also swimming backwards because he's too scared to turn his back on the huge fish that is following him. That's the story. Please, no questions from the "muskie police" about who, when, where, etc., that's all I know.
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| Are you seriously trying to tell people that muskies kill 'several' french canadians every year?!!!! hahahahahhaaa..... OK. You must be american, right? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Hopeful KNOWS. |
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| My husband has been in the PMTT championship 3 times. He is well aware of what a musky looks like, so we know it was not a pike. He was "attacked" by one on July 5th. He had caught a small mouth and when he reached for the line to unhook the fish, a 40 inch musky came out of the water and bit his forearm. They had to beat the fish on the head to get it to release. He had 13 lacerations (teeth punctures) and one broken artery ( which shot blood 12 feet across the ER). It hurts, really bad! |
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| he wasnt attacked it was going after the smally that was struggling clearly... no musky or pike has ever had intentions of eating a human being...except for small black kids..blacks there favorite;) |
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Location: Minnesota | http://realestatetwincities.net/lake-rebecca-hennepin-mn-lake-homes... A boy swimming in Lake Rebecca was attacked by a muskie. DNR confirmed it. |
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| Two years ago we were at our cottage and our neighbors, who do triathalons, were swimming in the lake in prep for an upcoming race. We were coming back to our dock and stopped the boat to let them pass in front of us. The wife treaded water and said how about catching this musky that has been eyeing us up? The husband, who fishes musky tournaments, later said it was a mid thirties fish that had swum up close and stopped, checking them out from a couple feet away. No bites or anything but they said later it was kind of odd being eye to eye in the water with a fish that has a mouthful of teeth. But, they got a funny story out of it.
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| Actually there have been a considerable number of documented "muskie bites" of people. I covered probably 2 dozen or so of them in the "Musky Hunter's Almanac's" that Bill Hamblin and I published from 1996-2000.
Not real common, but it does and has happened...be careful out there!
Muskie regards,
Larry Ramsell
Muskellunge Historian
www.larryramsell.com |
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| Reminds me of a story from last year on Pewaukee Lake. This happened to Mike Koepp and I'm sure I'm going to get some facts wrong, but.... He was fishing at night or the twilight and caught a fish (middle 30's?). He was trolling, so he unhooked it in the water behind the boat where the little "eddy" of water is. He releases the fish and has his hands in the water when the fish turns around, comes back and bites him badly in the hand. I know that he went to the hospital under the advisement of his daughter where he received a lot of stitches. Sorry, I can't guess how many, but it was a lot. He showed me the scarring last fall.
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| The day i worry about a musky attacking me is the day they put in in the loony bin for good. If a musky bites someone then so be it . We are on their turf remember. The fact that they get bit from time t time is part of why we fish these monsters of the north woods . Heck id love to have a big musky bite scar to show off. They are the biggest baddest fish on the block and they will tag anything that they feel like at the time even feet and fingers from time to time. Dont be too worried im sure that you will live through it . Last i checked the world record was a third my weight |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Muskies have often taken a nip at young swimmers the bottom of their feet flash white exactly like the belly of a frantic baitfish. Some years ago a young girl swimming off a government dock on Corry Lake in eastern Ontario was bit on the foot she was wearing an ankle bracelet which probably added to the attraction. |
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| hi, i live in quebec. my brother's good friend planned a week's fishing several hours drive away. After launching the boat with all the gear he went to wash his hands over the dock. Big mistake a pike bit his hand so badly he had to return home to get stitchs. Never put a line in the water! Never laughed at a fish story more.
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