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Location: Eagan, MN | Curious...anyone ever caught a musky with another musky lure or hook stuck in the fish's mouth?
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Location: Elk River, MN | Caught a 51 last fall with a sub-par sucker rig in its mouth and out the gill plate |
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| I caught a pike with a stringer through it's mouth. Talk about a second chance. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | ditto on the sub par sucker rig...caught 1 with that in it's mouth....also caught a couple with bass cranks in their mouths |
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| I caught a small fish a few years ago the had a cut hook lodged in the corner of the jaw. It couldn't have been in there too long. |
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| BrianF. - 4/8/2016 9:28 AM
Curious...anyone ever caught a musky with another musky lure or hook stuck in the fish's mouth?
Ditto to the others... a 52.5 X25 lass fall with a whole mess of jewelry (beads, hooks etc..) from a sub par sucker rig... |
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Location: St Paul, Minnesota | Last year at the George Wahl Tournament my 48" lost to a super skinny 50" fish that had a huge mass of fishing line caught in its throat. They caught it, dug the yards and yards of line out, picture, release, and said it swam off like a bullet. Getting caught by a musky guy was literally the best thing that could happen for that fish and literally saved its life. I'll try to find a picture of it if I can and re-post.
Feel good!
C7
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Location: oswego, il | I have caught several fish with treble hooks and small jigs. Most memorable was a 17" bass that had a strand of mono hanging out of its throat. I ever so gently pulled and out came the pre rigged plastic worm I lost on the fish the night before. He dislodged it and no longer had a hook in it. |
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Location: SE, WI. | Caught several musky in May with ice fishing leaders/small trebles , (I assume ), In Their mouth:( Also caught a 36" with a Johnson silver minnow stuck in the corner of its mouth. JD
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| Tough to catch a walleye on Mille lacs without bling in its mouth. |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | A few years ago on the Wisconsin River, I caught an 18" walleye that had a small Aberdeen hook sticking out of its belly. It had worn completely through the stomach and skin, the bend and what was left of the point were the only thing showing but were completely rusted. I pulled it out, along with 5"-6" of monofilament and released it. I'm sure everyone that fishes, has heard that the hook will dissolve but after that I'm not so sure.
I've also drilled a hole through the ice on Little Bay de Noc, dropped the aquaview down the hole and saw a dead walleye. I was able to snag it, and it had a crawler harness stuck in its throat, along with a few feet of line. This was the end of January and had to have been there since the end of November or early December at the latest. It was a 28 incher.
I've caught a number of incidental muskies on the river in the spring while walleye fishing that had other jigs in their mouths. |
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| I have got like with lures in there mouth and I have pulled a small hook and line out of a basses but. Also have pulled plastic worms out of fish. |
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| Got a super skinny 49 that had a big double 10 stuck in its face. Double 10
Was all rusty and looks like the previous angler's line broke above the leader. I never hooked it and the fish never bit my sucker rig. It just followed my sucker and the cowbell in its face got tangled in my line. I reeled him in. Got him untangled and unhooked the cowbell in its face and she swam off nicely. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Not a muskie, but a good story nonetheless about a northern pike...
Years ago, my father was part of a fishing crew that would make their way to West central Manitoba to fish for pike and walleye. One man by the name of Tom had a rod that the tip broke off that was nicknamed "stubby."
Well...one day, Tom was working with a fish and left his lure dangling in the water right by the boat. The reel was in free-spool but the tension was strong enough to not let line out with the lure in the water. Needless to say, up that far north, fish like to eat a bit more and one decided to take his lure, which in turn caused a backlash and out the rod went, down and away....
some 3 days later, Tom was back fishing the same area and caught a fish... it had the lure that was on "Stubby" in it's mouth and sure enough...the line was still attached to the lure. After unhooking the fish, he started pulling in the line and....up pops "stubby." He got his rod back. He was so proud!!
Steve
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Location: Seymour, WI | Caught nice musky a few yr back with a bluegill popper fly stuck in the corner of its mouth. Always wondered if the musky hit the small fly or got hooked when he ate the bluegill. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | I caught a Walleye on Dead Man's Reef in the middle of Eagle Lake that had a jig in its mouth....and it was absolutely my dads jig from the previous day or 2. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | caught the jig that was stuck in the mouth of a spawning 19" smallie with the net in the water ... smallie was defending it's nest and was able to snag the hook while trying to catch it with a net (girlfriends crazy but effective idea), once the jig it had stuck in it's mouth was removed we caught it with a tube jig, gave her some fresh air in the livewell and released her to spawn. strange and true and still can't believe it happened. |
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| Caught a walleye that was dragging a rod - reel and 50 some feet of line all dangling behind a small Rapala in the fishes mouth. I kid you not the weirdest thing I ever saw in my life. It's obvious the fish hit and caught someone off guard and took their rig over board then it keep on swimming despite the impediment and still took a bite of another Rapala. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Great stories.
I was fishing the night before leaving on a Canada trip about 8 years ago and hooked a big fish on a homemade topwater. During an intense toe to toe, the fish swam under/through a dead tree along shore and the line literally got stuck in the grain of the wood. I hit free spool after the fish stopped thrashing, thinking it was gone, and tried to dislodge the line. Suddenly my wife said, look its right there, and as she lunged for the fish with the net, it took off, and the line sounded like a .22 shot as it parted. Told a friend at the landing about it.
Two weeks later on our way home from Canada, my friend called, telling me he ran into a fish I might recognize. He was fishing a shallow bay and saw a Musky sitting in the shallows, with a lure in it's mouth. He casted at it and caught the lure by the leader loop, and brought it in, unhooked the 30lber and gave the water logged lure back to me when I came home. After drying it in the oven, it works like new, even if completely chewed up.
A while after this happened, the same friend was fishing a mile from where this happened, and caught the same Musky on the bucktail he'd snagged the lure with a week or two earlier. Neither of us could/can/ever will believe it.
As a side note, I did make one of the same lures for him, for returning mine.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | up on Eagle Lake i was fishing the back-channel wall and got hooked up but no fight ... weird because there was nothing but water under where i was working my bait. i brought in a worn out grandma in tennessee shad color. i knew right away where it belonged and to whom it belonged. i just walked into Herbie's office and told him i found something that must belong to somebody here ... LOL
mike had lost a good fish a few days earlier and they were hoping it had shook the bait ... |
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| Two summers back during the morning hours I lost my tackle on a fish that ate in the 8. My line must have had a weak spot above the leader. That evening near the same spot I had a fish come unpinned a few feet out from the boat. It was right before dark but I could make out two orange blades on the side of her face along with my nickel colored blade on the spinnerbait I was throwing at the time. I really wish I could have landed that fish to confirm that it was for sure my fish from that morning, to get my lure back, and most importantly to remove the unwanted hardware from her face. |
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| I hooked salmon while dock fishing once as it swam by before landing I seen something shiney on it after netting it the fish had a lure jensen krocadial spoon chrome with green back hanging from its mouth so that's a free spoon. Also this happened to me once I got a snag on the bottom and my lure broke free as I reeled it up it had 2 crankbaits on it they were muddy and needed new split rings and hooks so the next day while fishing with one of them I caught a nice walleye. |
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| Had a funny day jig and bobber fishing some years back. I hadn't seen a fish in about an hour, and decided to go get a beer from the truck. "I should probably reel that in. Bah. Nothing's moving, screw it." Two steps from the truck when I heard the sound of my rod bouncing down the shoreline. I got to it just in time to see the butt end vanish into the depths. About an hour later, maybe 100 yards down the shoreline I snagged a big mess of fishing line. As I'm pulling the line up I see a giant pile of weeds and muck at the end. "WTF is this attached to??" Sure enough, there was my rod entangled in a big ball of milfoil and muck. Fished the rod out, dunked it in the lake a few times, and then discovered there was a 20# carp still attached to the other end. |
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| i remember back at Shelbyville in early 2000s.Someone asked is this someone's lure?Another angler responded "yes i got broke off today".I caught that fish with your lure in the corner of it's mouth,responded the happy musky man.Fish will give second chances ,even on the same day hours apart sometimes...07 |
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